Primates in Fragments: Complexity and Resilience

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Because Conservation Counts: Primates and Fragmentation....Pages 3-11
Assessing Habitat Fragmentation Effects on Primates: The Importance of Evaluating Questions at the Correct Scale....Pages 13-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-31
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Effects of Long-Term Forest Fragmentation on the Primate Community of Java, Indonesia....Pages 33-45
A Region-Wide Review of Mesoamerican Primates: Prioritizing for Conservation....Pages 47-55
Primates of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project: A History....Pages 57-74
Lessons from Los Tuxtlas: 30 Years of Research into Primates in Fragments....Pages 75-88
Going, Going, Gone: A 15-Year History of the Decline of Primates in Forest Fragments near Kibale National Park, Uganda....Pages 89-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-103
Primate Populations in Fragmented Tropical Dry Forest Landscapes in Southwestern Nicaragua....Pages 105-120
Living on the Edge: Habitat Fragmentation at the Interface of the Semiarid Zone in the Brazilian Northeast....Pages 121-135
Do Patch Size and Interpatch Distance Influence the Distribution of Brown Howler Monkeys ( Alouatta guariba clamitans ) in a Fragmented Landscape in South Brazil?....Pages 137-145
Status Monitoring of Isolated Populations of Macaques and Other Nonhuman Primates in Thailand....Pages 147-158
An Eight-Year Life History of a Primate Community in the Colombian Llanos....Pages 159-182
A Critically-Endangered Capuchin ( Sapajus apella margaritae ) Living in Mountain Forest Fragments on Isla de Margarita, Venezuela....Pages 183-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-198
“Specialist” Primates Can Be Flexible in Response to Habitat Alteration....Pages 199-211
Fragments and Food: Red-Tailed Monkey Abundance in Privately Owned Forest Fragments of Central Uganda....Pages 213-225
Fragment-Adaptive Behavioural Strategies and Intersite Variation in the Ring-Tailed Lemur ( Lemur catta ) in South-Central Madagascar....Pages 227-243
The Simplified Novel Diet of the Highly Threatened Blond Capuchin in the Vanishing Pernambuco Endemism Center....Pages 245-257
Effects of Habitat Alteration on Resting Behaviour of the Sahamalaza Sportive Lemur in North West Madagascar....Pages 259-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-274
Multilevel and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Endangered Primates in Complex Landscapes: Golden-Headed Lion Tamarins in Southern Bahia, Brazil....Pages 275-297
A Critically Endangered Capuchin Monkey ( Sapajus xanthosternos ) Living in a Highly Fragmented Hotspot....Pages 299-311
Front Matter....Pages 273-274
Coping with Fragmented Forests: The Critically Endangered Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkeys ( Rhinopithecus avunculus ) in Viet Nam....Pages 313-327
Fragmented Primate Population of Nepal....Pages 329-356
The Challenges of Survival in a Concrete Jungle: Conservation of the Pied Tamarin ( Saguinus bicolor ) in the Urban Landscape of Manaus, Brazil....Pages 357-370
Where Are They? Quantification, Distribution and Microhabitat Use of Fragments by the Red Slender Loris ( Loris tardigradus tardigradus ) in Sri Lanka....Pages 371-384
Front Matter....Pages 385-387
Molecular Genetic Tools for Evaluating the Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation....Pages 389-398
Kinship and Dispersal Patterns in Alouatta caraya Inhabiting Continuous and Fragmented Habitats of Argentina....Pages 399-412
The Mona Monkeys of Grenada, São Tomé and Príncipe: Long-Term Persistence of a Guenon in Permanent Fragments and Implications for the Survival of Forest Primates in Protected Areas....Pages 413-422
Landscape Attributes Affecting the Natural Hybridization of Mexican Howler Monkeys....Pages 423-435
Preliminary Evaluation of the Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Habitat Use and Genetic Diversity of Pygmy Marmosets in Ecuador....Pages 437-445
Interacting Roles of Diet, Cortisol Levels, and Parasites in Determining Population Density of Belizean Howler Monkeys in a Hurricane Damaged Forest Fragment....Pages 447-456
Front Matter....Pages 457-458
Fragmentation and its Significance on the Conservation of Proboscis Monkey ( Nasalis larvatus ) in the Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah (North Borneo)....Pages 459-474
Potential Distribution of Primates in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Under Current and Climate Change Scenarios....Pages 475-491
Conservation Challenges Facing Two Threatened Endemic Titi Monkeys in a Naturally Fragmented Bolivian Forest....Pages 493-501
Primates in Fragments 10 Years Later: Once and Future Goals....Pages 503-523
Erratum....Pages E1-E3
Back Matter....Pages 525-537