caa a22 4500 475768744 CHVBK 20180406123613.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005491903220 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005491903220 Diet of Buffy Tufted-Eared Marmosets (Callithrix aurita) in a Forest Fragment in Southeastern Brazil [Elektronische Daten] [Milene Martins, Eleonore Setz] The feeding ecology of the Atlantic forest marmosets (Callithrix spp.) in southeastern Brazil is poorly known, and few studies have focused on buffy tufted-eared marmosets, Callithrix aurita. We determined the food items and investigated the seasonal variation in the diet of a group of four Callithrix aurita in a 17-ha semideciduous forest fragment in southern Minas Gerais State, Brazil. We recorded daily feeding activities between October 1994 and September 1995 using scan sampling at 5-min intervals. The marmosets devoted feeding time to gums (50.5%), fruits (11%), and animal prey (38.5%) in a total of 499 records. Plant resources comprised 27 species from 16 families. They used Acacia paniculata (Mimosoideae, Leguminosae), the main gum source (82%), year-round. Maclura tinctoria (Moraceae) was the fruit species that they consumed most (22%). The marmosets preyed on caterpillars (33%), katydids (5%), and homopterans (4%). Feeding on fruits varied seasonally and was inversely related to gum feeding. Consumption of animal prey remained constant over the year. The wide and year-round dependence on gum suggests that Acacia may play a critical role in marmoset persistence in forest fragments. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Callithrix aurita nationallicence diet nationallicence forest fragment nationallicence seasonality nationallicence southeastern Brazil nationallicence Martins Milene PG Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP-Rio Claro), C.P. 199, 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil aut Setz Eleonore Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), C.P. 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil aut International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/3(2000-06-01), 467-476 0164-0291 21:3<467 2000 21 10764 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005491903220 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005491903220 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Martins Milene PG Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP-Rio Claro), C.P. 199, 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Setz Eleonore Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), C.P. 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/3(2000-06-01), 467-476 0164-0291 21:3<467 2000 21 10764 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer