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Army Ants

Author : Daniel J. C. Kronauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674249399
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Army Ants written by Daniel J. C. Kronauer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated, captivating study of army ants, nature’s preeminent social hunters. A swarm raid is one of nature’s great spectacles. In tropical rainforests around the world, army ants march in groups by the thousands to overwhelm large solitary invertebrates, along with nests of termites, wasps, and other ants. They kill and dismember their prey and carry it back to their nest, where their hungry brood devours it. They are the ultimate social hunters, demonstrating the most fascinating collective behavior. In Army Ants we see how these insects play a crucial role in promoting and sustaining the biodiversity of tropical ecosystems. The ants help keep prey communities in check while also providing nutrition for other animals. Many species depend on army ants for survival, including a multitude of social parasites, swarm-following birds, and flies. And while their hunting behavior, and the rules that govern it, are clearly impressive, army ants display collective behavior in other ways that are no less dazzling. They build living nests, called bivouacs, using their bodies to protect the queen and larvae. The ants can even construct bridges over open space or obstacles by linking to one another using their feet. These incredible feats happen without central coordination. They are the result of local interactions—self-organization that benefits the society at large. Through observations, stories, and stunning images, Daniel Kronauer brings these fascinating creatures to life. Army ants may be small, but their collective intelligence and impact on their environment are anything but.

The Guests of Ants

Author : Bert Hölldobler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674265513
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Guests of Ants written by Bert Hölldobler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winner Bert Hölldobler and behavioral ecologist Christina Kwapich reveal a universe of behavioral mechanisms whereby invaders known as myrmecophiles break into ant colonies. By decoding ants' sophisticated communication systems, these invaders disguise themselves as friendly, suppress ant aggression, and feast on colony resources.

Cladistics and the Origin of Birds

Author : Frances C. James
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0943610850
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Cladistics and the Origin of Birds written by Frances C. James and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ecology of Bird Communities

Author : John A. Wiens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521426350
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ecology of Bird Communities by : John A. Wiens

Download or read book The Ecology of Bird Communities written by John A. Wiens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of avian community ecology.

Ants of North America

Author : Brian L. Fisher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254228
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Ants of North America written by Brian L. Fisher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-11-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this enormously useful book, a profound need is met by a profound contribution, the first such comprehensive work in over fifty years. While brief, Ants of North America is the distillation of a vast amount of study and practice. It is a joy to browse and read, and will have an important impact on the study of ants."—Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University "Two of the most prolific ant faunists have produced a marvelous taxonomic guide to the ant genera of North America. The keys and genus descriptions are succinct and easy to read, the illustrations superb. This book is a must for entomologists, ecologists, and particularly all who study ants."—Bert Hölldobler, Foundation Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University "This book represents a bold advance in the study of North American ants. It provides, for the first time, an accessible and lavishly illustrated guide to all the ant genera occurring in the United States and Canada. It will greatly enhance both public interest in ants and scientific investigation of their ecology, behavior and evolution."—Philip S. Ward, Department of Entomology and Center for Population Biology, University of California at Davis

Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds

Author : Bridget J.M. Stutchbury
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128238151
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)

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Book Synopsis Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds by : Bridget J.M. Stutchbury

Download or read book Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds written by Bridget J.M. Stutchbury and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds, Second Edition provides the most updated and comprehensive review on the evolution of behavior in tropical landbirds. The book reviews gaps in our knowledge that were identified twenty years ago when the first edition was published, highlights recent discoveries that have filled those gaps, and identifies new areas in urgent need of study. It covers key topics, including timing of breeding, movement ecology, life history traits, slow vs. fast pace of life, mating systems, mate choice, territoriality, communication, biotic interactions, and conservation. Written by international experts on the behavior of tropical birds, the book explores why the tropics is a unique natural laboratory to study the evolution of bird behavior and why temperate zone species are so different. A recent surge of studies on tropical birds has helped to reduce the temperate zone bias that arose because most avian model species in behavioral ecology were adapted to northern temperate climates. This is an important resource for researchers, ecologists and conservationists who want to understand the rich and complex evolutionary history of avian behavior. - Includes examples from around the world - Provides a historical perspective on new knowledge in the past 20 years - Identifies knowledge gaps that have been filled, along with new gaps that have emerged - Explores how avian behavior in the tropics is related to conservation

Tropical Conservation Biology

Author : Navjot S. Sodhi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118687469
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Conservation Biology written by Navjot S. Sodhi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory textbook examines diminishing terrestrial and aquatic habitats in the tropics, covering a broad range of topics including the fate of the coral reefs; the impact of agriculture, urbanization, and logging on habitat depletion; and the effects of fire on plants and animal survival. Includes case studies and interviews with prominent conservation scientists to help situate key concepts in a real world context Covers a broad range of topics including: the fate of the coral reefs; the impact of agriculture, urbanization, and logging on habitat depletion; and the effects of fire on plants and animal survival Highlights conservation successes in the region, and emphasizes the need to integrate social issues, such as human hunger, into a tangible conservation plan Documents the current state of the field as it looks for ways to predict future outcomes and lessen human impact “Sodhi et al. have done a masterful job of compiling a great deal of literature from around the tropical realm, and they have laid out the book in a fruitful and straightforward manner...I plan to use it as a reference and as supplemental reading for several courses and I would encourage others to do the same.” Ecology, 90(4), 2009, pp. 1144–1145

Reproduction and Immune Homeostatis in a Long-lived Seabird, the Nazca Booby (Sula Granti)

Author : Victor Apanius
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 094361080X
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Reproduction and Immune Homeostatis in a Long-lived Seabird, the Nazca Booby (Sula Granti) written by Victor Apanius and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bird Way

Author : Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223033
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Bird Way written by Jennifer Ackerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries –– What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.

