PRIMATOLOGY AND ANIMAL CONSERVATION LAB - research with howler and spider monkeys and other fauna in southern Mexico Profile: Alejandro Estrada RESEARCH WITH PRIMATES Population, ecology, behavior and conservation of primates (general overview) POPULATION STUDIES · Exploration and population surveys · Lacandon forests primate surveys and other projects · Pantanos de Centla : primate surveys and other projects ECOLOGY · Primate-plant interactions · Primate-fauna interactions · Seed dispersal and rain forest regeneration SOCIAL BEHAVIOR · Social networks and dynamics, sexual behavior CONSERVATION · Forest fragmentation: mammals, birds and dung beetles · Primates and forest fragmentation · Primates in agro-ecosystems · Rehabilitation projects: primates see www.ecoparquepalenque.com NEW Primate population, ecology, behavior and conservation at Palenque National Park (temporarily in Spanish) STUDIES USING NON INVASIVE TECHNIQUES · Hormones · Parasites · DNA · Camera-traps Research with bats (Chiroptera) Research with Manatees new

Our base of operations Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas Student Participation · Students affiliated to the primate lab --------------------------------------------- A new e-journal · Tropical Conservation Science, a new e-journal about conservation in the tropics. Executive editor: Alejandro Estrada, New --------------------------------------------- Mongabay.com Best site on conservation of tropical forests NEW --------------------------------------------- Special meetings · Symposium Mesoamerican Primates June 8-12, 2004 Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, University Of Wisconsin, Madison, Wi, USA · Workshop “Primatology, Biodiversity and Conservation” , March 2006. Field Research Station Los Tuxtlas --------------------------------------------- · Interview with Dr. Alejandro Estrada Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2006 · National Geographic Interview to Dr. Kevina Vulinec and Dr. Alejandro Estrada – monkeys-plants-dung-beetles and tropical rain forest regeneration --------------------------------------------- Other · Neotropical Primate Conservation (NPC), a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of monkeys and their habitat in the tropical rainforests of South and Central America. http://neoprimate.org/ --------------------------------------------- · General background: tropical rain forests and primate species in Mexico Other links of interest Copyright @ 2011 Alejandro Estrada

List of publications + PDFs --------------------------------------------- Contact For additional information about our research activities, contact: [email protected] --------------------------------------------- Estación de Biología Tropical "Los Tuxtlas" Instituto de Biología www.ibiologia.unam.mx Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Work to conserve tropical forests

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