The Balance of Nature?: Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities

by Stuart L. Pimm

Book Overview

Ecologists, although they acknowledge the problems involved, generally conduct their research on too few species, in too small an area, over too short a period of time. In The Balance of Nature?, a work sure to stir controversy, the distinguished theoretical ecologist Stuart L. Pimm argues that ecology therefore fails in many ways to address the enormous ecological problems now facing our planet.

Ecologists describing phenomena on larger...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226668304
• ISBN13: 9780226668307
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"