Climate Change Data Portal
| Serendipity | |
| 其他题名 | 意外 |
| Estes; James A. | |
| 出版日期 | 2016-05-17 |
| 出版者 | University Of California Press |
| 国家 | 美国 |
| 摘要 | To newly minted biologist James Estes, the sea otters he was studying in the leafy kelp forests off the coast of Alaska appeared to have an unbalanced relationship with their greater environment. Gorging themselves on the sea urchins that grazed among the kelp, these small charismatic mammals seemed to give little back in return. But as Estes dug deeper, he unearthed a far more complex relationship between the otter and its underwater environment, discovering that otters play a critical role in driving positive ecosystem dynamics. While teasing out the connective threads, he began to question our assumptions about ecological relationships. These questions would ultimately inspire a lifelong quest to better understand the surprising complexity of our natural world and the unexpected ways we discover it. Serendipity tells the story of James Estes’s life as a naturalist and the concepts that have driven his interest in researching the ecological role of top-level predators. Using the relationships between sea otters, kelp, and sea urchins as a touchstone, Estes retraces his investigations of numerous other species, ecosystems, and ecological processes in an attempt to discover why ecologists can learn so many details about the systems in which they work and yet understand so little about the broader processes that influence these systems. Part memoir, part natural history, and deeply inquisitive, Serendipity will entertain and inform readers as it raises thoughtful questions about our relationship with the natural world. |
| ISBN | 9780520285033 |
| 所属丛书 | Organisms and Environments |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 文献类型 | 专著 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/122019 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Estes,James A.. Serendipity[M]:University Of California Press,2016. |
| 条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 | |||||
| 个性服务 |
| 推荐该条目 |
| 保存到收藏夹 |
| 导出为Endnote文件 |
| 谷歌学术 |
| 谷歌学术中相似的文章 |
| [Estes]的文章 |
| [James A.]的文章 |
| 百度学术 |
| 百度学术中相似的文章 |
| [Estes]的文章 |
| [James A.]的文章 |
| 必应学术 |
| 必应学术中相似的文章 |
| [Estes]的文章 |
| [James A.]的文章 |
| 相关权益政策 |
| 暂无数据 |
| 收藏/分享 |
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
