title: Female and male life tables for seven wild primate species.
abstract: We provide male and female census count data, age-specific survivorship, and female age-specific fertility estimates for populations of seven wild primates that have been continuously monitored for at least 29 years: sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in Madagascar; muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) in Brazil; capuchin (Cebus capucinus) in Costa Rica; baboon (Papio cynocephalus) and blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kenya; chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) in Tanzania; and gorilla (Gorilla beringei) in Rwanda. Using one-year age-class intervals, we computed point estimates of age-specific survival for both sexes. In all species, our survival estimates for the dispersing sex are affected by heavy censoring. We also calculated reproductive value, life expectancy, and mortality hazards for females. We used bootstrapping to place confidence intervals on life-table summary metrics (R0, the net reproductive rate; λ, the population growth rate; and G, the generation time). These data have high potential for reuse; they derive from continuous population monitoring of long-lived organisms and will be invaluable for addressing questions about comparative demography, primate conservation and human evolution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bronikowski
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cords
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.|Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
authors.forename: Susan C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Alberts
authors.affiliation: Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.|Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 88001, USA.
authors.forename: Jeanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Altmann
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, USA.
authors.forename: Diane K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Brockman
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4.
authors.forename: Linda M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Fedigan
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pusey
authors.affiliation: The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia 30315, USA.
authors.forename: Tara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stoinski
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
authors.forename: Karen B
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2520-9110
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Strier
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
authors.forename: William F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Morris
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001723:Birth Rate; D001938:Brazil; D003364:Costa Rica; D005260:Female; D015993:Life Tables; D008270:Madagascar; D008297:Male; D010679:Philippines; D011323:Primates; D012737:Sex Factors