Determinants of day-range length in the black howler monkey at Lamanai, Belize

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 591-594

  Arrowood, Heather C ^a   Treves, Adrian ^b   Mathews, Nancy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Ctr for Appl Biodiversity Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Alouatta; Day range; Feeding competition; Folivory; Group size; Group spread; Habitat quality; Primate

Indexed keywords

FEEDING; HABITAT QUALITY; PRIMATE;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA CARAYA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0142091110     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026646740300364X     Document Type: Article

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