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Book Habitat Preference and Photoperiod induced Physiological Changes in Mountain White crowned Sparows Zonotrichia Leucophrys Oriantha

Download or read book Habitat Preference and Photoperiod induced Physiological Changes in Mountain White crowned Sparows Zonotrichia Leucophrys Oriantha written by Sharon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Photoperiodic Regulation of Habitat Preference in Wild caught Mountain White Crowned Sparrows  Zonotrichia Leucophrys Oriantha

Download or read book Photoperiodic Regulation of Habitat Preference in Wild caught Mountain White Crowned Sparrows Zonotrichia Leucophrys Oriantha written by Na Kyoung Nam and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nest and Roost Site Selection in Mountain White Crowned Sparrows  Zonotrichia Leucophrys Oriantha  in the Central Sierra Nevada

Download or read book Nest and Roost Site Selection in Mountain White Crowned Sparrows Zonotrichia Leucophrys Oriantha in the Central Sierra Nevada written by Judith L. Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Current Ornithology Volume 17

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles F. Thompson
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2010-09-09
  • ISBN : 1441964215
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Current Ornithology Volume 17 written by Charles F. Thompson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the spectrum from the molecular level of organization to population biology and community ecology. The series seeks especially to review (1) fields in which an abundant recent literature will benefit from synthesis and organization, or (2) newly emerging fields that are gaining recognition as the result of recent discoveries or shifts in perspective, or (3) fields in which students of vertebrates may benefit from comparisons of birds with other classes. All chapters are invited, and authors are chosen for their leadership in the subjects under review.

Book Effects of Climate Change on Birds

Download or read book Effects of Climate Change on Birds written by Anders Pape Møller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Effects of Climate Change on Birds provides an exhaustive and up-to-date synthesis of the science of climate change as it relates to birds." -- Back cover.

Book Avian Energetics and Nutritional Ecology

Download or read book Avian Energetics and Nutritional Ecology written by C. Carey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A symposium held in 1973 chaired and organized by William R. Dawson was the first major attempt to summarize and synthesize the existing information in the then emerging field of avian energetics. The symposium featured papers by James R. King, William A. Calder III, Vance A. Tucker, and Robert E. Ricklefs and com mentaries by George A. Bartholomew, S. Charles Kendeigh, and Eugene P. Odum. The proceedings of the symposium, Avian Energetics (Paynter 1974), played a critical role in stimulating interest and research in the field of avian energetics. Some twenty-odd years later, we are making another attempt to summarize the information in the field of avian energetics. Some obvious differences exist be tween its predecessor and this volume. Numerous improvements in methodology, such as the use of doubly labeled water to estimate metabolism in free-living birds, now allow researchers to ask questions that could not be addressed previ ously. Second, consideration of nutrition is now inseparable from that of energet ics. This merger is necessary not only because food intake is the source of both en ergy and nutrients but also because one or more nutrients, rather than energy, can be limiting for a given species in a particular instance. Finally, the study of ener getics and nutritional ecology, particularly in birds and mammals, has grown so dramatically that a single volume can now only partially cover the range of possi ble topics and can catalogue only a sampling of all the studies on the subject.

Book Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds

Download or read book Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds written by Carter T. Atkinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds provides thorough coverage of major parasite groups affecting wild bird species. Broken into four sections covering protozoa, helminths, leeches, and arthropod parasites, this volume provides reviews of the history, disease, epizootiology, pathology, and population impacts caused by parasitic disease. Taking a unique approach that focuses on the effects of the parasites on the host, Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds fills a unique niche in animal health literature.

Book Advances in the Study of Behavior

Download or read book Advances in the Study of Behavior written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 54 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Mobbing in animals: a thorough review and proposed future directions, Learned components of courtship: a focus on gestures, choreographies and construction abilities, Sexual selection in the true bugs, and Brain-behavior relationships of cognition in vertebrates: lessons from amphibians, Pre-Copulatory and Copulatory Courtship in Male-Dimorphic Arthropods. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in "Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry" series Updated release includes the latest information on ICP-MS and trace element analysis as tools for better understanding medical conditions

