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• Author(s): L. Kordecki • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand ...

• Author(s): D. M. Power • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis edited series has three principal goals. The first is to provide information in a relatively concise way for researchers needing an ...

• Author(s): John N. Maina • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn biology, few organs have so eluded understanding as the lung-air sac system of birds. Considerable prog...

• Author(s): Kurt Benirschke • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Biology

• Author(s): Richard Johnston • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesThe appearance of the first volume of a projected series is the occasion for comment on scope, aims, and genesis of the work. The scope ...

• Author(s): R. W. Furness • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesBirds as Monitors of Environmental Change looks at how bird populations are affected by pollutants, water quality, and other physical chang...

• Author(s): John M. Marzluff • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental - GeneralOne of the most striking and persistent ways humans dominate Earth is by changing land-cover as we settle a region. Much of our ecol...

• Author(s): D. M. Power • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyIn this volume I include chapters on continental population trends, orni- thology's contribution to the habitat concept, social organizat...

• Author(s): W. Richard J. Dean • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesMy interest in the behaviour and movements of birds of arid and semi-arid ecosystems began when my wife, Sue Milton, and I were Roy Si...

• Author(s): Richard Johnston • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralVolume 5 of this series continues its coverage of currently active re- search fields in ornithology. Because an editor can...

• Author(s): Val Nolan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralCurrent Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current rese...

• Author(s): Richard Johnston • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralIf it is still true that more than 80% of the ornithologists in North America are primarily interested or engaged in ecolo...

• Author(s): Ian J. H. Duncan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Veterinary Medicine - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book describes the welfare implications of keeping wild and domesticated birds in captivity. The envir...

• Author(s): Klaus-Dieter Budras • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralDber das Epoophoron der Vogel einschlieBlich des Huhnes liegen nur liicken- hafte Literaturangaben vor (s. u. ). Spezielle Kenntnisse iiber Bau, ...

• Author(s): Mark N. O. Davies • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyBeing both broad - perception and motor organization - and narrow - just onegroup of animals - at the same time, this book presents...

• Author(s): Enrique Murgui • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThis book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only r...

• Author(s): Val Nolan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyOur purposes in this preface are, first, to reiterate our view of Current Ornithology's role; second, to describe briefly the contents of t...

• Author(s): Brycchan Carey • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - 18th CenturyFrom the Back CoverThis book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European c...

• Author(s): D. M. Power • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiophysicsIn Volume 12, eminent international ornithologists further elucidate endocrinological correlates of mating strategies and hormones and...

• Author(s): Nikita Chernetsov • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiochemistryFrom the Back CoverThis monograph summarizes the results of studying passerine migration, mainly that of long-distance nocturn...

• Author(s): Charles F. Thompson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionFrom the Back CoverCurrent Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full ...

• Author(s): William E. Cook • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesOnly few birds are capable of survival in deserts. The renowned ornithologist William E. Cook describes how various birds of prey cope wi...

• Author(s): Ian MacGregor-Fors • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThis book gathers a representative sample of the relevant knowledge related to the ecology, behavior, and conse...

• Author(s): Gordon L. MacLean • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesIn the Preface to his volume on Ecophysiology of the Camelidae and Desert Ruminants in this series, Trevor Wilson mentions his hesitati...

• Author(s): Paul M. W. Hackett • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThis book presents the facet theoretical framework as a tool for facilitating the conception of complex animal ...

• Author(s): F. Papi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesRight from the start of this century, field observations and the patient ringing of birds have made available a growing mass of data on the breed...

• Author(s): Krishna M. Sivalingam • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ElectricalFrom the Back CoverOptical networks have moved from laboratory settings and theoretical research to real-world deployment and service-orient...

• Author(s): P. Berthold • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesIf it is true that science proceeds from a romantic through a scientific to a technological stage, then research on bird orientation is cer...

• Author(s): Jacques Blondel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesThis book gathers an up to date series of works on different complementary aspects of population biology of passerine birds such as popul...

• Author(s): Helmut Satz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiophysicsThis book describes our current understanding of the navigation of birds, their methods, capabilities, and achievements.

• Author(s): Claudia P. Tambussi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyFrom the Back CoverModern birds (Neornithes) are represented by two big lineages, the Palaeognathae (Tinamiformes + Ratitae) and t...

• Author(s): Joseph J. Kerekes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesBirds are an integral part of most freshwater ecosystems (lakes, rivers, wetlands) but their role in the trophic dynamics of these wate...

• Author(s): Joanna Burger • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThe maJonty of the chapters in this volume are structured to include a balance between literature review, original data, and synthesis....

• Author(s): Roman Fuchs • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis SpringerBrief answers the question on how birds recognize their predators using multidisciplinary approaches and outlines paths of t...

• Author(s): J. Burger • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionAmong birds, shorebirds provide some of the more unique opportunities to examine basic problems in behavior, ecology, and evolution. This...

• Author(s): Paul D. Sturkie • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: NeuroscienceSince the publication of earlier editions, there has been The new edition has a number of new contributors, a considerable increase in research ...