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By
Ian Newton, Monks Wood Research Station, Abbots Ripton,Cambs, U.K.
Description
This book presents an up-to-date, detailed and thorough review of the most fascinating ecological findings of bird migration. It deals
with all aspects of this absorbing subject, including the problems of navigation and vagrancy, the timing and physiological control of
migration, the factors that limit their populations, and more. Author, Ian Newton, reveals the extraordinary adaptability of birds to
the variable and changing conditions across the globe, including current climate change. This adventurous book places emphasis on ecological
aspects, which have received only scant attention in previous publications. Overall, the book provides the most thorough and in-depth
appraisal of current information available, with abundant tables, maps and diagrams, and many new insights. Written in a clear and readable
style, this book appeals not only to migration researchers in the field and Ornithologists, but to anyone with an interest in this fascinating
subject.
Audience
Ornithologists, ecologists, physiologists, biologists interested in animal movements, amateur naturalists, serious bird-watchers and bird-ringers.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Methodology
PART 1: THE MIGRATORY PROCESS
Chapter 3 Migratory flight
Chapter
4 Weather effects and other aspects
Chapter 5 Fuelling the flights
Chapter 6 Incredible journeys
Chapter 7 Raptors and other soaring
birds
Chapter 8 Speed and duration of journeys
Chapter 9 Finding the way
Chapter 10 Vagrancy
PART 2: THE TIMING AND CONTROL OF MIGRATION
Chapter 11 Annual cycles
Chapter 12 Control mechanisms
PART 3: LARGE SCALE MOVEMENT PATTERNS
Chapter 13 Geographical
patterns
Chapter 14 Seasonal occupation of breeding areas
Chapter 15 Sex and age differences in migration
Chapter 16 Variations
on a migratory theme
Chapter 17 Site fidelity and dispersal
Chapter 18 Irruptive migrations: boreal seed-eaters
Chapter 19 Irruptive
migrations: owls, raptors and waterfowl
PART 4: EVOLUTION OF MOVEMENT PATTERNS
Chapter 20 Evolutionary aspects
Chapter 21 Recent
changes in bird migrations
Chapter 22 Biogeographical legacies
Chapter 23 Distribution patterns
PART 5: MIGRATION SYSTEMS AND
POPULATION LIMITATION
Chapter 24 The Palaearctic-Afrotropical migration system
Chapter 25 The Nearctic-Neotropical migration
system
Chapter 26 Population limitation – breeding and wintering areas
Chapter 27 Population limitation – conditions on stopover
Chapter
28 Mass mortality of migrants
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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Hardbound, 984 pages, publication date: NOV-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-517367-4
ISBN-10: 0-12-517367-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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