Predicting primate responses to "stochastic" demographic events

Primates

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 131-142

  Strier, Karen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Infant sex ratios; Life histories; Muriqui; Reproductive seasonality

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; LIFE HISTORY; PRIMATE; SEASONALITY; SEX RATIO;

BRAZIL;

BRACHYTELES ARACHNOIDES;

EID: 0033009074     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02557706     Document Type: Article

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