Title
Avian urban ecology : behavioural and physiological adaptations / edited by Diego Gil and Henrik Brumm.
ISBN
9780191810176 (ebook) :
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 217 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
As natural habitat continues to be lost and the world steadily becomes more urbanised, biologists are increasingly studying the effect this has on wildlife. Birds are particularly good model systems since their life history, behaviour, and physiology are especially influenced by directly measurable environmental factors such as light and sound pollution. It is therefore relatively easy to compare urban individuals and populations with their rural counterparts. This text focuses on the behavioural and physiological mechanisms which facilitate adaptation and on the evolutionary process that ensues.
Variant and related titles
Oxford scholarship online.
Other formats
Print version
Added to Catalog
September 03, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.