Primates and the tropical forest
Subtitle: proceedings of a seminar held in the presence of H.R.H. the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the President of World Wildlife Fund--International, September 21, 1982, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
By: jointly sponsored by World Wildlife Fund--U.S. and the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation ; edited by Russell A. Mittermeier and Mark J. Plotkin.
Contributors: Mittermeier, Russell A.; Plotkin, Mark J.; Philip, Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1921-; World Wildlife Fund (U.S.); L.S.B. Leakey Foundation.
Publisher: World Wildlife Fund-U.S.; L.S.B. Leakey Foundation
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Pasadena, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Primates -- Tropics -- Congresses; Rain forest ecology -- Congresses; Endangered species -- Tropics -- Congresses; Primates -- Tropics -- Congresses; Ecology -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The world's endangered primates: an introduction and a case study- the monkeys of Brazil's Atlantic forests / Russell A. Mittermeier; title: The world's endangered primate species: a case study on the lemur fauna of Madagascar / Alison F. Richard; title: Living primates as a key to human behavior / Shirley C. Strum; title: Living primates as a key to human evolution / John G. Fleagle; title: The tropical forest- greatest expression of life on earth / Thomas E. Lovejoy; title: Ethnobotany, conservation and the future of the tropical forest / Mark J. Plotkin.