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  title info:
    title: Nomadic desert birds
  name:
    name part: Dean, W. Richard J. (William Richard John)
    name part: 1940-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 185 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: There are two basic strategies for coping with life in the desert. The first involves withstanding the extreme conditions using behavioural or physiological tactics. The second strategy is to be a migrant and to opportunistically or seasonally move to where the necessary resources are. Nomadism, i.e. the opportunistic and irregular movements from resource-poor to resource-rich patches, is a tactic that birds, with their mobility, can use, and it is explored by W.R.J. Dean in this volume. For many bird species, such movements between habitats or across landscapes to find patches of resources are essential for their continued existence. The relationship between climate, habitat and movements in the avifauna of arid and semi-arid regions and the advantages and disadvantages of a seasonally migratory or opportunistically nomadic lifestyle are elucidated.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Migrations and Movements of Desert Birds -- 3. The Nomadic Avifauna -- 4. Habitats and Densities of Nomadic Birds -- 5. Food and Foraging -- 6. Reproduction, Moult and Mortality -- 7. The Conservation of Nomadic Desert Birds.
  note: W. Richard J. Dean.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-175) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Birds
  subject:
    topic: Birds
    topic: Migration
  subject:
    topic: Desert animals
  subject:
    topic: Birds
  subject:
    topic: Birds
    topic: Migration
  subject:
    topic: Desert animals
  classification: QL678 .D43 2004eb
  classification: 598.1754
  classification: 42.00
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    title info:
      title: Nomadic desert birds
    name:
      name part: Dean, W. Richard J. (William Richard John), 1940-
    identifier: (DLC) 2003061757
    identifier: (OCoLC)52860217
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    title info:
      title: Adaptations of desert organisms
  identifier: 9783662089842 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 366208984X (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3540403930
  identifier: 9783540403937
  identifier: 3642073255
  identifier: 9783642073250
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  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 131029
    record change date: 20260422223657.9
    record identifier: in00003562159
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng