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Author : John A. Wiens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521426359
A major study of avian community ecology.
Author : John A. Wiens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521260302
Author : John A. Wiens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632890789
Author : John A. Wiens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521365589
The two volumes of John Wiens' Ecology of Bird Communities are already recognised as having applications and importance beyond the study of birds to the wider study of ecology in general. The books contain a detailed synthesis of our current understanding of the patterns of organisation of bird communities and of the factors that may determine them, drawing from studies from all over the world. The author, however, does more than simply review recent findings in bird community ecology. By emphasizing how proper logic and methods have or have not been followed and how different viewpoints have developed historically and have led to controversy, he extends the scope of these books far beyond the study of birds. Volume 1 Foundations and Patterns explores why avian community ecologists ask the questions they do and what philosophical and methodological approaches they have used to answer such questions. Most of the book is devoted to a critical evaluation of what is known about the nature and organisation of bird communities. Volume 2 Processes and Variations discusses the way in which bird community patterns have been interpreted. This volume examines how the complexity and variability of natural environments may influence efforts to discern and understand the nature of these communities. Graduate students and professionals in avian biology and ecology will find these volumes a valuable stimulus and guide to future field studies and theory development.
Author : John A. Wiens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632890789
Author : Christopher A. Lepczyk,Paige S. Warren
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520273092
"A publication of the Cooper Ornithological Society."
Author : Enrique Murgui,Marcus Hedblom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319433141
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 of trees in wooded alleys, to wastelands and remnants of natural habitats encapsulated in the urban matrix. Authored by leading scientists in this emergent field, the chapters explore how the characteristics of the habitat in urban environments influence bird communities and populations at multiple levels of ecological organization and at different spatial and temporal scales, and how this information should be incorporated in urban planning to achieve an effective conservation of bird fauna in urban environments. Birds are among the most conspicuous and fascinating residents of urban neighborhoods and provide urban citizens with everyday wildlife contact all over the world. However, present urbanization trends are rapidly depleting their habitats, and thus knowledge of urban bird ecology is urgently needed if birds are to thrive in cities. The book is unique in its inclusion of examples from all continents (except Antarctica) in an effort to arrive at a more holistic perspective. Among other issues, the individual chapters address the censusing of birds in urban green spaces; the relationship between bird communities and the structure of urban green spaces; the role of exotic plant species as food sources for urban bird fauna; the influence of artificial light and pollutants on bird fauna; trends in long-term urban bird research, and transdisciplinary studies on bird sounds and their effects on humans. Several chapters investigate how our current knowledge of the ecology of urban bird fauna should be applied in order to achieve better management of urban habitats so as to achieve conservation of species or even increase species diversity. The book also provides a forward-looking summary on potential research directions. As such, it provides a valuable resource for urban ecologists, urban ecology students, landscape architects, city planners, decision makers and anyone with an interest in urban ornithology and bird conservation. Moreover, it provides a comprehensive overview for researchers in the fields of ecology and conservation of urban bird fauna.
Author : John M. Marzluff,Reed Bowman,Roarke Donnelly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461515319
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 studies of birds, yet the existing literature is scattered, mostly decades old, and rarely synthesized or standardized. 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 exurban, rural to urban. Ecologists, land managers, wildlife managers, evolutionary ecologists, urban planners, landscape architects, and conservation biologists will find our information useful because we address the conservation and evolutionary implications of urban life from an ecological and planning perspective. Graduate students in these fields also will find the volume to be a useful summary and synthesis of current research, extant literature, and prescriptions for future work. All interested in human-driven land-cover changes will benefit from a perusal of this book because we present high altitude photographs of each study area.
