Primate group size and interpreting socioecological models: Do folivores really play by different rules?

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Intragroup aggression, fission–fusion dynamics and feeding competition in spider monkeys (2008, background): “…often clumped in monopolizable patches, frugivourous animals are expected to experience contest competition (van Schaik, 1989; Isbell, 1991; Sterck et al., 1997), although recent findings suggest that folivorous species also experience such competition (Saj et al., 2007; Snaith & Chapman, 2007).”
Linking feeding ecology and population abundance: a review of food resource limitation on primates (2013, background): “However, the assumed quantity and quality of fallback foods available 315 to colobines has recently been questioned (Snaith and Chapman 2007).”
Costs of group size: lower developmental and reproductive rates in larger groups of leaf monkeys (2008, background): “In contrast to species with a high amount of herbs and leaves in the diet such as mountain gorillas (Doran and McNeilage 1998), Phayre’s leaf monkeys incorporate considerable amounts of fruits (and young leaves) that are more clumped in time and space (see discussions in Koenig et al. [1998]; Snait”
Small folivorous primate groups exhibit behavioral and physiological effects of food scarcity (2010, background): “At the heart of this debate is whether folivores are limited by food and feeding competition in ways similar to those of frugivores (Isbell 1991; Snaith and Chapman 2007).”