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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY OF THE SICHUAN SNUB-NOSED MONKEY
(RHINOPITHECUS ROXELLANA) IN SHENNONGJIA, CHINA
by
Xuecong Liu
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(INTEGRATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY)
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Xuecong Liu
Object Description
| Title | Behavioral ecology of the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia, China |
| Author | Liu, Xuecong |
| Author email | xuecongl@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Integrative and Evolutionary Biology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-03-06 |
| Date submitted | 2012-05-01 |
| Date approved | 2012-05-01 |
| Restricted until | 2012-05-01 |
| Date published | 2012-05-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Stanford, Craig B. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Delgado, Roberto A. Seaman, Gary |
| Abstract | The present study systematically investigated food selection, time budget, ranging patterns on two different sized wild groups, and male dispersal on a provisioned group of the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus roxellana (Colobinae), in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, Hubei Province, China. ❧ In general, Shennongjia forest was deciduous, and diet composition of R. roxellana well reflected the seasonal food availability. R. roxellana selected food in accordance with most colobines in terms of nutritional chemistry. Fruticose lichens were the most important food, occupying about 38.4% of the overall diet. Nutritional chemistry showed that fruticose lichens contained more nonstructural carbohydrates, and less crude fibers and plant secondary compounds than most plant parts. The easy digestibility and slow replacement of lichens may partly explain the long daily travel distance (over 1,000 m) and the large range size (over 10 km2) of R. roxellana. Food resources, including fruticose lichens, tended to be patchily distributed. The monkeys, especially adult females, in the larger group spent more time moving and less time resting than those in the smaller group, suggesting that there was some degree of feeding competition within groups, although the daily travel distance and range size were not different between two different sized groups. Male dispersal between social units within the group and between groups was common. |
| Keyword | Rhinopithecus roxellana; food selection; time budget; ranging patterns; male dispersal |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Liu, Xuecong |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-LiuXuecong-697.pdf |
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| Full text | BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY OF THE SICHUAN SNUB-NOSED MONKEY (RHINOPITHECUS ROXELLANA) IN SHENNONGJIA, CHINA by Xuecong Liu A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (INTEGRATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Xuecong Liu |
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