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John Acorn

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#2230

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#28

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#103

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John Acorn

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According to Wikipedia, John Acorn is a Canadian naturalist. He is a lecturer at the University of Alberta, a research associate at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, and a research associate at the E.H. Strickland Entomology Museum. He is also a local Edmonton celebrity, combining folk music with educational lyrics about the natural world.

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John Acorn's Published Works

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The Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba (2004) (68)
The mandibles of some adult ground beetles: structure, function, and the evolution of herbivory (Coleoptera: Carabidae) (1991) (54)
Negative relationships between species richness and evenness render common diversity indices inadequate for assessing long-term trends in butterfly diversity (2017) (38)
Decoupling habitat fragmentation from habitat loss: butterfly species mobility obscures fragmentation effects in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands (2017) (31)
Localized disturbances from oil sands developments increase butterfly diversity and abundance in Alberta's boreal forests. (2018) (30)
Mandibles and labrum-epipharynx of tiger beetles: basic structure and evolution (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelitae) (2011) (22)
Narrow anthropogenic corridors direct the movement of a generalist boreal butterfly (2018) (22)
Composite Effects of Cutlines and Wildfire Result in Fire Refuges for Plants and Butterflies in Boreal Treed Peatlands (2019) (20)
The theory of island biogeography, the sample‐area effect, and the habitat diversity hypothesis: complementarity in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands (2018) (17)
Gene flow and climate‐associated genetic variation in a vagile habitat specialist (2020) (15)
Entomological citizen science in Canada (2017) (13)
Distribution of Cranberry Blue Butterflies (Agriades optilete) and Their Responses to Forest Disturbance from In Situ Oil Sands and Wildfires (2018) (11)
Perceptual Range, Targeting Ability, and Visual Habitat Detection by Greater Fritillary Butterflies Speyeria cybele (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Speyeria atlantis (2019) (10)
Tiger Beetles of Yunnan (2009) (10)
Fossil Mayfly Larvae (Ephemeroptera, cf. Heptageniidae) from the Late Cretaceous Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada (2013) (7)
Documenting successful recruitment of monarch butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) at the extreme northern edge of their range (2018) (6)
Boreal songbirds and variable retention management: a 15-year perspective on avian conservation and forestry (2018) (6)
Ladybugs of Alberta: Finding the Spots and Connecting the Dots (2007) (6)
Invasion of the Seven-Spotted Certainty Snatchers (2007) (5)
Of detectability and camouflage: evaluating Pollard Walk rules using a common, cryptic butterfly (2020) (5)
Response to Kellner (2017) 'Rebuttal of Martin-Silverstone, E., J.R.N. Glasier, J.H. Acorn, S. Mohr, and P.J. Currie, 2017' (2017) (4)
The World's Biggest Bug is a Grub (2006) (4)
Reassesment of Dawndraco kanzai Kellner, 2010 and reassignment of the type specimen to Pteranodon sternbergi Harksen, 1966 (2017) (4)
A Sea Scorpion’s Strike: New Evidence of Extreme Lateral Flexibility in the Opisthosoma of Eurypterids (2017) (4)
Amateurs and Abandoned Science (2009) (4)
Genomic distinctness despite shared color patterns among threatened populations of a tiger beetle (2021) (4)
An ornithurine bird coracoid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada (2020) (3)
The Pokèmon Paradox (2009) (3)
First Record of the Myrmecophilous Sap Beetle Amphotis ulkei Leconte (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in Canada (2013) (3)
The real “fire ants”: colony size and body size of workers influence the fate of boreal sand hill ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) after wildfires in Alberta, Canada (2014) (3)
25 Chapter 2 Sand Hill Arthropods in Canadian Grasslands (2011) (3)
Negative relationships between species richness and evenness render common diversity indices inadequate for assessing long-term trends in butterfly diversity (2016) (2)
Boreal Sand Hills are Areas of High Diversity for Boreal Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2019) (2)
Butterflies of British Columbia (2006) (2)
Identification “by eye”: integrative character assessment informs regional field identification of greater fritillary butterflies (Nymphalidae: Speyeria) (2019) (2)
Monarchs and Managing the Media (2012) (2)
The Primitive Subject of Female Bodybuilding: Transgression and Other Postmodern Myths (2001) (2)
