Primates of Gashaka : Socioecology and Conservation in Nigeria’s Biodiversity Hotspot /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Sommer, Volker. (Editor ), Ross, Caroline. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, 35
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490 1 |a Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,  |v 35 
505 0 |a Foreword -- Conservator General, Nigeria National Park Service -- Contributors -- 1: Exploring and Protecting West Africa’s Primates: The Gashaka Primate Project in Context. Volker Sommer and Caroline Ross -- 2: To Save a Wilderness: Creation and Development of Gashaka Gumti Nationa Park, Nigeria. Richard Barnwell -- 3: Hunters, Fire, Cattle: Conservation Challenges in Eastern Nigeria, with Special Reference to Chimpanzees. Jeremiah Adanu, Andrew Fowler and Volker Sommer -- 4: Monkeys and Apes as Animals and Humans: Ethno-Primatology in Nigeria’s Taraba Region. Gilbert Nyanganji, Andrew Fowler, Aylin McNamara and Volker Sommer -- 5: The Bush as Pharmacy and Supermarket: Mechanisms and Functions of Plant Use by Human and Non-human Primates at Gashaka. Yianna Koutsioni and Volker Sommer -- 6: Fulani of the Highlands: Costs and Benefits of Living in National Park Enclaves. David Bennett and Caroline Ross -- 7: Pan-African Voyagers: Phylogeography of Baboons. Dietmar Zinner, Umaru Buba, Stephen Nash and Christian Roos -- 8: Crop-raiding and Commensalism in Olive Baboons: The Costs and Benefits of Living with Humans. Ymke Warren, James P. Higham, Ann M. MacLarnon and Caroline Ross -- 9: How Different Are Gashaka’s Baboons? Forest and Open Country Populations Compared. Caroline Ross, Ymke Warren, Ann M. MacLarnon and James P. Higham -- 10: Keeping in Contact: Flexibility in Calls of Olive Baboons. Elodie Ey and Julia Fischer -- 11: Not Words but Meanings? Alarm Calling Behaviour in a Forest Guenon. Kate Arnold, Yvonne Pohlner and Klaus Zuberbühler -- 12: Patrirchal Chimpanzees, Matriarchal Bonobos: Potentia Ecological Causes of a Pan Dichotomy. Volker Sommer, Jan Bauer, Andrew Fowler and Sylvia Ortmann -- 13: Panthropology of the Fourth Chimpanzee: A Contribution to Cultural Primatology. Andrew Fowler, Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Umaru Buba, Sandra Tranquilli, Callistus Akosim, Caspar Schöning and Volker Sommer -- 14: Will the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee Go Extinct? Models Derived from Intake Rates of Ape Sanctuaries. Nicola Hughes, Norm Rosen, Neil Gretsky and Volker Sommer -- Index. 
650 0 |a Zoology. 
650 0 |a Biodiversity. 
650 0 |a Animal ecology. 
650 0 |a Applied ecology. 
650 0 |a Environmental management. 
650 0 |a Nature conservation. 
650 1 4 |a Zoology. 
650 2 4 |a Biodiversity. 
650 2 4 |a Animal Ecology. 
650 2 4 |a Applied Ecology. 
650 2 4 |a Environmental Management. 
650 2 4 |a Nature Conservation. 
700 1 |a Sommer, Volker.  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Ross, Caroline.  |e editor. 
710 2 |a SpringerLink (Online service) 
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