Diet of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in Mesoamerica: current knowledge and future directions

A González‐Zamora… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Here we review all published articles and book chapters, as well as unpublished theses and
data of Ateles geoffroyi diet to (1) summarize the literature;(2) synthesize general feeding …

Basin‐wide effects of game harvest on vertebrate population densities in Amazonian forests: Implications for animal‐mediated seed dispersal

CA Peres, E Palacios - Biotropica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Vertebrate responses to hunting are widely variable for target and nontarget species
depending on the history of hunting and productivity of any given site and the life history …

Linking feeding ecology and population abundance: a review of food resource limitation on primates

G Hanya, CA Chapman - Ecological research, 2013 - Springer
We review studies that consider how food affects primate population abundance. In order to
explain spatial variation in primate abundance, various correlates that parameterize quality …

Changes in vegetation structure and composition along a tropical forest chronosequence: implications for wildlife

SJ DeWalt, SK Maliakal, JS Denslow - Forest Ecology and Management, 2003 - Elsevier
Changes in tropical forest structure and species composition that occur during regeneration
following land abandonment may have important consequences for wildlife populations …

Defining fallback foods and assessing their importance in primate ecology and evolution

AJ Marshall, CM Boyko, KL Feilen… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Physical anthropologists use the term “fallback foods” to denote resources of relatively poor
nutritional quality that become particularly important dietary components during periods …

Forest Fragmentation Modifies Habitat Quality for Alouatta palliata

V Arroyo-Rodríguez, S Mandujano - International Journal of Primatology, 2006 - Springer
Fragmentation reduces habitat area, increases the number of habitat patches, decreases
their size, and increases patch isolation. For arboreal mammals such as howlers (Alouatta …

Priority areas for the conservation of Atlantic forest large mammals

M Galetti, HC Giacomini, RS Bueno… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
Large mammal faunas in tropical forest landscapes are widely affected by habitat
fragmentation and hunting, yet the environmental determinants of their patterns of …

Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates

DF Correa, PR Stevenson, MN Umaña… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate the geographic patterns and ecological correlates in the geographic
distribution of the most common tree dispersal modes in Amazonia (endozoochory …

Differences in diet between spider monkey groups living in forest fragments and continuous forest in Mexico

ÓM Chaves, KE Stoner, V Arroyo‐Rodríguez - Biotropica, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Forest fragmentation can lead to reductions in food availability, especially for some large‐
bodied tropical mammals such as spider monkeys. During a 15\xE2\x80\x90mo period, we …

Foraging, Food Choice, and Food Processing by Sympatric Ripe-Fruit Specialists: Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii and Ateles belzebuth belzebuth

JL Dew - International Journal of Primatology, 2005 - Springer
Studies of interspecific competition and niche separation have formed some of the seminal
works of ecology. I conducted an 18-mo study comparing the feeding ecologies of 2 …