OrnithologyMacmillan, 1995 - Počet stran: 763 With the Second Edition of his acclaimed text, Frank Gill offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date look at ornithology available. Not just a catalogue of species, it takes a conceptual, research-based approach to communicating an understanding of birds, providing an interpretive context that gives focus and meaning to the details of avian life. You get the latest on the impact of evolution on birds, especially the integration of morphological, behavioral, and physiological adaptations; contemporary research on communication and learning, social behavior, mating and reproduction, and population and community ecology; and contributions of avian biology to such fields as ecology, sociobiology, population biology, and biogeography. |
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The Diversity of Birds | 3 |
Temperature Regulation | 7 |
Bird Names and Classifications | 12 |
History | 21 |
Evolution of Feathers | 28 |
Modern Birds | 35 |
Box | 46 |
FORM AND FUNCTION | 63 |
Navigation | 309 |
Reproduction | 349 |
Maturation of the Ovum | 355 |
Box 161 | 379 |
Box 164 Coloniality | 385 |
Box 171 The type of pair | 405 |
Intraspecific Brood Parasitism | 410 |
Box 173 Waterfowl have | 413 |
Box 42 The display plumes | 73 |
sites are specialists | 79 |
Box 44 Bright red marks | 88 |
Box 51 The furcula is | 95 |
Box 53 Its not easy | 109 |
Physiology | 115 |
Box 62 Climate affects | 130 |
Daily Time and Energy Budgets | 131 |
Feeding | 147 |
Wax as Food | 162 |
Learning to Feed | 168 |
BEHAVIOR | 175 |
Control of Song by the Central Nervous System | 183 |
Detection of Natural Magnetic Fields | 191 |
Mechanoreception | 197 |
Visual Communication | 203 |
Evolution of Displays | 211 |
Box 92 Sexual selection | 216 |
Vocal Communication | 233 |
independent voices | 240 |
duet with precision | 249 |
stages | 259 |
Box 111 Precisely when | 275 |
Migration | 287 |
Fatty Fuels for Migration | 297 |
Box 121 | 300 |
Growth and Development | 425 |
Box 181 Ornithologists | 434 |
Parental Care | 453 |
Obligate Brood Parasites | 457 |
Box 191 Obligate brood | 466 |
POPULATION DYNAMICS | 477 |
Annual Survival and Mortality | 486 |
Delayed Breeding | 494 |
A Retrospective Adjustment | 503 |
Population Growth Patterns | 509 |
Recruitment | 520 |
Species | 527 |
Box 225 Brood parasites | 550 |
Box 231 Distance to cover | 556 |
Box 232 Competition | 568 |
Open versus Closed Communities | 580 |
Box 242 A seabird needs | 594 |
Birds of the World | 617 |
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