Wild Science
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4863-1763-9 (ISBN)
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What's it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen for 40 years?From deserts to rainforests and even the polar Arctic, scientists venture into the field to collect, observe and study the world's organisms and the environments they live in. But even with the best planning, unexpected weather, unpredictable animals and unforeseen encounters can occur.
Wild Science: Unexpected Encounters When Working in Nature explores the precarious, hilarious and thought-provoking stories 'behind the science'. It shows the value of these experiences, even when things don't go right, and the importance of fieldwork for understanding our own place in the world.
Dr Helen P. Waudby is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Gulbali Institute at Charles Sturt University, and a conservation biologist with the NSW Government. She has over 20 years' experience in wildlife research and conservation, and also co-edited the book Wildlife Research in Australia: Practical and Applied Methods (CSIRO Publishing, 2022).
Foreword - Ann Jones
Preface
About the editor
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1: Ngarridjarrkbolknahnan kunred: Looking after Country together in West Arnhem Land - Cara Penton, Terrah Guymala and Warddeken Rangers
2: Avoiding arrest while chasing hedgehogs - Christopher R. Dickman
3: The Big Roo Count: kangaroos, kids and calamity - Euan G. Ritchie
4: In search of a kingdom - Pam Catcheside
5: A leopard at the nursery door - Neil R. Jordan
6: If the gators don't get you, the bugs will - Laura Kojima
7: Raising rays - Leonardo Guida
8: In pursuit of pollinators - Manu E. Saunders
9: Of absences and Amazonia - David M. Watson
10: Caving for spiders - Jessica Marsh
11: Some cockatoos I've met - Erika M. Roper
12: What a botanist can learn from a dog - Laura M. Skates
13: Bears, drugs and guns - Andrew E. Derocher
14: Clever Aotearoa New Zealand birds - Isabel Castro
15: Expect the unexpected when dealing with the devil - David G. Hamilton
16: Outfoxed by a jackal, and other tales from the Indian savanna - Abi T. Vanak
17: Finding frogs in the most unexpected of places - Jodi J. L. Rowley
18: Encounters with mountain gorillas - Wayne Boardman
19: Lazy lions and hungry hyaenas - Robert Heinsohn
20: Don't be a lemming - Jo Isaac
21: Places where a kea's beak shouldn't be - Lydia McLean
22: Coral slime, feisty fish, shark encounters and the importance of looking up - Tracy Ainsworth
23: People are strange: studying nature in cities - Dieter F. Hochuli
24: A dingo gold mine - Bradley P. Smith
25: Bogged in the desert - Helen P. Waudby
Index to locations and species
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Melbourne |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 260 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4863-1763-4 / 1486317634 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4863-1763-9 / 9781486317639 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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