Doctoral Dissertation Research: Grouping dynamics of lowland woolly monkeys

博士论文研究：低地披毛猴的群体动态

• 批准号: 1540403
• 负责人: Anthony Di Fiore
• 金额: $ 1.41万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1540403&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Grouping; dynamics

Multilevel societies are some of the most complex social systems found in nature and have been identified in a wide array of taxa including elephants, cetaceans, birds, some species of non-human primates from Africa and Asia, and humans. However, little attention has been paid to possible examples of multilevel societies among New World primates. To resolve this gap and to provide additional insights into the causes and consequences of multilevel societies, the proposed research will focus on within- and between-group association patterns of woolly monkeys at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) in Amazonian Ecuador. At TBS, woolly monkey groups may fission into small coordinated subgroups that persist for hours or even days, but similar to other multilevel societies, socially-cohesive groups may also coalesce into temporary supergroups that rest, travel, and forage together for several hours. Both of these patterns of behavior are reminiscent of human social systems. The project will contribute to long-term ecological, behavioral, and genetic datasets on an Amazonian research site of global biodiversity significance and will support the professional development of a female graduate student and research assistants.Utilizing social network analysis, this project will quantitatively assess whether woolly monkeys form predictable grouping levels consistent with other multilevel societies. Additionally, behavioral data will be coupled with molecular genetic methods to investigate how range use, genetic relatedness, reproductive status, and attraction to others of the same age and/or sex class influence spatiotemporal associations. The proposed study represents one of the first investigations of the social dynamics of a New World primate from an explicitly multilevel perspective and promises to bring new insights to the understanding of sociality in humans and non-human primates. Additionally, by correlating genetic relatedness with social network structure, this project will provide a critical comparative dataset in which to examine the importance of kinship in maintaining affiliative relationships within and across social units.

多级社会是自然界中发现的一些最复杂的社会系统，并且在包括大象，鲸类，鸟类，一些来自非洲和亚洲的非人类灵长类动物以及人类在内的广泛分类单元中被发现。但是，很少关注新世界灵长类动物中多层社会的可能例子。为了解决这一差距，并提供对多层次社会的原因和后果的更多见解，拟议的研究将重点关注亚马逊厄瓜多尔Tiputini生物多样性站（TBS）的羊毛猴子内部和群体间关联模式。在TBS，羊毛猴子群体可能会裂变成小时甚至数天的小型协调子群体，但与其他多层次社会类似，社会凝聚力的群体也可能会合并为临时的超级组，将其休息，旅行和觅食几个小时。这两种行为模式都让人联想到人类的社会系统。该项目将在全球生物多样性意义的亚马逊研究站点上有助于长期的生态，行为和遗传数据集，并将支持女性研究生和研究助理的专业发展。利用社交网络分析，该项目将定量评估羊毛猴是否形成可预测的可预测分组水平，使其与其他多层次社会保持一致。此外，行为数据将与分子遗传学方法结合起来，以研究范围使用，遗传相关性，生殖状态以及对同龄和/或性别类别的其他人的吸引力如何影响时空关联。拟议的研究是从明确的多层次角度来看，对新世界灵长类动物的社会动态的首次研究之一，并有望为对人类和非人类灵长类动物的社会性的理解带来新的见解。此外，通过将遗传相关性与社交网络结构相关联，该项目将提供一个关键的比较数据集，以研究亲属关系在维持社会单位内部和跨社会单位之间的亲属关系中的重要性。

项目成果

Reproductive seasonality in two sympatric primates ( Ateles belzebuth and Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii ) from Amazonian Ecuador

亚马逊厄瓜多尔两种同域灵长类动物（Ateles belzebuth 和 Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii）的生殖季节性

• DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23220
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: American Journal of Primatology
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Ellis, Kelsey M.;Abondano, Laura A.;Montes‐Rojas, Andrés;Link, Andrés;Di Fiore, Anthony
• 通讯作者: Di Fiore, Anthony