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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of the most charismatic phenomena of birds is long-distance migration, and John Rappole's latest book on this topic is one of its kind. With his insightful book Rappole, an emeritus researcher at the Smithsonian Institute, turns the centuries-year-long paradigms of bird migration theory upside down, twists them and builds a compelling case to convince the reader that his dispersal theory bears the truth about the origin of bird migration.
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Community EcologyTable of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Bird Migration Paradigm
Chapter 2. The Migrant Annual Cycle According to the Dispersal Theory
Chapter 3. Fall Migration
Chapter 4. Wintering Period
Chapter 5. Spring Migration
Chapter 6. Breeding Period
Chapter 7. Postbreeding Period
Chapter 8. Population Biology
Chapter 9. Origin and Evolution
Chapter 10. Biogeography
Chapter 11. Conservation
Coda
Appendix 1. Common and Scientific Names of Bird Species Mentioned in the Text
Appendix 2. A Critical Examination of the Assumptions in "Temperate Origins of Long-Distance Seasonal Migration in New World Songbirds" by Benjamin M. Winger, F. Keith Barker, and Richard H. Ree
Appendix 3. Notation Corrections for Alan Pine's Multiple Carrying Capacity Equations from "Age-Structured Periodic Breeders" by Alan S. Pine in The Avian Migrant: The Biology of Bird Migration by John H. Rappole (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)
Annotated Bibliography
Index
