
Shorebirds
Breeding Behavior and Populations
Published on 15. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
XV, 437 pages
978-1-4684-4693-7 (ISBN)
Description
Among birds, shorebirds provide some of the more unique opportunities to examine basic problems in behavior, ecology, and evolution. This is in large measure due to the diversity, both behaviorally and ecologically, of a group closely related taxonomically and distributed throughout the world. The overall aim of these two volumes is to provide a representative selection of current research being conducted on shorebird behavior and ecology. Traditionally, marine birds have included those species that breed in large colonies on offshore islands along coasts (see Volume 4 of this series). Although shorebirds have generally not been considered within this group, the fact that almost 40% of the species breed along coasts and more than 60% often or always spend the nonbreeding season in coastal habitats more than justifies their inclusion as marine birds (at least those species that totally or partially depend upon the marine environment). Their inclusion markedly increases species diversity in marine birds since shorebirds add about 217 species to the 280 that are traditionally thought of as marine.
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Edition
1984 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
53 s/w Abbildungen
XV, 437 p. 53 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
656 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4684-4693-7 (9781468446937)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-4691-3
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11/2013
Springer
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J. Burger | B. L. Olla
Behavior of Marine Animals: Shorebirds Breeding Behavior
Breeding Behavior and Populations
Book
08/1984
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
€109.13
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Content
1 The Classification of the Shorebirds of the World.- 2 Shorebirds as Marine Animals.- 3 Population Dynamics of Shorebirds.- 4 Breeding Area Fidelity, Natal Philopatry, and the Social Systems of Sandpipers.- 5 The Evolution of Polyandry in Shorebirds.- 6 Communication in Breeding Shorebirds.- 7 The Evolution of Parental Behavior and Clutch Size in Shorebirds.- 8 Antipredator Behavior: Aggressive and Distraction Displays of Shorebirds.- 9 Conservation of Nearctic Shorebirds.- Species Index.