Animal migration : a synthesis /
"Despite the wealth of natural historical research conducted on migration over decades, there is still a dearth of hypothesis-driven studies that fully integrate theory and empirical analyses to understand the causes and consequences of migration, and a taxonomic bias towards birds in much migr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Understanding the evolution of migration through empirical examples / Katherine A. Cresswell, William H. Satterthwaite, and Gregory A. Sword
- Theoretical reflections on the evolution of migration / Robert D. Holt and John M. Fryxell
- Mechanistic principles of locomotion performance in migrating animals / Anders Hedenström [and others]
- Energy gain and use during animal migration / Nir Sapir [and others]
- Cues and decision rules in animal migration / Silke Bauer [and others]
- Uncertainty and predictability : the niches of migrants and nomads / Niclas Jonzén [and others]
- Migration quantified : constructing models and linking them with data / Luca Börger [and others]
- Migration impacts on communities and ecosystems : empirical evidence and theoretical insights / Ricardo M. Holdo [and others]
- Pastoral migration : mobile systems of animal husbandry / Roy H. Behnke [and others]
- Conservation and management of migratory species / Jennifer L. Shuter [and others].