Title:
Primate communities
JLCTITLE245:
edited by John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson, Kaye E. Reed.
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
ix, 329 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9780521620444
9780521629676
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
African primate communities: determinants of structure and threats to survival / Colin A. Chapman, Annie Gautier-Hion, John F. Oates and Daphne A. Onderdonk -- Biomass and use of resources in south and south-east Asian primate communities / A.K. Gupta and David J. Chivers -- Species coexistence, distribution and environmental determinants of neotropical primate richness: a community-level zoogeographic analysis / Carlos A. Peres and Charles H. Janson -- Primate communities: Madagascar / Jorg U. Ganzhorn, Patricia C. Wright and Jonah Ratsimbazafy -- Primate diversity / John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed -- Phylogenetic and temporal perspectives on primate ecology / John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed -- Population density of primates in communities: differences in community structure / Kaye E. Reed -- Body mass, competition and the structure of primate communities / Jorg U. Ganzhorn -- Convergence and divergence in primate social systems / Peter M. Kappeler -- Of mice and monkeys: primates as predictors of mammal community richness / Louise H. Emmons -- Comparing commuunities / John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed -- Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in anthropoid primates / Harriet A.C. Eeley and Michael J. Lawes -- Recent evolutionary past of primate communities: likely environmental impacts during the past three millennia / Caroline Tutin and Lee White -- Resources and primate community structure / Charles H. Janson and Colin A. Chapman -- Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the structure of Amazonian primate communities / Carlos A. Peres -- Spatial and temporal scales in primate community structure / John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed -- Primate communities in Africa: the consequences of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting? / Thomas T. Struhsaker -- Future of primate communities: a reflection of the present? / Patricia C. Wright and Jukka Jernvall -- Concluding remarks / John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed.