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)