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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In the common sense, migration is considered by many authors as a mechanism for avoiding unfavorable environments by moving to expectedly more auspicious locations at different times. In other terms, migration may represent the seasonal movement of organisms from place to place owing to the change in the environmental conditions. Consequently, two important questions arise to mind, why do some animals migrate? How would migration affect the gene pool? Whatever are the answers, the cost of migration is the power required to move to a different location and the high possibility of death as a result of this movement.
The editor presents a suitable collection of topics, to achieve the goal of this book, which is explaining the migration of organisms through many examples of different groups of marine and non-marine organisms, ranging from micro-invertebrates to large vertebrates (mammals), and focusing on several aspects that are not collected together.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migration of Organisms
Book Subtitle: Climate. Geography. Ecology
Editors: Ashraf M. T. Elewa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b137867
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-26603-7Published: 02 August 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06591-0Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-26604-4Published: 14 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 332
Topics: Biogeosciences, Physical Geography, Ecology, Atmospheric Sciences, Geoecology/Natural Processes