Geophagy in Brown Spider Monkeys (Ateles hybridus) in a Lowland Tropical Rainforest in Colombia

2011 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Link ◽  
Ana Gabriela de Luna ◽  
Ricardo Arango ◽  
Maria Clara Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Rainforest ◽  
Spider Monkeys ◽  
Brown Spider

scholarly journals Brown spider monkeys ( Ateles hybridus ): a model for differentiating the role of social networks and physical contact on parasite transmission dynamics

2015 ◽  
Vol 370 (1669) ◽  
pp. 20140110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Rimbach ◽  
Donal Bisanzio ◽  
Nelson Galvis ◽  
Andrés Link ◽  
Anthony Di Fiore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Pathogen Transmission ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Contact Network ◽  
Spider Monkeys ◽  
Parasite Transmission ◽  
Brown Spider

Elevated risk of disease transmission is considered a major cost of sociality, although empirical evidence supporting this idea remains scant. Variation in spatial cohesion and the occurrence of social interactions may have profound implications for patterns of interindividual parasite transmission. We used a social network approach to shed light on the importance of different aspects of group-living (i.e. within-group associations versus physical contact) on patterns of parasitism in a neotropical primate, the brown spider monkey ( Ateles hybridus ), which exhibits a high degree of fission–fusion subgrouping. We used daily subgroup composition records to create a ‘proximity’ network, and built a separate ‘contact’ network using social interactions involving physical contact. In the proximity network, connectivity between individuals was homogeneous, whereas the contact network highlighted high between-individual variation in the extent to which animals had physical contact with others, which correlated with an individual's age and sex. The gastrointestinal parasite species richness of highly connected individuals was greater than that of less connected individuals in the contact network, but not in the proximity network. Our findings suggest that among brown spider monkeys, physical contact impacts the spread of several common parasites and supports the idea that pathogen transmission is one cost associated with social contact.

scholarly journals Habitat Characterization and Population Density of Brown Spider Monkeys (Ateles hybridus) in Magdalena Valley, Colombia

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María Aldana ◽  
Marta Beltrán ◽  
Johanna Torres-Neira ◽  
Pablo R. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Spider Monkeys ◽  
Habitat Characterization ◽  
Brown Spider

scholarly journals Increased folivory in brown spider monkeys Ateles hybridus living in a fragmented forest in Colombia

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
AG de Luna ◽  
A Link ◽  
A Montes ◽  
F Alfonso ◽  
L Mendieta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spider Monkeys ◽  
Fragmented Forest ◽  
Brown Spider

Vertical profiles and storage fluxes of CO2, heat and water in a tropical rainforest at Pasoh, Peninsular Malaysia

Tellus B ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinjiro Ohkubo ◽  
Yoshiko Kosugi ◽  
Satoru Takanashi ◽  
Naoko Matsuo ◽  
Makoto Tani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Rainforest ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Vertical Profiles ◽  
And Storage

Drivers of difference in CO2 and CH4 emissions between rubber plantation and tropical rainforest soils

2021 ◽  
Vol 304-305 ◽  
pp. 108391
Author(s):  
Wenjun Zhou ◽  
Jing Zhu ◽  
Hongli Ji ◽  
John Grace ◽  
Liqing Sha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Rainforest ◽  
Rubber Plantation ◽  
Ch4 Emissions
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