We are working at local level in gallery forest fragments at the Colombian Llanos with a high pressure of habitat loss due to palm oil crops and livestock’s. We are evaluating demographic, ecological and behavioral response of four primate species to fragmentation and resources reduction in gallery forest. In this project seven students developed their undergraduate thesis, two under my supervision and five under my co-direction. Also two students developed their practical semester within this project. Topics studied in this project such as:- Demographic data of howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus), black capped capuchins (Cebus apella), titi monkeys (Callicebus ornatus), night monkeys (Aotus brumbackii) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus albigena).
- Ecological and behavioral responses to resource reduction in black capped capuchins (Cebus apella), dusty titi monkeys (Callicebus ornatus), night monkeys (Aotus brumbackii) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus albigena).
- Intra and interespecific relations in howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus), black capped capuchins (Cebus apella) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus albigena).
Study Sites: Around San Martín de los llanos town, Meta Department, Colombia (South America)
More History:
This project started in 2004 in order to monitor primate densities in gallery fosrest fragments of one farm near of San Martin de los Lanos town. In the next year, 2005, this proeject expand to next farms and others near of Camoa stream (Metica River source). At the end of 2008, we started primates densities monitoring in a private reserve, Las Unamas, one of the biggest forest in the area (http://www.lasunamas.com/).
