Dissertation Research: The Socioecology of the Common Woolly Monkey: (Lagothrix lagotricha) in Eastern Ecuador

[9413000]彼得·罗德曼灵长类动物生态学研究的目标是确定塑造灵长类动物社会和生活在其中的个体行为的环境压力。大多数情况下，他们试图将觅食策略、繁殖决策和个体的社会行为与潜在的生态变量（如食物资源的可用性和分布）联系起来。这项对一种罕见的南美猴子的非常复杂的研究将提供与食物的分布和可用性有关的信息。但它也将测试其他食物资源特征的社会生态重要性，如它们的大小和形状、化学成分、韧性和加工时间。这些数据还将允许对在其他相关猴子的研究中发展起来的裂变融合社会的生态模型进行首次实地测试。此外，这些猴子似乎是判断人类干扰对热带生态系统影响的良好指示物种，因此本研究的结果应该对南美洲亚马逊河流域的保护问题具有直接意义。

9413000 Peter Rodman The goal of primate ecological studies is to identify the enviornmental pressures that shape primate societies and the behavior of individuals living in them. Most often, they seek to relate the foraging strategies, reproductive decisions, and social behavior of individuals to underlying ecological variables such as the availability and distribution of food resources, This very sophisticated study of a rare South American monkey will provide information on these issues relating to the distribution and availability of food, but it will also test the soco-ecological importance of other food resource characteristics such as their size and shape, chemical composition, toughness, and processing time. The data will also permit the first field test of an ecological model of fission-fusion sociality developed in studies of other related monkeys. Furthermore, these monkeys appear to be a good indicator species for judging the effects of human disturbance on tropical ecosystems, and therefore the results of this study should prove directly important to issues of conservation in Amazonian South America.