Current Ornithology Volume 17

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thompson, Charles F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Edition: 1st.
• Series: Current Ornithology ; 17
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Animal physiology.; Life Sciences.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Animal Physiology.; Evolutionary Biology.

Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the spectrum from the molecular level of organization to population biology and community ecology. The series seeks especially to revie...

Table of Contents:

• Impaired Predator Evasion in the Life History of Birds: Behavioral and Physiological Adaptations to Reduced Flight Ability
• Dietary Calcium Availability and Reproduction in Birds
• Seasonal Metabolic Variation in Birds: Functional and Mechanistic Correlates
• Assessing Cause–Effect Relationships in Environmental Accidents: Harlequin Ducks and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.