Birds
For many humans, birds are the most fascinating group of animals and they are definitely among the best-known and studied organisms. Thanks to global citizen science data, we know that there are some 50 billion individual birds in the world at present, which is about six birds for every human on the...
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| description | For many humans, birds are the most fascinating group of animals and they are definitely among the best-known and studied organisms. Thanks to global citizen science data, we know that there are some 50 billion individual birds in the world at present, which is about six birds for every human on the planet. Birds have an important role as indicators of the state of the environment, giving them high public value. Human-related global impacts such as climate changes and accelerating urbanization force extant species to continuous adaptations, population modifications, or even outright extinction. This book includes nine chapters covering such topics as bird genetics, the colour of avian plumage, conservation problems, sustainable hunting, habitat disturbance, range expansion and introductions, and long-term bird population changes and challenges. A key chapter explains the genetic rules and reasons why we have continuously more bird species in the world and why we may end up having 7,000 species more than the present 11,000 species. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1309552024-04-05T17:29:31Z Birds Mikkola, Heimo carotenoids, taxonomy, endangered species, amazon, convergence, diversity thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSV Zoology and animal sciences For many humans, birds are the most fascinating group of animals and they are definitely among the best-known and studied organisms. Thanks to global citizen science data, we know that there are some 50 billion individual birds in the world at present, which is about six birds for every human on the planet. Birds have an important role as indicators of the state of the environment, giving them high public value. Human-related global impacts such as climate changes and accelerating urbanization force extant species to continuous adaptations, population modifications, or even outright extinction. This book includes nine chapters covering such topics as bird genetics, the colour of avian plumage, conservation problems, sustainable hunting, habitat disturbance, range expansion and introductions, and long-term bird population changes and challenges. A key chapter explains the genetic rules and reasons why we have continuously more bird species in the world and why we may end up having 7,000 species more than the present 11,000 species. 2023-12-01T18:34:04Z 2023-12-01T18:34:04Z 2021 book ONIX_20231201_9781839689987_2065 9781839689987 9781839689970 9781839689994 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/130955 eng image/jpeg n/a https://www.intechopen.com/books/8950 https://mts.intechopen.com/storage/books/8950/authors_book/authors_book.pdf IntechOpen IntechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.82911 10.5772/intechopen.82911 78a36484-2c0c-47cb-ad67-2b9f5cd4a8f6 9781839689987 9781839689970 9781839689994 IntechOpen 168 open access |
| spellingShingle | carotenoids, taxonomy, endangered species, amazon, convergence, diversity thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSV Zoology and animal sciences Birds |
| title | Birds |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Birds |
| title_short | Birds |
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| topic | carotenoids, taxonomy, endangered species, amazon, convergence, diversity thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSV Zoology and animal sciences |
| topic_facet | carotenoids, taxonomy, endangered species, amazon, convergence, diversity thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSV Zoology and animal sciences |
| url | ONIX_20231201_9781839689987_2065 |