Terrestrial vertebrates of tidal marshes
Subtitle: evolution, ecology, and conservation
By: Russell Greenberg ... [et al.], associate editors.
Contributors: Greenberg, Russell.
Series: Studies in avian biology -- no. 32
Publisher: Cooper Ornithological Society
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Camarillo, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780943610702
Subjects: Salt marsh animals -- Congresses; Birds -- Ecology -- Congresses; Estuarine animals -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at a symposium held in Oct. 2002 at the Patuxent National Wildlife Research Center, Patuxent, Md.

"Issued: 15 November 2006"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p.300-339).
Table of contents: title: Tidal marshes: home for the few and the highly selected -- Russell Greenberg.; title: The quaternary geography and biogeography of tidal saltmarshes -- Karl P. Malamud ... [et al.]; title: Diversity and endemism in tidal-marsh vertebrates -- Russell Greenberg and Jesús E. Maldonado.; title: Evolution and conservation of tidal-marsh vertebrates: molecular approaches -- Yvonne L. Chan ... [et al.]; title: Avian nesting response to tidal-marsh flooding: literature review and a case for adaptation in the red-winged blackbird -- Steven E. Reinert.; title: Flooding and predation: trade-offs in the nesting ecology of tidal-marsh sparrows -- Russell Greenberg ... [et al.]; title: Osmoregulatory biology of saltmarsh passerines -- David L. Goldstein.; title: Social behavior of North American tidal-marsh vertebrates -- M. Victoria McDonald and Russell Greenberg.; title: Trophic adaptations in sparros and other vertebrates of tidal marshes -- Breedng birds of northeast saltmarshes: habitat use and conservation / -- Alan R. Hansom and W. Gregory Shriver.; title: Impacts of marsh management on coastal-marsh birds habitats -- Laura R. Mitchell ... [et al.]; title: Environmental threats to tidal-marsh vertebrates of the San Francisco Bay estuary -- John Y. Takekawa ... [et al.]; title: Are southern California's fragmented salt marshes capable of sustaining endemic bird populations? -- Abby N. Powell.; title: The diamondback terrapin: the biology, ecology, cultural history, and conservation status of an obligate estuarine turtle -- Kristen M. Hart and David S. Lee.; title: High tides and rising seas: potential effects on estuarine waterbirds -- R. Michael Erwin ... [et al.]; title: The impact of invasive plants on tidal-marsh vertebrate species: common reed (Phragmites australis) and smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) as case studies -- Glenn R. Guntenspergen and J. Cully Nordby.; title: Tidal saltmarsh fragmentation and persistence of San Pablo Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia samuelis): assessing benefits of wetland restoration in San Francisco Bay -- John Y. Takekawa ... [et al.]; title: Multiple-scale habitat relationships of tidal-marsh breeding birds in San Francisco Bay estuary -- Hildie Spautz ... [et al.]; title: The Clapper Rail as an indicator species of estuarine-marsh health -- James M. Novak ... [et al.]; title: A unified strategy for monitoring changes in abundance of birds associated with North American tidal marshes -- Courtney J. Conway and Sam Droege.; title: An agenda for researchon the ecology, evolution and conservation of tidal-marsh vertebrates-- The Symposium contributors.