《Avian Growth and Development》是1998年5月Oxford University Press出版的圖書，由J. Matthias Starck / Robert E. Ricklefs編寫。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Avian Growth and Development
- 作者： J. Matthias Starck / Robert E. Ricklefs
- 出版時間：1998年5月
- 出版社：Oxford University Press
- ISBN：9780195106084
內容簡介
- First book of its kind in 50 years
- Covers most aspects of avian development
- Attempts an integration of organismal biology, ecology, and evolution on all levels of comparison
This is the first re-appraisal in 50 years of concepts of development made in birds. This book is a case study in evolutionary diversification of life histories. Although birds have a rather uniform body plan and physiology, they exhibit marked variation in development type, parental care, and rate of growth. Altricial birds are fully dependent on their parents for warmth and nutrition and begin post-hatching life in a more or less embryonic condition. At the other extreme, such superprecocial species as the megapodes are independent of all parental care from hatching, and the neonate, able to fly, resembles an adult bird. This book thus attempts to present an integrative perspective of organism biology, ecology, and evolution.
