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"This book examines how the pathways an ecologist follows in charting a career can be directed by various factors: one's interests, opportunities that arise, the culture of a science, the influence of key people, life's practicalities, and serendipity. It illustrates why ecologists ask the questions they do and what they do when the answers are not what they expected. It shows how the process of science actually works. John Wiens's aim in this book is to convey the excitement of doing ecology by telling a story about his own development as an ornithologist, community ecologist, landscape ecologist, and conservation scientist. His journey along a branching network of pathways will encourage others that it's possible to follow one's interests and passion for the natural world to become an ecologist. Even more important, there are multiple pathways to be followed, providing avenues for people with diverse interests and backgrounds to chart their own journeys. Ecology will be richer for it"--
Introduction: Charting pathways -- In the beginning : emerging of interests -- Molding of interests -- Starting on the pathway to becoming a scientist -- Defining a pathway -- Beginning an academic career -- Expanding my view of grassland birds -- Extending the pathway : the international biological program -- Scrambing for an explanation : climatic instability and ecological crunches -- Detouring to another pathway : modeling bird bioenergetics -- Moving from grasslands to the arid shrubsteppe -- Challenging the paradigm -- Changing places : pathways and practicalities -- Testing the paradigm : are Australian bird communities different? -- Shifting directions in the shrubsteppe -- Finding things out : field experiments in the shrubsteppe -- Becoming a landscape ecologist -- Dealing with scale -- Following the landscape ecology pathway -- The academic traveling along pathways with students -- Pulled onto a seabird pathway -- Dealing with advocacy : the Exxon Valdez oil spill -- Shifting pathways to conservation -- Bolstering conservation science in the nature conservancy -- Doing conservation science -- Writing into retirement -- Conclusions: What are the lessons for today's aspiring ecologists?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.
New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]