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Migration : the biology of life on the move /
Migration is one of the most fascinating and dramatic of all animal behaviours. Historically, study of migration has been fragmented, with ornithologists, entomologists, and marine biologists working only within their own field. This critical synthetic treatment of the subject shows how comparisons...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Migration is one of the most fascinating and dramatic of all animal behaviours. Historically, study of migration has been fragmented, with ornithologists, entomologists, and marine biologists working only within their own field. This critical synthetic treatment of the subject shows how comparisons across taxa can illuminate migratory life cycles and the relation of migration to other movements. The book takes an integrated ecological perspective to focus on migration as a biological phenomenon. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 474 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-469) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423738926 9781423738923 1280443065 9781280443060 9780195089622 0195089626 9780195097238 0195097238 9786610443062 6610443068 0195358279 9780195358278 1601299826 9781601299826 |