Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Rappole, John Hilton (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Bird migration [Texte imprimé] : a new understanding / John H. Rappole
Publication : Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins university press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-323 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 297-311. Index
"The author summarizes and translates the scientific data behind avian migration into
everyday language. New technologies, such as molecular genetics, global positioning
systems, and transmitter miniaturization, have revealed fresh insights into the behavior
and movement of birds that have overturned much of the received scientific wisdom
about bird migration"
Sujet(s) : Oiseaux -- Migration
Indice(s) Dewey :
598.156 8 (23e éd.) = Oiseaux - Migration
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781421442389. - ISBN 1421442388 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470825092
Notice n° :
FRBNF47082509
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The bird migration paradigm -- ; The migrant annual cycle according to the Dispersal
Theory -- ; Fall migration -- ; Wintering period -- ; Spring migration -- ; Breeding
period -- ; Postbreeding period -- ; Population biology -- Origin and evolution --
Biogeography -- ; Conservation -- ; Coda -- ; Appendix 1.. Common and scientific names
of bird species mentioned in the text -- ; Appendix 2.. A critical examination of
the assumptions in "Temperate origins of long-distance seasonal migration in New World
songbirds" -- ; Appendix 3.. Notation corrections for Alan Pine's multiple carrying
capacity equations from "Age-structured periodic breeders"