Roger A. Beaver

Roger A. Beaver is a biologist who has worked at University College of North Wales,[1] Chiang Mai University,[2] the University of Zambia[3] and the University of the South Pacific.[4] He has published several important papers on Nepenthes infauna, including "Fauna and food webs of pitcher plants in West Malaysia" (1979), "The communities living in Nepenthes pitcher plants: fauna and food webs" (1983), and "Geographical variation in food web structure in Nepenthes pitcher plants" (1985). The species Cryptoxilos beaveri was named in his honour.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Anthony (1971). Mato Grosso, last virgin land. Michael Joseph. p. 284. OCLC 191973258.
  2. ↑ Beaver, R. A. (June 1974). "Intraspecific Competition among Bark Beetle Larvae (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)". Journal of Animal Ecology (British Ecological Society) 43 (2): 455–467. doi:10.2307/3376. JSTOR 3376.
  3. ↑ Beaver, R. A. (September 1979). "Host specificity of temperate and tropical animals". Nature 281 (5727): 139–141. doi:10.1038/281139a0.
  4. ↑ Beaver, R. A. (1986). "The taxonomy, mycangia and biology of Hypothenemus curtipennis (Schedl), the first known cryphaline ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution (Brill) 17 (1): 131–135. doi:10.1163/187631286X00189. ISSN 1399-560X.
  5. ↑ Shaw, Scott Richard; Jocelyn A. Berry (December 2005). "Two new Cryptoxilos species (Hymenoptera : Braconidae : Euphorinae) from New Zealand and Fiji parasitising adult Scolytinae (Coleoptera)". Invertebrate Systematics (CSIRO Publishing) 19 (5): 371–381. doi:10.1071/IS05021.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, February 29, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.