Primate socioecology at the crossroads: Past, present, and future
Primate socioecology at the crossroads: Past, present, and future
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DOI：
10.1002/evan.21316
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发表时间：
2012-07-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Janson, Charles
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作者：
Clutton-Brock, Tim;Janson, Charles
试图解释灵长类动物群体大小和结构的差异的人认为，它们是食物分配差异引起的摄食竞争强度变化的结果。然而，尽管摄食竞争可以限制雌性群体的规模，但许多其他因素影响了社会性对雌性的成本和收益，并导致了群体规模的差异。此外，种间差异，女性之间的社会关系，在女性philopatry，和组成员之间的亲属关系似乎是更密切相关的变化，生活史参数，生殖策略，和繁殖比对比在食物分配或喂养竞争。社会生态学理论的预测和观察到的灵长类动物社会行为的变化之间的不匹配导致了关于灵长类动物社会生态学未来的长期争论。我们认为，未来的尝试，了解灵长类动物社会的多样性需要基于一种方法，探索不同的社会组织的组成部分的单独的解释，结合生态和系统发育信息，并整合灵长类动物的研究与其他哺乳动物的类似研究。(c)2012 Wiley Periodicals，Inc.
Attempts to explain differences in the size and structure of primate groups have argued that they are a consequence of variation in the intensity of feeding competition caused by contrasts in food distribution. However, although feeding competition can limit the size of female groups, many other factors affect the costs and the benefits of sociality to females and contribute to differences in group size. Moreover, interspecific differences in social relationships between females, in female philopatry, and in kinship between group members appear to be more closely associated with variation in life-history parameters, reproductive strategies, and phylogeny than with contrasts in food distribution or feeding competition. The mismatch between predictions of socioecological theory and observed variation in primate social behavior has led to protracted arguments about the future of primate socioecology. We argue that future attempts to understand the diversity of primate societies need to be based on an approach that explores separate explanations for different components of social organization, combines ecological and phylogenetic information, and integrates research on primates with similar studies of other groups of mammals. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.