Two key studies of seabird ecology and behaviour have arrived in stock this week:
Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion and Restoration
Edited by Christa P H Mulder, Wendy B Anderson, David R Towns and Peter Bellingham
This book, written collaboratively by and for ecologists and resource managers, provides the first large-scale cross-system compilation, comparison, and synthesis of the ecology of seabird island systems. Offering a new conceptual framework into which to fit the impacts of seabirds on island ecology, this is an essential resource for academics and resource managers alike.
The Kittiwake
John C Coulson
The Kittiwake has been the subject of behavioural research since the late 1950s – one of the longest running studies in the world. In this new Poyser monograph, John Coulson summarises these decades of research, revealing amazing insights into the life of these gulls, with wider implications for the behavioural ecology of all colonial birds. There are sections on life at sea, nest-site selection, breeding biology, feeding ecology, colony dynamics, moult, survivorship and conservation.
Other new books on similar subjects include:
