Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: Why primates matter

A Estrada, PA Garber, AB Rylands, C Roos… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods,
cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution …

A global database and “state of the field” review of research into ecosystem engineering by land animals

NV Coggan, MW Hayward, H Gibb - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem engineers have been widely studied for terrestrial systems, but global trends in
research encompassing the range of taxa and functions have not previously been …

[HTML][HTML] Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

A Estrada, PA Garber, RA Mittermeier, S Wich… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic
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Human‐modified landscapes driving the global primate extinction crisis

EJ Torres‐Romero, V Nijman… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The world's primates have been severely impacted in diverse and profound ways by
anthropogenic pressures. Here, we evaluate the impact of various infrastructures and …

A severe lack of evidence limits effective conservation of the world's primates

J Junker, SO Petrovan, V Arroyo-RodrÍguez… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Threats to biodiversity are well documented. However, to effectively conserve species and
their habitats, we need to know which conservation interventions do (or do not) work …

How future climate change and deforestation can drastically affect the species of monkeys endemic to the eastern Amazon, and priorities for conservation

LB da Silva, GL Oliveira, RG Frederico… - Biodiversity and …, 2022 - Springer
The intensive deforestation, together with the projections of climate change, indicates severe
effects of human actions on biodiversity in the Amazon, especially on species that depend …

Tropical forest loss impoverishes arboreal mammal assemblages by increasing tree canopy openness

SJ Cudney‐Valenzuela… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape‐scale deforestation poses a major threat to global biodiversity, not only because
it limits habitat availability, but also because it can drive the degradation of the remaining …

Forest loss and fragmentation can promote the crowding effect in a forest-specialist primate

CC Gestich, V Arroyo-Rodríguez, BH Saranholi… - Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Context Forest loss and fragmentation are rapidly expanding across the tropics. Although
forest loss is a major driver of the current biodiversity crisis, the effect of fragmentation …

Predicting hotspots and prioritizing protected areas for endangered primate species in Indonesia under changing climate

AA Condro, LB Prasetyo, SB Rushayati, IP Santikayasa… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Primates play an essential role in human life and its ecosystem. However,
Indonesian primates have suffered many threats due to climate change and altered …

Solar radiation and ENSO predict fruiting phenology patterns in a 15‐year record from Kibale National Park, Uganda

CA Chapman, K Valenta, TR Bonnell, KA Brown… - Biotropica, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fruiting, flowering, and leaf set patterns influence many aspects of tropical forest
communities, but there are few long‐term studies examining potential drivers of these …