Primate Conservation Biology

Author: Guy Cowlishaw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682117X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 511

Book Description
From the snub-nosed monkeys of China to the mountain gorillas of central Africa, our closest nonhuman relatives are in critical danger worldwide. A recent report, for example, warns that nearly 20 percent of the world's primates may go extinct within the next ten or twenty years. In this book Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar integrate cutting-edge theoretical advances with practical management priorities to give scientists and policymakers the tools they need to help keep these species from disappearing forever. Primate Conservation Biology begins with detailed overviews of the diversity, life history, ecology, and behavior of primates and the ways these factors influence primate abundance and distribution. Cowlishaw and Dunbar then discuss the factors that put primates at the greatest risk of extinction, especially habitat disturbance and hunting. The remaining chapters present a comprehensive review of conservation strategies and management practices, highlighting the key issues that must be addressed to protect primates for the future.

An Introduction to Primate Conservation

Author: Serge A. Wich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198703384
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art synthesis of research principles and applied management practices for primate conservation.

Primate Behavioral Ecology

Author: Karen B. Strier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317345207
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409

Book Description
Primate Behavioral Ecology, described as “an engaging, cutting-edge exposition,” incorporates exciting new discoveries and the most up-to-date approaches in its introduction to the field and its applications of behavioral ecology to primate conservation. This unique, comprehensive, single-authored text integrates the basics of evolutionary, ecological, and demographic perspectives with contemporary noninvasive molecular and hormonal techniques to understand how different primates behave and the significance of these insights for primate conservation. Examples are drawn from the “classic” primate field studies and more recent studies on previously neglected species from across the primate order, illustrating the vast behavioral variation that we now know exists and the gaps in our knowledge that future studies will fill.

Primates in Flooded Habitats

Author: Katarzyna Nowak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107134315
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
A ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.

Primate Ecology and Conservation

Author: Eleanor Sterling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199659443
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
This practical volume brings together a group of distinguished primate researchers to synthesise field, laboratory, and conservation management techniques for primate ecology and conservation.

South American Primates

Author: Paul A. Garber
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387787054
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 565

Book Description
This will be the first time a volume will be compiled focusing on South American monkeys as models to address and test critical issues in the study of nonhuman primates. In addition, the volume will serve an important compliment to the book on Mesoamerican primates recently published in the series under the DIPR book series. The book will be of interest to a broad range of scientists in various disciplines, ranging from primatology, to animal behavior, animal ecology, conservation biology, veterinary science, animal husbandry, anthropology, and natural resource management. Moreover, although the volume will highlight South American primates, chapters will not simply review particular taxa or topics. Rather the focus of each chapter is to examine the nature and range of primate responses to changes in their ecological and social environments, and to use data on South American monkeys to address critical theoretical questions in the study of primate behavior, ecology, and conservation. Thus, we anticipate that the volume will be widely read by a broad range of students and researchers interested in prosimians, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, humans, as well as animal behavior and tropical biology.

Mahale Chimpanzees

Author: Michio Nakamura
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107052319
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 797

Book Description
A major contribution to great-ape research, covering every aspect of the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project to offer new, unique insights.

Primates in Fragments

Author: Laura K. Marsh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 147573770X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
This volume was created initially from a symposium of the same name presented at the International Primatological Society's XVIII Congress in Adelaide. South Australia. 6-12 January 2000. Many of the authors who have contributed to this text could not attend the symposium. so this has become another vehicle for the rapidly growing discipline of Fragmentation Science among primatologists. Fragmentation has quickly become a field separate from general ecology. which underscores the severity of the situation since we as a planet are rapidly losing habitat of all types to human disturbance. Getting ecologists. particularly primatologists. to admit that they study in fragments is not easy. In the field of primatology. one studies many things. but rarely do those things (genetics. behavior. population dynamics) get called out as studies in fragmentation. For some reason "fragmentation primatologists" fear that our work is somehow "not as good" as those who study in continuous habitat. We worry that perhaps our subjects are not demonstrating as robust behaviors as they "should" given fragmented or disturbed habitat conditions. I had a colleague openly state that she did not work in fragmented forests. that she merely studied behavior when it was clear that her study sites. everyone of them. was isolated habitat. Our desire to be just another link in the data chain for wild primates is so strong that it makes us deny what kinds of habitats we are working in. However.

Ethnoprimatology

Author: Kerry M. Dore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107109965
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
A how-to guide for ethnoprimatological research in the Anthropocene, offering an inside look at the latest research in the field.

Primates Face to Face

Author: Agustín Fuentes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139441477
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
As our closest evolutionary relatives, nonhuman primates are integral elements in our mythologies, diets and scientific paradigms, yet most species now face an uncertain future through exploitation for the pet and bushmeat trades as well as progressive habitat loss. New information about disease transmission, dietary and economic linkage, and the continuing international focus on conservation and primate research have created a surge of interest in primates, and focus on the diverse interaction of human and nonhuman primates has become an important component in primatological and ethnographic studies. By examining the diverse and fascinating range of relationships between humans and other primates, and how this plays a critical role in conservation practice and programs, Primates Face to Face disseminates the information gained from the anthropological study of nonhuman primates to the wider academic and non-academic world.