The reed warblers : : diversity in a uniform bird family / / Bernd Leisler and Karl Schulze-Hagen ; artwork by David Quinn ; translation, Brian Hillcoat ; edited and indexed by Marie-Anne Martin.
To the untrained eye, all reed warblers may look alike. Anyone who takes a closer look will quickly realize that there is in fact an amazing spectrum of different ecological and adaptive strategies across the world´s 53 species. Members of the reed warbler family have been models for this diversity...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Zeist, Netherlands : : KNNV Publishing ;, [Seewiesen, Germany] : : Published in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Orinthology,, [2011] |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / the Reed Warblers
- Introducing the reed warblers / the Reed Warblers
- Systematics – relationships and diversification in the family of acrocephalid warblers / the Reed Warblers
- Habitat characteristics / the Reed Warblers
- Foraging, diet, and habitat use / the Reed Warblers
- Integrated ecomorphology – challenges and solutions / the Reed Warblers
- Competition and coexistence / the Reed Warblers
- A song worth warbling / the Reed Warblers
- Reed warblers reproduced / the Reed Warblers
- Coping with the Cuckoo’s trickery / the Reed Warblers
- A battle of the sexes / the Reed Warblers
- Warblers on the move and in moult / the Reed Warblers
- Our island home / the Reed Warblers
- A life of change – population and conservation issues / the Reed Warblers
- Ecological equivalents and convergence / the Reed Warblers
- Postscript / the Reed Warblers
- Acknowledgements / the Reed Warblers
- References / the Reed Warblers
- Index / the Reed Warblers.