1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778396103321

Titolo

Waterfowl in winter [[electronic resource] ] : selected papers from symposium and workshop held in Galveston, Texas, 7-10 January 1985 / / editor, Milton W. Weller ; editorial board, Bruce D.J. Batt ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1988

ISBN

0-8166-5578-2

0-8166-1571-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (646 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WellerMilton Webster

Disciplina

598.4/1

Soggetti

Waterfowl - Wintering

Birds - Wintering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Reviewers; I. Winter in Perspective; II. Reproductive and Social Behavior; III. Activity Budgets; IV. Community and Feeding Ecology; V. Weights, Molts, and Condition; VI. Habitat Resources and Habitat Selection; VII. New Habitats and Habitat Management; VIII. Harvest, Distribution, and Population Status; IX. Decimating Influences: Habitat Loss, Toxins, and Disease; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Waterfowl in Winter was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The emphasis in research on waterfowl has traditionally focused on breeding as opposed to migrant or wintering birds. Scientists have long been interested in courtship, nest sites, laying, and brood-rearing, and they have also been concerned about losses of eggs, young, nesting hens, and breeding habitats, especially as they have affected the goal of increas



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822109203321

Autore

Gandy Matthew

Titolo

The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / / Matthew Gandy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-262-32176-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Disciplina

333.91/15

Soggetti

Water resources development

Sewerage

Water use - Social aspects

Municipal water supply - Economic aspects

City and town life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Periodicities and metabolisms -- The Paris sewers and the rationalization of urban space -- Borrowed light :  journeys through Weimar Berlin -- Mosquitoes, modernity, and post-colonial Lagos -- Water, poverty, and urban fragmentation in Mumbai -- Tracing the Los Angeles River -- Fears, fantasies, and floods : the inundation of London.

Sommario/riassunto

A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.