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Dr. George Farnsworth Biology |
Office:
N-724D
Email: FarnsworthG@uhd.edu
Phone: 713 - 221 - 8566 (office)
Courses:
Animal Behavior (BIOL 4340; next offered Spring 2004)
Ecology (BIOL 3302/ BIOL 3102)
Environmental Biology (BIOL 4360; next offered Fall 2003)
Ornithology (BIOL 3350/ BIOL 3150; next offered Fall 2003)
Introductory Biology (BIOL 1301/1101 and BIOL 1302/1102)
Lecture ((BIOL 1301)
Lab (BIOL 1101)
Research Interests:
Ornithology
Urban Ecology
Animal Behavior
Conservation Biology
Recent and
Current Projects:
Foraging behavior of a Loggerhead Shrike with Sumita Prasad
view poster presented at Cooper Ornithological Society Meetings 2001
Mate choice in the green anole with Guadalupe Quiroz
view poster presented at Sigma Xi Student Research Conference 2002
Publications:
Farnsworth, G.L., K.H. Pollock,
J.D. Nichols, T.R. Simons, J.E. Hines, and J.R. Sauer. 2002. A removal model
for estimating detection probabilities from point count surveys. Auk 119:
414-425. Click
here
Shriner, S.A, T.R. Simons, and G.L. Farnsworth. 2002. A GIS-based habitat model for Wood Thrush, Hylocichla mustelina, in Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Chapter 47 (pages 529-535) In Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Accuracy and Scale (J.M. Scott, P.J. Heglund, M.L. Morrison, J.B. Haufler, M.G. Raphael, W.A. Wall, and F.B. Samson, Eds.) Island Press. Covello, CA.
Farnsworth, G.L. and T.R.Simons.
2001. How many Baskets? Clutch sizes that maximize annual fecundity of
multiple-brooded birds. Auk. 118:973–982. Click here
Farnsworth, G.L. and T.R. Simons.
2000. Observations of Wood Thrush nest predators in a large contiguous forest.
Wilson Bulletin 112:82-87. Click here
Farnsworth, G.L., K.C. Weeks, and
T.R. Simons. 2000. Validating the assumptions of the Mayfield method. Journal
of Field Ornithology 71:658-664. Click here
Farnsworth, G.L. and T.R. Simons.
1999. Factors affecting nesting success of Wood Thrushes in Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. Auk 116:1075-1082. Click here
Simons, T.R., G.L. Farnsworth, and
S.A. Shriner. 2000. Evaluating Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a
population source for the Wood Thrush. Conservation Biology 14:1133-1144. Click here
Pollock, K.H., J.D. Nichols, T.R. Simons, G.L.
Farnsworth, L.L. Bailey, and J.R. Sauer. 2002. The design of large scale
wildlife monitoring studies. Envirometrics. 13: 105-119. Click
here
Farnsworth, G.L. and T.R. Simons. 1999. Is Great Smoky Mountains National Park acting as a population source for Wood Thrushes? Pages 109-113 In On the Frontiers of Conservation: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Research and Resource Management in Parks and on Public Lands (David Harmon, Ed.).
Other
Activities:
Guest Editor for Southeastern Naturalist
On the Board of Directors for Bayou Preservation Association
Department of Natural Sciences Colloquium organizer