PENGUINS ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT antarctica adelie king

ISBN 0949324582

Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

CONTENTS:

List of Contributors
Introductory Remarks

A. BREEDING BIOLOGY
1. Mortality patterns, hatching asynchrony, and size asymmetry in Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus chicks.
2. Population change in Gentoo Penguins Pygoscelis papua at Bird Island, South Georgia.
3. Cost of reproduction in Little Penguins.
4. The control of behaviour: free-running circadian rhythms in the Antarctic summer. 5. Breeding penguins as indicators of marine resources: a study with minimal human disturbance.
6. Evolutionary ecology of the King Penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus: the self-regulation of the breeding cycle.
7. Effects of inter-annual and inter-colony variability on counts of King Penguin colonies on Marion Island.
8. Social stimulation and reproductive schedules: does the acoustic environment influence the egg-laying schedule in penguin colonies?

B. FORAGING ECOLOGY & ENERGETICS
9. Hydrodynamics of penguins - an experimental approach.
10. Energy expenditure of Adelie Penguins.
11. Resource partitioning in 4 species of sympatrically breeding penguins.
12. The foraging range of Adelie Penguins at Bechervaise Island, MacRobertson Land, Antarctica as determined by satellite telemetry.
13. The foraging behaviour of the African Penguin Spheniscus demersus.
14. Consumption of Southern Ocean marine resources by penguins.

C. SEXUAL & GEOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS
15. Sexual dimorphism in penguins.
16. Bill morphology of Royal and Macaroni Penguins, & geographic variation within eudyptid penguins.

D. MANAGEMENT OF PENGUINS & THEIR ENVIRONMENT
17. Recolonization of Robben Island by African Penguins, 1983-1992.
18. Biology of the Little Penguin Eudyptula minor on Bowen Island and at other Australian colonies.
19. Heavy metal and organochlorine concentrations in tissues of the Little Penguin Eudyptula minor.
20. Penguin responses to humans in Antarctica: some issues & problems in determining disturbance caused by visitors.
21. The ecology & management of Little Penguins on Penguin Island, Western Australia.

Index

475 pages. Hard cover with NO dust jacket (as issued). Ex-Library, cleaner than usual.

Weight = 800 g

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