Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Fascinating Life Sciences
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	27. 11. 2018
Seiten	:	209
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	235 mm
Breite	:	155 mm
ISBN	:	9783319916880
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Dieter Thomas Tietze studied the integrative taxonomy of passerine birds with Jochen Martens at Mainz University (doctoral scholarship from Villigst) and then broadened his focus at the Zoological Museum in Dresden (phylogeography), the University of Chicago (DFG research fellowship; community ecology and phylogeny of Himalayan passerine birds), and the Universities of Frankfurt am Main (historical biogeography, trait evolution) and Heidelberg (avian urban ecology, genomics). He has served on various conservation NGOs and the advisory board of the German Ornithologists’ Society (DO-G). He is currently Vertebrate Curator at the Natural History Museum in Basel.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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- Introduction: Studying Birds in Time and Space. - Integrative Taxonomy of Birds: The Nature and Delimitation of Species. - Studying Speciation: Genomic Essentials and Approaches. - Morphological Variation in Birds: Plasticity, Adaptation, and Speciation. - Song: The Learned Language of Three Major Bird Clades. - Timing Matters: Allochronic Contributions to Population Divergence. - (Micro)evolutionary Changes and the Evolutionary Potential of Bird Migration. - Avian Diversity and Distributions and Their Evolution Through Space and Time. - Modeling Avian Distributions and Niches: Insights into Invasions and Speciation in Birds. - Phylogeography and the Role of Hybridization in Speciation. - Ecological Speciation: When and How Variation Among Environments Can Drive Population Divergence. - Climate Change Impacts on Bird Species. - Impact of Urbanization on Birds.

Pressestimmen

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“More than 40 tables and attractive illustrations help to enhance what many may find to be a difficult, highly advanced text, loaded with acronyms and graduate-level terminology, … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals.” (H. T. Armistead, Choice, Vol. 56 (11), July, 2019)

Deine Buchhandlung

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