Avian urban ecology : behavioural and physiological adaptations / edited by Diego Gil and Henrik Brumm.

9780191810176 (ebook) :

First edition.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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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.

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September 03, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.