| Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Please note: Stuart has left the "Center for Latin American Caribbean Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date. Stuart Pimm is a world leader in the study of present-day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. His research covers the reasons why species become extinct, how fast they do so, the global patterns of habitat loss and species extinction and, importantly, the management consequences of this research. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974. Pimm is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books. He is one of the most highly cited environmental scientists. Pimm wrote the highly acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth in 2001. His commitment to the interface between science and policy has led to his testimony to both House and Senate Committees on the re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. He was worked and taught in Africa for nearly 30 years on elephants, most recently lions — through National Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative — but always on topics that relate to the conservation of wildlife and the ecosystems on which they depend. Other research areas include the Everglades of Florida and tropical forests in South America, especially the Atlantic Coast forest of Brazil and the northern Andes — two of the world's "hotspots" for threatened species. His international honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), the Society for Conservation Biology’s Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award (2006), and the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, from the Marsh Christian Trust (awarded by the Zoological Society of London in 2004). Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, awarded him the William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2007. In 2019, he won the International Cosmos Prize, which recognised his founding and directing Saving Nature, www.savingnature.org, a non-profit that uses donations for carbon emissions offsets to fund local conservation groups in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity to restore their degraded lands.
- Contact Info:
Teaching (Spring 2024):
- ECE 365.01, RAINFOREST ENGINEERING
Synopsis
- Gross Hall 0050, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- (also cross-listed as ENVIRON 454.01)
- ECE 534.01, GRAD RAINFOREST ENGINEERING
Synopsis
- Gross Hall 0050, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- (also cross-listed as ENVIRON 554.01)
Teaching (Fall 2024):
- ENVIRON 210D.001, CONSERVING THE VARIETY OF LIFE
Synopsis
- FFSC 4233, MW 04:40 PM-05:55 PM
- ENVIRON 210D.01D, CONSERVING THE VARIETY OF LIFE
Synopsis
- Grainger 1105, M 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- ENVIRON 210D.02D, CONSERVING THE VARIETY OF LIFE
Synopsis
- LSRC A155, Th 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- ENVIRON 590.126, SPECIAL TOPICS
Synopsis
- LSRC A211, F 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- ENVIRON 703.001, CONSERVA BIO:THEORY/PRAC
Synopsis
- FFSC 4233, MW 04:40 PM-05:55 PM
- ENVIRON 703.01D, CONSERVA BIO:THEORY/PRAC
Synopsis
- LSRC A155, Th 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. | New Mexico State University | 1974 |
B.A. | University of Oxford (United Kingdom) | 1971 |
- Specialties:
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biodiversity
conservation biology
- Keywords:
- Africa • Agriculture • Algorithms • Andes • Animal Distribution • Animals • Aquatic Organisms • Bayes Theorem • Biodiversity • Biogeography • Birds • Bolivia • Brazil • Central America • Classification • Climate Change • Colombia • Conservation of Natural Resources • Demography • Ecology • Ecosystem • Endangered Species • Environment • Environmental Pollution • Extinction, Biological • Feeding Behavior • Female • Florida panther • Food • Food Chain • Food Supply • Forestry • Fossil Fuels • Fuel Oils • Geographic Mapping • Geography • Government Agencies • Greenhouse Effect • Human Activities • Humans • Internationality • Islands • Male • Management • Models, Biological • Models, Statistical • Models, Theoretical • Oviposition • Peru • Phylogeny • Plant Development • Plants • Population • Population Density • Population Dynamics • Population Groups • Probability • Protected areas • Public Policy • Reintroduction • Risk • Satellite Communications • South America • Species Specificity • Temperature • Travel • Tropical Climate • Ungulates
- Curriculum Vitae
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Pimm, SL; Diamond, J; Bishop, KD, Species coexistence by wide constant size spacing.,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120 no. 9
(February, 2023),
pp. e2217904120 [doi] [abs]
- Warudkar, A; Goyal, N; Kher, V; Vinay, KL; Chanda, R; Bandi, RS; Jenkins, CN; Robin, VV; Pimm, S, Using the area of habitat to assess the extent of protection of India's birds,
Biotropica, vol. 54 no. 6
(November, 2022),
pp. 1466-1479 [doi] [abs]
- Tinsley-Marshall, P; Downey, H; Adum, G; Al-Fulaij, N; Bourn, NAD; Brotherton, PNM; Frick, WF; Hancock, MH; Hellon, J; Hudson, MA; Kortland, K; Mastro, K; McNicol, CM; McPherson, T; Mickleburgh, S; Moss, JF; Nichols, CP; O'Brien, D; Ockendon, N; Paterson, S; Parks, D; Pimm, SL; Schofield, H; Simkins, AT; Watuwa, J; Wormald, K; Wilkinson, J; Wilson, JD; Sutherland, WJ, Funding and delivering the routine testing of management interventions to improve conservation effectiveness,
Journal for Nature Conservation, vol. 67
(June, 2022) [doi] [abs]
- Pimm, S, We can have biodiversity and eat too.,
Nature Food, vol. 3 no. 5
(May, 2022),
pp. 310-311, Springer Science and Business Media LLC [doi]
- Pimm, S, Thomas Lovejoy (1941-2021).,
Current Biology : Cb, vol. 32 no. 10
(May, 2022),
pp. R446 [doi] [abs]
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