Primate Biogeography: Progress and Prospects

✍ Scribed by Shawn M. Lehman, John G. Fleagle (auth.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 551
Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Biogeography, the study of the distribution of organisms over the surface of the earth, plays a central role in our understanding of virtually all aspects of the biology of primates and other animals, including systematics, mechanisms of speciation, population genetics and demography. The distribution of primates relative to aspects of climate and habitat, including altitude, forest type, and food availability, forms the basis for our understanding of ecological and behavioral adaptations. The biogeography of primates in the past is a major component of our understanding of their evolutionary history and is an essential component of conservation biology.

This volume, which brings together these papers on the biogeography of primates, past and present, provides an introduction to Primate Biogeography as a discipline, illustrates the many factors that may influence the distribution of primates, and demonstrates the wide range of methodological approaches that are available to understanding the distribution of this order.

✦ Table of Contents

Biogeography and Primates: A Review....Pages 1-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-61
Nested Distribution Patterns and the Historical Biogeography of the Primates of Guyana....Pages 63-80
Genetic Evidence on the Historical Biogeography of Central American Howler Monkeys....Pages 81-103
Ecological Biogeography of Primates in Guyana....Pages 105-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-133
Contrasting Phylogeographic Histories of Chimpanzees in Nigeria and Cameroon: A Multi-Locus Genetic Analysis....Pages 135-168
Geographic Variation in Savanna Baboon ( Papio ) Ecology and its Taxonomic and Evolutionary Implications....Pages 169-200
Biogeography and Evolution of the Cercocebus-Mandrillus Clade: Evidence from the Face....Pages 201-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-227
Lemur Biogeography....Pages 229-254
Mouse Lemur Phylogeography Revises a Model of Ecogeographic Constraint in Madagascar....Pages 255-268
Abiotic and Biotic Factors as Predictors of Species Richness on Madagascar....Pages 269-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-303
The Geography of Mammals and Rivers in Mainland Southeast Asia....Pages 305-329
Primate Biogeography and Ecology on the Sunda Shelf Islands: A Paleontological and Zooarchaeological Perspective....Pages 331-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-374
The Biogeography of Primate Evolution: The Role of Plate Tectonics, Climate and Chance....Pages 375-418
Biogeographic Origins of Primate Higher Taxa....Pages 419-437
Mammalian Biogeography and Anthropoid Origins....Pages 439-467
Continental Paleobiogeography as Phylogenetic Evidence....Pages 469-522

✦ Subjects

Zoology; Paleontology; Historical Geology; Ecology

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