Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

The Adelie Penguin â€' Bellwether of Climate Change
de David G Ainley(Ed. Columbia University Press) Isbn : 023112306X
61.43 €
The Adélie penguin is one of the best-studied birds in the world and is the subject of research programs from a dozen nations interested in monitoring changes in the environment and the food webs of the Southern Ocean. This species´ population has been changing dramatically over the past few decades coincident with a general warming of the maritime portion of Antarctica. When the sea-ice is seen to decline so does the population of Adélie penguins. Further south, however, the population is increasing. This book summarizes our present ecological knowledge of this polar seabird. In so doing, David Ainley describes the ecological factors important to its life history and details the mechanisms by which it is responding to climate change. The author also chronicles the history of research on A...

Life of the Flycatcher
de Alexander F. Skutch(Ed. University of Oklahoma Press) Isbn : 0806129492
21.8 €
The 380 species of flycatchers make it the largest family of birds confined to the Western Hemisphere. The greatest number of the species is found in South America, and 35 species breed in North America. Skutch, an eminent ornithologist living in Costa Rica, begins this informative book with a general discussion of the flycatcher family, offering data on their size, color, feathers, and migration. Succeeding chapters cover such topics as food and foraging, daily life, calls and songs, courtship, nest building, eggs and incubation, young birds and their care, enemies, defense, nesting success, and longevity. This is the third volume in the impressive Animal Natural History series. Sixteen color illustrations and 32 black-and-white drawings by Dana Gardner complement the text. George Cohen

Life of the Flycatcher
de Alexander F. Skutch(Ed. University of Oklahoma Press) Isbn : 0806129190
47.25 €
The 380 species of flycatchers make it the largest family of birds confined to the Western Hemisphere. The greatest number of the species is found in South America, and 35 species breed in North America. Skutch, an eminent ornithologist living in Costa Rica, begins this informative book with a general discussion of the flycatcher family, offering data on their size, color, feathers, and migration. Succeeding chapters cover such topics as food and foraging, daily life, calls and songs, courtship, nest building, eggs and incubation, young birds and their care, enemies, defense, nesting success, and longevity. This is the third volume in the impressive Animal Natural History series. Sixteen color illustrations and 32 black-and-white drawings by Dana Gardner complement the text. George Cohen

Stellar Atmospheres: Theory and Observations: Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School IX, Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (Eadn) ... September 1996 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
de 30954(Ed. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K) Isbn : 3540634770
53.91 €
The 1996 Summer School of the European Astrophysical Doctoral Network dealt with the atmospheres of stars, the various theories that describe their structure and the interactions with the interior of the stars as well as with the interstellar environment, and the observations that support, modify and sometimes contradict these theories. This volume aims to provide the reader with an insight into problems related to stellar atmospheres both for cool and for hot stars. Furthermore it offers opportunities to deal with modern technologies in analysing observational data versus theoretical modelling.

Photographic Handbook of the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe
de Dominic Mitchell, Steve Young(Ed. New Holland Publishers Ltd) Isbn : 1859740537
35.43 €
The "Photographic Handbook of the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe" is the most comprehensive collection ever to be published of photographs and descriptions of rare birds that have occurred in Europe in recent years. This revised and updated edition aims to give birders the most accurate and complete photographic record of Europe's rare birds. The photographs have been assembled from top photographers throughout the region and, wherever possible, are those of rarities actually photographed in Europe. The detailed and descriptive text, which covers the identification, habitat, range and European status of each species, is particularly concerned with highlighting those characteristics which birders will need to know for identification in the field. This unique book --now revised and updated...

Lifetime Reproduction in Birds
de Ian Newton(Ed. Academic Press Inc) Isbn : 0125173709
71.47 €
Thanks to long-term studies of marked individuals, information is now available on the lifetime reproduction of many bird species. This book brings together results from most of these studies and presents much new information and many new analyses of classic data sets.

Lifetime Reproduction in Birds
de Ian Newton(Ed. A C Black Publishers Ltd) Isbn : 0125173717
28.35 €
Thanks to long-term studies of marked individuals, information is now available on the lifetime reproduction of many bird species. This book brings together results from most of these studies and presents much new information and many new analyses of classic data sets.

Birds of Thailand
de Craig Robson(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691007012
26.5 €
Thailand is the mecca of birding in Southeast Asia. It's convenient to get to and get around, and its birdlife is wondrously diverse, exotic, and plentiful. With Birds of Thailand, Craig Robson and fourteen leading illustrators give us the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and concise field guide to this magnificent country's rich avifaunal heritage in recent years, covering the more than 950 species recorded as of early in the new millennium.Facing each of the 128 striking, full-color plates are...

Title: Birds of Thailand Field Guides
de Craig Robson(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691007004
108.34 €
Thailand is the mecca of birding in Southeast Asia. It's convenient to get to and get around, and its birdlife is wondrously diverse, exotic, and plentiful. With Birds of Thailand, Craig Robson and fourteen leading illustrators give us the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and concise field guide to this magnificent country's rich avifaunal heritage in recent years, covering the more than 950 species recorded as of early in the new millennium.Facing each of the 128 striking, full-color plates are species accounts accompanied by maps for each, illustrating precise distribution within Thailand. The accurate text covers identification, voice, habitat, behavior, range, status, and breeding for all species and subspecies. Illustrations and entries on a number of species recorded only quite recent...

Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters
de Kurt W. Weiler(Ed. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K) Isbn : 3540440534
108.36 €
Text provides a summary of the current state of supernova and gamma-ray burst research in all of its facets. For astrophysicists, astronomers, cosmologists, and nuclear physicists working on supernova and gamma-ray burst issues.