TY - BOOK ID - 7988878 TI - Long-term field studies of primates AU - Kappeler, Peter M. AU - Watts, David P. PY - 2012 SN - 3642225136 3642435580 9786613573025 1280395109 3642225144 PB - Berlin : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Animal behavior. KW - Animal ecology. KW - Conservation biology. KW - Evolution (Biology). KW - Life sciences. KW - Primates -- Fieldwork. KW - Primates KW - Cohort Studies KW - Mammals KW - Behavior KW - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms KW - Vertebrates KW - Epidemiologic Studies KW - Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic KW - Chordata KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms KW - Epidemiologic Methods KW - Animals KW - Investigative Techniques KW - Public Health KW - Quality of Health Care KW - Eukaryota KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Organisms KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Health Care KW - Behavior, Animal KW - Longitudinal Studies KW - Zoology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Animal Behavior KW - Longitudinal studies KW - Ecology KW - Fieldwork KW - Behavior. KW - Behavioral sciences. KW - Ecology. KW - Evolutionary biology. KW - Life Sciences. KW - Behavioral Sciences. KW - Animal Ecology. KW - Evolutionary Biology. KW - Conservation Biology/Ecology. KW - Nature conservation KW - Animal evolution KW - Biological evolution KW - Darwinism KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Evolutionary science KW - Origin of species KW - Biology KW - Evolution KW - Biological fitness KW - Homoplasy KW - Natural selection KW - Phylogeny KW - Animals, Habits and behavior of KW - Ethology KW - Animal psychology KW - Ethologists KW - Psychology, Comparative KW - Ecology . KW - Balance of nature KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7988878 AB - Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar, Africa, Asia and South America. More importantly, they provide summaries of their long-term research efforts on primate behaviour, ecology and life history, highlighting insights that were only possible because of the long-term nature of the study. The chapters of this volume collectively outline the many scientific reasons for studying primate behaviour, ecology and demography over multiple generations. This kind of research is typically necessitated by the relatively slow life histories of primates. Moreover, a complete understanding of social organization and behaviour, factors often influenced by rare but important events, requires long-term data collection. Finally, long-term field projects are also becoming increasingly important foci of local conservation activities. ER -