Current Ornithology Volume 11
In this volume I include chapters on continental population trends, orni thology's contribution to the habitat concept, social organization outside the breeding season, the role of predation in limiting numbers, and the evolution of prolonged incubation
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Current Ornithology Editorial Board George F. Barrowclough, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York
Ellen D. Ketterson, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana
Robert E. Ricklefs, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stephen I. Rothstein, University of California,
Santa Barbara, California
John A. Wiens, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
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CURRENT ORNITHOLOGY VOLUME 11 Edited by
DENNIS M. POWER Santa Barbaro Museum of Natural Histozy Santa Barbaro, California
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The Library of Congress cataloged the first volume of this title as follows: Current ornithology.-Vol. 1v.: ill.; 24 em. Annual. Editor: Richard F. Johnston. ISSN 0742-390X = Current ornithology. 1. Ornithology-Periodicals. I. Johnston, Richard F. 598'.05-dc19 QL671.C87 [8509]
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Suggested citation: Current Ornithology, Vol. 11 (D. M. Power, ed.). Plenum Press, New York ISBN 978-1-4757-9914-9 ISBN 978-1-4757-9912-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-9912-5
© 1993 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Plenwn Press, New York in 1993 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993
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CONTRIBUTORS
ROBERT A. ASKINS, Department of Zoology, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut 06320 WILLIAM M. BLOCK, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Flagstaff, Arizona 86001 LEONARD A. BRENNAN, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762. Present address: Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, Florida 32312 ERIK MATTHYSEN, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium I. NEWTON, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood Experimental
Station, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon PE17 2LS, United Kingdom
ROBERT E. RICKLEFS, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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PREFACE
In this volume I include chapters on continental population trends, ornithology's contribution to the habitat concept, social organization outside the breeding season, the role of predation in limiting numbers, and the evolution of prolonged incubation periods. Authors are based in Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Is there evidence for wholesale population declines in North American birds? Robert Askins says yes, with qualifications. Fragmentation of forest causes the population of many forest-interior species to decline, and loss of winter forest habitat in Mexico, Centra
