Long-term, individual-based field studies

Abstract

This book syntheses the result of 18 long-term individual-based studies of primates, of which the shortest has spanned over 10 years and the longest now exceeds 50 years. Its production is timely, for primate studies have now reached a stage where individual-based data extending over several decades are available for a wide range of species spanning all the continents where primates occur and are being used to explore an increasing range of fundamental questions in ecology, evolutionary biology and behaviour (Robbins 2010).