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. 2019 Jan;100(1):e02525.
doi: 10.1002/ecy.2525. Epub 2018 Nov 16.

ATLANTIC-PRIMATES: a dataset of communities and occurrences of primates in the Atlantic Forests of South America

Laurence Culot  1 Lucas Augusto Pereira  1 Ilaria Agostini  2   3 Marco Antônio Barreto de Almeida  4   5 Rafael Souza Cruz Alves  6 Izar Aximoff  7 Alex Bager  8 María Celia Baldovino  2   3 Thiago Ribas Bella  9 Júlio César Bicca-Marques  5 Caryne Braga  10 Carlos Rodrigo Brocardo  6 Ana Kellen Nogueira Campelo  11 Gustavo R Canale  12 Jader da Cruz Cardoso  4 Eduardo Carrano  13 Diogo Cavenague Casanova  14 Camila Righetto Cassano  15 Erika Castro  8 Jorge José Cherem  16 Adriano Garcia Chiarello  17 Braz Antonio Pereira Cosenza  18 Rodrigo Costa-Araújo  19   20 Nilmara Cristina da Silva  21 Mario S Di Bitetti  2   3   22 Aluane Silva Ferreira  15 Priscila Coutinho Ribas Ferreira  23 Marcos de S Fialho  24 Lisieux Franco Fuzessy  1 Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino  25   26 Francini de Oliveira Garcia  27 Cassiano A F R Gatto  19 Carla Cristina Gestich  27 Pablo Rodrigues Gonçalves  10 Nila Rássia Costa Gontijo  28 Maurício Eduardo Graipel  16   29 Carlos Eduardo Guidorizzi  30 Robson Odeli Espíndola Hack  31 Gabriela Pacheco Hass  6 Renato Richard Hilário  32 André Hirsch  33 Ingrid Holzmann  34 Daniel Henrique Homem  14 Hilton Entringer Júnior  35 Gilberto Sabino-Santos Júnior  36 Maria Cecília Martins Kierulff  37 Christoph Knogge  38 Fernando Lima  2   39 Elson Fernandes de Lima  9   14 Cristiana Saddy Martins  39 Adriana Almeida de Lima  40 Alexandre Martins  41 Waldney Pereira Martins  42 Fabiano R de Melo  43   44 Ricardo Melzew  45 João Marcelo Deliberador Miranda  46   47 Flávia Miranda  41 Andréia Magro Moraes  6 Tainah Cruz Moreira  23 Maria Santina de Castro Morini  11 Mariana B Nagy-Reis  48 Luciana Oklander  2   49 Leonardo de Carvalho Oliveira  15   50   51 Adriano Pereira Paglia  52 Anderson Pagoto  11 Marcelo Passamani  21 Fernando de Camargo Passos  46 Carlos A Peres  53 Michell Soares de Campos Perine  14 Míriam Plaza Pinto  40 Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes  54 Marcio Port-Carvalho  55 Bárbara Heliodora Soares do Prado  55 André Luis Regolin  6 Gabriela Cabral Rezende  1   39 Alessandro Rocha  6   56 Joedison Dos S Rocha  57 Raisa Reis de Paula Rodarte  14 Lilian Patrícia Sales  58   59 Edmilson Dos Santos  4 Paloma Marques Santos  52 Christine Steiner São Bernardo  23   60 Ricardo Sartorello  11 Leonardo La Serra  36 Eleonore Setz  9 Anne Sophie de Almeida E Silva  1 Leonardo Henrique da Silva  6   39 Pedro Bencke Ermel da Silva  5 Maurício Silveira  61 Rebecca L Smith  62   63 Sara Machado de Souza  42 Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo  35   64 Leonardo Carreira Trevelin  65 Claudio Valladares-Padua  39 Luciana Zago  46   47   66 Eduardo Marques  67 Stephen Francis Ferrari  68 Raone Beltrão-Mendes  68 Denison José Henz  69 Francys E da Veiga da Costa  69 Igor Kintopp Ribeiro  69 Lucas Lacerda Toth Quintilham  69 Marcos Dums  69 Pryscilla Moura Lombardi  69 Renata Twardowsky Ramalho Bonikowski  69 Stéfani Gabrieli Age  69 João Pedro Souza-Alves  70 Renata Chagas  71 Rogério Grassetto Teixeira da Cunha  72 Monica Mafra Valença-Montenegro  67 Gabriela Ludwig  67 Leandro Jerusalinsky  67 Gerson Buss  67 Renata Bocorny de Azevedo  67 Roberio Freire Filho  70 Felipe Bufalo  1 Louis Milhe  73 Mayara Mulato Dos Santos  1 Raíssa Sepulvida  1 Daniel da Silva Ferraz  18 Michel Barros Faria  18 Milton Cezar Ribeiro  6 Mauro Galetti  6
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ATLANTIC-PRIMATES: a dataset of communities and occurrences of primates in the Atlantic Forests of South America

Laurence Culot et al. Ecology. 2019 Jan.

Abstract

Primates play an important role in ecosystem functioning and offer critical insights into human evolution, biology, behavior, and emerging infectious diseases. There are 26 primate species in the Atlantic Forests of South America, 19 of them endemic. We compiled a dataset of 5,472 georeferenced locations of 26 native and 1 introduced primate species, as hybrids in the genera Callithrix and Alouatta. The dataset includes 700 primate communities, 8,121 single species occurrences and 714 estimates of primate population sizes, covering most natural forest types of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina and some other biomes. On average, primate communities of the Atlantic Forest harbor 2 ± 1 species (range = 1-6). However, about 40% of primate communities contain only one species. Alouatta guariba (N = 2,188 records) and Sapajus nigritus (N = 1,127) were the species with the most records. Callicebus barbarabrownae (N = 35), Leontopithecus caissara (N = 38), and Sapajus libidinosus (N = 41) were the species with the least records. Recorded primate densities varied from 0.004 individuals/km2 (Alouatta guariba at Fragmento do Bugre, Paraná, Brazil) to 400 individuals/km2 (Alouatta caraya in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Our dataset reflects disparity between the numerous primate census conducted in the Atlantic Forest, in contrast to the scarcity of estimates of population sizes and densities. With these data, researchers can develop different macroecological and regional level studies, focusing on communities, populations, species co-occurrence and distribution patterns. Moreover, the data can also be used to assess the consequences of fragmentation, defaunation, and disease outbreaks on different ecological processes, such as trophic cascades, species invasion or extinction, and community dynamics. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this Data Paper when the data are used in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us of how they are using the data.

Keywords: Atelidae; Callitrichidae; Cebidae; Pitheciidae; biodiversity hotspot; defaunation; forest fragmentation; macroecology.

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