Long-Term Field Studies of Primates

Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar, Africa, Asia and South America. More import...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Kappeler, Peter M. (Editor ), Watts, David P. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Temas:
Psychobiology.
Human behavior.
Animal migration.
Evolution (Biology).
Conservation biology.
Ecology .
Behavioral Neuroscience.
Animal Migration.
Evolutionary Biology.
Conservation Biology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I Introduction
  • The Values and Challenges of Long-Term Field Studies
  • Part II Madagascar
  • Berenty Reserve, Madagascar: A Long Time in a Small Space
  • Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve: Long-Term Research on Lemurs in Southwestern Madagascar
  • Long-Term Lemur Research at Centre Valbio, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
  • A 15-Year Perspective on the Social Organization and Life History of Sifaka in Kirindy Forest
  • Part III America
  • The Northern Muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus): Lessons on Behavioral Plasticity and Population Dynamics from a Critically Endangered Species
  • The Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project: Two Decades of Research on Cebus capucinus
  • Tracking Neotropical Monkeys in Santa Rosa: Lessons from a Regenerating Costa Rican Dry Forest
  • The Group Life Cycle and Demography of Brown Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus [apella] nigritus) in Iguazú National Park, Argentina
  • Part IV Asia
  • Social Organization and Male Residence Pattern in Phayre's Leaf Monkeys
  • White-Handed Gibbons of Khao Yai: Social Flexibility, Complex Reproductive Strategies, and a Slow Life History
  • V Africa
  • The Amboseli Baboon Research Project: Forty Years of Continuity and Change
  • The Thirty Year Blues: What We Know and Don't Know About Life History, Group Size, and Group Fission of Blue Monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya
  • Long-Term Research on Chimpanzee Behavioral Ecology in Kibale National Park, Uganda
  • Long-Term Field Studies of Chimpanzees at Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania
  • Long-Term Studies of the Chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania
  • Long-Term Research on Grauer's Gorillas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC: Life History, Foraging Strategies, and Ecological Differentiation from Sympatric Chimpanzees
  • Long-Term Studies on Wild Bonobos at Wamba, Luo Scientific Reserve, D.R. Congo: Towards the Understanding of Female Life History in a Male-Philopatric Species. VI Summary
  • A Comparative Perspective on Long-term Field Studies.

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