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UNINA9910778396103321 |
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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.] |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1988 |
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0-8166-5578-2 |
0-8166-1571-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (646 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Waterfowl - Wintering |
Birds - Wintering |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographies and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNINA9910822109203321 |
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Autore |
Gandy Matthew |
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The fabric of space : water, modernity, and the urban imagination / / Matthew Gandy |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (362 p.) |
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Water resources development |
Sewerage |
Water use - Social aspects |
Municipal water supply - Economic aspects |
City and town life |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. |
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