Comments on: Book review – Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature/2019/05/21/book-review-serendipity-an-ecologists-quest-to-understand-nature/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:13:31 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/21/book-review-serendipity-an-ecologists-quest-to-understand-nature/comment-page-1/#comment-94925Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:13:31 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3550#comment-94925[…] that would repopulate the Pacific coast of the USA, a backstory Estes did not really detail in Serendipity. These and other examples form a delectable list of study systems, each more interesting and […]

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]]>By: Book review – Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/21/book-review-serendipity-an-ecologists-quest-to-understand-nature/comment-page-1/#comment-94915Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:00:26 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3550#comment-94915[…] by discussing the ecological importance of sharks, covering such concepts as predation release, trophic cascades, keystone species, fear ecology, and the ecosystem-wide effects of […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/21/book-review-serendipity-an-ecologists-quest-to-understand-nature/comment-page-1/#comment-51240Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:12:31 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3550#comment-51240[…] showing yet other facets of our ignorance of nature. Other prominent candidates are trophic cascades (a good example of the law of escape) and growth, growth trajectories, and the concept of carrying […]

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]]>By: Book review – Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/21/book-review-serendipity-an-ecologists-quest-to-understand-nature/comment-page-1/#comment-19229Fri, 07 May 2021 10:20:35 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3550#comment-19229[…] base, rippling down the food web and influencing a whole ecosystem. Now, such trophic cascades do occur in nature, but in Yellowstone’s case, the narrative has been hijacked by that one viral video clip, How […]

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]]>By: Book review – Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/21/book-review-serendipity-an-ecologists-quest-to-understand-nature/comment-page-1/#comment-4107Tue, 21 May 2019 13:06:52 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3550#comment-4107[…] involving orcas, sea otters, sea urchins, and kelp forests that James A. Estes recounted in Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature. Sea urchins eat kelp. When otters were reintroduced following overhunting for fur, kelp forests […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/21/book-review-serendipity-an-ecologists-quest-to-understand-nature/comment-page-1/#comment-4106Tue, 21 May 2019 13:05:22 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3550#comment-4106[…] population explosion of krill, their main predator now having been removed. But, as also related in Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature, ecosystems are complex and marine ones are perhaps even harder to gauge for us landlubbers. […]

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