Dissertation Research: Community Ecology and Positional Behavior

论文研究：群落生态学与位置行为

• 批准号: 9423502
• 负责人: Robert Sussman
• 金额: $ 0.33万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-05-01 至 1996-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9423502&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Community; Ecology; Positional

This project will study the the ecological effects on posture and locomotion in two very different primate species inhabiting the same lowland rain forest area in Madagascar. The two species differ in body size, dietary adaptations and reproductive patterns but are both day-active, live in the ame area, and are closely related.. Therefore, the differences between the two species may be due more to adaptation than to differences in their evolutionary history. The hypothesis to be tested here is that differences in diet, the distribution pattern of food in the environment and through the seasons, patterns of reproduction, and body size differences have determined the major differences in the manner and ways the animals move through the environment. The project is especially worth-while because one of the species, in particular, is endangered - this has major conservation ramifications.

该项目将研究居住在马达加斯加同一低地雨林地区的两个非常不同的灵长类动物中对姿势和运动的生态影响。 这两个物种在体型，饮食适应和生殖模式方面有所不同，但既有日间活性，都生活在AME地区，并且密切相关。因此，这两个物种之间的差异可能更多地是由于适应性而不是其进化史的差异。 这里要检验的假设是，饮食差异，环境中食物的分布模式以及季节，繁殖模式和体型差异决定了动物在环境中移动的方式和方式的主要差异。 该项目尤其值得，因为其中一个物种尤其受到威胁 - 这具有重大的保护分歧。