Bird migration: a new understanding
"The author summarizes and translates the scientific data behind avian migration into everyday language. New technologies, such as molecular genetics, global positioning systems, and transmitter miniaturization, have revealed fresh insights into the behavior and movement of birds that have overturned much of the received scientific wisdom about bird migration"--Provided by publisher
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- Full title :Bird migration : a new understanding / John H. Rappole.
Summary
"The author summarizes and translates the scientific data behind avian migration into everyday language. New technologies, such as molecular genetics, global positioning systems, and transmitter miniaturization, have revealed fresh insights into the behavior and movement of birds that have overturned much of the received scientific wisdom about bird migration"--Provided by publisher
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- Publication Date:©2022
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication:Baltimore
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2022
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 323 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781421442396, 1421442396
- oclc:on1287075681
- LC Classification:QL698.9
- Dewey Decimal:598.156/8
Table of Contents
1. The Bird Migration Paradigm -- 2. The Migrant Annual Cycle According to the Dispersal Theory -- 3. Fall Migration -- 4. Wintering Period -- 5. Spring Migration -- 6. Breeding Period -- 7. Postbreeding Period -- 8. Population Biology -- 9. Origin and Evolution -- 10. Biogeography -- 11. Conservation -- Coda -- APPENDIX: 1 Common and Scientific Names of Bird Species Mentioned in the Text -- APPENDIX: 2 A Critical Examination of the Assumptions in "Temperate Origins of Long-Distance Seasonal Migration in New World Songbirds" -- APPENDIX: 3 Notation Corrections for Alan Pine's Multiple Carrying Capacity Equations from "Age-Structured Periodic Breeders."
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