Primate Communities

Comprehensive and unique volume exploring the differences and similarities between primate communities worldwide.

J. G. Fleagle (Edited by), Charles Janson (Edited by), Kaye Reed (Edited by)

9780521620444, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 October 1999

339 pages, 105 b/w illus. 48 tables
25.4 x 19.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.915 kg

'This timely and exciting volume provides an enormous amount of information on primates and the habitats in which they are found around the world. The collection is ideal for advanced undergraduate courses and graduate courses in primate conservation, ecology and/or behaviour. I have no doubt that it will shape the scope and scale(s) at which students and scholars of primate biology will be addressing their research questions for years to come.' Joanna E. Lambert, Animal Behaviour

Although the behaviour and ecology of primates have been more thoroughly studied than that of any other group of mammals, there have been very few attempts to compare the communities of living primates found in different parts of the world. In Primate Communities, an international group of experts compares the composition, behaviour and ecology of primate communities in Africa, Asia, Madagascar and South America. They examine the factors underlying the similarities and differences between these communities, including their phylogenetic history, climate, rainfall, soil type, forest composition, competition with other vertebrates and human activities. As it brings together information about primate communities from around the world for the very first time, it will quickly become an important source book for researchers in anthropology, ecology and conservation, and a readable and informative text for undergraduate and graduate students studying primate ecology, primate conservation or primate behaviour.

1. African primate communities: determinants of structure and threats to survival Colin A. Chapman, Annie Gautier-Hion, John F. Oates and Daphne Onderdonk
2. Biomass and use of resources in South and South-East Asian primate communities A. K. Gupta and David J. Chivers
3. Species coexistence, distribution and environmental determinants of neotropical primate richness: a community-level zoogeographic analysis Carlos A. Peres and Charles H. Janson
4. Primate communities: Madagascar Jorg U. Ganzhorn, Patricia C. Wright and Jonah Ratsimbazafy
5. Primate diversity John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed
6. Phylogenetic and temporal perspectives on primate ecology John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed
7. Population density of primates in communities: differences in community structure Kaye E. Reed
8. Body mass, competition and the structure of primate communities Jorg U. Ganzhorn
9. Convergence and divergence in primate social systems Peter M. Kappeler
10. Of mice and monkeys: primates as predictors of mammal community richness Louise H. Emmons
11. Comparing communities John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed
12. Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in anthropoid primates Harriet A. C. Eeley and Michael J. Lawes
13. The recent evolutionary past of primate communities: likely environmental impacts during the past three millennia Caroline Tutin and Lee White
14. Resources and primate community structure Charles H. Janson and Colin Chapman
15. Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the structure of Amazonian primate communities Carlos A. Peres
16. Spatial and temporal scales in primate community structure John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed
17. Promate communities in Africa: the consequences of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting Thomas T. Struhsaker
18. The future of primate communities: a reflection of the present Patricia C. Wright and Jukka Jernvall
19. Summary and prospects John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed.

Subject Areas: Primates [PSVW79], Animal ecology [PSVS]