Sd. Tardif et Pa. Garber, SOCIAL AND REPRODUCTIVE PATTERNS IN NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES - RELATION TO ECOLOGY, BODY-SIZE, AND INFANT CARE, American journal of primatology, 34(2), 1994, pp. 111-114
The papers in this issue stem from a symposium presented at the 1992 I
nternational Primatological Congress in Strasbourg, France. Due to the
paucity of information on social organization, reproduction, and the
relation of these to ecology in neotropical primates, we organized thi
s symposium, which included researchers conducting comparative studies
and those examining aspects of socioecology in single platyrrhine spe
cies. The papers in the symposium are organized around three issues: 1
) the relation between body size, ecology, and reproduction (papers by
Dietz et al., Tardif, and Williams; et al.); 2) ranging and dispersal
patterns as determinants of social structure (papers by Boinski and M
itchell, Norconk and Kinzey, and Kinzey and Cunningham); 3) phylogenet
ic and comparative analyses of behavioral and anatomical traits (Ford
and Garber). Within these areas, the papers provide new information an
d new syntheses of existing information on platyrrhine socioecology. I
n addition, many detail innovative methodological approaches which cou
ld fruitfully be applied to other primates. (C) 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.