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Center for the Study of Human Origins Department
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Research Sites: Research Focus: I am actually conducting a long term study on the behavioral ecology and sociobiology of white bellied spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) at TBS with Anthony Di Fiore. In particular the current research focuses on evaluating the influence of resource availability, predation pressure, kinship and female estrous cycles on the grouping strategies of spider monkeys. Additionally, we are collecting demographic and genetic data from our study groups to study their dispersal patterns, life history variables, and population biology.
In Colombia, I am conducting the first long term study on the critically endangered brown spider monkeys (Ateles hybridus) with Gabriela de Luna and Alba Lucia Morales, at reserve el Paujil (ProAves) and other areas within the Serrania de Las Quinchas. For two years we have collected the first systematic data on the ecology and social behavior of these primates, and currently we are addressing the effects of forest fragmentation and deforestation on their ecological strategies. Finally, I am coordinating a wide scale evaluation of the population status of brown spider monkeys at 5 Inter-Andean lowland rainforests in the Magdalena River Valley (with Gabriela de Luna and Alba Lucia Morales) in order to find viable populations to conduct further conservation actions for this highly endangered primates. My interests are focused on the study of primates in the wild in order to obtain data on their behavioral ecology and population biology, that combined, can help to improve or conservation strategies for threatened primates and their habitats in the Neotropics.Publications: • Di Fiore A., Link A., & Dew L. (in press) Diet of Spider Monkeys. In: Spider monkeys. Campbell C. (Ed). • Shimooka Y., Campbell C., Di Fiore A., Felton A., Izawa K., Link A., Nishimura A., Ramos-Fernandez G., & Wallace R. (in press) Demography and Group Composition in Ateles. In: Spider monkeys. Campbell C. (Ed). • Link A., Di Fiore A., & Spehar S. (in review) Female-Directed Aggression and Social Control in Spider Monkeys. En: Male Aggression Against Females in Primates. Muller, M., & Wrangham R.H. (Eds). Harvard University Press. • DiFiore A., Link, A. , & Stevenson P. R. 2006. Scent marking in two western Amazonian populations of woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha). American Journal of Primatology 68(6):637-49. • Link, A., Palma, A.C., Velez, A., & de Luna, G. 2006. Costs of breeding twins in free ranging white-bellied spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth belzebuth) at Tinigua National Park, Colombia. Primates 47: 131-137. • Link, A., & Di Fiore, A. 2006. Seed dispersal by spider monkeys and its importance in the maintenance of neotropical rain-forest diversity. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22: 335-346 • Stevenson, P.R., Link, A., & B., Ramirez. 2005. Frugivory and seed fate in Bursera inversa at Tinigua Park, Colombia: implications for primate conservation. Biotropica 37 (3) 431-438. • Link, A. 2005. Seed dispersal by the White-bellied spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth belzebuth) in Yasuni National park, Ecuador. Master Thesis, New York University, New York, USA. • Link, A. 2004. Insect eating by spider monkeys. Neotropical Primates 11(2): 104 - 107. • Link, A., & P. Stevenson. 2004. Fruit dispersal syndromes in animal disseminated plants at Tinigua National Park, Colombia. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 77: 319 – 334. • Link, A., & B. Ramirez. 2003. First description of the nest, eggs and nestlings of the White-shouldered Antbird (Myrmeciza melanoceps). Neotropical Ornithology 14: 423 – 429. • Link, A. 2000. Síndromes de dispersión de semillas por aves y primates en el parque nacional Tinigua: Observaciones ecológicas y consideraciones evolutivas. Undergraduate thesis. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.
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