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 |
Box 31 DNA hybridiza | 20 |
History | 21 |
Evolution of Feathers | 28 |
Modern Birds | 35 |
Systematics | 45 |
Individual Spacing Behavior | 327 |
Dominant Behavior | 333 |
DEVELOPMENT | 343 |
Reproduction | 349 |
Maturation of the Ovum | 355 |
Box 162 Kittiwakes adapt | 375 |
Box 163 Forest fragmenta | 383 |
Incubation | 389 |
Feathers | 65 |
Box 42 The display plumes | 73 |
extinction | 81 |
Box 44 Bright red marks | 88 |
Box 51 The furcula is | 95 |
Box 53 Its not easy | 109 |
Physiology | 115 |
Box 62 Climate affects | 122 |
body size in House Sparrows | 130 |
Daily Time and Energy Budgets | 143 |
Avian Digestive System | 153 |
Wax as Food | 162 |
Learning to Feed | 168 |
Brains and Senses | 177 |
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 |
Box 102 Birds have | 244 |
Box 104 Both bird vocal | 251 |
Migration | 287 |
Box 121 Radar records | 296 |
Fatty Fuels for Migration | 297 |
Navigation | 309 |
Box 165 Moundbuilders | 395 |
Box 171 The type of pair | 405 |
Intraspecific Brood Parasitism | 410 |
unusual breeding systems | 413 |
recognize six development categories | 425 |
Parental Care | 453 |
Obligate Brood Parasites | 457 |
Demography | 481 |
Delayed Breeding | 494 |
A Retrospective Adjustment | 503 |
Population Growth Patterns | 509 |
Species | 527 |
Population Structure | 533 |
Assortative Mating | 539 |
Box 224 Western | 541 |
Box 225 Brood parasites | 549 |
Box 231 Distance to cover | 556 |
Box 232 Competition | 568 |
Conservation of Endangered Species | 581 |
oldgrowth forest | 594 |
catchers at odds with real estate | 600 |
ing Crane | 606 |
birds | 617 |
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