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| 040 | _cCUS | ||
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_a574.5247 _bPIM/T |
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| 100 | _aPimm, Stuart L. | ||
| 245 | 4 |
_aThe balance of nature?: ecological issues in the conversation of species and communities/ _cStuart L. Pimm |
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_aChicago: _bUniversity Of Chicago Press, _c1991. |
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_axiii, 434 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm. |
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| 505 | _aWhy "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. | ||
| 650 | _aBiodiversity conservation | ||
| 650 | _aSpecies diversity | ||
| 650 | _aBiotic communities | ||
| 942 | _cWB16 | ||