Migration
Migration
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This critical treatment of the most dramatic of all animal behaviours shows how comparisons across taxa can illuminate migratory life cycles and the relation of migration to other movements. The book takes an integrated ecological perspective and focuses on migration as a biological phenomenon.
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Migration by Hugh Dingle
Migration is one of the most fascinating and dramatic of all animal behaviours. Historically, study of migration has been fragmented, with ornithologists, entomologists, and marine biologists working exclusively within their own field. This criticial treatment of the subject makes comparisons across taxa and looks at migratory life cycles and the relation of migration to other movements. This is an integrated ecological perspective which focuses on migration and a biological phenomenon.
As a major contribution to a vital subject, this work will be valued by all the researchers and students in the fields of animal behaviour, ecology, and zoologyEthology, Ecology, Evolution 9:1997 the book is written in a highly readable style, and the author deals with the breadth and theoretical basis to his subject extremely clearly. ... written in an uncomplicated style and could be understood by anyone with a serious interest in knowing more about the biological basis to migration. Glasgow Naturalist, vol.23, part 2, May 1997 This book is an extremely comprehensive review of movement biology. The sections are closely written and not easily dipped into but read well as a whole or through an initial consideration of the chapter synopses ... an excellent introduction to current ideas and concepts concerning the promotion and maintenance of a wide range of movement patterns. I recommend it to those who wish to have a broader understanding of migration than the movements of the Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea. Adam Smith, Ibis 1997 This book is an introduction and more to both the facts of migration, and also to the large body of discussion which has evolved around the subject. Dingle brings together a huge range of knowledge from a wide variety of fields to produce a fascinating new synthesis of migration. This work is well referenced and a pleasure to read, a highly commendable addition to any library. Highly Recommended. Gordon's Oxford University Press Review Page
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780195097238 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195097238 |
| Title | Migration |
| Author | Hugh Dingle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1996-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |