TY - BOOK ID - 78640605 TI - Avian urban ecology AU - Gil, Diego AU - Brumm, Henrik PY - 2014 SN - 0191637602 9780191637605 9780199661572 019966157X 9780199661589 0199661588 0191637610 PB - Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Birds KW - Urban animals KW - Urban ecology (Biology) KW - Urbanization KW - Zoology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Vertebrates KW - Aves KW - Avian fauna KW - Avifauna KW - Wild birds KW - Amniotes KW - Ornithology KW - Cities and towns, Movement to KW - Urban development KW - Urban systems KW - Cities and towns KW - Social history KW - Sociology, Rural KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Urban policy KW - Rural-urban migration KW - City ecology (Biology) KW - Ecology KW - City animals KW - City fauna KW - Urban fauna KW - Urban wildlife KW - Animals KW - Ecophysiology KW - Environmental aspects KW - Behavior KW - Adaptation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78640605 AB - 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 textfocuses on the behavioural and physiological mechanisms which facilitate adaptation and on the evolutionary process ER -