Seasonality in Primates : Studies of Living and Extinct Human and Non-Human Primates (Hardcover)

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Seasonality in primate ecology, reproduction, and life history: an overview Carel P. van Schaik and Diane K. Brockman; Part II. Seasonal Habitats: 2. Tropical climates and phenology: a primate perspective Carel P. van Schaik and Kristina Pfannes; Part III. Seasonality and Behavioural Ecology: 3. The influence of seasonality on primate diet and ranging Claire Hemingway and Nora Bynum; 4. Seasonality in predation risk: varying activity periods in lemurs and other primates Michele Rasmussen; 5. Physiological adaptations to seasonality in nocturnal primates Jutta Schmid and Peter Kappeler; 6. Seasonality and long-term change in a savannah environment Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann, Julie A Hollister-Smith, Raphael S. Mututua, Serah N. Sayialel, Philip M. Muruthi and Kinyua Warutere; 7. Day length seasonality and the thermal environment Russell Hill; 8. Seasonality in hunting by nonhuman primates John C. Mitani and David P. Watts; 9. Human hunting seasonality Rebecca Bliege-Bird and Douglas W. Bird; Part IV. Seasonality, Reproduction, and Social Organisation: 10. Seasonality and reproductive function Diane K. Brockman and Carel P. van Schaik; 11. Seasonality of primate births in relation to climate Charles Janson and Jennifer Verdolin; 12. Energetic responses to food availability in the great apes: implications for hominin evolution Cheryl D. Knott; 13. Human birth seasonality Peter T. Ellison, Claudia R. Valeggia and Diana S. Sherry; 14. Seasonality, social organisation, and sexual dimorphism in primates J. Michael Plavcan, Carel P. van Schaik and W. Scott McGraw; Part V. Seasonality and Community Ecology: 15. Seasonality and primate communities Carel P. van Schaik, Richard Madden and Jorg U. Ganzhorn; 16. Primate diversity and environmental seasonality in historical perspective Nina G. Jablonski; Part VI. Seasonality and Human Evolution: 17. Tropical and temperate seasonal influences on human evolution Kaye Reed and Jennifer L. Fish; 18. Orbital controls on seasonality John D. Kingston; 19. What do studies of primate seasonality tell us about human evolution? Diane K. Brockman.