Tim Birkhead: Foreword
Preface
1: S.J. Reynolds & D.C. Deeming: Incubating new ideas about avian
reproduction
2: D.C. Deeming: The fossil record and evolution of avian egg
nesting and incubation
3: S.D. Healy, K.V. Morgan & I.E. Bailey: Nest-construction
behaviour
4: D.C. Deeming & M.C. Mainwaring: Functional properties of
nests
5: M.C. Mainwaring, S.J. Reynolds & K. Weidinger: The influence of
predation on the location and design of nests
6: M.C. Mainwaring: Nest construction and incubation in a changing
climate
7: A. West, P. Cassey & C.M. Thomas: Microbiology of nests and
eggs
8: I. López-Rull & C. Macías Garcia: Control of invertebrate
occupants of nests
9: G.F. Birchard & D.C. Deeming: Egg allometry: influences of
phylogeny and the altricial-precocial continuum
10: T.D. Williams & T.G.G. Groothuis: Egg quality, embryonic
development and post-hatching phenotype: an integrated
perspective
11: K. Brulez, T.W. Pike & S.J. Reynolds: Egg signalling: the use
of visual, auditory and chemical stimuli
12: V. Marasco & K.A. Spencer: Improvements in our understanding of
behaviour during incubation
13: A. Nord & J.B. Williams: The energetic costs of incubation
14: G.R. Hepp, S.E. DuRant & W.A. Hopkins: Influence of incubation
temperature on offspring phenotype and fitness in birds
15: J.A. Smith, C.B. Cooper & S.J. Reynolds: Advances in techniques
to study incubation
16: D.C. Deeming & N.S. Jarrett: Applications of incubation science
to aviculture and conservation
17: C.B. Cooper, R.L. Bailey & D.I. Leech: The role of citizen
science in studies of avian reproduction
18: D.C. Deeming & S.J. Reynolds: Perspectives on avian nests and
eggs
Charles started working on aspects of bird incubation in the early
1980s and has had a varied career since. Postgraduate research
examined the physiological basis of egg turning during incubation
and postdoctoral research described the effects of incubation
temperature on growth and sex determination in alligators. Aside
from scientific publications Charles has edited key review texts on
avian and reptilian development and incubation, and ostrich
biology. Since
2003 Charles has been teaching biology at the University of
Lincoln, where he has added how bird nests function to his list of
research interests. Jim has worked on the reproductive biology of a
variety
of bird species over the last 25 years including common kingfishers
in the UK, spruce grouse in boreal forests of Canada, Florida
scrub-jays in the oak scrublands of the southern USA and most
recently sooty terns on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. His
research focuses on how human-induced changes in food availability,
habitat structure, predation risk and ecological community
structure influence the breeding behaviour, ecology, life history
and ultimately the breeding performance of
birds. Such research will become increasingly pertinent as we
attempt to understand how bird populations respond to an
ever-urbanising world.
`All in all, this was a joy to read, very nicely produced by OUP,
and well worth the investment as it is absolutely bulging with new
facts and ideas. It will certainly stimulate a whole lot of new
studies which must surely be the definition of a great book!'
Humphrey Crick, BTO
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