Avian biology

著者

• Farner, Donald Sankey
• King, James Roger
• Parkes, Kenneth C.

書誌事項

Avian biology

edited by Donald S. Farner, James R. King ; taxonomic editor, Kenneth C. Parkes ; contributors, N. Philip Ashmole ... [et al.]

Academic Press, 1971-

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4
• v. 5
• v. 6
• v. 7
• v. 8
• v. 9

注記

Vol. 8 published in Orlando

Includes bibliographies and indexes

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

v. 7 ISBN 9780122494079

内容説明

Written by international experts from many disciplines, this multi-volume treatise is a comprehensive survey of the established data and principles of avian biology. The volumes thoroughly review knowledge of the 8600 living species of birds-knowledge resulting from advances in instrumentation and technology and improved transportation facilities that permit more detailed, far-ranging field studies than ever before. The emphasis is on the significance of avian biological research to such areas of biology as ethology, ecology, population biology, evolutionary biology, and physiological ecology.

巻冊次

v. 9 ISBN 9780122494093

内容説明

This last volume of Avian Biology brings to a close classic series which has done much to consolidate and promote recent advances in the study of birds. Three papers summarize, in the tradition of earlier volume,s subjects of central importance in ornithology. Brush looks at that most avian of features, the feather, its structure, growth and evolutionary origin, and focuses particularly on the molecular level of organization. Hartwig discusses the structure and function of the avian brain and spinal cord. Birds and mammals show the highest level of nervous system development in the animal kingdom. Despite their very different evolutionary history, recent research shows remarkable similarities in their CNS structure. Lastly, Wingfield and Farner present a wide ranging review of the endocrine system of birds, particularly by reference to field studies on wild birds and the effects of hormones on general and reproductive behaviour, migration, moult and stress responses. Three such substantial and fundamental contribution are indeed a fitting close to this series of books.

目次

• The origin of feathers - a novel approach, A.H. Bush
• the central nervous system of birds - a study of functional morphology, H.G. Hartwig
• endocrinology of reproduction in feral species, J.C. Wingfield and D.S. Farner.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA02997788
• ISBN:
  • 0122494016
  • 0122494024
  • 0122494032
  • 0122494040
  • 0122494059
  • 0122494067
  • 0122494075
  • 0122494083
  • 0122494091
• LCCN: 79178216
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: v.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QL673
  • DC : 598.2
  • NDLC : RA567
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Ornithology -- Collected works
  • MESH : Birds