Author : Çagan H. Sekercioglu,Daniel G. Wenny,Christopher J. Whelan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226382777
For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for the conservation of bird species, documenting not only birds’ beauty and extraordinary diversity, but also their importance to ecosystems worldwide. But while these avian enthusiasts have noted that birds eat fruit, carrion, and pests; spread seed and fertilizer; and pollinate plants, among other services, they have rarely asked what birds are worth in economic terms. In Why Birds Matter, an international collection of ornithologists, botanists, ecologists, conservation biologists, and environmental economists seeks to quantify avian ecosystem services—the myriad benefits that birds provide to humans. The first book to approach ecosystem services from an ornithological perspective, Why Birds Matter asks what economic value we can ascribe to those services, if any, and how this value should inform conservation. Chapters explore the role of birds in such important ecological dynamics as scavenging, nutrient cycling, food chains, and plant-animal interactions—all seen through the lens of human well-being—to show that quantifying avian ecosystem services is crucial when formulating contemporary conservation strategies. Both elucidating challenges and providing examples of specific ecosystem valuations and guidance for calculation, the contributors propose that in order to advance avian conservation, we need to appeal not only to hearts and minds, but also to wallets.
Author : Grzegorz Mikusiński,Jean-Michel Roberge,Robert J. Fuller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107072138
An authoritative review of the ecology of forest birds and their conservation issues throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Author : E. A. Jayson,Chandrakasan Sivaperuman
Publisher : New India Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Birds
ISBN : 938023516X
Community Ecology of Tropical Birds, the tropical ecosystems is one of the most biological diverse habitats on the earth. Seventy six per cent of all centers of avian endemism occur in tropical regions and the same is true for many plant and animal communities. Birds are important component of biological diversity and their ecological, cultural, recreational and economic benefits are recognized universally. They act as vital links in many food webs and often serve as highly visible biological indicators of ecosystem health. Many bird populations are declining all over the world due to habitat loss and fragmentation, predation, pesticide use, invasive exotic species and other factors. This book is about the ecology of tropical bird community, all together 12 chapters are described and divided into two parts. The first part of this book looks at the forest bird community including status and distribution, species-abundance relationship, seasonal changes, vertical distribution and habitat utilisation. The second part provides detailed ecology of wetland bird community. This book will be an invaluable resource for field scientist, researchers, students, and naturalists in the field of Ornithology.
Author : Martin L. Cody
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691209333
Professor Cody's monograph emphasizes the role of competition at levels above single species populations, and describes how competition, by way of the niche concept, determines the structure of communities. Communities may be understood in terms of resource gradients, or niche dimensions, along which species become segregated through competitive interactions. Most communities appear to exist in three or four such dimensions. The first three chapters describe the resource gradients (habitat types, foraging sites, food types), show what factors restrict species to certain parts of the resource gradients and so determine niche breadths, and illustrate the important role of resource predictability in niche overlap between species for resources they share. Most examples are drawn from eleven North and South American bird communities, although the concepts and methodology are far more general. Next, the optimality of community structure is tested through parallel and convergent evolution on different continents with similar climates and habitats, and the direct influence of competitors on resource use is investigated by comparisons of species--poor island communities to species-rich mainland ones. Finally, the author discusses those sorts of environments in which the evolution of one species--one resource set is not achieved, and where alternative schemes of resource allocation, often involving several species that act ecologically as one, must be followed.
Author : Diego Gil,Henrik Brumm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199661589
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.
Author : Navjot S. Sodhi,Cagan H. Sekercioglu,Jos Barlow,Scott K. Robinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444342598
Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world. It is the first book to cover all the major issues in tropical bird conservation. Current problems faced by tropical bird conservationists are summarised and potential solutions outlined based on the results of case studies. Birds are key indicators of ecosystem health, and such a well-studied group of organisms, that they provide an excellent lens through which to examine global conservation problems caused by phenomena such as climate change, declines in ecosystem services, habitat loss, fires, overexploitation, and invasive species. Therefore, the book also provides an engaging synopsis of the general issues in conservation and the problems faced by other wildlife. This book serves as an important resource and companion to all people interested in observing and conserving birds in the tropics and elsewhere.
Author : Douglas F. Stotz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226776301
This unparalleled wealth of finely detailed ecological information on Neotropical bird communities will prove invaluable to all Neotropical wildlife managers, conservation biologists, and serious birders.
