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Avian survivors : the history and biogeography of Palearctic birds /
"Using a fresh approach that classifies birds according to their bioclimatic characteristics, Clive Finlayson views the history and distribution of Palearctic birds from a radical new angle. History and chance events play a central role in a story that has its origins before the asteroid impact...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
T. & A.D. Poyser,
2011.
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| Colección: | Poyser monographs
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introducing the Tertiary; 2. The changing ecology of the Palearctic in the Pleistocene; 3. Origins of Palearctic birds; 4. Corvoidea
- shrikes, crows and orioles; 5. Sylvioidea
- hirundines, warblers and larks; 6. Paroidea
- tits; 7. Muscicapoidea
- chats, thrushes, flycatchers and allies; 8. Passeroidea
- sparrows, finches, pipits and buntings; 9. Falcons; 10. Terrestrial non-passerines; 11. Owls; 12. Raptors; 13. Gulls, terns, auks and waders; 14. Divers, tubenoses, and waterbirds; 15. Cranes, rails, bustards and cuckoos
- 16. Nightjars and swifts17. Pigeons, sandgrouse, tropicbirds, flamingos and grebes; 18. Geese, swans, ducks and gamebirds; 19. Climate and the history of the birds of the Palearctic; 20. Surviving climate change
- characteristics of survivors; 21. The Palearctic avifauna of yesterday, today and tomorrow; Appendix 1. Species covered in this book: bioclimatic and ecological features; Appendix 2. European Pleistocene fossil birds; References; Index