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Lemur traits and Madagascar ecology: coping with an island environment.
  • P. Wright
  • Environmental Science, Biology
    American journal of physical anthropology
  • 1999
TLDR
A more comprehensive energy frugality hypothesis (EFH) is proposed, which postulates that the majority of lemur traits are either adaptations to conserve energy or to maximize use of scarce resources.
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Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
TLDR
These findings suggest that tropical protected areas are often intimately linked ecologically to their surrounding habitats, and that a failure to stem broad-scale loss and degradation of such habitats could sharply increase the likelihood of serious biodiversity declines.
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Dental senescence in a long-lived primate links infant survival to rainfall.
TLDR
A tooth wear-determined, but rainfall-mediated, onset of reproductive senescence is suggested, and the study indicates that even subtle changes in climate may affect reproductive success of rainforest species.
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Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High-Resolution Planning Tools
TLDR
It is shown, in an analysis of wide taxonomic and geographic breadth and high spatial resolution, that multitaxonomic rather than single-taxon approaches are critical for identifying areas likely to promote the persistence of most species.
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Morphometrics and testicle size of rain forest lemur species from southeastern Madagascar
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Frugivory and Seed Dispersal by Four Species of Primates in Madagascar's Eastern Rain Forest 1
TLDR
Analysis of fruit morphologies of 69 local plant taxa producing fleshy fruits during the study period found that these fruits fell into two well-defined color categories that correlated significantly with fruit size, suggesting possible coevolved relationships between Malagasy rain forest plants and lemurs.
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Averting Lemur Extinctions amid Madagascar's Political Crisis
TLDR
Community-based management, ecotourism, and researchers' presence are proposed to prevent lemur extinctions and reasons for hope are discussed in light of site-specific, local actions proposed in an emergency conservation action plan.
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The nocturnal primate niche in the New World
  • P. Wright
  • Biology, Environmental Science
  • 1 November 1989
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Patterns of species change in anthropogenically disturbed forests of Madagascar
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Patterns of paternal care in primates
  • P. Wright
  • Biology
    International Journal of Primatology
  • 1 April 1990
An interspecific comparison was carried out to understand better the relationships among paternal care, paternal certainty, and reproductive burden in primates. Although monogamy is generally rare…
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