A Primate Radiation: Evolutionary Biology of the African Guenons by Annie Gautier-Hion;Francois Bourliere; Jean-Pierre Gautier; Jonathon KingdonReview by: L. R. TaylorJournal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Oct., 1989), p. 1117Published by: British Ecological SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/5148 .

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was to refine the perspectives and to delimit the vacuities of knowledge, each within given topics: interactions on the food web, those dependent upon size structuring, those between overlapping biocoenoses (e.g. littoral and pelagic), those involving microbes and the design of community perturbation experiments. These reports are particularly useful for their penetration. Those by Lodge et al. (Chapter 12) and Frost et al. (Chapter 14) define sufficient unanswered problems to occupy the attention of community ecologists for the next decade. The final section provides a synthesis and scope for the elaboration of a new theoretical framework, which argues for new attitudes to designing, manning and funding of research programmes (the message intended for the NSF would be usefully heeded by science policy makers elsewhere!).

This book is a very well-thought out attempt to bring direction to community ecology and it deserves to be well-read and well-received by its practitioners. For a book which professes itself designed for obsolescence, it is perhaps on the expensive side; if its advice is followed, however, and your next grant application is successful, it will have proved a good investment!

C. S. REYNOLDS

Annie Gautier-Hion, Francois Bourliere, Jean-Pierre Gautier & Jonathon Kingdon. (Eds) (1988). A Primate Radiation: Evolutionary Biology of the African Guenons. Pp. 567; illustrations in colour. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?60.00.

This is a splendid book that brings the primates into direct parallel with all those less august creatures, like snails and beetles where sibling species with similar physical structures but very different life-styles, are conventionally labelled by quite striking visible characteristics. As a consequence a truly comparative ecology is possible; as with the finches or titmice.

Based on their selective behaviour, these 20 species (or is it 18?) of the supergenus Cercopithecus range from completely semi-aquatic and terrestrial to partially or totally arboreal; some are local, others wide-ranging and even transcontinental. 'The cercopithecene monkeys definitely appear now as a paradigm of diversity among African Primates.'

There are 24 chapters and 30 authors covering three major categories, i.e. (1) Guenons and the African environment: past and present; (2) genetic and phenetic characteristics: their use in phytogenetic reconstruction; (3) Ecology and social behaviour. The picture presented is rounded and itself diverse. The sense of parallel with large invertebrate genera, containing diverse but recognizably related species, is heightened in the Introduction by the familiar names of A. J. Haddow and A. P. Buxton, medical entomologists of the pre- and post-war years who dealt with the mosquitoes carrying primate diseases. Mortality is one aspect of the ecology that is not indexed, but the most remarkable aspect is how much has been achieved in so short a time.

L. R. TAYLOR

Mary J. Burgis & Pat Morris (1987). The Natural History of Lakes. Pp. 218 illustrated; Cambridge University Press. Price ?17.50.

For most people lakes are just features in the landscape and few are aware of the complex physical, chemical and biological processes that go on beneath their surface. The aim of this book is to introduce the general reader to the scientific study of lakes. In the book the authors conduct the reader on a tour of the world's lakes and, almost incidentally, impart a wealth of scientific information. The material presented has been culled from a variety of primary sources, and owes much to the first author's research experience during the International Biological Programme (1966-1972).

The opening chapter 'Lakes in the landscape' explains how lakes are formed and includes a short introduction to the major lake districts of the world. The following two chapters describe the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of lakes in general, citing examples of productive and unproductive lakes. In the chemical section, the pathways of phosphorus and nitrogen receive most attention, but there is also a topical section on pH measurement and the problem of acid rain. The biological sections are somewhat condensed but still manage to convey the essential unity of the lakes' planktonic, littoral and benthic communities. The fourth chapter 'Lakes and the seasons' is, in many respects, the pivotal chapter of the book. Here the authors explain the process of thermal

was to refine the perspectives and to delimit the vacuities of knowledge, each within given topics: interactions on the food web, those dependent upon size structuring, those between overlapping biocoenoses (e.g. littoral and pelagic), those involving microbes and the design of community perturbation experiments. These reports are particularly useful for their penetration. Those by Lodge et al. (Chapter 12) and Frost et al. (Chapter 14) define sufficient unanswered problems to occupy the attention of community ecologists for the next decade. The final section provides a synthesis and scope for the elaboration of a new theoretical framework, which argues for new attitudes to designing, manning and funding of research programmes (the message intended for the NSF would be usefully heeded by science policy makers elsewhere!).

This book is a very well-thought out attempt to bring direction to community ecology and it deserves to be well-read and well-received by its practitioners. For a book which professes itself designed for obsolescence, it is perhaps on the expensive side; if its advice is followed, however, and your next grant application is successful, it will have proved a good investment!

C. S. REYNOLDS

Annie Gautier-Hion, Francois Bourliere, Jean-Pierre Gautier & Jonathon Kingdon. (Eds) (1988). A Primate Radiation: Evolutionary Biology of the African Guenons. Pp. 567; illustrations in colour. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?60.00.

This is a splendid book that brings the primates into direct parallel with all those less august creatures, like snails and beetles where sibling species with similar physical structures but very different life-styles, are conventionally labelled by quite striking visible characteristics. As a consequence a truly comparative ecology is possible; as with the finches or titmice.

Based on their selective behaviour, these 20 species (or is it 18?) of the supergenus Cercopithecus range from completely semi-aquatic and terrestrial to partially or totally arboreal; some are local, others wide-ranging and even transcontinental. 'The cercopithecene monkeys definitely appear now as a paradigm of diversity among African Primates.'

