The avian migrant : the biology of bird migration /
The purpose of migration, regardless of the distance involved, is to exploit two or more environments suitable for survival or reproduction over time, usually on a seasonal basis. Yet individual organisms can practice the phenomenon differently, and birds deploy unique patterns of movement over part...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Breeding period
- Post-breeding period
- Fall transient period
- Wintering period
- Spring transient period
- Population ecology
- Evolution, ornithogeography, and climate change
- Migratory birds and pathogen movement
- Connectivity and conservation
- Conclusions
- Appendix A. Population dynamics of periodic breeders
- Appendix B. Age-structured periodic breeders.
