The balance of nature?: ecological issues in the conversation of species and communities/ Stuart L. Pimm
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1991Description: xiii, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226668307Subject(s): Biodiversity conservation | Species diversity | Biotic communitiesDDC classification: 574.5247Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 574.5247 PIM/T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P11335 |
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574.5 SMI/E Elements of ecology/ | 574.5222 SCH/B Biogeochemistry: an analysis of global change/ | 574.5247 ILL/C Community structure and the Niche/ | 574.5247 PIM/T The balance of nature?: ecological issues in the conversation of species and communities/ | 574.52480151 HAS/P Population biology: concepts and models/ | 574.52480151 HAS/P Population biology: concepts and models/ | 574.52480151 HAS/P Population biology: concepts and models/ |
Why "the balance of nature"? --
Resilience --
Temporal variability and the individual species --
The effects of food-web structure --
The variability of the environment --
Nonlinear dynamics, strange attractors, and chaos --
Extinctions --
Species differences and community structure as explanations of why introductions fail --
Patterns in species composition --
Food-web structure and community persistence --
Community assembly : or, why are there so many kinds of communities? --
Small-scale experimental removals of species --
Food webs and resistance --
Changes in total density and species composition --
The consequences of introductions and extinctions --
Multispecies models and their limitations --
Conclusions and caveats.
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