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Ants in their plants: Pseudomyrmex ants reduce primate, parrot and squirrel pre...
Barnett, Adrian Ashton; Almeida, Thais; Andrade, Richelly; Boyle, Sarah Ann; Lima, Marcelo Gonçalves de; MacLarnon, Ann M.; Ross, CarolineAlthough plant-inhabiting ants are known to act as effective deterrents to a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores, this has been reported only once before for primates, a group better known for their predation of ants. In the present study, we investigated the effects that colonies of Pseudomyrmex viduus ants living in individual Macrolobium acaciifolium (Fabaceae) trees have on the rates of visita...
Implications of habitat fragmentation on the diet of bearded saki monkeys in ce...
Boyle, Sarah Ann; Zartman, Charles Eugene; Spironello, Wilson Roberto; Smith, Andrew T.Forest fragmentation demonstrably alters plant species composition, distribution, and diversity, and, in turn, may affect the availability of food resources for primary consumers. We investigated to what extent fragmentation affected the diets of 6 groups of bearded saki monkeys (Chiropotes chiropotes) living in two 10-ha fragments, two 100-ha fragments that were no longer fully isolated, and 2 areas of continu...