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Primate Populations in Eastern Amazonia

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Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates

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Eastern Amazonia is defined here as the region to the east of the Rio Xingu, including the Marajó archipelago in the Amazon delta (Figure 1). This region’s habitats can be divided into three main types: lowland and submontane tropical rainforest (terra firme), flooded forests (including mangrove, várzea and igapó) and cerrado (savanna). A fourth major category that is becoming increasingly dominant encompasses disturbed and secondary forest, and land cleared for agriculture (SUDAM, 1988). In some areas, such as the 30,000 km2 Zona Bragantina to the east of Belém, the original cover is now virtually nonexistent (Johns and Ayres, 1987; Salomão, 1994), while a large part of the lowland forest between the Xingu and the Tocantins remains intact.

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Ferrari, S.F., Lopes, M.A. (1996). Primate Populations in Eastern Amazonia. 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_3

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