By Shawn M. Lehman, John G Fleagle
Biogeography, the research of the distribution of organisms over the skin of the earth, performs a significant position in our knowing of almost all features of the biology of primates and different animals, together with systematics, mechanisms of speciation, inhabitants genetics and demography. The distribution of primates relative to elements of weather and habitat, together with altitude, woodland kind, and meals availability, kinds the foundation for our figuring out of ecological and behavioral diversifications. The biogeography of primates some time past is a big component to our figuring out in their evolutionary background and is an integral part of conservation biology.
This quantity, which brings jointly those papers at the biogeography of primates, previous and current, offers an advent to Primate Biogeography as a self-discipline, illustrates the various components which may effect the distribution of primates, and demonstrates the wide variety of methodological ways which are to be had to figuring out the distribution of this order.
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Reconstructive studies place our understanding of distribution patterns of primate species, and the habitats they range into, in a temporal context. In biogeography, a disturbance is any ecological or human-related process that disrupts the structure and/or composition of a habitat type. The effects of the disturbance can be either temporary or permanent. It is informative to divide disturbances into two classes: (1) those that influence the structure of a ecosystem, and (2) those that affect primate community structure within a habitat, region, and/or ecosystem.