The balance of nature?: ecological issues in the conversation of species and communities/ (Record no. 156514)
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| fixed length control field | 00421nam a2200133Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780226668307 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 574.5247 |
| Item number | PIM/T |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pimm, Stuart L. |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The balance of nature?: ecological issues in the conversation of species and communities/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Stuart L. Pimm |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Chicago: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | University Of Chicago Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1991. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii, 434 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Why "the balance of nature"? --<br/>Resilience --<br/>Temporal variability and the individual species --<br/>The effects of food-web structure --<br/>The variability of the environment --<br/>Nonlinear dynamics, strange attractors, and chaos --<br/>Extinctions --<br/>Species differences and community structure as explanations of why introductions fail --<br/>Patterns in species composition --<br/>Food-web structure and community persistence --<br/>Community assembly : or, why are there so many kinds of communities? --<br/>Small-scale experimental removals of species --<br/>Food webs and resistance --<br/>Changes in total density and species composition --<br/>The consequences of introductions and extinctions --<br/>Multispecies models and their limitations --<br/>Conclusions and caveats. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Biodiversity conservation |
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| Keyword | Species diversity |
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| Keyword | Biotic communities |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 29/08/2016 | 574.5247 PIM/T | P11335 | 29/08/2016 | General Books |