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Serendipity : an ecologist's quest to understand nature /

"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 larger environment. Gorging themselves on the sea urchins that grazed among the kelp, these small charismatic mammals s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Estes, J. A. (James A.), 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Colección:Organisms and environments.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a In the beginning -- Understanding nature -- The Aleutian archipelago -- Sea otters and kelp forests -- A toe in the arctic ocean -- Return to Attu -- Generality and variation -- A serpentine food web -- Sea otters and the red queen hypothesis: plant/herbivore coevolution -- Sea otters and killer whales -- Megafaunal collapse -- Whale wars -- Foxes and seabirds -- A global perspective -- Retrospection -- Looking to the future. 
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