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Introduction to zoogeography
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ISBN: 0333143833 9780333143834 Year: 1974 Publisher: London Macmillan


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Tiergeographie : Struktur, Funktion, Geschichte und Indikatorbedeutung von Arealen
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ISBN: 3519034069 Year: 1977 Publisher: Stuttgart Teubner

Migration: the biology of life on the move
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ISBN: 1280443065 9786610443062 1423738926 0195358279 1601299826 9781423738923 9781280443060 9780195089622 0195089626 9780195097238 0195097238 0195089626 0195097238 6610443068 9780195358278 9781601299826 0197701612 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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Migration is one of the most fascinating and dramatic of all animal behaviors. Historically, however, the study of migration has been fragmented, with ornithologists, entomologists, and marine biologists paying little attention to work outside their own fields. This treatment of the subject shows how comparisons across taxa can in fact illuminate migratory life cycles and the relation of migration to other movements. The book thus takes an integrated ecological perspective, focusing on migration as a biological phenomenon. The work is divided into four parts, each with a brief introductory sec


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Placing animals
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ISBN: 1283523957 9786613836403 9781442211858 9781442211865 1442211865 9781442211841 1442211849 1442211857 9781283523950 6613836400 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lanham Rowman & Littlefield

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Placing Animals is the first book to survey the ways in which animals have been studied in geography. It includes both a historical overview of the development of animal geography and an assessment of the field today. Through the theme of the role of place in shaping where and why human-animal interactions occur, the chapters in turn explore the history of animal geography and our distinctive relationships in the home, on farms, in the context of labor, in the wider culture, and in the wild.


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Evolution, mammals, and southern continents
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ISBN: 0873950860 0873951867 Year: 1972 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

Biogeography, time, and place : distributions, barriers, and islands
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ISBN: 1281067369 9786611067366 1402063741 1402063733 Year: 2007 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,

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Biogeography considers the distribution of biological units over a wide range of scales. The units range from genotypes, populations and species to families and higher taxa. Processes can be local, such as the isolation on islands due to sea-level fluctuations, or large-scale tectonic processes that separates continents and creates oceans. In all processes time is an important factor and by combining data on recent patterns with paleontological data the understanding of the distribution of extant taxa can be improved. This volume focuses on speciation due to isolation in island-like settings, and the evolution of large-scale diversity as the result of origination, maintenance and extinction.

Mechanistic Home Range Analysis. (MPB-43)
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ISBN: 0691009279 140084973X 9781400849734 9780691009279 9780691009285 9780691009278 0691009287 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Spatial patterns of movement are fundamental to the ecology of animal populations, influencing their social organization, mating systems, demography, and the spatial distribution of prey and competitors. However, our ability to understand the causes and consequences of animal home range patterns has been limited by the descriptive nature of the statistical models used to analyze them. In Mechanistic Home Range Analysis, Paul Moorcroft and Mark Lewis develop a radically new framework for studying animal home range patterns based on the analysis of correlated random work models for individual movement behavior. They use this framework to develop a series of mechanistic home range models for carnivore populations. The authors' analysis illustrates how, in contrast to traditional statistical home range models that merely describe pattern, mechanistic home range models can be used to discover the underlying ecological determinants of home range patterns observed in populations, make accurate predictions about how spatial distributions of home ranges will change following environmental or demographic disturbance, and analyze the functional significance of the movement strategies of individuals that give rise to observed patterns of space use. By providing researchers and graduate students of ecology and wildlife biology with a more illuminating way to analyze animal movement, Mechanistic Home Range Analysis will be an indispensable reference for years to come.

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