The gibbons
Subtitle: new perspectives on small ape socioecology and population biology
By: edited by Susan Lappan and Danielle J. Whittaker ; foreword by David J. Chivers
Series: Developments in primatology : progress and prospects
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780387886039
Subjects: Hylobatidae; Gibbons
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: PART I; title: INTRODUCTION. The diversity of small apes and the importance of population-level studies / Danielle J. Whittaker and Susan Lappan; title: PART II; title: BIOGEOGRAPHY. Evolutionary relationships among the gibbons : a biogeographic perspective / Helen J. Chatterjee; title: Genetic differentiation of agile gibbons between Sumatra and Kalimantan in Indonesia / Hirohisa Hirai ... [et al.]; title: Vocal diversity of Kloss's gibbons (Hylobates klossii) in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia / Sally A. Keith, Melissa S. Waller, and Thomas Geissmann; title: Phylogeography of Kloss's gibbon (Hylobates klossii) populations and implications for conservation planning in the Mentawai Islands / Danielle J. Whittaker; title: Individual and geographical variability in the songs of wild silvery gibbons (Hylobates moloch) on Java, Indonesia / Robert Dallmann and Thomas Geissmann; title: The fossil record of gibbons / Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin; title: PART III; title: DIET AND COMMUNITY ECOLOGY. Hylobatid diets revisited : the importance of body mass, fruit availability, and interspecific competition / Alice A. Elder; title: Competition and niche overlap between gibbons (Hylobates albibarbis) and other frugivorous vertebrates in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia / Andrew J. Marshall, Charles H. Cannon, and Mark Leighton; title: The seed dispersal niche of gibbons in Bornean dipterocarp forests / Kim R. McConkey; title: PART IV; title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. Ecology and the social system of gibbons / Warren Y. Brockelman; title: The ecology and evolution of hylobatid communities : causal and contextual factors underlying inter- and intraspecific variation / Nicholas Malone and Agustin Fuentes; title: Seasonal home range use and defendability in white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand / Thad Q. Bartlett; title: PART V; title: MATING SYSTEMS AND REPRODUCTION. Monogamy in mammals : expanding the perspective on hylobatid mating systems / Luca Morino; title: Monitoring female reproductive status in white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) using fecal hormone analysis and patterns of genital skin swellings / Claudia Barelli and Michael Heistermann; title: Patterns of infant care in wild siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus) in southern Sumatra / Susan Lappan; title: The social organization and mating system of Khao Yai white-handed gibbons : 1992-2006 / Ulrich H. Reichard; title: PART VI; title: CONSERVATION BIOLOGY. Status and conservation of yellow-cheeked crested gibbons (Nomascus gabriellae) in the Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia / Benjamin Miles Rawson, Tom Clements, and Nut Meng Hor; title: The distribution and abundance of hoolock gibbons in India / Jayanta Das ... [et al.]; title: Census of eastern hoolock gibbons (Hoolock leuconedys) in Mahamyaing Wildlife Sanctuary, Sagaing Division, Myanmar / Warren Y. Brockelman ... [et al.]; title: The population distribution and abundance of siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus) and agile gibbons (Hylobates agilis) in West Central Sumatra, Indonesia / Achmad Yanuar; title: Canopy bridges : an effective conservation tactic for supporting gibbon populations in forest fragments / Jayanta Das ... [et al.]; title: The role of reintroduction in gibbon conservation : opportunities and challenges / Susan M. Cheyne; title: Saving the small apes : conservation assessment of gibbon species at the 2006 Asian Primate Red List Workshop / Danielle J. Whittaker; title: Index.