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 2009):

Teaching (Spring 2010):

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.

Representative Publications

  1. Montoya, J. M., S. L. Pimm and R.V. Solé, Ecological networks and their fragility, Nature, vol. 442 (2006), pp. 259-264
  2. Van Houtan, K. S. & Pimm, S. L., The Christian ethics of species conservation, in Religion and the New Ecology: Environmental Prudence in a World in Flux, edited by D. M. Lodge & C. Hamlin (2006), pp. 116-147, University of Notre Dame Press, South Bend, IN
  3. S.L. Pimm, Food Webs (with a new Forward). (2003), Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press ((with a new Forward).)
  4. Pimm, S.L. and C. Jenkins, Sustaining the variety of Life, Scientific American (September, 2005), pp. 66-73
  5. S.L. Pimm, The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth (2001), pp. 304, New York: McGraw Hill