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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
'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
Book Description
Comprehensive and unique volume exploring the differences and similarities between primate communities worldwide.
About the Author
JOHN G FLEAGLE is Professor of Anatomical Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of Primate Adaptation and Evolution (1988, 1999), and co-editor of several other books, including The Human Evolution Sourcebook (1993), Anthropoid Origins (1994) and Primate Locomotion: Recent Advances (1998), and is founding editor of Evolutionary Anthropology. CHARLES JANSON is Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His major research interests are the evolutionary ecology of primate social behavior and the evolution of seed dispersal. KAYE E REED is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University, Research Associate at the Institute of Human Origins, and Co-Director of the IHO/University of the Witwatersrand Summer Paleoanthropological Field School. Her primary research interests are in the evolutionary paleoecology of fossil primates and hominids, and the structure and dynamics of mammalian and primate communities. Current paleontological and paleoecological research is focused in Ethiopia and South Africa.
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