Biogeography of New World Monkeys

• Published in: Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics Vol. 4; p. 145
• Main Author: Heads, Michael
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of California Press 05.12.2011
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Amazon; Andes; Animals; Biocenosis; Biogeography; Biological sciences; Biology; Botany; Cretaceous; Earth sciences; Ecology; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; foreland basin; Forest ecology; Forest ecosystems; Forest habitats; Forests; Geology; Mammals; Mangrove forests; marine transgression; Miocene; Molecular and Cell Biology; Monkeys; Montane forests; oil fields; Physical sciences; Plant communities; Plant ecology; Population ecology; Primates; Rain forests; rifting; Riparian forests; Synecology; Tectonics; Tropical rain forests; Zoology
• ISBN: 9780520271968; 0520271963
• DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520271968.003.0004

Detailed information on the molecular phylogeny of New World monkeys (Opazo et al., 2006; Osterholz et al., 2009) and on their distribution and ecology (IUCN, 2009) is now available, and so the group is an excellent subject for biogeographic and evolutionary study. Researchers now agree on many descriptive aspects of the phylogeny and distributions, although the interpretation of the data remains controversial. As yet, there is little agreement on how, when, or where the different primate clades evolved in America or even how primates came to be there in the first place. Most previous work has suggested that primates colonized