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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnett, Adrian
Corporate Authors: Expedition Advisory Centre (London, England), Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Expedition Advisory Centre, Royal Geographical Society, 1995.
Series:Expedition field techniques.
Subjects:
Primates > Handbooks.
Zoology > Handbooks.
Research > Handbooks.
Table of Contents:
  • Sect. 1. What you can do: simple stuff
  • Species inventory of a primate community
  • Single species studies
  • Comparison of communities in different habitats
  • Records of group size
  • Diet
  • Group composition
  • Range size
  • Rare or common in an area
  • Effects of hunting
  • Geographical boundaries
  • Tourism and exotourism impacts
  • What data to take
  • Examples of data needed on a daily basis
  • Recording oddities
  • Sect. 2. What you can do: more detailed stuff
  • Calls and vocalizations
  • Recording calls (for own sake).
  • Recording calls for later analysis
  • Other possible work with calls
  • Faeces
  • Faecal analysis (food)
  • Faecal analysis (endoparasites)
  • Faeces ecology
  • Associations with other species
  • Carnivory in primates
  • Pennies from heaven
  • Sect. 3. Inappropriate topics
  • What you probably can't do
  • What you should never do
  • Sect. 4. Field methods
  • Transects and trails
  • Line transect sampling observation
  • Preliminaries
  • Recording data
  • Guarding against between-observer variation
  • Identifying individuals.
  • Other methods
  • Middens
  • Souvenir shops
  • Markets
  • Interviewing local people
  • Collecting plant material
  • Vegetation surveys
  • Role of vegetation surveys
  • Classifying vegetation types and format
  • Phenology
  • Safety
  • Medical aspects
  • Sect. 5. Miscellaneous hints
  • Sect. 6. Pre-fieldwork preparation
  • Sect. 7. Equipment
  • Field
  • Data gathering equipment
  • Collecting equipment
  • Sound-recording equipment
  • Equipment recommendations (base).
  • Preserving optics
  • Preserving film
  • Preserving tapes and tape recorders
  • Keeping notes (and making multiple copies)
  • Labelling and storing specimens
  • Publications.