Current Ornithology Volume 17
Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the spectrum from the molecular level of organization to population biology and community
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Current Ornithology Series editor: Charles F. Thompson Illinois State University, Normal, Il, USA
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Charles F. Thompson Editor
Current Ornithology Volume 17
Editor Charles F. Thompson Illinois State University Normal, Il, USA [email protected]
ISSN 0742_390X ISBN 978-1-4419-6420-5 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6421-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6421-2 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Cover photo: © Oliver Smart (www.smartimages.co.uk) Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
Contributors...................................................................................................... vii 1 Impaired Predator Evasion in the Life History of Birds: Behavioral and Physiological Adaptations to Reduced Flight Ability........................................................................... Johan Lind, Sven Jakobsson, and Cecilia Kullberg
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2 Dietary Calcium Availability and Reproduction in Birds....................... 31 S. James Reynolds and Christopher M. Perrins 3 Seasonal Metabolic Variation in Birds: Functional and Mechanistic Correlates.................................................... 75 David L. Swanson 4 Assessing Cause–Effect Relationships in Environmental Accidents: Harlequin Ducks and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill........................................................................................................ 131 John A. Wiens, Robert H. Day, Stephen M. Murphy, and Mark A. Fraker Index................................................................................................................... 191
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Contributors
Robert H. Day ABR, Inc., Environmental Research and Services, P.O. Box 80410, Fairbanks, AK 99708, USA Mark A. Fraker TerraMar Environmental Research Ltd., 8617 Lochside Drive, Sidney, BC, Canada V8L 1M8 Sven Jakobsson Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Cecilia Kullberg Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Johan Lind Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden [email protected] Stephen M. Murphy ABR, Inc., Environmental Research and
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