Becoming an Ecologist

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