Primates in Fragments Complexity and Resilience
This book is number two in a series for Primates in Fragments. In this volume, ten years after the first http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/anthropology+%26+archaeology/book/978-0-306-47696-9, we continue to address issues regarding primates within a
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Laura K. Marsh Colin A. Chapman Editors
Primates in Fragments Complexity and Resilience
Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects Series Editor: Louise Barrett
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Laura K. Marsh • Colin A. Chapman Editors
Primates in Fragments Complexity and Resilience
Editors Laura K. Marsh Global Conservation Institute Santa Fe, NM, USA
Colin A. Chapman Department of Anthropology McGill School of Environment McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada
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To JMF, because you keep on believing in me. Laura K. Marsh To all of those individuals who have dedicated their time and energy to conservation. Colin A. Chapman
Foreword
Modern attention to habitat fragmentation and its implications for conservation and science really grew from the theory of island biogeography after it emerged in the late 1960s when many of today’s senior scientists were schoolchildren. I vividly recall seeing a copy of MacArthur and Wilson’s 1867 book when it arrived for
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