Erkki Korpimaki

Boreal Owl (eBook, ePUB)

Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation of a Forest-Dwelling Predator

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Widespread in North American forest regions including the Rocky Mountains, the Boreal Owl (Aegolius funereus) was once the most numerous predatory bird in Eurasian boreal forests. Synthesising the results of unique long-term studies of Boreal Owls, this book explores hunting modes, habitats and foods, prey interactions, mating and parental care, reproduction, dispersal, survival and mortality, population regulation and conservation in boreal forests. Providing a detailed introduction to the species, the authors study the complex interactions of Boreal Owls with their prey species. They examine the inter-sexual tug-of-war over parental care, and the behavioural and demographic adaptations to environmental conditions that predictably and markedly fluctuate both seasonally and multi-annually. They also question whether Boreal Owls are able to time their reproductive effort to maximise lifetime reproductive success. Discussing the effect of modern forestry practices on owl populations, the book also examines how Boreal Owls could be managed to sustain viable populations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139579025
• Artikelnr.: 52966593

Autorenporträt

Erkki Korpimäki is Professor of Animal Ecology at the Department of Biology, University of Turku, Finland. His long-term research questions have focused on how predators are adapted to the large spatio-temporal fluctuations in their main prey densities, the apparent impacts of predators on prey populations and the effects of human-induced changes in the environment on viability of populations.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Boreal (or Tengmalm's) Owls: briefly
3. Study areas and research methods
4. Habitat use, roosts and nest sites
5. Interactions with prey animals
6. Life-history
7. Mating and parental care
8. Reproduction
9. Dispersal and autumn movements
10. Survival and mortality under temporally varying food conditions
11. Old forests increase survival and lifetime reproductive success
12. Family planning under fluctuating food conditions
13. Population dynamics
14. Population regulation
15. Conservation of Boreal Owl populations
References
Index.