In recent years, interest in understanding the effects of climate change on species and ecological systems has sharply increased. We quantify and contextualize the current state of knowledge about the effects of contemporary climate change on non‐human primates, a taxon of great ecological and anthropological significance. Specifically, we report findings from a systematic literature search designed to assess the allocation of research effort on primates and climate change and consider how the current distribution of knowledge may be influencing our understanding of the topic. We reveal significant phylogenetic and geographic gaps in our knowledge, which is strongly biased towards lemurs, apes, and a relatively small subset of primate range countries. We show that few analyses investigate changes in primate foods relative to changes in primates themselves or their habitats, and observe that few longitudinal datasets are of sufficient duration to detect effects on the generational scale. We end by identifying areas of research inquiry that would advance our theoretical understanding of primate ecology, evolution, and adaptability, and meaningfully contribute to primate conservation.

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评估当代气候变化和灵长类动物的知识状态

近年来，对了解气候变化对物种和生态系统的影响的兴趣急剧增加。我们对有关当代气候变化对非人类灵长类动物的影响的知识的现状进行量化和情境化，这对生态学和人类学意义重大。具体来说，我们从系统的文献搜索中报告发现的结果，该文献旨在评估关于灵长类动物和气候变化的研究工作的分配，并考虑当前知识的分布可能如何影响我们对该主题的理解。我们发现我们在知识上存在重大的系统发育和地理鸿沟，而这在狐猴，猿类和灵长类动物国家中相对较小的一族中存在强烈偏见。我们表明，很少有分析调查相对于灵长类动物自身或其栖息地的变化的灵长类动物食物的变化，并且观察到很少的纵向数据集具有足够的持续时间来检测对世代规模的影响。我们首先确定研究探究的领域，这些领域将增进我们对灵长类动物生态学，进化和适应性的理论理解，并为灵长类动物的保护做出有意义的贡献。