Gordon W. Frankie
Professor and Entomologist
340 Giannini Hall
Phone #: (510) 642-0973
FAX #: (510) 642-7428
frankie@nature.berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Urban pest management and insect ecology; tropical pollination ecology;
insect-plant interactions; conservation biology.
Selected publications
Vinson, S.B., Frankie, G.W., and Barthell, J. 1993. Threats to the diversity
of solitary bees in a neotropical dry forest in Central America. In: J.
LaSalle Gauld (eds.) Hymenoptera and Biodiversity, CAB International, Wallingford,
UK, pp. 53-81.
Frankie, G.W., Newstrom, L., Vinson, S.B., and Barthell, J.F. 1993. Nesting-habitat
preferences of selected Centris bee species in Costa Rican dry forest. Biotropica
25(3):322-333.
Newstrom, L.E., Frankie, G.W., and Baker, H.G. 1994. A new classification
for plant phenology based on flowering patterns in lowland tropical rain
forest trees at La Selva, Costa Rica. Biotropica 26(2):141-159.
Saunders, M., Frankie, G.W., and Frankie, J. 1995. Una nuevo programa avanzado
en educación en conservación dirigido a Bagaces y a las communidades
aledañas a la Reserva Biológica Lomas Barbudal y al Parque
Nacional Palo Verde en la Provincia de Guanacaste. Proceedings of Fundación
Neotropica Workshop: Interpretación Como Herramienta en la Educación
Ambiental, 7-9 Deciembre de 1995, San José, Costa Rica.
Vinson, S.B., Williams, H.J., Frankie, G.W., and Shrum, G. Floral lipid
chemistry of Byrsonima crassifolia (Malpighiaceae) and the use of floral
lipids by Centris bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Biotropica (In press)