Stuart L. Pimm

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Stuart Leonard Pimm (born February 27, 1949 in Derby , Derbyshire , England ) is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist of British origin.

Life

In 1971 Pimm received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Oxford . In 1974 he was with the dissertation Community Process and Structure at the New Mexico State University for Ph.D. PhD. From 1974 to 1975, Pimm was an assistant professor at Clemson University , South Carolina. From 1975 to 1979 he was Assistant Professor and from 1979 to 1982 Associate Professor at Texas Tech University . From 1982 to 1986 he was an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee . From 1984 to 1999 he was a mentor in the University of Tennessee's Science Alliance Program. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment .

Pimm's main interest is research into the causes of species extinction . In this position he is a sought-after expert in film and television. He has appeared in the films Our Planet in 2006, 11th Hour - 5 to 12 with Leonardo DiCaprio in 2007, in What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire in 2007 and in Racing Extinction in 2015 Another area of ​​research is the mathematical representation of the properties of food webs, in which he showed that complex food webs are less stable than simple ones.

Awards

In 2004, Stuart Pimm became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2006 he received the AH-Heineken Prize for Environmental Science and in 2010 he was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement .

Works (selection)

  • 1980: Annals of Carnegie Museum (with Robert J. Baker and Karen McBee)
  • 1982: Food Webs. Chapman and Hall, London.
  • 1985: Utility of Morphological Distance Measures Clustering Algorithms: Test Using Phyllostomid Bats (with Robert J. Baker and Karen McBee)
  • 1991: The Balance of Nature? Ecological issues in the conservation of species and communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
  • 1991: Dynamic of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs (Population and community biology series) (with DL De Angelis)
  • 2001: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth. McGraw Hill, New York.
  • 2002: Sparrow in the grass. Printed privately by National Park Service. (with JL Lockwood, CN Jenkins, JL Curnutt, MP Nott, RD Powell, and OL Bass, Jr.)
  • 2004: A Scientist Audits the Earth
  • 2015: Patterns in Nature: The Analysis of Species Co-Occurrences (with James G. Sanderson)

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personal data
SURNAME Pimm, Stuart L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pimm, Stuart Leonard (full name); Pimm, Stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American evolutionary biologist and ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Derby , Derbyshire , England