Wiens Becoming an Ecologist

Career Pathways in Science
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-56204-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

John A. Wiens traces his journeys through several subfields of ecology—and, in so doing, gives readers an inside look at how science actually works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiens, John

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Charting Pathways
1. In the Beginning: Emerging of Interests
2. Molding of Interests
3. Starting on the Pathway to Becoming a Scientist
4. Defining a Pathway
5. Beginning an Academic Career
6. Expanding My View of Grassland Birds
7. Extending the Pathway: The International Biological Program
8. Scrambling for an Explanation: Climatic Instability and Ecological Crunches
9. Detouring to Another Pathway: Modeling Bird Bioenergetics

10. Moving from Grasslands to the Arid Shrubsteppe
11. Challenging the Paradigm
12. Changing Places: Pathways and Practicalities
13. Testing the Paradigm: Are Australian Bird Communities Different?
14. Shifting Directions in the Shrubsteppe
15. Finding Things Out: Field Experiments in the Shrubsteppe

16. Becoming a Landscape Ecologist
17. Dealing with Scale
18. Following the Landscape Ecology Pathway
19. Traveling Along Pathways with Students
20. Pulled onto a Seabird Pathway

21. Dealing with Advocacy: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
22. Shifting Pathways to Conservation
23. Bolstering Conservation Science in the Nature Conservancy
24. Doing Conservation Science
25. Writing into Retirement
Conclusions: What Are the Lessons for Today’s Aspiring Ecologists?
Appendix: Scientific Names of Species Mentioned in Text
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John A. Wiens turned a childhood interest in birds into a career in ecology. He served on the faculties of Oregon State University, the University of New Mexico, and Colorado State University, where he is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He then worked for the Nature Conservancy as chief scientist. His work emphasizes the ecology of birds, landscape ecology, and conservation.