TY - JOUR
T1 - Apes in the Anthropocene
T2 - flexibility and survival
AU - Hockings, Kimberley J.
AU - McLennan, Matthew R.
AU - Carvalho, Susana
AU - Ancrenaz, Marc
AU - Bobe, René
AU - Byrne, Richard W.
AU - Dunbar, Robin I M
AU - Matsuzawa, Tetsuro
AU - McGrew, William C.
AU - Williamson, Elizabeth A.
AU - Wilson, Michael L.
AU - Wood, Bernard
AU - Wrangham, Richard W.
AU - Hill, Catherine M.
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147310/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/121124/PT#
UID/ANT/04038/2013
PTDC/CS-ANT/121124/2010
CCSN/PWS-U04
PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - We are in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, and research into our closest living relatives, the great apes, must keep pace with the rate that our species is driving change. While a goal of many studies is to understand how great apes behave in natural contexts, the impact of human activities must increasingly be taken into account. This is both a challenge and an opportunity, which can importantly inform research in three diverse fields: cognition, human evolution, and conservation. No long-term great ape research site is wholly unaffected by human influence, but research at those that are especially affected by human activity is particularly important for ensuring that our great ape kin survive the Anthropocene.
AB - We are in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, and research into our closest living relatives, the great apes, must keep pace with the rate that our species is driving change. While a goal of many studies is to understand how great apes behave in natural contexts, the impact of human activities must increasingly be taken into account. This is both a challenge and an opportunity, which can importantly inform research in three diverse fields: cognition, human evolution, and conservation. No long-term great ape research site is wholly unaffected by human influence, but research at those that are especially affected by human activity is particularly important for ensuring that our great ape kin survive the Anthropocene.
KW - Anthropogenic disturbance
KW - Ape cognition
KW - Behavioural flexibility
KW - Great apes
KW - Hominin coexistence
KW - Human-wildlife interaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84925666218&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2015.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2015.02.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 25766059
AN - SCOPUS:84925666218
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 30
SP - 215
EP - 222
JO - Trends in Ecology & Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology & Evolution
IS - 4
ER -
