Emphasises research and conservation management initiatives for 13 species of otter worldwide, incorporates molecular research on taxonomy and population genetics, and discusses the implications of otter studies for ecology and conservation biology. This work is aimed at naturalists, scientists, and conservationists.
Emphasises research and conservation management initiatives for 13 species of otter worldwide, incorporates molecular research on taxonomy and population genetics, and discusses the implications of otter studies for ecology and conservation biology. This work is aimed at naturalists, scientists, and conservationists.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Studied animal behaviour under Prof. Niko Tinbergen (FRS, Nobel Laureate) at Oxford. Co-founder of the Serengeti Research Institute, Tanzania, where he carried out research over seven years, before returning to Oxford, and later to the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in Banchory, Scotland. After becoming Senior Principal Research Officer, he retired as emeritus in 1997. Awarded the scientific medal of the Zoological Society of London and the scientific medal of the British Mammal Society, he obtained a DSc from the University of Aberdeen and was made Honorary Professor, University of Aberdeen in 1998. He has carried out research projects on mammals and birds on all continents, published 6 previous books and some 120 scientific papers. He has studied otters in the field for over 20 years, and published about 40 papers and one previous book on the ecology of otters.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Otter ecology and its background 2: Pen-pictures. Thirteen otters of the world: some natural history 3: Evolutionary relationships, questions and methods of otter ecology 4: Habitats 5: Groups and loners: social organization 6: Scent-marking and interactions: social behaviour 7: Diets 8: Resources: about fish and other prey 9: Otters fishing: hunting behaviour and strategies 10: Thermo- insulation: a limiting factor 11: Populations, recruitment and competition 12: Survival and mortality 13: Syntheses: challenges to otter survival 14: Otters, people and conservation
1: Otter ecology and its background 2: Pen-pictures. Thirteen otters of the world: some natural history 3: Evolutionary relationships, questions and methods of otter ecology 4: Habitats 5: Groups and loners: social organization 6: Scent-marking and interactions: social behaviour 7: Diets 8: Resources: about fish and other prey 9: Otters fishing: hunting behaviour and strategies 10: Thermo- insulation: a limiting factor 11: Populations, recruitment and competition 12: Survival and mortality 13: Syntheses: challenges to otter survival 14: Otters, people and conservation
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