| foraging ecology of howler monkeys in a cacao (theobroma cacao) plantation in comalcalco, mexico. | recent evidence indicates that primate populations may persist in neotropical fragmented landscapes by using arboreal agroecosystems, which may provide temporary habitats, increased areas of vegetation, and connectivity, among other benefits. however, limited data are available on how primates are able to sustain themselves in such manmade habitats. we report the results of a 9-month-long investigation of the feeding ecology of a troop of howler monkeys (n = 24) that have lived for the past 25 y ... | 2006 | 16429417 |
| [transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis associated with cacao (theobroma cacao) plantations in tabasco]. | tabasco is the mexican state that reported the highest number (37.4%) of patients with leishmaniasis during 1990-2011. close to 90% of these patients lived in chontalpa, where the municipality of cunduacán accounted for the majority of the cases. one of the characteristics of this region is that houses are located within cacao plantations. | 2014 | 25375280 |
| [diversity of insects captured by weaver spiders (arachnida: araneae) in the cocoa agroecosystem in tabasco, mexico]. | the aim of this work was to know the diversity of insects captured by weaver spiders in a plantation of cocoa (theobroma cacao l.) of 6 ha in the state of tabasco, mexico. the study was carried out from july 2004 to june 2005 by means biweekly samples of the insects captured on the spiders webs. the total of 3,041 webs of 54 species of spiders belonging to seven families (araneidae, theridiidae, tetragnathidae, uloboridae, pholcidae, dyctinidae and linyphiidae) were revised. we found 1,749 speci ... | 2017 | 17420866 |