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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
108
Citations
55064
World Ranking
190
National Ranking
82

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Stuart L. Pimm is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and specializes in environmental science, with a focus on ecology and conservation. Their work spans multiple subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their research covers a range of topics primarily related to wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics, wildlife conservation and criminology analyses, wildlife-road interactions and conservation, geographies of human-animal interactions, and conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Recent publications include:

  • Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention (2020), Science
  • The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics (2022), Science Advances
  • The global significance of biodiversity science in China: an overview (2021), National Science Review
  • How China expanded its protected areas to conserve biodiversity (2020), Current Biology
  • Spatial models of giant pandas under current and future conditions reveal extinction risks (2021), Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent coauthors in the scientist's body of work include William J. Sutherland, Nick A. Littlewood, Rebecca K. Smith, Sarah L. Lockhart, and Rebecca F. Schoonover.

Publication venues in which this scientist has appeared multiple times include Science, Current Biology, PLoS ONE, Science Advances, and National Science Review.

Stuart L. Pimm has also contributed a book published by the University of Cambridge titled Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for terrestrial mammals excluding bats and primates (2020).

Recognition for this scientist's work includes being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

Best Publications

  • The complexity and stability of ecosystems

    Stuart L. Pimm

  • The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

    S. L. Pimm;C. N. Jenkins;R. Abell;T. M. Brooks

  • The future of biodiversity

    S. L. Pimm;G. J. Russell;J. L. Gittleman;T. M. Brooks

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

    Stuart L. Pimm

  • Ecological networks and their fragility

    José M. Montoya;Stuart L. Pimm;Ricard V. Solé

  • On the Risk of Extinction

    Stuart L. Pimm;H. Lee Jones;Jared Diamond

  • Biodiversity. Extinction by numbers

    Stuart L. Pimm;Peter Raven

  • Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation.

    Clinton N. Jenkins;Stuart L. Pimm;Lucas N. Joppa

  • The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;José L.C. Camargo;Regina C.C. Luizão;Susan G. Laurance;Susan G. Laurance

  • Food web patterns and their consequences

    Stuart L. Pimm;Stuart L. Pimm;John H. Lawton;Joel E. Cohen

  • Body sizes of animal predators and animal prey in food webs

    Joel E. Cohen;Stuart L. Pimm;Peter Yodzis;Joan Saldana

  • The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss.

    Varsha Vijay;Stuart L. Pimm;Clinton N. Jenkins;Sharon J. Smith

  • Number of trophic levels in ecological communities

    S. L. Pimm;J. H. Lawton

  • Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction.

    Jurriaan M. De Vos;Jurriaan M. De Vos;Lucas N. Joppa;John L. Gittleman;Patrick R. Stephens

  • On feeding on more than one trophic level

    S. L. Pimm

  • Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples

    Matt Finer;Clinton N. Jenkins;Stuart L. Pimm;Brian Keane

  • Time Lag between Deforestation and Bird Extinction in Tropical Forest Fragments

    Thomas M. Brooks;Stuart L. Pimm;Joseph O. Oyugi

  • Navigating the complexity of ecological stability

    Ian Donohue;Helmut Hillebrand;Jose M. Montoya;Owen L. Petchey

  • Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention.

    Andrew P. Dobson;Stuart L. Pimm;Lee Hannah;Les Kaufman

  • On the protection of "protected areas".

    Lucas N. Joppa;Scott R. Loarie;Stuart L. Pimm

  • Ecology and evolution of Darwin's finches: by Peter R. Grant, Princeton University Press, 1986. $55.00/£36.70 hbk, $22.50/£15.10 pbk (458 pages) ISBN 0 691 08427 0

    Stuart L. Pimm

Frequent Co-Authors

Clinton N. Jenkins
Clinton N. Jenkins Florida International University
Lucas Joppa
Lucas Joppa Microsoft (United States)
Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
Peter H. Raven
Peter H. Raven Missouri Botanical Garden
Kyle S. Van Houtan
Kyle S. Van Houtan Duke University
Jared M. Diamond
Jared M. Diamond University of California, Los Angeles
Rudi J. van Aarde
Rudi J. van Aarde University of Pretoria
John L. Gittleman
John L. Gittleman University of Georgia
John H. Lawton
John H. Lawton Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University

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