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Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
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Franklin H. Barnwell

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1965

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Phone: 612-625-5296
Fax: 612-624-6777
E-mail: fhb@umn.edu

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Conservation Biology; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior.

Research Interests

Invertebrate behavior; circadian rhythms; adaptations of intertidal shore crabs.

Selected Publications

Barnwell, F.H., and C.L. Thurman. 1984. Taxonomy and biogeography of the fiddler crabs (Ocypodidae: Genus Uca) of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of eastern North America. Zool. J. Linnean. Soc., London. 81:23-87.

Barnwell, F.H., and J.H. Stillman. 1990. Differences in daily and tidal rhythms in populations of the fiddler crabs Uca princeps and U. monilifera. Amer. Zool. 30(4):138A.

Barnwell, F.H., and C. Sullivan. 1991. Buccal chamber morphometry and feeding habits in ghost crabs (genus Ocypode). Amer. Zool. 31(5):90A.

Barnwell, F.H., and J. Martini. 1993. Daily and tidal rhythms of locomotor activity in the Andalusian fiddler crab Uca tangeri. Amer. Zool. 33(4).

Neiman, M., and F.H. Barnwell. 1997. Morphometric differences in small claws of the deposit-feeding fiddler crabs (Uca spp.) Amer. Zool. 37:47A.

Harris, S.E., D.M. Woodward, J.L. Fontaine, and F.H. Barnwell. 1998. Visual and acoustic signalling in the musical fiddler crab (Uca musica) from western Mexico. Amer. Zool. 38 (in press).