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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Estes, J. A. (James A.), 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Organisms and environments.
Subjects:
Sea otter > Ecology > Alaska.
Marine ecology > Alaska.
Biotic communities > Alaska.
Loutre de mer > Écologie > Alaska.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
SCIENCE > General.
Biotic communities.
Marine ecology.
Sea otter > Ecology.
Alaska.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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