Table of Contents:
  • African primate communities: determinants of structure and threats to survival / Colin A. Chapman, Annie Gautier-Hion, John F. Oates and Daphne A. Onderdonk
  • Biomass and use of resources in south and south-east Asian primate communities / A.K. Gupta and David J. Chivers
  • Species coexistence, distribution and environmental determinants of neotropical primate richness: a community-level zoogeographic analysis / Carlos A. Peres and Charles H. Janson
  • Primate communities: Madagascar / Jorg U. Ganzhorn, Patricia C. Wright and Jonah Ratsimbazafy
  • Primate diversity / John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed
  • Phylogenetic and temporal perspectives on primate ecology / John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed
  • Population density of primates in communities: differences in community structure / Kaye E. Reed
  • Body mass, competition and the structure of primate communities / Jorg U. Ganzhorn
  • Convergence and divergence in primate social systems / Peter M. Kappeler
  • Of mice and monkeys: primates as predictors of mammal community richness / Louise H. Emmons
  • Comparing communities / John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed
  • Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in anthropoid primates / Harriet A.C. Eeley and Michael J. Lawes
  • Recent evolutionary past of primate communities: likely environmental impacts during the past three millennia / Caroline Tutin and Lee White
  • Resources and primate community structure / Charles H. Janson and Colin A. Chapman
  • Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the structure of Amazonian primate communities / Carlos A. Peres
  • Spatial and temporal scales in primate community structure / John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed
  • Primate communities in Africa: the consequences of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting? / Thomas T. Struhsaker
  • Future of primate communities: a reflection of the present? / Patricia C. Wright and Jukka Jernvall
  • Concluding remarks / John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed.