Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• File Size : 34,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 September 2001

The twenty-seven contributions authored by leaders in the fields of avian and urban ecology present a unique summary of current research on birds in settled environments ranging from wildlands to

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 06 December 2012

One of the most striking and persistent ways humans dominate Earth is by changing land-cover as we settle a region. Much of our ecological understanding about this process comes from

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
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• Release Date : 26 October 2012

"A publication of the Cooper Ornithological Society."

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 10 November 2017

This book gathers a representative sample of the relevant knowledge related to the ecology, behavior, and conservation of birds in urban Latin America. Latin America is one of the most

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 37,7 Mb
• Release Date : 10 February 2017

This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available. The numerous habitats represented in this book ranges from rows

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 11 June 2024

This edited volume adopts an evolutionary framework to explore how pre-existing differences in life history, behaviour, and physiology of birds may determine the course of their adaptation to urban habitats.

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 03 January 2008

Urban Ecology is a rapidly growing field of academic and practical significance. Urban ecologists have published several conference proceedings and regularly contribute to the ecological, architectural, planning, and geography literature.

• Publisher : Island Press
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 12 June 2018

Raptors are an unusual success story of wildness thriving in the heart of our cities—they have developed substantial populations around the world in recent decades. But there are deeper

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 36,8 Mb
• Release Date : 05 October 2005

This new collection focuses on the impact of sprawl on biodiversity and the measures that can be taken to alleviate it. Leading biological and social scientists, conservationists, and land-use professionals

• Publisher : Island Press
• File Size : 23,5 Mb
• Release Date : 12 June 2018

Urban Raptors is the first book to offer a complete overview of urban ecosystems in the context of bird-of-prey ecology and conservation. This comprehensive volume examines the urban environment, explains