Population limitation in birds /
This book meets the demand for a comprehensive introduction to understanding the processes of population limitation. Recognized world-wide as a respected biologist and communicator, Dr. Ian Newton has now written a clear and detailed treatise on local scale population limiting factors in birds. It i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
San Diego :
Academic Press,
[1998]
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Temas: |
behaviour
> density
> predation
> weather
> parasites
> hu nting
> pest control
> extinction
> habitat
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Social systems and status
- Habitat and density regulation
- Territorial behaviour and density limitation
- Density-dependence
- Habitat fragments and metapopulations
- Food-supply
- Nest-sites
- Predation
- Parasites and pathogens
- Weather
- Inter-specific competition
- Interactions between different limiting factors
- Hunting and pest control
- Pesticides and pollutants
- Extinction.