Control of Bird Migration

by P. Berthold

Overview

This volume fills a real gap. Before now there existed no compilation to summarize the enormous wealth of data and hypotheses elaborated in the huge research field on the control mechanisms which are involved in bird migration. This volume takes into consideration all aspects of controlling factors since experimentation began in 1925.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412363801
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/31/1995
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgement. Introduction and general aspects. Control mechanisms and ecophysiology. Orientation mechanisms. Synopsis: control of migration, the present view. Current microevolutionary processes. Propects. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Control of Bird Migration more than achieves its aim of providing a comprehensive aid to teaching and research. Whilst destined for the bookshelves of libraries and professional ornithologists, the book, makes excellent reading for any birder interested in the subject. - Wildfowl and Wetlands; ...comprehensive review...providing a comprehensive aid to teaching and research...I look forward to Berthold's next book on bird migration, which surely will have some exiting findings to report based on thes new techniques. - IBIS

From the Publisher

Not how people can steer migrating birds toward or away from certain areas or routes, but how the birds themselves, or at least endogenous and biological factors, control their migration. Summarizing all aspects of research since experimentation began in 1925, considers genetic and hormonal factors; photoperiodic, climatic, social, and other influences; ecophysiological relationships such as high altitude migration and overcoming deserts and other barriers; and microevolutionary processes and the prospective composition of bird communities as the globe warms. A companion to Berthold's Bird Migration: A General Survey (1993) and Orientation in Birds (1991). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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