There are 24 chapters and 30 authors covering three major categories, i.e. (1) Guenons and the African environment: past and present; (2) genetic and phenetic characteristics: their use in phytogenetic reconstruction; (3) Ecology and social behaviour. The picture presented is rounded and itself diverse. The sense of parallel with large invertebrate genera, containing diverse but recognizably related species, is heightened in the Introduction by the familiar names of A. J. Haddow and A. P. Buxton, medical entomologists of the pre- and post-war years who dealt with the mosquitoes carrying primate diseases. Mortality is one aspect of the ecology that is not indexed, but the most remarkable aspect is how much has been achieved in so short a time.

L. R. TAYLOR

Mary J. Burgis & Pat Morris (1987). The Natural History of Lakes. Pp. 218 illustrated; Cambridge University Press. Price ?17.50.

For most people lakes are just features in the landscape and few are aware of the complex physical, chemical and biological processes that go on beneath their surface. The aim of this book is to introduce the general reader to the scientific study of lakes. In the book the authors conduct the reader on a tour of the world's lakes and, almost incidentally, impart a wealth of scientific information. The material presented has been culled from a variety of primary sources, and owes much to the first author's research experience during the International Biological Programme (1966-1972).

The opening chapter 'Lakes in the landscape' explains how lakes are formed and includes a short introduction to the major lake districts of the world. The following two chapters describe the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of lakes in general, citing examples of productive and unproductive lakes. In the chemical section, the pathways of phosphorus and nitrogen receive most attention, but there is also a topical section on pH measurement and the problem of acid rain. The biological sections are somewhat condensed but still manage to convey the essential unity of the lakes' planktonic, littoral and benthic communities. The fourth chapter 'Lakes and the seasons' is, in many respects, the pivotal chapter of the book. Here the authors explain the process of thermal

was to refine the perspectives and to delimit the vacuities of knowledge, each within given topics: interactions on the food web, those dependent upon size structuring, those between overlapping biocoenoses (e.g. littoral and pelagic), those involving microbes and the design of community perturbation experiments. These reports are particularly useful for their penetration. Those by Lodge et al. (Chapter 12) and Frost et al. (Chapter 14) define sufficient unanswered problems to occupy the attention of community ecologists for the next decade. The final section provides a synthesis and scope for the elaboration of a new theoretical framework, which argues for new attitudes to designing, manning and funding of research programmes (the message intended for the NSF would be usefully heeded by science policy makers elsewhere!).

This book is a very well-thought out attempt to bring direction to community ecology and it deserves to be well-read and well-received by its practitioners. For a book which professes itself designed for obsolescence, it is perhaps on the expensive side; if its advice is followed, however, and your next grant application is successful, it will have proved a good investment!

C. S. REYNOLDS

Annie Gautier-Hion, Francois Bourliere, Jean-Pierre Gautier & Jonathon Kingdon. (Eds) (1988). A Primate Radiation: Evolutionary Biology of the African Guenons. Pp. 567; illustrations in colour. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?60.00.

This is a splendid book that brings the primates into direct parallel with all those less august creatures, like snails and beetles where sibling species with similar physical structures but very different life-styles, are conventionally labelled by quite striking visible characteristics. As a consequence a truly comparative ecology is possible; as with the finches or titmice.

Based on their selective behaviour, these 20 species (or is it 18?) of the supergenus Cercopithecus range from completely semi-aquatic and terrestrial to partially or totally arboreal; some are local, others wide-ranging and even transcontinental. 'The cercopithecene monkeys definitely appear now as a paradigm of diversity among African Primates.'

There are 24 chapters and 30 authors covering three major categories, i.e. (1) Guenons and the African environment: past and present; (2) genetic and phenetic characteristics: their use in phytogenetic reconstruction; (3) Ecology and social behaviour. The picture presented is rounded and itself diverse. The sense of parallel with large invertebrate genera, containing diverse but recognizably related species, is heightened in the Introduction by the familiar names of A. J. Haddow and A. P. Buxton, medical entomologists of the pre- and post-war years who dealt with the mosquitoes carrying primate diseases. Mortality is one aspect of the ecology that is not indexed, but the most remarkable aspect is how much has been achieved in so short a time.

L. R. TAYLOR

Mary J. Burgis & Pat Morris (1987). The Natural History of Lakes. Pp. 218 illustrated; Cambridge University Press. Price ?17.50.

For most people lakes are just features in the landscape and few are aware of the complex physical, chemical and biological processes that go on beneath their surface. The aim of this book is to introduce the general reader to the scientific study of lakes. In the book the authors conduct the reader on a tour of the world's lakes and, almost incidentally, impart a wealth of scientific information. The material presented has been culled from a variety of primary sources, and owes much to the first author's research experience during the International Biological Programme (1966-1972).

The opening chapter 'Lakes in the landscape' explains how lakes are formed and includes a short introduction to the major lake districts of the world. The following two chapters describe the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of lakes in general, citing examples of productive and unproductive lakes. In the chemical section, the pathways of phosphorus and nitrogen receive most attention, but there is also a topical section on pH measurement and the problem of acid rain. The biological sections are somewhat condensed but still manage to convey the essential unity of the lakes' planktonic, littoral and benthic communities. The fourth chapter 'Lakes and the seasons' is, in many respects, the pivotal chapter of the book. Here the authors explain the process of thermal

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