Avian migration
By: P. Berthold, E. Gwinner, E. Sonnenschein (eds.).
Contributors: Berthold, P. 1939-; Gwinner, Eberhard, 1938-; Sonnenschein, E. 1949-
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
Subjects: Birds -- Migration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Evolution of bird migration : a phylogenetic and biogeographic perspective / A. Helbig; title: Recent changes in migratory behaviour of birds : a compilation of field observations and ringing data / W. Fiedler; title: Ecology and evolution of hummingbird population movements and migration / J.H. Rappole and K.-L. Schuchmann; title: Quantitative genetic analysis of migratory behaviour / F. Pulido and P. Berthold; title: Circannual and circadian contributions to the timing of avian migration / E. Gwinner and B. Helm; title: Migratory behavior : new insights from captive studies / M. Ramenofsky ... [et al.]; title: Avian migration : regulation of facultative-type movements / J.C. Wingfield; title: Behavioural and hormonal dynamics in a partial migrant - the willow tit / B. Silverin; title: Life history and ecophysiological adaptations to migration in Australian birds / U. Munro; title: Behavioural and physiological reactions to environmental variation in bird migration : a review / L. Jenni and M. Schaub; title: Morphological consequences of migration in passerines / B. Leisler and H. Winkler; title: Within ten feathers : primary moult strategies of migratory waders (Charadrii) / L.G. Underhill; title: Optimizing migration in a reluctant and inefficient flier : the eared grebe / J.R. Jehl, A.E. Henry and H.I. Ellis; title: Geographical patterns in bird migration / I. Newton; title: Nocturnal migration of passerines in the desert-highland zone of western Central Asia : selected aspects / C. Bolshakov; title: Relationships between migration and breeding strategies in Arctic breeding birds / M. Klaassen; title: Bird migration speed / T. Alerstam; title: Energetic savings by organ adjustment during long migratory flights in garden warblers (Sylvia borin) / H. Biebach and U. Bauchinger; title: Priority access to food in migratory birds : age, sex and motivational asymmetries / F. Moore, S. Mabey and M. Woodrey; title: Interdependence of flight and stopover in migrating birds : possible effect of metabolic constraints during refuelling on flight metabolism / S. Jenni-Eiermann and L. Jenni; title: Fuel deposition rates in migrating birds : causes, constraints and consequences / Å. Lindström; title: Nutritional strategies in migratory birds / F. Bairlein; title: Using a network of WSR-88D weather surveillance radars to define patterns of bird migration at large spatial scales / S.A. Gauthreaux Jr., C.G. Belser and D. van Blaricom; title: The radar window to bird migration / B. Bruderer; title: Snowy owl movements : variation on the migration theme / M. Fuller, D. Holt and L. Schueck; title: Orientation in "featureless" environments : the extreme case of pelagic birds / F. Bonadonna, S. Benhamou and P. Jouventin; title: Making migratory connections with stable isotopes / K.A. Hobson; title: Individual variability in experiments with Emlen funnels; title: C. Marchetti and N.E. Baldaccini; title: Conservation of migratory birds / C.J. Bibby; title: Magnetic navigation by an avian migrant? / J.H. Fisher, U. Munro and J.B. Phillips; title: Mechanisms of orientation and navigation in migratory birds / R. Wiltschko and W. Wiltschko; title: Migratory systems as adaptive responses to spatial and temporal variability in orientation stimuli / V.P. Bingman, C.A. Budzynski and A. Voggenhuber; title: Avian long-distance navigation : experiments with migratory birds / S. Åkesson; title: Spatiotemporal orientation strategies of long-distance migrants / H. Mouritsen; title: Stored fat and the migratory orientation of birds / R. Sandberg