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Birds and habitat relationships in changing landscapes /

Birds and habitat relationships in changing landscapes / - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2012. - x, 542 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Ecological reviews. .

Includes biblipgraphic references and index.

List of contributors -- Preface -- Part I : the complexity of patterns and processes -- The bird and its habitat : an overview of concepts / Part II : case studies of habitat use and selection -- Spatial variation and habitat relationships in moorland bird assemblages : a British perspective / Part III : wider perspectives -- What is habitat quality? Dissecting a research portfolio on shorebirds / Species index -- Subject index. Robert J. Fuller -- Habitat quality and habitat occupancy by birds in variable environments / Robert J. Fuller -- Spatial variation and temporal shifts in habitat use by birds at the European scale / Tomasz Wesołowski and Robert J. Fuller -- Mechanisms and processes underlying landscape structure effects on bird populations / Paul M. Dolman -- Avian responses to transitional habitats in temperate cultural landscapes : woodland edges and young growth / Robert J. Fuller -- Habitat associations of birds in complex changing cultural landscapes / Shelley A. Hinsley and Simon Gillings -- The importance of habitat heterogeneity at multiple scales for birds in European agricultural landscapes / Juliet Vickery and Raphaël Arlettaz -- Murray C. Grant and James W. Pearce-Higgins -- Arctic-alpine mountain birds in northern Europe : contrasts between specialists and generalists / Des B.A. Thompson, John Atle Kålås and Ingvar Byrkjedal -- Bird-habitat relationships in reedswamps and fens / Gillian Gilbert and Ken W. Smith -- Breeding waders on wet grassland : factors influencing habitat suitability / Malcolm Ausden and Mark Bolton -- Processes influencing bird use of estuarine mudflats and saltmarshes in western Europe / Jennifer A. Gill -- Avian habitat use on the non-estuarine intertidal coast / Niall H.K. Burton -- Temperate western European woodland as a dynamic environment for birds : a resource-based view / Robert J. Fuller, Ken W. Smith and Shelley A. Hinsley -- Theunis Piersma -- Understanding individual life histories and habitat choices : implications for explaining population patterns and processes / Beat Naef-Daenzer -- Insufficient adaptation to climate change alters avian habitat quality and thereby changes habitat selection / Christiaan Both -- Australian birds in a changing landscape : 220 years of European colonisation / Tara G. Martin, Carla P. Catterall, Adrian D. Manning and Judit Szabo -- Birds in cultural landscapes : actual and perceived differences between north-east North America and western Europe / Jean-Louis Martin, Pierre Drapeau, Lenore Fahrig, Kathryn Freemark Lindsay, David Anthony Kirk, Adam C. Smith and Marc-André Villard -- Birds and their changing habitat : thoughts on research and conservation strategies / Robert J. Fuller --

Synthesises important concepts, patterns and issues relating to avian habitat selection, drawing on examples from Europe, North America and Australia.

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Birds--Habitat.
Birds--Ecology.
Birds--Effect of habitat modification on.

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