Fallback Foods, Optimal Diets, and Nutritional Targets: Primate Responses to Varying Food Availability and Quality

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 493-512

  Lambert, Joanna E ^a   Rothman, Jessica M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding adaptations; Feeding flexibility; Phenotypic plasticity; Primate nutritional ecology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD QUALITY; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRITION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84945307003     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-025928     Document Type: Review

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