Becoming an Ecologist Dialect If Valerie wants a chance

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Becoming an Ecologist Dialect If Valerie wants a chanceWhat forces influence a person's decision to pursue a career in science? And what factors determine which among the many possible pathways a budding scientist chooses to follow? 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. He shares stories from his development as an ornithologist, community ecologist, landscape ecologist, and conservation scientist