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- PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
- Masters Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
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- Do consumers maximize plant fitness (1976) (245)
- How plants may benefit from the animals that eat them (1980) (156)
- Trophic structure, available resources and population density in terrestrial vs. aquatic ecosystems. (1971) (153)
- Mutualism between Grasses and Grazers: An Evolutionary Hypothesis (1981) (129)
- Species diversity in temperate and tropical Ichneumonidae (1974) (124)
- Ecological genetics and natural selection in mollusks. (1974) (94)
- Camouflage and mimicry (1982) (80)
- Parallel Rise and Fall of Melanic Peppered Moths in America and Britain (1996) (75)
- Suburban Gardens: England's Most Important Nature Reserve? (1975) (60)
- Tropical butterflies: The ecology and behaviour of butterflies in the tropics with special reference to African species, (1971) (57)
- Pheromones. VII. African monarch: major components of the hairpencil secretion (1971) (51)
- Genetics of the butterfly Danaus chrysippus (L.) in a broad hybrid zone, with special reference to sex ratio, polymorphism and intragenomic conflict (1998) (48)
- Why do aphids synthesize melezitose (1978) (47)
- The effect of a consumer, Phytomyza ilicis, on seasonal leaf-fall in the holly, Ilex aquifolium (1978) (47)
- Latitudinal gradients in clutch size: an extension of David Lack’s theory (1977) (41)
- The butterfly Danaus chrysippus (L.) in East Africa: polymorphism and morph-ratio clines within a complex, extensive and dynamic hybrid zone (1997) (40)
- Balanced Polymorphism in the Meadow Spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (1962) (40)
- Polymorphic Müllerian mimicry in a group of African butterflies: a re-assessment of the relationship between Danaus chrysippus, Acraea encedon and Acraea encedana (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) (1994) (40)
- Polymorphism and evolution in the butterfly Danaus chrysippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Danainae) (1993) (39)
- The Food of Nestling Jays and Magpies (1956) (39)
- Mimetic polymorphism and the palatability spectrum (1970) (37)
- Buddleia davidii in Britain: History and development of an associated fauna (1980) (35)
- Geographic and temporal variation in the incidence of melanism in peppered moth populations in America and Britain (1998) (35)
- Massive polymorphism and natural selection in Donacilla cornea (Poli, 1791) (Bivalvia: Mesodesmatidae) (1997) (34)
- Man's environmental predicament: An introduction to human ecology in tropical Africa, (1975) (33)
- Defense Mechanisms of Arthropods. XXVII. Osmeterial Secretions of Papilionid Caterpillars (Baronia, Papilio, Eurytides) (1970) (29)
- Polymorphism and Population Density in the African Land Snail, Limicolaria martensiana (1963) (29)
- On the dangers of interpopulational transfers of monarch butterflies (1995) (28)
- Species diversity in butterflies in a tropical garden (1971) (28)
- Animal Ecology in Tropical Africa (1967) (27)
- Species diversity and seasonal abundance in tropical Ichneumonidae (1970) (27)
- Colour genes as markers for migratory activity : the butterfly Danaus chrysippus in Africa (1997) (25)
- The nesting success of the heron Ardea cinerea in relation to the availability of food. (2009) (24)
- Colonization of Madeira by the speckled wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria (Lepidoptera: Satyridae), and its impact on the endemic Pararge xiphia (1986) (24)
- Grasses and Grazers: Is There a Mutualism? (1982) (24)
- Population biology of tropical African butterflies. Sex ratio and genetic variation in Acraea encedon (2009) (23)
- The Evolution of Melanism in Six Species of North American Geometrid Moths (1962) (21)
- Decline of melanic moths (1995) (20)
- Low Mating Frequencies in an African Butterfly (1973) (19)
- Industrial Melanism in North American Moths (1961) (19)
- Polymorphism in the land snail Cepaea hortensis in Iceland (1972) (19)
- THE FOOD OF THE HERON ARDEA CINEREA IN THE BREEDING SEASON. (2008) (18)
