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Seasons of life : the biological rhythms that enable living things to thrive and survive / Russell G. Foster & Leon Kreitzman.

Author: Foster, Russell G.

Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Descriptionxii, 303 p. ; ill., port. ; 25 cm.

Note:The generation of the seasons -- Adapting to seasonal change -- Anticipating seasonal change in plants -- Seasonal reproduction in mammals and birds -- Staying put in the cold: hibernation and diapause -- Timing migration -- Seasons and human evolution -- Timing reproduction in humans -- Birth month effects -- Disease and seasonal timing -- Seasonal affective disorder -- The seasonality of dying -- We are all phenology freaks now.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-280) and index.



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Author:
Foster, Russell G.
Subject:
Biological rhythms.
Organisms.
Seasons.
Contributor
Kreitzman, Leon.