How Birds Find Their Way: Avian Orientation and Navigation
暫譯: 鳥類如何找到方向：鳥類的定向與導航
Satz, Helmut
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2025-08-22
- 售價: $1,510
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,434
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 120
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3031921801
- ISBN-13: 9783031921803
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相關分類:
物理學 Physics
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商品描述
This book describes our current understanding of the navigation of birds, their methods, capabilities, and achievements. Our knowledge of this field has progressed immensely in the last fifty years, due to the availability of miniaturized tracking and positioning devices, which now allow us to know when and where a specific bird is located and where it is flying. The book is written for a general readership and requires no more of the reader than a true interest in the topic. The text provides accessible overview of the relevant geographic and geophysical basics (latitudes and longitudes, geomagnetism) and of the neural faculties that allow birds to identify these features. The author surveys a variety of striking avian achievements, ranging from trans-ocean and pole-to-pole flights to circumnavigations of the earth. Readers will also learn how the required knowledge is provided and passed on to future generations, through instinct as well as through experience. Our understanding of such information transfer is today much deeper than it was fifty years ago. Nevertheless, many open questions remain. How an albatross leaving the coast of Brazil can find the way to its nest on a rock off the coast of New Zealand--this is a question still waiting to be answered. Thus, a further purpose of the book is to stimulate additional interest and new research into the fascinating and challenging world of avian navigation.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書描述了我們對鳥類導航的當前理解，包括它們的方法、能力和成就。在過去五十年中，由於微型追蹤和定位設備的可用性，我們在這個領域的知識有了巨大的進步，這些設備現在使我們能夠知道特定鳥類的具體位置和飛行路徑。這本書是為一般讀者撰寫的，讀者只需對這個主題有真正的興趣即可。文本提供了相關地理和地球物理基礎的易懂概述（緯度和經度、地磁學），以及使鳥類能夠識別這些特徵的神經功能。作者調查了各種引人注目的鳥類成就，從跨洋飛行和極地飛行到環繞地球的航行。讀者還將了解所需知識是如何通過本能和經驗傳遞給未來世代的。我們對這種信息傳遞的理解今天比五十年前要深刻得多。然而，仍然存在許多未解之謎。比如，一隻離開巴西海岸的信天翁如何找到通往新西蘭海岸岩石上巢穴的路——這是一個仍在等待回答的問題。因此，這本書的另一個目的就是激發對鳥類導航這個迷人而具挑戰性的世界的進一步興趣和新的研究。
作者簡介
Helmut Satz is a German theoretical physicist, working on strongly interacting matter and complex systems. He received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1963, and from 1971, he was a full professor of physics at the University of Bielefeld, with lengthy sojourns at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, USA, at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has published over 200 scientific papers in leading physics journals, and in the past ten years, five popular science books with Oxford University Press and Springer. He is a member of the Academies of Science of Finland and of Poland and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Wroclaw in Poland.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
赫爾穆特·薩茲（Helmut Satz）是一位德國理論物理學家，專注於強相互作用物質和複雜系統的研究。他於1963年在漢堡大學獲得博士學位，並於1971年成為比勒費爾德大學的全職物理教授，期間曾在美國紐約的布魯克海文國家實驗室、瑞士日內瓦的歐洲核子研究組織（CERN）以及葡萄牙里斯本的技術大學進行長期研究。他在頂尖物理學期刊上發表了超過200篇科學論文，並在過去十年內與牛津大學出版社和斯普林格出版社合作出版了五本科普書籍。他是芬蘭和波蘭科學院的成員，並獲得波蘭弗羅茨瓦夫大學的榮譽博士學位。