- Inheritance of Sex Ratio in the Butterfly Acraea encedon (1970) (18)
- Mortality of the Great Blue Heron as Shown by Banding Recoveries (1959) (18)
- Density effects in polymorphic land snails (1965) (17)
- Species diversity and seasonal abundance in tropical Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) (2009) (17)
- Response to Petelle's Comments (1980) (17)
- Danaus chrysippus and its polymorphic Müllerian mimics in tropical Africa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae). (1993) (16)
- Seasonal Changes in Relative Abundance and Estimates of Species Diversity in a Family of Tropical Butterflies (1972) (16)
- Similar Polymorphisms in an Insect and a Land Snail (1963) (15)
- Nature Reserves: A Customer Satisfaction Index (1976) (15)
- Variation in North American Screech Owls and the Subspecies Concept (1963) (14)
- INSECT DIVERSITY IN AN ENGLISH SUBURBAN GARDEN (1978) (14)
- Long-term studies of the Medionigra polymorphism in the moth Panaxia dominula: a critique (1997) (14)
- All‐female broods and mimetic polymorphism in Acraea encedon (L.) (Lepidoptera: Acraeidae) in Tanzania (1991) (14)
- Reflexive Selection: Moment's Hypothesis Resurrected (1986) (14)
- Predominantly female populations of an African butterfly (1966) (13)
- Interpopulation variation and selective predation in the meadow brown butterfly, Maniola jurtina (L.) (Lepidoptera: Satyridae) in the Canary Islands (1990) (12)
- Drought and desertification in Africa: lessons from the Nairobi Conference (1979) (12)
- Beating the Walnut Tree: More on Grass/Grazer Mutualism (1982) (12)
- A POPULATION STUDY OF AN EQUATORIAL LAND SNAIL, LIMICOLARIA MARTENSIANA (ACHATINIDAE) (2009) (12)
- Low Mating Frequency in Predominantly Female Populations of the Butterfly, Acraea encedon (L.) (Lep.) (1973) (12)
- Insect Defences. Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, David L. Evans, Justin O. Schmidt (Eds.). State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (1990), xv (1992) (12)
- SURVIVAL IN RELATION TO BROOD‐SIZE IN TITS (2009) (12)
- Change in Sex Ratio in an African Butterfly (1965) (11)
- Exploring mimetic diversity in West African forest butterflies (1974) (11)
- Seasonal change in sex ratio in Acraea quirina (F.) (Lep. Nymphalidae), and notes on the factors causing distortions of the sex ratio in butterflies (1974) (11)
- The medionigra polymorphism in the moth, Panaxia dominula (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae): a critical re-assessment (1993) (10)
- The Language of Attack and Defence (1990) (10)
- Estimating the abundance and diversity of butterflies (1975) (10)
- Polymorphism in the Screech Owl in Eastern North America (1963) (10)
- Natural selection and evolution in moths: homage to J. W. Tutt (1997) (10)
- THE WINTER WEIGHTS OF TITMICE. (2008) (10)
- Polymorphism in Pleistocene Land Snails (1966) (9)
- Abundance and diversity of bumblebees and cuckoo bees in a suburban garden (1978) (9)
- Polymorphism in Living and Pleistocene Populations of the African Land Snail, Limicolaria martensiana (1963) (9)
- THE BREEDING SEASON AND CLUTCH-SIZE OF THE ROOK CORVUS FRUGILEGUS (2008) (9)
- Conservation of Butterflies in Garden Habitats (1976) (8)
- What Is Ecology? (1975) (8)
- Species diversity and seasonal abundance in Charaxes butterflies (Nymphalidae) (2009) (7)
- Parallel Evolution in European and North American Populations of a Geometrid Moth (1962) (7)
- Chapter 4 – Leaf Eating as Mutualism (1987) (7)
- Ecological aspects of polymorphism in an African land snail, Limicolaria martensiana (2009) (7)
- Effect of temperature on the expression of the medionigra phenotype of the moth Panaxia dominula (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) (1994) (7)
- Species diversity in tropical Sphingidae and a systematic list of species collected in Sierra Leone (1972) (7)
- Colonization of Industrial Wasteland , by R. P. Gemmell. (Studies in Biology No. 80.) Edward Arnold, London, England: iii + 75 pp., illustr., 21.4 × 13.8 × 0.5 cm, £3.20 (boards), £1.60 (paper covers), 1977. (1978) (6)
- POLYMORPHISM IN THE ARCTIC SKUA STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS IN ICELAND (2008) (6)
