ATLANTIC-PRIMATES: a dataset of communities and occurrences of primates in the Atlantic Forests of South America.
Laurence CulotLucas Augusto PereiraIlaria AgostiniMarco Antônio Barreto de AlmeidaRafael Souza Cruz AlvesIzar AximoffAlex BagerMaría Celia BaldovinoThiago Ribas BellaJulio Cesar Bicca-MarquesCaryne BragaCarlos Rodrigo BrocardoAna Kellen Nogueira CampeloGustavo Rodrigues CanaleJader da Cruz CardosoEduardo CarranoDiogo Cavenague CasanovaCamila Righetto CassanoErika CastroJorge José CheremAdriano Garcia ChiarelloBraz Antonio Pereira CosenzaRodrigo Costa-AraújoNilmara Cristina da SilvaMario S Di BitettiAluane Silva FerreiraPriscila Coutinho Ribas FerreiraMarcos de S FialhoLisieux Franco FuzessyGuilherme Siniciato Terra GarbinoFrancini de Oliveira GarciaCassiano A F R GattoCarla Cristina GestichPablo Rodrigues GonçalvesNila Rássia Costa GontijoMaurício Eduardo GraipelCarlos Eduardo GuidorizziRobson Odeli Espíndola HackGabriela Pacheco HassRenato Richard HilárioAndré HirschIngrid HolzmannDaniel Henrique HomemHilton Entringer JúniorGilberto Sabino-Santos JúniorMaria Cecília Martins KierulffChristoph KnoggeFernando LimaElson Fernandes de LimaCristiana Saddy MartinsAdriana Almeida de LimaAlexandre MartinsWaldney Pereira MartinsFabiano R de MeloRicardo MelzewJoão Marcelo Deliberador MirandaFlávia MirandaAndréia Magro MoraesTainah Cruz MoreiraMaria Santina de Castro MoriniMariana B Nagy-ReisLuciana OklanderLeonardo de Carvalho OliveiraAdriano Pereira PagliaAnderson PagotoMarcelo PassamaniFernando de Camargo PassosCarlos A PeresMichell Soares de Campos PerineMíriam Plaza PintoAntonio Rossano Mendes PontesMarcio Port-CarvalhoBárbara Heliodora Soares do PradoAndré Luis RegolinGabriela Cabral RezendeAlessandro RochaJoedison Dos S RochaRaisa Reis de Paula RodarteLilian Patrícia SalesEdmilson Dos SantosPaloma Marques SantosChristine Steiner São BernardoRicardo SartorelloLeonardo La SerraEleonore SetzAnne Sophie de Almeida E SilvaLeonardo Henrique da SilvaPedro Bencke Ermel da SilvaMaurício SilveiraRebecca L SmithSara Machado de SouzaAna Carolina Srbek-AraujoLeonardo Carreira TrevelinClaudio Valladares-PaduaLuciana ZagoEduardo MarquesStephen Francis FerrariRaone Beltrão-MendesDenison José HenzFrancys E da Veiga da CostaIgor Kintopp RibeiroLucas Lacerda Toth QuintilhamMarcos DumsPryscilla Moura LombardiRenata Twardowsky Ramalho BonikowskiStéfani Gabrieli AgeJoão Pedro Souza-AlvesRenata ChagasRogério Grassetto Teixeira da CunhaMonica Mafra Valença-MontenegroGabriela LudwigLeandro JerusalinskyGerson BussRenata Bocorny de AzevedoRoberio Freire FilhoFelipe BufaloLouis MilheMayara Mulato Dos SantosRaíssa SepulvidaDaniel da Silva FerrazMichel Barros FariaMilton Cezar RibeiroMauro GalettiPublished in: Ecology (2018)
Primates play an important role in ecosystem functioning and offer critical insights into human evolution, biology, behavior, and emerging infectious diseases. There are 26 primate species in the Atlantic Forests of South America, 19 of them endemic. We compiled a dataset of 5,472 georeferenced locations of 26 native and 1 introduced primate species, as hybrids in the genera Callithrix and Alouatta. The dataset includes 700 primate communities, 8,121 single species occurrences and 714 estimates of primate population sizes, covering most natural forest types of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina and some other biomes. On average, primate communities of the Atlantic Forest harbor 2 ± 1 species (range = 1-6). However, about 40% of primate communities contain only one species. Alouatta guariba (N = 2,188 records) and Sapajus nigritus (N = 1,127) were the species with the most records. Callicebus barbarabrownae (N = 35), Leontopithecus caissara (N = 38), and Sapajus libidinosus (N = 41) were the species with the least records. Recorded primate densities varied from 0.004 individuals/km2 (Alouatta guariba at Fragmento do Bugre, Paraná, Brazil) to 400 individuals/km2 (Alouatta caraya in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Our dataset reflects disparity between the numerous primate census conducted in the Atlantic Forest, in contrast to the scarcity of estimates of population sizes and densities. With these data, researchers can develop different macroecological and regional level studies, focusing on communities, populations, species co-occurrence and distribution patterns. Moreover, the data can also be used to assess the consequences of fragmentation, defaunation, and disease outbreaks on different ecological processes, such as trophic cascades, species invasion or extinction, and community dynamics. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this Data Paper when the data are used in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us of how they are using the data.