Migration

by Dingle, Hugh

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Title Statements

Full title :Migration / Hugh Dingle, Professor Emeritus of Entomology, University of California at Davis, USA.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199640386, 0199640386
oclc:ocn900846160

A taxonomy of movement -- Migration: definition and scope -- Patterns in migratory journeys -- Methods for studying migration -- Migration, winds, and currents -- Physiology of migration -- Biomechanical and bioenergetic constraints on migration -- Orientation and navigation -- Seasonal migration patterns -- Migration to special habitats -- Migration under ephemeral conditions -- Behavioral and life-history variability in migration -- Polymorphisms and polyphenisms -- Evolutionary genetics of migration -- Human interactions with migration -- Summing up and future directions.