Terrestriality across the primate order: A review and analysis of ground use in primates.

Autor: Estrada GR; Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA., Marshall AJ; Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.; School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.; Program in the Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.; Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Evolutionary anthropology [Evol Anthropol] 2024 Aug; Vol. 33 (4), pp. e22032. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 12.
DOI: 10.1002/evan.22032
Abstrakt: Terrestriality is relatively rare in the predominantly arboreal primate order. How frequently, and when, terrestriality appears in primate evolution, and the factors that influence this behavior, are not well understood. To investigate this, we compiled data describing terrestriality in 515 extant nonhuman primate taxa. We describe the geographic and phylogenetic distribution of terrestriality, including an ancestral state reconstruction estimating the frequency and timing of evolutionary transitions to terrestriality. We review hypotheses concerning the evolution of primate terrestriality and test these using data we collected pertaining to characteristics including body mass and diet, and ecological factors including forest structure, food availability, weather, and predation pressure. Using Bayesian analyses, we find body mass and normalized difference vegetation index are the most reliable predictors of terrestriality. When considering subsets of taxa, we find ecological factors such as forest height and rainfall, and not body mass, are the most reliable predictors of terrestriality for platyrrhines and lemurs.
(© 2024 The Authors. Evolutionary Anthropology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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