A Checklist of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Saskatchewan (2016) (2)
Distinguishing effects of area per se and isolation from the sample-area effect for true islands and habitat fragments (2021) (2)
Overwintering survival of the seven-spot ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata) in Edmonton (1999) (2)
Bug Songs are Rarely About Bugs (2014) (1)
Genomics-informed species delimitation to support morphological identification of anglewing butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Polygonia) (2018) (1)
Bringing up the Rearing (2014) (1)
Converging on Convergence (2014) (1)
Take That, Christmas Bird Counts! (2012) (1)
"The Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North America" by P. Adler, D. Currie, and D. Monty Wood. 2004. [book review] (2006) (1)
Leaping Somersaults by Larvae are Phylogenetically Widespread and Likely Primitive for Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) (2019) (1)
Sand dune tiger beetles in western Canada: community ecology, colouration, and historical biogeography (1988) (1)
Home on the Range Map (2015) (0)
"Stories of Predation: 60 Years of Watching Wildlife" by Dick Decker, 2021. [book review] (2021) (0)
The Quiddity of Insects (2016) (0)
Why Are There No Cryptozoological Insects (2009) (0)
Decoupling habitat fragmentation from habitat loss: butterfly species mobility obscures fragmentation effects in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands (2017) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: A Field Guide and Identification Manual for Florida and Eastern U.S. Tiger Beetles (2004) (0)
Pins, Poisons, and Psychology (2010) (0)
A Bugster's Big Year (2010) (0)
Field Stories; a classification (2003) (0)
Habitat Associations and Phenology of Sand Dune Hister Beetles in the Grasslands of Western Canada (Coleoptera: Histeridae) (2020) (0)
Review of The Enchanted Canopy: A Journey to the Last Unexplored Frontier, The Roofs of the World's Rainforests by Andrew W. Mitchell (1987) (0)
The Embodiment of Entomophilia (2010) (0)
Buried With Their (Stereo) Microscope (2018) (0)
TCE volume 147 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2015) (0)
Butterflies of Alberta (1993) (0)
Public perceptions of insect diversity: How many "bugs" might there be? (2016) (0)
Really Special Violet (2012) (0)
Supplementary material from "Narrow anthropogenic corridors direct the movement of a generalist boreal butterfly" (2018) (0)
Putative avian teeth from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, are more likely from crocodilians (2023) (0)
Bug-Based Biases and Beyond (2015) (0)
The Nature Nut Approach to Insect Television (2010) (0)
Monitoring My Monitoring (2011) (0)
The real “ fi re ants ” : colony size and body size of workers in fl uence the fate of boreal sand hill ants ( Hymenoptera : Formicidae ) after wild fi res in Alberta , Canada (2014) (0)
"For Love of Insects" by Thomas Eisner [book review] (2004) (0)
The Natural Selection of Unnatural Acts (2009) (0)
The changing look of insect photography (2008) (0)
High-Key Entomology (2017) (0)
How Many Parts (2013) (0)
The Windshield Anecdote (2016) (0)
Big News from the “Kingdom of Beetle” (2007) (0)
"The Sand Wasps: Natural History and Behavior" by Howard E. Evans and Kevin M. O'Neill. 2007. [book review] (2006) (0)
Data from Riva, Acorn and Nielsen (2017): Localized disturbances from oil sands developments increase butterfly diversity and abundance in Alberta’s boreal forests (2017) (0)
Peak-End Painted Ladies, and Pests (2012) (0)
Flutterings in the fall: Late season leps, ALG-style (2011) (0)
Another Failed Prediction (2017) (0)
Insects and the “Soundscape” (2015) (0)
A Tribute to Joseph Schieser Nelson, 1937–2011 (2012) (0)
Chapter 251 – Teaching Resources (2009) (0)
“Unbustable” Mimicry—Myths and Mere Natural History (2007) (0)
Composite Effects of Cutlines and Wildfire Result in Fire Refuges for Plants and Butterflies in Boreal Treed Peatlands (2019) (0)
Look it up in the Cabbage White Pages (2008) (0)
The Matter of Morphological Metaphors (2011) (0)
On the Firm Foundation of Curiousity : The Early History of Biology at the University of Alberta (2008) (0)
Complex Adaptive Entomology (2018) (0)
Back to the Beetles (2019) (0)
The main thing the world needs is another butterfly book (2008) (0)
Natural History Repeats Itself (2014) (0)
Large winter falcons and their Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) prey at an urban grain terminal in Edmonton, Alberta: an update (2020) (0)
The Buprestids Down the Street (2011) (0)
How dinosaurs failed to invent clothes moths, among other things (2008) (0)
Foreword (2019) (0)
Collecting Trips and Bugsters (2016) (0)
WhyAreThereNo Cryptozoological Insects (2016) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (2021) (0)
Pollination Philosophy and Its Perils (2015) (0)
Images: The Use of Art in Promoting Agricultural Awareness (1987) (0)
Entomology and Conservation Theater (2016) (0)
The Joy of Specimens (2017) (0)

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