Primates in Flooded Habitats - Ecology and Conservation

A ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.

List of contents

Part I. Introduction; Part II. Primates of Mangrove and Coastal Forests; Part III. Beach Primates; Part IV. Swamp Primates; Part V. Primates from Freshwater Flooded Forests; Part VI. Conservation Case Studies; Part VII. Conservation, Threats and Status.

About the author

Katarzyna Nowak is a Research Associate at the University of the Free State, Qwaqwa campus, South Africa and a Fellow at The Safina Center, New York. Her conservation research focuses on the behavioural flexibility of threatened species.Adrian A. Barnett is Lecturer and Researcher at the National Institute for Amazon Research, Brazil, and the Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil, and a Research Fellow at Roehampton University, UK. He has worked with flooded habitats and their primates for more than twenty-five years.Ikki Matsuda is an Associate Professor at the Chubu University Academy of Emerging Sciences and a member of both the Japan Monkey Centre (Advisor) and the Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University (specially appointed Associate Professor) in Japan. He focuses on a synthetic understanding of the evolution and ecology of colobine species, in particular of the proboscis monkey.

Summary

This pioneering volume examines primates that live in flooded habitats - ecologically-rich and highly threatened areas that are often overlooked. Leading experts in the field cover these primates' fossil history and current biology, and set out future research and conservation priorities.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY KATARZYNA, Katarzyna Nowak, Katarzyna Barnett Nowak
• Assisted by: Adrian A Barnett (Editor), Adrian A. Barnett (Editor), Barnett Adrian A. (Editor), Ikki Matsuda (Editor), Katarzyna Nowak (Editor), Nowak Katarzyna (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107134317
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13431-7
• No. of pages: 478
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Biologica; Cambridge Studies in Biologica
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Animal Ecology, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Zoology and animal sciences, Primates, Zoology: primates (primatology)