Seasonality in Primates

Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Seasonality in primate ecology, reproduction, and life history: an overview Carel P. van Schaik and Diane K. Brockman Part II. Seasonal Habitats: 2. Tropical climates and phenology: a primate perspective Carel P. van Schaik and Kristina Pfannes Part III. Seasonality and Behavioural Ecology: 3. The influence of seasonality on primate diet and ranging Claire Hemingway and Nora Bynum 4. Seasonality in predation risk: varying activity periods in lemurs and other primates Michele Rasmussen 5. Physiological adaptations to seasonality in nocturnal primates Jutta Schmid and Peter Kappeler 6. Seasonality and long-term change in a savannah environment Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann, Julie A Hollister-Smith, Raphael S. Mututua, Serah N. Sayialel, Philip M. Muruthi and Kinyua Warutere 7. Day length seasonality and the thermal environment Russell Hill 8. Seasonality in hunting by nonhuman primates John C. Mitani and David P. Watts 9. Human hunting seasonality Rebecca Bliege-Bird and Douglas W. Bird Part IV. Seasonality, Reproduction, and Social Organisation: 10. Seasonality and reproductive function Diane K. Brockman and Carel P. van Schaik 11. Seasonality of primate births in relation to climate Charles Janson and Jennifer Verdolin 12. Energetic responses to food availability in the great apes: implications for hominin evolution Cheryl D. Knott 13. Human birth seasonality Peter T. Ellison, Claudia R. Valeggia and Diana S. Sherry 14. Seasonality, social organisation, and sexual dimorphism in primates J. Michael Plavcan, Carel P. van Schaik and W. Scott McGraw Part V. Seasonality and Community Ecology: 15. Seasonality and primate communities Carel P. van Schaik, Richard Madden and Jorg U. Ganzhorn 16. Primate diversity and environmental seasonality in historical perspective Nina G. Jablonski Part VI. Seasonality and Human Evolution: 17. Tropical and temperate seasonal influences on human evolution Kaye Reed and Jennifer L. Fish 18. Orbital controls on seasonality John D. Kingston 19. What do studies of primate seasonality tell us about human evolution? Diane K. Brockman.