Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology and Environmental Sciences and Policy

Office Location:  A301, LSRC Bldg., Box 90328
Office Phone:  (919) 613-8141
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Fall 2013):

Education:

PhDNew Mexico State University1974
BAOxford, United Kingdom1971
Specialties:

biodiversity
conservation biology
Research Interests: Species extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. The loss of tropical forests and its consequences to biodiversity.

Recent Publications

  1. Pimm, Stuart, Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds, NATURE, vol. 491 no. 7423 (November, 2012), pp. 188-189, ISSN 0028-0836
  2. Scheffers, Brett R. and Joppa, Lucas N. and Pimm, Stuart L. and Laurance, William F., What we know and don't know about Earth's missing biodiversity, TRENDS IN ECOLOGY \& EVOLUTION, vol. 27 no. 9 (September, 2012), pp. 501-510, ISSN 0169-5347 [doi]  [abs]
  3. Greenwald, D. Noah and Suckling, Kieran F. and Pimm, Stuart L., Critical Habitat and the Role of Peer Review in Government Decisions, BIOSCIENCE, vol. 62 no. 7 (July, 2012), pp. 686-690, ISSN 0006-3568 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Joppa, Lucas N. and Roberts, David L. and Pimm, Stuart L., Taxonomy that matters, TRENDS IN ECOLOGY \& EVOLUTION, vol. 27 no. 2 (February, 2012), pp. 66, ISSN 0169-5347 [doi]
  5. Riggio, J., A Jacobson, L. Dollar, H. Bauer, M. Becker, A. Dickman, P. Funston, R. Groom, P. Henschel, H. de Iongh, L. Lichtenfeld, and S. L. Pimm (corresponding author)., The size of savannah Africa: a lion’s view, Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 22 (2012), pp. 17-35 [s10531-012-0381-4]