On the Origin of Species Through Heteropatric Differentiation

Author : Kevin Winker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0943610885
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book On the Origin of Species Through Heteropatric Differentiation written by Kevin Winker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiation and speciation without extended isolation appear to be common among migratory animals. Historical oversight of this is probably due to temporal distortion in distribution maps and a tendency to consider that lineages had different historical traits, such as being sedentary or much less mobile. Mobility among cyclic migrants makes population isolation difficult, and diminished levels of intraspecific differentiation occur in avian migrants (I term this "Montgomery's rule"). Nevertheless, many lineages have differentiated despite increased mobility and a high propensity for gene flow, conditions that speciation theory has not addressed adequately. Populations of seasonal migrants usually occur in allopatry and sympatry during a migratory cycle, and this distributional pattern (heteropatry) is the focus of a model empirically developed to explain differentiation in migratory lineages. Divergence arises through disruptive selection from resource competition and heterogeneously distributed cyclic resources. Heteropatric speciation is a type of ecological speciation in which reproductive isolation increases between populations as a byproduct of adaptation to different environments that enhances breeding allopatry and allochrony despite degrees of sympatry that occur during the nonbreeding period in migration cycles. Mating or pair bonding in nonbreeding areas is rare. Patterns such as leapfrog migration and limited morphological divergence suggest that differentiation is driven by these ecological factors rather than by sexual selection or nontemporal changes in the resource base itself, although the additional presence of either of the latter would have additive divergent effects. Migratory lineages provide a largely neglected series of natural experiments in speciation in which to test predictions stemming from this model and others focusing on ecological speciation --

Birds of Peru

Author : Thomas S. Schulenberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069113023X
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Birds of Peru written by Thomas S. Schulenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed especially for field use, "Birds of Peru" is the guide against which all others for the New World tropics will be judged (Don Stap, "Audubon"). It features every one of Peru's 1,817 bird species and shows the distinct plumages of each in 307 superb, high-quality color plates.

Insect Decline and Conservation in the Neotropics

Author : Jorge L. León-Cortés
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031492552
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Insect Decline and Conservation in the Neotropics written by Jorge L. León-Cortés and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses

Author : John B. Dunning Jr.
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420064452
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses written by John B. Dunning Jr. and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-12-05 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See what's new in the Second Edition: Number of species included is increased from 6300 to over 8700, about 85% of the world's birds Better data for many of the species included in the first edition- an exhaustive compilation of new data publis

Lessons from Amazonia

Author : Richard O. Bierregaard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300127492
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from Amazonia written by Richard O. Bierregaard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-11 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate in many parts of the world, causing destruction of natural habitat and fragmentation of what remains. Nowhere is this problem more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest, which is rapidly vanishing in the face of enormous pressure from humans to exploit it. This book presents the results of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia, the only experimental study of tropical forest fragmentation in which baseline data are available before isolation from continuous forest took place.A joint project of Brazil’s National Institute for Research in Amazonia and the U.S. Smithsonian Institution, the BDFFP has investigated the many effects that habitat fragmentation has on plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. The book provides an overview of the BDFFP, reports on its case studies, looks at forest ecology and tree genetics, and considers what issues are involved in establishing conservation and management guidelines.

Handbook of Bird Biology

Author : Irby J. Lovette
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118291042
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Bird Biology written by Irby J. Lovette and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Forbes.com as one of the 12 best books about birds and birding in 2016 This much-anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Bird Biology is an essential and comprehensive resource for everyone interested in learning more about birds, from casual bird watchers to formal students of ornithology. Wherever you study birds your enjoyment will be enhanced by a better understanding of the incredible diversity of avian lifestyles. Arising from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology and authored by a team of experts from around the world, the Handbook covers all aspects of avian diversity, behaviour, ecology, evolution, physiology, and conservation. Using examples drawn from birds found in every corner of the globe, it explores and distills the many scientific discoveries that have made birds one of our best known - and best loved - parts of the natural world. This edition has been completely revised and is presented with more than 800 full color images. It provides readers with a tool for life-long learning about birds and is suitable for bird watchers and ornithology students, as well as for ecologists, conservationists, and resource managers who work with birds. The Handbook of Bird Biology is the companion volume to the Cornell Lab's renowned distance learning course, www.birds.cornell.edu/courses/home/homestudy/.

Environmental Reviews

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Issues in Life Sciences: Zoology: 2011 Edition

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Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
ISBN 13 : 1464964386
Total Pages : 2398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Issues in Life Sciences: Zoology: 2011 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 2398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Life Sciences: Zoology / 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Life Sciences—Zoology. The editors have built Issues in Life Sciences: Zoology: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Life Sciences—Zoology in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Life Sciences: Zoology: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.