TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pimm, Stuart L.
TI  - The balance of nature?: ecological issues in the conversation of species and communities
SN  - 9780226668307
U1  - 574.5247 
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University Of Chicago Press
KW  - Biodiversity conservation
KW  - Species diversity
KW  - Biotic communities
N1  - 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
ER  -