Dissertation Research: Community Ecology and Positional Behavior

论文研究：群落生态学与位置行为

• 批准号: 9423502
• 负责人: Robert Sussman
• 金额: $ 0.33万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-05-01 至 1996-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9423502&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Community; Ecology; Positional

This project will study the the ecological effects on posture and locomotion in two very different primate species inhabiting the same lowland rain forest area in Madagascar. The two species differ in body size, dietary adaptations and reproductive patterns but are both day-active, live in the ame area, and are closely related.. Therefore, the differences between the two species may be due more to adaptation than to differences in their evolutionary history. The hypothesis to be tested here is that differences in diet, the distribution pattern of food in the environment and through the seasons, patterns of reproduction, and body size differences have determined the major differences in the manner and ways the animals move through the environment. The project is especially worth-while because one of the species, in particular, is endangered - this has major conservation ramifications.

该项目将研究居住在马达加斯加同一低地雨林地区的两种截然不同的灵长类动物对姿势和运动的生态影响。 这两个物种在体型、饮食适应和繁殖模式上有所不同，但都是日间活动，生活在同一地区，并且密切相关。因此，这两个物种之间的差异可能更多地是由于适应而不是进化历史的差异。 这里要检验的假设是，饮食的差异、食物在环境中和季节的分布模式、繁殖模式和体型差异决定了动物在环境中移动的方式和方式的主要差异。 该项目特别有价值，因为其中一个物种特别濒临灭绝——这对保护产生了重大影响。