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The migratory records of the Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) in the arid ecosystems of western South America
The Eastern Kingbird ( Tyrannus tyrannus ) is an American boreal migratory bird that arrives in the lowlands of the eastern slope of the Andes in South...
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Dispersal Patterns
Dispersal influences species distribution as well as genetics and structure of populations. Among successive breeding seasons, distances varied both...
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Energy Balance and Thermoregulation
Birds are endotherms and maintain their body temperatures with heat produced by cell metabolism. The energy consumed at rest, or the basal metabolic...
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Repeated migration of a juvenile European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus
Most of our current knowledge on migration strategies in juvenile light-weight birds originates from laboratory studies, displacement experiments and...
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Offshore surprises: new at-sea bird records for Suriname (2013–2015)
Bird observations were collected from various types of survey vessels in Suriname’s territorial waters between 2013 and 2015. Dedicated,...
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Die Einträge stehen fast immer im Singular. Der Text zu den Stichwörtern ist so kurz wie möglich gehalten. Da deutlich ist, dass sich die Termini auf...
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Spatial Adjustment
The burrows of most wood-boring cerambycid beetle larvae are very irregularly oriented; why? At temperatures so low that most other insects are...
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Fish and Shellfish Behavior
In this chapter three aspects of fish behavior are discussed: the extent of migration of fishes, feeding behavior, and schooling behavior as they...
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Ammonoid Life and Habitat
Since the last review of Jurassic—Cretaceous ammonoid ecology (Westermann, 1990), much additional work has been done on ammonoid autecology...
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The Evolution of Bird Coloration and Plumage Elaboration
Although physically homogeneous, birds come in a wide variety of colors, rivaling butterflies and tropical reef fishes. Such variation invites...
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A Review of Predation on Lemurs: Implications for the Evolution of Social Behavior in Small, Nocturnal Primates
It has been postulated that predation has been an important selective force in molding social behavior in mammals. However, observations of predators...
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The Causes of Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is unique not only because of its rapid decline from being one of the world’s most...
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Mating systems, parasites and plumage dimorphism in waterfowl
Despite a tendency for males of polygynous bird species to show bright or elaborate plumage, comparative analyses have failed to show any consistent...
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Ecology of gorillas and its relation to female transfer in mountain gorillas
Understanding the principles that underly primate social evolution depends on integrated analysis of data on behavioral ecology, demography, life...
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Zonobiome VI: The Temperate Nemoral Zones of Europe
The geographical area covered in this volume includes zonobiomes VI-IX and extends over 200 degrees longitude, from Ireland to the Bering Straits....
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Results
The families studied are alphabetically arranged. Each scientific species name is followed by the vernacular name it received in Venezuelan Guiana,...
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Class Osteichthyes
The technical name “osteichthyes” means “bony fishes”, and denotes the preponderance of bone in the skeleton of most species of this class. Most bony...
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The Orthoptera of Europe III
Die Orthopteren im weiteren Sinne sind eine heterogene Insektengruppe mit kauenden Mundwerkzeugen, homonom vielgliederigen Antennen und bei...