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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
P Berthold; Eberhard Gwinner; E Sonnenschein |
| ISBN: | 3540434089 9783540434085 |
| OCLC Number: | 51022658 |
| Description: | xvi, 610 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Chasing a wild goose : posthatch growth of locomotor muscles and behavioural physiology of migration of an Arctic goose / P.J. Butler, C.M. Bishop and A.J. Woakes -- The drag paradox : measurements of flight performance and body drag in flying birds / J.M. Rayner and W.J. Maybury -- Twenty-three testable predictions about bird flight / A. Hedenström -- Bird migration as an interdisciplinary tool for global cooperation / Y. Leshem ... [et al.]. Evolution of bird migration : a phylogenetic and biogeographic perspective / A. Helbig -- Recent changes in migratory behaviour of birds : a compilation of field observations and ringing data / W. Fiedler -- Ecology and evolution of hummingbird population movements and migration / J.H. Rappole and K.-L. Schuchmann -- Quantitative genetic analysis of migratory behaviour / F. Pulido and P. Berthold -- Circannual and circadian contributions to the timing of avian migration / E. Gwinner and B. Helm -- Migratory behavior : new insights from captive studies / M. Ramenofsky ... [et al.] -- Avian migration : regulation of facultative-type movements / J.C. Wingfield -- Behavioural and hormonal dynamics in a partial migrant - the willow tit / B. Silverin -- Life history and ecophysiological adaptations to migration in Australian birds / U. Munro -- Behavioural and physiological reactions to environmental variation in bird migration : a review / L. Jenni and M. Schaub -- Morphological consequences of migration in passerines / B. Leisler and H. Winkler -- Within ten feathers : primary moult strategies of migratory waders (Charadrii) / L.G. Underhill -- Optimizing migration in a reluctant and inefficient flier : the eared grebe / J.R. Jehl, A.E. Henry and H.I. Ellis -- Geographical patterns in bird migration / I. Newton -- Nocturnal migration of passerines in the desert-highland zone of western Central Asia : selected aspects / C. Bolshakov -- Relationships between migration and breeding strategies in Arctic breeding birds / M. Klaassen -- Bird migration speed / T. Alerstam -- Energetic savings by organ adjustment during long migratory flights in garden warblers (Sylvia borin) / H. Biebach and U. Bauchinger -- Priority access to food in migratory birds : age, sex and motivational asymmetries / F. Moore, S. Mabey and M. Woodrey -- Interdependence of flight and stopover in migrating birds : possible effect of metabolic constraints during refuelling on flight metabolism / S. Jenni-Eiermann and L. Jenni -- Fuel deposition rates in migrating birds : causes, constraints and consequences / Å. Lindström -- Nutritional strategies in migratory birds / F. Bairlein -- Using a network of WSR-88D weather surveillance radars to define patterns of bird migration at large spatial scales / S.A. Gauthreaux Jr., C.G. Belser and D. van Blaricom -- The radar window to bird migration / B. Bruderer -- Snowy owl movements : variation on the migration theme / M. Fuller, D. Holt and L. Schueck -- Orientation in "featureless" environments : the extreme case of pelagic birds / F. Bonadonna, S. Benhamou and P. Jouventin -- Making migratory connections with stable isotopes / K.A. Hobson -- Individual variability in experiments with Emlen funnels -- C. Marchetti and N.E. Baldaccini -- Conservation of migratory birds / C.J. Bibby -- Magnetic navigation by an avian migrant? / J.H. Fisher, U. Munro and J.B. Phillips -- Mechanisms of orientation and navigation in migratory birds / R. Wiltschko and W. Wiltschko -- Migratory systems as adaptive responses to spatial and temporal variability in orientation stimuli / V.P. Bingman, C.A. Budzynski and A. Voggenhuber -- Avian long-distance navigation : experiments with migratory birds / S. Åkesson -- Spatiotemporal orientation strategies of long-distance migrants / H. Mouritsen -- Stored fat and the migratory orientation of birds / R. Sandberg -- |
| Responsibility: | Peter Berthold, Eberhard Gwinner, Edith Sonnenschein (eds.). |
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