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Changes in seasonal movements and population dynamics of migratory
birds in response to ongoing changes resulting from global climate
changes are a topic of great interest to conservation scientists
and birdwatchers around the world. Because of their dependence on
specific habitats and resources in different geographic regions at
different phases of their annual cycle, migratory species are
especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In "Bird
Migration and Global Change," eminent ecologist George W. Cox
brings his extensive experience as a scientist and bird enthusiast
to bear in evaluating the capacity of migratory birds to adapt to
the challenges of a changing climate. Cox reviews, synthesizes, and
interprets recent and emerging science on the subject, beginning
with a discussion of climate change and its effect on habitat, and
followed by eleven chapters that examine responses of bird types
across all regions of the globe. The final four chapters address
the evolutionary capacity of birds, and consider how best to shape
conservation strategies to protect migratory species in coming
decades. The rate of climate change is faster now than at any other
moment in recent geological history. How best to manage migratory
birds to deal with this challenge is a major conservation issue,
and "Bird Migration and Global Change" is a unique and timely
contribution to the literature.
The first edition of this book appeared in 1870 and was established
immediately as one of the classical works on comparative mythology.
It received appreciation and criticism in equal measures due to the
very controversial nature of the conclusions drawn that were
labeled as "momentous." However great scholars like Grimm, Max
Muller, Breal, Kuhn, Preller, Welcker, H.H. Wilson, Cornewall
Lewis, Grote and Thirlwall fully supported all the important
findings of this work which came to be recognized as a masterpiece
on Aryan mythology. The author argues that the common stock of
philosophical material, which supplements the evidence of language
for the ultimate affinity of all the Aryan nations, has been molded
into an infinite variety of shapes by the writers of Greek and
Latin, of Persian and Englishmen, of the ancient and modern Hindus,
of Germans and Norwegians, Icelanders, Danes, Frenchmen and
Spaniards. On this common foundation the epic poets of these
scattered and long-separated children of one primitive family have
raised their magnificent fabrics. From this common source they have
derived even the most subtle distinctions of feature and character
for their portraits of the actors in the great drama which in some
one or more of its many scenes is the theme of all Aryan national
poetry. "The purpose of this work is to exhibit clearly and with
sufficient fullness the general characteristics of Aryan mythology,
as a system which has grown up from words and phrases denoting not
one or two objects only, as the sun or moon, but all the phenomena
of the sensible world, as they impressed themselves on the minds of
primitive men."
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Tales of the Teutonic Lands
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1870 Edition.
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