Readership: Lecturers, research workers, and postgraduate students in behavioural ecology, evolutionary ecology, animal behaviour, ornithology, and coastal science. Professional ornithologists and conservation biologists.
Edited by John D. Goss-Custard, Head, Vertebrate Population Ecology, Furzebrook Research Station, Wareham, Dorset
"This volume presents a comprehensive review of the behaviour and population ecology of the oystercatchers." - Biological Abstracts, vol.49, issue 8, 1997
Introduction Part I: Individual Adaptations 1: Food and feeding behaviour 2: Prey size selection and intake rate 3: Specialization 4: Feeding with other Oystercatchers 5: Where to feed 6: How Oystercatchers survive the winter 7: Why do Oystercatchers migrate? 8: Life history decisions during the breeding season 9: Rearing to independence 10: Haematopus ostralegus in perspective: comparisons with other Oystercatchers Part II: Population Ecology 11: Oystercatchers and man in the coastal zone 12: The carrying capacity of coastal habitats for Oystercatchers 13: Population dynamics: predicting the consequences of habitat change at the continental scale Conclusions References Index
