Becoming an ecologist : career pathways in science /
"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 as...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2025]
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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?