Avian Urban Ecology: Behavioural and Physiological Adaptations - Tapa dura

An excellent resource for undergraduate- and graduate-level students looking for an introduction to the current status of urban ecology knowledge and future research directions.The authoritative and extensive coverage of many topics related to behavioural and physiological adaptations of birds in urban environments can also provide a valuable reference text for established urban ecology researchers. (Amy Hahs, Austral Ecology)

This book will appeal to students in search of a challenge, and practitioners will learn much too, especially from the case studies (British Ecological Society Bulletin)

This book includes not only up-to-date findings on the subject but it also highlights research questions that require further investigation, making it an informative read for anyone interested in the field (Daria Dadam, British Trust for Ornithology)

The information presented here is high in factual quality, and accessible to a reader with a broad background. (Emma Rosenfeld, Ibis of Avian Urban Ecology)

an interesting book, with a large potential readership amoung bird watchers and professional biologists (Pat Morris, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)

As natural habitat continues to be lost and the world steadily becomes more urbanized, biologists are increasingly studying the effect this has on wildlife. Birds are particularly good model systems since their life history, behaviour, and physiology are especially influenced by directly measurable environmental factors such as light and sound pollution. It is therefore relatively easy to compare urban individuals and populations with their rural counterparts. This accessible text focuses on the behavioural and physiological mechanisms which facilitate adaptation and on the evolutionary process that ensues. It discusses topics such as acoustics, reproductive cues, disease, and artificial feeding, and includes a series of case studies illustrating cutting edge research on these areas.

Avian Urban Ecology is suitable for professional avian biologists and ornithologists as well as graduate students of avian ecology, evolution, and conservation. It will also be of relevance and use to a more general audience of urban ecologists and conservation biologists.