naa a22 4500 510738192 CHVBK 20180411083018.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11284-012-1012-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11284-012-1012-y Linking feeding ecology and population abundance: a review of food resource limitation on primates [Elektronische Daten] [Goro Hanya, Colin Chapman] We review studies that consider how food affects primate population abundance. In order to explain spatial variation in primate abundance, various correlates that parameterize quality and quantity of food in the habitat have been examined. We propose two hypotheses concerning how resource availability and its seasonality determine animal abundance. When the quality of fallback foods (foods eaten during the scarcity of preferred foods) is too low to satisfy nutritional requirement, total annual food quantity should determine population size, but this relationship can be modified by the quality or the quantity of fallback foods. This mechanism has been established for Japanese macaques and sportive lemurs that survive lean seasons by fat storage or extremely low metabolism. Second, when fallback food quality is high enough to satisfy nutritional requirement but quantity is limited, quantity of fallback food should be a limiting factor of animal abundance. This is supported by the correlation between fig density, which is a high-quality fallback food, and gibbon and orangutan abundance. For a direct test of these hypotheses, we need more research that determines both the quality of food that animals require to satisfy their nutritional requirement and the quantity of food production. Leaves are often regarded as superabundant, but this assumption needs careful examination. The Ecological Society of Japan, 2012 Bottleneck nationallicence Population density nationallicence Fallback food nationallicence Nutrition nationallicence Seasonality nationallicence Hanya Goro Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, 484-8506, Inuyama, Aichi, Japan aut Chapman Colin Department of Anthropology and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Canada aut Ecological Research Springer Japan 28/2(2013-03-01), 183-190 0912-3814 28:2<183 2013 28 11284 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-012-1012-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-012-1012-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hanya Goro Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, 484-8506, Inuyama, Aichi, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chapman Colin Department of Anthropology and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ecological Research Springer Japan 28/2(2013-03-01), 183-190 0912-3814 28:2<183 2013 28 11284 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer