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Faculty
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Leslie
Bishop
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Professor
of Biology
Invertebrate Curator of the Joseph Moore Museum
Office:
155 Stanley
Phone: (765) 983-1555
Fax:
(765) 983-1497
E-Mail: |
| Ph.D.,
Ecology, University of Tennessee
M.S., Biology, Western Carolina University
B A., Botany, University of Tennessee |
- ecology
and behavior of orb-weaving spiders
- food-web
dynamics and population fluctuations in the rain forest
of Puerto Rico
- history
of women in science
- the
use of arthropods in ancient human cultures
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From
left, Johanna Mutti, Leslie Bishop, Althea Moore and
Jenny Jamison at Springfield Plantation field station,
where the team lived during their research on Dominica. |
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Activities and Interests include organic gardening,
gourmet cooking, and beach combing on exotic beaches |
| Selected
Publications
- Bishop
L. 1990. Meteorological aspects of spider ballooning. Environmental
Entomology 19: 1381-1387.
- Riechert,
S.E. and L. Bishop. 1990. Prey control by an assemblage
of generalist predators: spiders in garden test systems.
Ecology 71(4): 1441-1450.
- Bishop
L, and S.E. Riechert.1990. Spider colonization of agroecosystems
mode and source. Environmental Entomology 19:1738-1745.
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