Topic 4: Did a Habitat Bottleneck Exist in the Recent History of Japanese Macaques?

摘要: Human subsistence activities have affected the global environment ever since humans emerged as a species (Goudie 2005). Hunting, pastoralism, and agriculture, in all their varied forms, shaped habitats for many nonhuman primate populations around world. This general principle has been long recognized by primatologists, who speculated about how human alterations of distribution or even evolution monkeys apes (e.g., Richard et al. 1989; Cowlishaw Dunbar 2000). The applies most clearly where extend over regions world with extremely histories intensive occupation, especially India East Asia, some largest lived millennia. Especially these regions, conservation ecology are two sides same coin. survival demise cannot be explained without an understanding people expanded intensified activities.