A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary scholarship, and a chronicle of family life....Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the ecology of the most important infectious diseases of wild avian hosts, especially those with high morbidity and mortality rates....Loe edasi...
This book presents an integrated perspective (paleontological, historical, physiological, ecological, conservationist and human cultural) of eagles....Loe edasi...
This edited collection explores our often-surprising modes of co-inhabiting the cultural and aerial worlds of birds. It focuses on our encounters with non-captive birds and the cultural geographies of feathered flight....Loe edasi...
The book gives a complete overview of the migration ecology of Western Palearctic raptors. Across seasons and continents, with great navigation abilities and facing high mortality risks, these species move twice a year between their breeding and win...Loe edasi...
The timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of avian molt follows certain strategies. This book reviews and describes these strategies for nearly 200 species of birds from a 30-year study of Central Amazonian birds. Each account is to be i...Loe edasi...
The book demonstrates the power of ornithological collections to address key research questions at global scales through emerging new technologies, analytical techniques, and case studies. The book includes developing methods for making biological c...Loe edasi...
The Golden-winged Warbler is a migratory songbird that breeds in the temperate upper midwestern US (Wisconsin & Minnesota) and Canada (Manitoba) and winters in Central and northern South America. Its small breeding range has been shrinking due to ha...Loe edasi...
The scope of book has relevant and important informations on some of the popular tamed birds reared as pet in cages. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka....Loe edasi...
Based on longitudinal studiessome into their fifth decadeof colonial waterbirds, this book provides a clear picture of the corrosive effects of heavy metals in the aquatic environment today. Colonial-nesting birds can serve as excellent bioindicator...Loe edasi...
Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the interrelationships o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jan-2014, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198566373)
Recent research in biomechanics is increasingly revealing a set of special cases where universal physical laws constrain the trajectories and, more controversially, even the endpoints of the evolutionary process. For the first time this book brings...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2012, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781118342442)
Written by veterinary pathologists, epidemiologists and clinicans, this is the definitive reference covering infectious diseases found in wild mammals and birds in Europe....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Apr-2011, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444342611)
Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world. It is the first book to cover all the major issues in tropical bird conservation....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Apr-2011, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781119990475)
This book explores the bio-molecular aspects of avian biology as well as the anatomy of dinosaurs. It bridges the gap between those who study bird fossils and those who study the living animals. The first section reviews the early ancestry of birds...Loe edasi...
J. Eduardo P.W. Bicudo, William A. Buttemer, Mark A. Chappell, James T. Pearson, Claus Bech
Sari: Ecological and Environmental Physiology
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2010, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199228447)
This is the first book to examine avian physiology in detail as it relates to the environment. As with other books in the Ecological and Environmental Physiology Series, the emphasis is on the unique physiological characteristics of birds, although...Loe edasi...
Looks at the significance of indigenous knowledge of birds and their cultural significance, and how these can assist in framing research methods of western scientists working in related areas....Loe edasi...
Tim M. Blackburn, Julie L. Lockwood, Phillip Cassey
Sari: Oxford Avian Biology
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2009, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199232543)
This book uses exotic birds as a case study to understand the science of the invasion process, from the reasons why humans choose to move some species and not others, to how successful invaders interact with the new environment, and even evolve ther...Loe edasi...
