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Studies concerned with seasonal variation in food choice by atelines have shown that dietary composition fluctuates seasonally and is influenced by phenological changes in food sources (van Roosmalen, 1985; Strier, 1987; Chapman and Chapman, 1991). Fruiting, flowering and leaf-flushing tree species are asynchronous in the tropics leading to complex changes in the type of food available at any one point in time as well as seasonal variation in the nutrients available to herbivores (Raemaekers et al., 1980; Foster, 1982; Leigh and Windsor, 1982; Gautier-Hion et al., 1985; Oates, 1987). These environmental variables are thought to influence food preference by primates (Hladik 1978a, Janzen 1978, McKey et al. 1981, Howe 1982, Wrangham and Waterman 1983).
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Castellanos, H.G., Chanin, P. (1996). Seasonal Differences in Food Choice and Patch Preference of Long-Haired Spider Monkeys (Ateles belzebuth). In: Norconk, M.A., Rosenberger, A.L., Garber, P.A. (eds) Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8770-9_26
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