Site Fidelity in Space Use by Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Ramos Fernandez, Gabriel ^a   Smith Aguilar, Sandra E ^a   Schaffner, Colleen M ^b,c   Vick, Laura G ^d   Aureli, Filippo ^b,e  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d Public Administration and Criminal Justice   (United States)

^e LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOME RANGE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET; FEMALE; FOREST; MALE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SITE FIDELITY; SPECIES; SPIDER MONKEY; TREE;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MEXICO; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84877672245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062813     Document Type: Article

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