James A. Estes
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| Born | October 2, 1945 U.S. Geological Survey (UCSC)University of California, Santa Cruz |
James Allen Estes (born October 2, 1945) is an American ecologist and Distinguished Professor at
U.S. Geological Survey from 1974 to 2007 before joining the UCSC faculty. He is a wildlife ecologist known for his work on ecosystem effect of large predators on ecosystems. He co-edited the books The Community Ecology of Sea Otters (1988), Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems (2007), and Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature (2010), and is the author of Serendipity: An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature (2016). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.[2] Estes and his work are featured prominently in the 2018 documentary film The Serengeti Rules.[3]
References
- doi:10.1038/533318a.
- ^ "James Estes". www.nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences.
- ^ "'The Serengeti Rules': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 8 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
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