- Polymorphic Mimicry in a Population of the African Butterfly, Pseudacraea eurytus (L.) (Lep. Nymphalidae) (1972) (6)
- A hole in a tent or how to explore insect abundance and diversity (1983) (6)
- Darwin's "Abominable Mystery" and the Need for Speculation in Evolutionary Ecology (1983) (6)
- The inheritance and population genetics of sex ratio in the butterfly Acraea encedon (2009) (6)
- The white snails of Africa: the significance of Man in the maintenance of a striking polymorphism (1986) (6)
- Natural selection and the scarlet tiger moth, Panaxia dominula: inconsistencies in the scoring of the heterozygote, f. medionigra (1991) (6)
- Bimodal Occurrence of Breeding in an Equatorial Land Snail (1964) (5)
- Assessing Insect Species-richness at a Single Site (1990) (5)
- Apparent stability in hindwing diversity in samples of moths of varying species composition (1975) (5)
- THE EFFICIENCY OF BLUE TITS PARUS CAERULEUS PREYING ON LARVAE OF PHYTOMYZA ILICIS (2008) (5)
- Evidence that reflexive polymorphismms are maintained by visual selection by predators (1989) (5)
- Increase in larval foodplant diversity during a population explosion of the moth, Panaxia dominula (L.) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) (1994) (5)
- Do Native Plants Support a Richer Lepidopteran Fauna than Alien Plants? (1986) (4)
- Utilization of alien Asclepiadaceae as larval food-plants by Danaus plexippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) on the Atlantic Islands. (1989) (4)
- The beach clams of Thessaloniki: reflexive or apostatic selection? (1988) (4)
- Spot variation in Maniola jurtina (L.) (Lepidoptera: Satyridae) in southern Portugal and a comparison with the Canary Islands (1993) (4)
- Lessons from a Caterpillar Plague in London's Berkeley Square (1975) (4)
- Inter-island variation in the butterfly Hipparchia (Pseudotergumia) wyssii (Christ, 1889) (Lepidoptera, Satyrinae) in the Canary Islands (1994) (4)
- Britain's successful moth colonist: Blair's shoulder-knot Lithophane leautieri (noctuidae) (1982) (3)
- Equisetum-feeding larvae of Panaxia (Callimorpha) dominula (L.) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) (1993) (3)
- Can Danaus chrysippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) establish itself in Europe? (1991) (3)
- LAND-AND SEA-BIRD MIGRATION IN NORTH-WEST SPAIN, AUTUMN 1954 (2008) (3)
- Man in tropical Africa : the environmental predicament (1973) (3)
- Colour Change and Polymorphism in Chamaeleo bitaeniatus (1964) (3)
- Aphids and plant fitness: 1984 (1984) (3)
- Evolution of Crop Plants , Edited by N. W. Simmonds, Longman, London & New York: xii + 339 pp., 19.0 × 25.0 × 2.6 cm, £14, 1976. (1977) (3)
- Nature in Trust: The History of Nature Conservation in Britain , by John Sheail. Blackie, Glasgow & London: xiv + 270 pp., 16 figs, 24.0 × 16.0 × 2.5 cm, £5.95, 1976.--- Either ISSN or Journal title must be supplied. (1976) (2)
- The plants we eat (1983) (2)
- Butterflies on Madeira in April 1985 (1987) (2)
- First-year ecology (1975) (2)
- Massive Species Diversity in a Sample of Ichneumonidae (Hym.) from Southern Sweden (1974) (2)
- Guest Comment: Trouble in the Cabbage-patch (1994) (2)
- Genetics of Some Polymorphic Forms of the African Butterfly, Acraea encedon L. (Lep.) (1971) (2)
- Pseudaletis leonis : a rare mimetic butterfly in a West African rain forest (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). (1991) (2)
- Interisland Phenotypic Diversity in Pararge xiphioides (Staudinger) (Lepidoptera: Satryidae) in the Canary Islands (1993) (2)
- The Census of Heronries 1955–56 (1957) (2)
- Insect Migration in S.W. France (1954) (2)
- NIGHTJARS ON ROADS AT NIGHT (2008) (1)
- The ecology of under‐development in tropical Africa (1973) (1)
- Monarch Transfer: A Real Concern? (1996) (1)
- The geographical distribution of Buddleia-feeding in Cucullia verbasci (L.) (Noctuidae) in the British Isles (1984) (1)
- A Southward Movement of the Painted Lady Butterfly in Wyoming (1985) (1)
- Human Inequality: An Ecologist's Point of View (1976) (1)
- Hawkmoths in tropical African gardens (1970) (1)
