the primate community of cachoeira (brazilian amazonia) a model to decipher ecological partitioning among extinct species灵长类动物社会的cachoeira(巴西亚马逊)模型来解释生态分区已经灭绝的物种之一.pdfVIP

The Primate Community of Cachoeira (Brazilian Amazonia): A Model to Decipher Ecological Partitioning among Extinct Species 1 ´ 1 2 1 Anusha Ramdarshan *, Thomas Alloing-Seguier , Gildas Merceron , Laurent Marivaux ´ ´ 1 Laboratoire de Paleontologie, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISE-M, UMR-CNRS 5554), Cc 064, Universite Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, ´ ` ´ 2 Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon: Terre, Planetes, Environnement, UMR 5276 (CNRS, ENS, Universite Lyon 1), Campus de la Doua, Villeurbanne, France Abstract Dental microwear analysis is conducted on a community of platyrrhine primates from South America. This analysis focuses on the primate community of Cachoeira Porteira (Para, Brazil), in which seven sympatric species occur: Alouatta seniculus, Ateles paniscus, Cebus apella, Chiropotes satanas, Pithecia Pithecia, Saguinus midas, and Saimiri sciureus. Shearing quotients are also calculated for each taxon of this primate community. Dental microwear results indicate significant differences between taxa, but are somewhat insufficient when it comes to discriminating between ecologically similar taxa. The primates of Cachoeira Porteira all incorporate a certain amount of fruit in their diet, entailing a definite amount of inter- specific competition as they must share food resources. Alouatta is the most folivorous taxon of this community, which is corroborated by dental microwear analysis. Ateles, although of a similar size to Alouatta, limits inter-specific competitio