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  title info:
    title: Becoming an ecologist
    sub title: career pathways in science
  name:
    name part: Wiens, John A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages)
  abstract: "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"--
  table of contents: 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?
  note: John A. Wiens.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
    topic: Vocational guidance
  subject:
    topic: Ecologists
  subject:
    topic: Écologistes
  subject:
    topic: ecologists
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology
  classification: QH49 .W54 2025
  classification: 577.023
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Becoming an ecologist
    name:
      name part: Wiens, John A.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024033247
    identifier: (OCoLC)1452446992
  identifier: 9780231562041 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0231562047
  identifier: 9780231218047
  identifier: 9780231218054
  identifier: 2024033248
  identifier: 22573/cats22732277 JSTOR
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240722
    record change date: 20250813013728.9
    record identifier: in00005659596
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng