1. ATLANTIC-PRIMATES: a dataset of communities and occurrences of primates in the Atlantic Forests of South America.
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Culot L, Pereira LA, Agostini I, de Almeida MAB, Alves RSC, Aximoff I, Bager A, Baldovino MC, Bella TR, Bicca-Marques JC, Braga C, Brocardo CR, Campelo AKN, Canale GR, Cardoso JDC, Carrano E, Casanova DC, Cassano CR, Castro E, Cherem JJ, Chiarello AG, Cosenza BAP, Costa-Araújo R, Silva NCD, Di Bitetti MS, Ferreira AS, Ferreira PCR, Fialho MS, Fuzessy LF, Garbino GST, Garcia FO, Gatto CAFR, Gestich CC, Gonçalves PR, Gontijo NRC, Graipel ME, Guidorizzi CE, Espíndola Hack RO, Hass GP, Hilário RR, Hirsch A, Holzmann I, Homem DH, Júnior HE, Júnior GS, Kierulff MCM, Knogge C, Lima F, de Lima EF, Martins CS, de Lima AA, Martins A, Martins WP, de Melo FR, Melzew R, Miranda JMD, Miranda F, Moraes AM, Moreira TC, de Castro Morini MS, Nagy-Reis MB, Oklander L, de Carvalho Oliveira L, Paglia AP, Pagoto A, Passamani M, de Camargo Passos F, Peres CA, de Campos Perine MS, Pinto MP, Pontes ARM, Port-Carvalho M, Prado BHSD, Regolin AL, Rezende GC, Rocha A, Rocha JDS, de Paula Rodarte RR, Sales LP, Santos ED, Santos PM, Bernardo CSS, Sartorello R, Serra L, Setz E, de Almeida E Silva AS, Silva LHD, Silva PBED, Silveira M, Smith RL, de Souza SM, Srbek-Araujo AC, Trevelin LC, Valladares-Padua C, Zago L, Marques E, Ferrari SF, Beltrão-Mendes R, Henz DJ, da Veiga da Costa FE, Ribeiro IK, Quintilham LLT, Dums M, Lombardi PM, Bonikowski RTR, Age SG, Souza-Alves JP, Chagas R, Cunha RGTD, Valença-Montenegro MM, Ludwig G, Jerusalinsky L, Buss G, de Azevedo RB, Filho RF, Bufalo F, Milhe L, Santos MMD, Sepulvida R, Ferraz DDS, Faria MB, Ribeiro MC, and Galetti M
- Abstract
Primates play an important role in ecosystem functioning and offer critical insights into human evolution, biology, behavior, and emerging infectious diseases. There are 26 primate species in the Atlantic Forests of South America, 19 of them endemic. We compiled a dataset of 5,472 georeferenced locations of 26 native and 1 introduced primate species, as hybrids in the genera Callithrix and Alouatta. The dataset includes 700 primate communities, 8,121 single species occurrences and 714 estimates of primate population sizes, covering most natural forest types of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina and some other biomes. On average, primate communities of the Atlantic Forest harbor 2 ± 1 species (range = 1-6). However, about 40% of primate communities contain only one species. Alouatta guariba (N = 2,188 records) and Sapajus nigritus (N = 1,127) were the species with the most records. Callicebus barbarabrownae (N = 35), Leontopithecus caissara (N = 38), and Sapajus libidinosus (N = 41) were the species with the least records. Recorded primate densities varied from 0.004 individuals/km
2 (Alouatta guariba at Fragmento do Bugre, Paraná, Brazil) to 400 individuals/km2 (Alouatta caraya in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Our dataset reflects disparity between the numerous primate census conducted in the Atlantic Forest, in contrast to the scarcity of estimates of population sizes and densities. With these data, researchers can develop different macroecological and regional level studies, focusing on communities, populations, species co-occurrence and distribution patterns. Moreover, the data can also be used to assess the consequences of fragmentation, defaunation, and disease outbreaks on different ecological processes, such as trophic cascades, species invasion or extinction, and community dynamics. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this Data Paper when the data are used in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us of how they are using the data., (© 2018 by the The Authors. Ecology © 2018 The Ecological Society of America.)- Published
- 2019
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