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Primate communities
Title:
Primate communities
Author:
Fleagle, John G.
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
ix, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
African primate communities: determinants of structure and threats to survival / Biomass and use of resources in south and south-east Asian primate communities / Species coexistence, distribution and environmental determinants of neotropical primate richness: a community-level zoogeographic analysis / Primate communities: Madagascar

Primate diversity / Phylogenetic and temporal perspectives on primate ecology / Population density of primates in communities: differences in community structure / Body mass, competition and the structure of primate communities / Convergence and divergence in primate social systems / Of mice and monkeys: primates as predictors of mammal community richness

Comparing commuunities / Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in anthropoid primates / Recent evolutionary past of primate communities: likely environmental impacts during the past three millennia / Resources and primate community structure / Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the structure of Amazonian primate communities

Spatial and temporal scales in primate community structure / Primate communities in Africa: the consequences of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting? / Future of primate communities: a reflection of the present? / Concluding remarks
ISBN:
9780521620444

9780521629676
Format :
Book