Pimm, Stuart L. <br/><br/>
The balance of nature?: ecological issues in the conversation of species and communities/ 
Stuart L. Pimm 
 - Chicago:  University Of Chicago Press,  1991. 
 - xiii, 434 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226668307 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biodiversity conservation<br/>Species diversity<br/>Biotic communities
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>574.5247  / PIM/T