Migration

The Biology of Life on the Move

AvHugh Dingle

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that can contribute to the fundamental structuring of ecosystems. In recent years, our understanding of migration has advanced radically with respect to both new data and conceptual understanding. It is now almost twenty years since publication of the first edition, and an authoritative and up-to-date sequel that provides a taxonomically comprehensive overview of the latest research is therefore timely. The emphasis throughout this advanced textbook is on the definition and description of migratory behaviour, its ecological outcomes for individuals, populations, and communities, and how these outcom

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-07-17
Mått:195 x 247 x 25 mm
Vikt:834 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:338
Upplaga:2
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199640386

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Mer om författaren

Hugh Dingle is Professor Emeritus of Entomology and the Center for Population Biology at the University of California, Davis where he was a Director of the Animal Behavior Graduate Group. He is Past President and a Fellow of the Animal Behaviour Society and has a B.A. from Cornell and a PhD in Zoology from the University of Michigan. After postdoctoral work at the University of Cambridge (UK) and Michigan, Dingle went to the University of Iowa in 1964 moving to Davis in 1982. After retirement from UC Davis, he was an Honorary Research Consultant at the University of Queensland (Australia) from 2003-2010. He has conducted multi-taxon research on migration in North and South America, Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia.

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This book is recommended for any audience seeking to learn the generalities of migration behaviors

Innehållsförteckning

PART ONE: MIGRATION AND METHODS FOR ITS STUDY; PART TWO: PROXIMATE FACTORS IN MIGRATION; PART THREE: MIGRATORY LIFE HISTORIES AND THEIR EVOLUTION; PART FOUR: MIGRATION AND HUMAN BIOLOGY