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The World According To Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Stuart Pimm
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08-10 - Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

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Take a globe-circling tour of our endangered planet with conservation biologist Stuart Pimmwho is taking stock and keeping score. We use 50 percent of the world
A Scientist Audits the Earth
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Stuart Leonard Pimm
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Humans use 50 percent of the world's freshwater supply and consume 42 percent of its plant growth. We are liquidating animals and plants one hundred times faste
The Balance of Nature?
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Stuart L. Pimm
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Why "the balance of nature"? Resilience. Temporal variability and the individual species. The effects of food-web structure. The variability of the environment.
Win-Win Ecology
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Michael L. Rosenzweig
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-24 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth's millions of different species without sacrif
Food Webs
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Stuart L. Pimm
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05-30 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Food webs are diagrams depicting which species interact or in other words, who eats whom. An understanding of the structure and function of food webs is crucial