ATLANTIC-PRIMATES: a dataset of communities and occurrences of primates in the Atlantic Forests of South America

• Autor(a) principal: Culot, Laurence [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Lucas Augusto [UNESP], Agostini, Ilaria, de Almeida, Marco Antônio Barreto, Alves, Rafael Souza Cruz [UNESP], Aximoff, Izar, Bager, Alex, Baldovino, María Celia, Bella, Thiago Ribas, Bicca-Marques, Júlio César, Braga, Caryne, Brocardo, Carlos Rodrigo [UNESP], Campelo, Ana Kellen Nogueira, Canale, Gustavo R., Cardoso, Jader da Cruz, Carrano, Eduardo, Casanova, Diogo Cavenague, Cassano, Camila Righetto, Castro, Erika, Cherem, Jorge José, Chiarello, Adriano Garcia, Cosenza, Braz Antonio Pereira, Costa-Araújo, Rodrigo, da Silva, Nilmara Cristina, Di Bitetti, Mario S., Ferreira, Aluane Silva, Ferreira, Priscila Coutinho Ribas, Fialho, Marcos de S., Fuzessy, Lisieux Franco [UNESP], Garbino, Guilherme Siniciato Terra, Garcia, Francini de Oliveira, Gatto, Cassiano A. F. R., Gestich, Carla Cristina, Gonçalves, Pablo Rodrigues, Gontijo, Nila Rássia Costa, Graipel, Maurício Eduardo, Guidorizzi, Carlos Eduardo, Espíndola Hack, Robson Odeli, Hass, Gabriela Pacheco [UNESP], Hilário, Renato Richard, Hirsch, André, Holzmann, Ingrid, Homem, Daniel Henrique, Júnior, Hilton Entringer, Júnior, Gilberto Sabino-Santos, Kierulff, Maria Cecília Martins, Knogge, Christoph, Lima, Fernando, de Lima, Elson Fernandes, Martins, Cristiana Saddy, de Lima, Adriana Almeida, Martins, Alexandre, Martins, Waldney Pereira, de Melo, Fabiano R., Melzew, Ricardo, Miranda, João Marcelo Deliberador, Miranda, Flávia, Moraes, Andréia Magro [UNESP], Moreira, Tainah Cruz, de Castro Morini, Maria Santina, Nagy-Reis, Mariana B., Oklander, Luciana, de Carvalho Oliveira, Leonardo, Paglia, Adriano Pereira, Pagoto, Anderson, Passamani, Marcelo, de Camargo Passos, Fernando, Peres, Carlos A., de Campos Perine, Michell Soares, Pinto, Míriam Plaza, Pontes, Antonio Rossano Mendes, Port-Carvalho, Marcio, do Prado, Bárbara Heliodora Soares, Regolin, André Luis [UNESP], Rezende, Gabriela Cabral [UNESP], Rocha, Alessandro [UNESP], Rocha, Joedison dos S., de Paula Rodarte, Raisa Reis, Sales, Lilian Patrícia, dos Santos, Edmilson, Santos, Paloma Marques, Bernardo, Christine Steiner São, Sartorello, Ricardo, Serra, Leonardo La, Setz, Eleonore, de Almeida e Silva, Anne Sophie [UNESP], da Silva, Leonardo Henrique [UNESP], da Silva, Pedro Bencke Ermel, Silveira, Maurício, Smith, Rebecca L., de Souza, Sara Machado, Srbek-Araujo, Ana Carolina, Trevelin, Leonardo Carreira, Valladares-Padua, Claudio, Zago, Luciana, Marques, Eduardo, Ferrari, Stephen Francis, Beltrão-Mendes, Raone, Henz, Denison José, da Veiga da Costa, Francys E., Ribeiro, Igor Kintopp, Quintilham, Lucas Lacerda Toth, Dums, Marcos, Lombardi, Pryscilla Moura, Bonikowski, Renata Twardowsky Ramalho, Age, Stéfani Gabrieli, Souza-Alves, João Pedro, Chagas, Renata, da Cunha, Rogério Grassetto Teixeira, Valença-Montenegro, Monica Mafra, Ludwig, Gabriela, Jerusalinsky, Leandro, Buss, Gerson, de Azevedo, Renata Bocorny, Filho, Roberio Freire, Bufalo, Felipe [UNESP], Milhe, Louis, Santos, Mayara Mulato dos [UNESP], Sepulvida, Raíssa [UNESP], Ferraz, Daniel da Silva, Faria, Michel Barros, Ribeiro, Milton Cezar [UNESP], Galetti, Mauro [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2525; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/189880
• topic: Atelidae; biodiversity hotspot; Callitrichidae; Cebidae; defaunation; forest fragmentation; macroecology; Pitheciidae

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/km 2 (Alouatta guariba at Fragmento do Bugre, Paraná, Brazil) to 400 individuals/km 2 (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.