Functional Anatomy and Adaptive Evolution of the Feeding Apparatus in the Hawaiian Honeycreeper Genus Loxops (Drepanididae)
Author | : Lawrence Phillips Richards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lawrence Phillips Richards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lawrence Phillips Richards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Hanken |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1993-07 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780226315713 |
In this authoritative three-volume reference work, leading researchers bring together current work to provide a comprehensive analysis of the comparative morphology, development, evolution, and functional biology of the skull.
Author | : H. Douglas Pratt |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2005-05-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0191524034 |
The Hawaiian Honeycreepers are typified by nectar feeding, their bright colouration, and canary-like songs. They are considered one of the finest examples of adaptive radiation, even more diverse than Darwin's Galapagos finches, as a wide array of different species has evolved in all the different niches provided by the Hawaiian archipelago. The book will therefore be of interest to evolutionary biologists and ecologists, as well as professional ornithologists and amateur bird watchers. As with the other books in the Bird Family of the World series, the work is divided into two main sections. Part I is an overview of the Hawaiian Honeycreeper evolution and natural history and Part II comprises accounts of each species. The author has produced his own outstanding illustrations of these birds to accompany his text.
Author | : E. Alison Kay |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1994-12-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780824816599 |
This volume brings together recent primary source materials on major themes in Hawaiian natural history: the geological processes that have built the Islands; the physical factors that influence the Island's terrestrial ecosystems; the dynamics of the sea that support coral reefs, fish, and mollusks; the peculiarities of animals and plants that have evolved in the Islands and are found nowhere else; and the human impact on the land, plants, and animals.
Author | : Jeffrey G. Groth |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 1993-08-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520097823 |
The highly variable North American red crossbill complex has presented one of the most controversial problems in avian systematics. Although crossbills wander nomadically and breed all year, they have not become homogenized in bill and body size. This study suggests that this crossbill complex contains several distinctive sibling species that breed sympatrically and show ecological differences.
Author | : Gary Ritchison |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 2516 |
Release | : 2023-11-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3031148525 |
With more than 10,000 species that vary in size, use diverse habitats that extend across latitudes and altitudes, consume a wide variety of food items, differ in how they fly (or not), communicate, and reproduce, and have different life histories, birds exhibit remarkable variation in form (anatomy) and function (physiology). Our understanding of how natural selection has generated this variation as birds evolved and as different species adapted to their unique circumstances has grown considerably in recent years. In In a Class of Their Own: A Detailed Examination of Avian Forms and Functions, this variation is explained in great detail, beginning with an overview of avian evolution and continuing with information about the structure and function of the avian skeleton, muscles, and the various body systems. Other chapters focus on avian locomotion (including flight), migration, navigation, communication, energy balance and thermoregulation, and various aspects of avian reproduction, such as nests and nest building, clutch sizes, and parental care. In a Class of Their Own: A Detailed Examination of Avian Forms and Functions will be must reading for anyone, professional or non-professional, who needs or wants to learn more about birds.
Author | : Werner Müller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Bill (Anatomy) |
ISBN | : |