New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates: Distribution, Ecology, Behavior, and ConservationAlejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber, Mary S. M. Pavelka, LeAndra Luecke The purpose of this volume is to present a comprehensive overview of recent advances in primate field research, ecology, and conservation biology in Mesoamerica. The overall goal of each contribution is to integrate newly collected field data with theoretical perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology, socioecology, biological anthropology, and conservation to identify how our current knowledge of primate behavior and ecology has moved beyond more traditional approaches. A corollary to this, and an important goal of the volume is to identify geographical regions and species for which we continue to lack sufficient information, to develop action plans for future research, and to identify areas for immediate conservation action. Despite many decades of primate research in Mesoamerica, much is still unknown concerning the basic ecology and behavior of these species, demography, current distribution, and conservation status of local populations, and the effectiveness of conservation policies on primate survivorship. Four major areas of research are the focus of the volume: Evolutionary Biology and Biogeography; Population Demography and Ecology; Behavior; and Conservation and Management Policies. |
Contents
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TAXONOMY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY | 23 |
The Biogeographic History of Mesoamerican Primates | 81 |
POPULATION RESPONSES TO DISTURBANCE | 115 |
Population Structure of Black Howlers Alouatta pigra | 143 |
The Effects of Forest Fragment Age Isolation Size | 165 |
Forest Fragmentation and Its Effects on the Feeding | 189 |
Intestinal Parasitic Infections in Alouatta pigra in Tropical | 215 |
Leap Bridge or Ride? Ontogenetic Influences on Positional | 333 |
Food Choice by Juvenile Capuchin Monkeys Cebus capucinus | 349 |
Postconceptive Mating in WhiteFaced Capuchins | 387 |
CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT POLICIES | 411 |
Conservation Value | 437 |
Primate Populations in the Protected Forests of Maya | 471 |
Mapping Primate Populations in the Yucatan Peninsula | 489 |
A Metapopulation Approach to Conserving the Howler | 513 |
Introduction | 243 |
An Exploratory Analysis of Developmental Plasticity in Costa | 265 |
Travel Patterns and Spatial Mapping in Nicaraguan Mantled | 287 |
Use of Landmark Cues to Locate Feeding Sites in Wild | 311 |
Quantifying Fragmentation of Black Howler Alouatta pigra | 539 |
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