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Demographic parameters in any primate group may reflect crucial aspects of its social structure and behaviour (Altmann and Altmann, 1979; Dunbar, 1979). They also form the basis for understanding the relationship between the group and its environment and are essential for successful management and conservation. The structure and dynamics of a population can be studied at several levels. A simple approach is to treat individuals as biologically identical to express numbers in the population as an average over several years and to investigate the causes for this value. The study of fluctuations in total numbers as related to changes in environment goes a step further and, at a more advanced level, may be aimed at expressing rate of change in numbers as a difference between birth rate and death rate. More desirable, though not often possible, is a study which discards the simplifying but unrealistic assumption that animals are identical.
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Fa, J.E. (1984). Structure and Dynamics of the Barbary Macaque Population in Gibraltar. In: Fa, J.E. (eds) The Barbary Macaque. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2785-1_11
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