Book Perspectives in Comparative Endocrinology

Download or read book Perspectives in Comparative Endocrinology written by Kenneth George Davey and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Circannual Rhythms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eberhard Gwinner
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 3642828701
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book Circannual Rhythms written by Eberhard Gwinner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the more or less static properties of the environ ment, plants and animals must cope with its temporal variations. Among the most conspicuous temporal changes to which organisms are exposed are periodic phenomena generated by the rotation of the earth about its axis, its revolution around the sun, and the more complex movements of the moon in relation to both sun and earth. The first two of these astronomical cycles are basic to the familiar daily and annual rhythms, respectively, in the environment. The third generates somewhat more complex cycles, such as those in moonlight and variations in tides. These environmental cycles have provided challenges and opportunities for organisms to adjust their physiology and behavior to them. Indeed, the predictability inherent to these periodic processes has enabled organisms to evolve innate endogenous rhythmic programs that match the environmental cycles and allow, in a variety of different ways, adjustment of biological activities to the cycles of environmental changes. The endogenous nature of rhythmicity was first clearly recognized in the 1930's in daily periodicities, the most widely distributed and best investigated class of biological rhythms of this type. In the 1950's, demonstrations of endogenous tidal and lunar rhythms, which occur in some littoral and marine organisms, ensued. Another decade passed before endogenous annual periodicities were first demonstrated unambiguously.

Book The Zebra Finch

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  • Author : Richard A. Zann
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781280903359
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book The Zebra Finch written by Richard A. Zann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Zebra Finch is widely used by researchers and teachers in many scientific disciplines where it is the preferred subject for investigations ranging from anatomy and physiology to behavioural development and evolutionary ecology. This monograph is the first to synthesize the information on this colourful species that has accumulated during the past thirty years. It summarizes and integrates much of the laboratory work and places it in the context of the biology of the animals in the wild, with an emphasis on behaviour and ecology. This leads to a detailed understanding of Zebra Finch adaptations and life history that will further enhance the value of the species for researchers and students in behaviour, ecology, and other fields. Aviculturists who keep these attractive birds will also find much of interest in this book.

Book Mechanical Design in Organisms

Download or read book Mechanical Design in Organisms written by Stephen A. Wainwright and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1982-07-21 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with an interface between mechanical engineering and biology. It reviews biological structural materials and systems and their mechanically important features and demonstrates that function at any particular level of biological integration is permitted and controlled by structure at lower levels of integration.

Book The Greater Flamingo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Johnson
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 1408108976
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book The Greater Flamingo written by Alan Johnson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed monograph on an iconic bird of tropical wetlands around the world, the flamingo. With their curious feeding behaviour, peculiar elongated body, gregarious social lives and exotic pink plumage, flamingos are among the most familiar and popular of all the world's birds. They have inspired artists, poets and amateur naturalists for centuries, but until 50 years ago very little was known about their biology. A growing number of scientists have directed their attention to these magnificent birds over recent years; this book summarises current understanding of flamingo biology, with detailed discussion of population dynamics, ecology, movements, feeding, breeding biology and conservation, with emphasis placed on the authors' work on the famous population of Greater Flamingos in the Camargue region of southern France. There is also a detailed guide to breeding areas, and an outline of future challenges for research.

Book The Integrative Neurobiology of Affiliation

Download or read book The Integrative Neurobiology of Affiliation written by Carol Sue Carter and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the biological, especially the neural, substrates of affiliation and related social behaviors. Affiliation refers to social behaviors that bring individuals closer together. This includes such associations as attachment, parent-offspring interactions, pair-bonding, and the building of coalitions. Affiliations provide a social matrix within which other behaviors, including reproduction and aggression, may occur. While reproduction and aggression also reduce the distance between individuals, their expression is regulated in part by the positive social fabric of affiliative behavior.Until recently, researchers have paid little attention to the regulatory physiology and neural processes that subserve affiliative behaviors. The integrative approach in this book reflects the constructive interactions between those who study behavior in the context of natural history and evolution and those who study the nervous system.The book contains the partial proceedings of a conference of the same title held in Washington, DC, in 1996. The full proceedings was published as part of the Annals of the York Academy of Sciences.

Book How Birds Migrate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Kerlinger
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 2008-12-16
  • ISBN : 0811744469
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book How Birds Migrate written by Paul Kerlinger and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on migratory flight patterns, flight speed and distance, travel seasons, calls of migrating birds, and more.