- Public Perception of Wildlife Casualties in England (1994) (1)
- Monarch transfer: A real concern? Reply (1996) (1)
- Modal Variation in Isolated Populations of a Tropical Beetle (1965) (1)
- Butterflies of the World , by H. L. Lewis. Harrap, £10. (1974) (1)
- Polymorphism in West African populations of the butterfly, Acraea encedon (2010) (1)
- Acherontia atropos (Lep.: Sphingidae) breeding in Oxfordshire in 1994 (1995) (0)
- Nature in Cities. Edited by Ian C. Laurie. John Wiley, Chichester, U.K.: x + 428 pp., illustr., 25.0 × 17.0 × 3.2 cm, £17.50, 1979. (1979) (0)
- Trade Threats to Butterflies (1974) (0)
- Experimental growing of leeks for gardener and scientist (1987) (0)
- Hipparchia neomiris Godart (Lep.: Satyridae) at sea level in Corsica (1986) (0)
- It is found .... on all sorts of low plants (1986) (0)
- THE INTERPRETATION OF POLYMORPHISM IN THE AFRICAN BUSH‐SHRIKES (2008) (0)
- The Selfish Gene , by Richard Dawkins. Oxford University Press, London: vii + 224 pp., 14.2 × 22.2 + 2.5 cm, £2.95, 1976. (1977) (0)
- Legion of Night: The Underwing Moths , by Theodore D. Sargent. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts: xiii + 222 pp., 8 colour plates and numerous text figures, 25.8 × 18.3 × 2.3 cm, $15.00, 1976. (1976) (0)
- David L. Evans Justin O. Schmidt (1992) (0)
- A Field Guide to the Birds of East and Central Africa J. G. Williams (1964) (0)
- Garden Pests and Diseases , by M. H. Dahl & T. B. Thygesen. Blanford Press, London: 223 pp., 313 illustr., 12.5 × 18.8 × 1.2 cm, £2.50, 1974. (1976) (0)
- Amateur naturalists in long-term studies: Monitoring butterflies for ecology and conservation by E. Pollard and TJ Yates Chapman & Hall, 1993. £35.00 hbk (xiii + 274 pages) ISBN 0 412 40220 3 (1994) (0)
- The British Butterflies: Their Origin and Establishment, by R. L. H. Dennis. E. W. Classey, Faringdon, England: xviii + 318 pp., 22.2 × 14.2 × 3.0 cm, £10, 1977. (1978) (0)
- Butterflies of Europe. Vol. 1. Concise bibliography: Edited by Otakar Kudrna. Pp. 447. AULA-Verlag, Wiesbaden. 1985. DM 248 (subscription price DM 216) (1986) (0)
- Pseudopontia paradoxa, a unique butterfly of the rain forest of West and Central Africa (1971) (0)
- Peridea anceps Goeze: great prominent, in late July (1985) (0)
- The systems analysis approach to environmental and natural resources management in the Baltic region: Edited by V. Vidal, A. Straszak and H. Ravn, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1989. No price given (1990) (0)
- A field guide to the butterflies of Africa: by John G. Williams. Collins, London: 238 pp., 24 colour plates and many line drawings, 13 × 20 cm, 45s., 1969 (1970) (0)
- Baculovirus Pesticides: More Uncertainties about Field Trials (1995) (0)
- Africa, the Devastated Continent? by Antoon de Vos W. Junk, The Hague: 236 pp., 46 photos and 3 other figs, 24.8 × 16.0 × 1.5 cm, 65 Dutch Guilders, 1975. (1976) (0)
- Rabies and Britain's Dog Population (1975) (0)
- Research and development in East Africa : seven papers presented at a plenary session at the third symposium of the East African Academy, Dar es Salaam, September 1965 (1966) (0)
- SHOWN BY BANDING RECOVERIES (2016) (0)
- Ecological principles in development planning : a manual and check-list for the tropics (1974) (0)
- Abundance of Aporophyla nigra (Haworth) (Lep.: Noctuidae) in Oxfordshire (1990) (0)
- Rajah Brooke's Birdwing (1976) (0)
- Butterflies in central Spain in May 1982, including a record of northward migration (1984) (0)
- The Ecology of Natural Resources , by I. G. Simmons. Edward Arnold, London: viii + 424 pp., illustr., 24 × 18 × 3cm., £8, 1974. (1975) (0)
- Fluctuations in abundance of Coccinellidae (to be continued) (1982) (0)
- Butterflies on El Hierro (1988) (0)
- Rabies and Britain's ‘Dog Vote’ (1977) (0)
- Butterflies lost (1975) (0)
- Larvae of Camptogramma bilineata L.: yellow shell feeding on Cruciferae (1982) (0)
- Little gull in Sierra Leone (1969) (0)
- POLYMORPHISM IN THE SCREECH OWL IN EASTERN (2016) (0)
- Elphinstonia charlonia (Lep.: Pieridae) and Polyommatus icarus (Lep.: Lycaenidae) on Lanzarote (1988) (0)
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