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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Being papers read at the meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club.
Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Being papers read at the meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club.
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Being papers read at the meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club.
Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham
Author: Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Common Eider
Author: Chris Waltho
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472920929
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
A monograph of the Common Eider, a large and familiar duck with a long and fascinating cultural history. A common sight around the more northerly shores of the British Isles, the Common Eider is the largest duck in the northern hemisphere. The eider is particularly well adapted to cold-water environments; the insulating properties of eider down are iconic. The species is taxonomically interesting, with a range of well-marked subspecies reflecting the patterns of ice coverage during ancient glaciations, and these ducks have also provided the focus for a number of important behavioural studies, especially on feeding ecology and energy budgets. Eiders have a long association with humans, and have deep cultural significance in many societies. However, modern lifestyles are exposing these ducks to a wide range of new pressures. This monograph provides a comprehensive portrait of the Common Eider; authors Chris Waltho and John Coulson bring together an extensive and diverse international literature, with sections on taxonomy, habitats, breeding biology, population dynamics, diet and foraging, dispersal and migration, and conservation.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472920929
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
A monograph of the Common Eider, a large and familiar duck with a long and fascinating cultural history. A common sight around the more northerly shores of the British Isles, the Common Eider is the largest duck in the northern hemisphere. The eider is particularly well adapted to cold-water environments; the insulating properties of eider down are iconic. The species is taxonomically interesting, with a range of well-marked subspecies reflecting the patterns of ice coverage during ancient glaciations, and these ducks have also provided the focus for a number of important behavioural studies, especially on feeding ecology and energy budgets. Eiders have a long association with humans, and have deep cultural significance in many societies. However, modern lifestyles are exposing these ducks to a wide range of new pressures. This monograph provides a comprehensive portrait of the Common Eider; authors Chris Waltho and John Coulson bring together an extensive and diverse international literature, with sections on taxonomy, habitats, breeding biology, population dynamics, diet and foraging, dispersal and migration, and conservation.
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Pages : 22
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British and Irish Butterflies
Author: Roger L H Dennis
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1786395061
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Islands are special places; they can be havens for unique plants and animals and refuges for wildlife. This book investigates the biogeography of butterfly species over the British islands, particularly the factors that influence their presence on the islands and that have made each island's butterfly fauna distinctive. The book contains a full log of records of species on the islands and much supporting information. The first three chapters set the scene, illustrating the basics of island biogeography theory, their changing circumstances during the current Holocene interglacial, and studies of natural history of British butterflies that mark the islands as the most intensively studied region for wildlife in the world. The book advances by increasing resolution downscale from a European continental perspective, through patterns and changes on the British mainland, a comparison of the two dominant islands of Britain and Ireland, to a close inspection of the dynamics of species on the multitude of offshore islands. Detailed investigations include contrasts in species' richness on the islands and then of the incidences of each species. Case studies highlight the continual turnover of species on islands. Attention is then given to evolutionary changes since the time that glaciers enveloped Europe. A powerful message is conveyed for the maintenance of butterfly species on the smaller British islands now experiencing population losses at a rate unprecedented since the spread of the last ice sheets: the incontrovertible importance of maintaining populations of species on nearby mainland sources for islands as pools for future migrants.
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1786395061
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Islands are special places; they can be havens for unique plants and animals and refuges for wildlife. This book investigates the biogeography of butterfly species over the British islands, particularly the factors that influence their presence on the islands and that have made each island's butterfly fauna distinctive. The book contains a full log of records of species on the islands and much supporting information. The first three chapters set the scene, illustrating the basics of island biogeography theory, their changing circumstances during the current Holocene interglacial, and studies of natural history of British butterflies that mark the islands as the most intensively studied region for wildlife in the world. The book advances by increasing resolution downscale from a European continental perspective, through patterns and changes on the British mainland, a comparison of the two dominant islands of Britain and Ireland, to a close inspection of the dynamics of species on the multitude of offshore islands. Detailed investigations include contrasts in species' richness on the islands and then of the incidences of each species. Case studies highlight the continual turnover of species on islands. Attention is then given to evolutionary changes since the time that glaciers enveloped Europe. A powerful message is conveyed for the maintenance of butterfly species on the smaller British islands now experiencing population losses at a rate unprecedented since the spread of the last ice sheets: the incontrovertible importance of maintaining populations of species on nearby mainland sources for islands as pools for future migrants.