COLIN A. CHAPMAN

Tree spacing and area of competitive influence do not scale with tree size in an African rain forest (2008)

Michael J. Lawes, Megan E. Griffiths, Jeremy J. Midgley, Stéphane Boudreau, Colin A. Chapman

Questions: Is the area of influence of individual trees determined by tree size? Does competition, inferred from spatial pattern between neighbouring trees, affect adult tree spacing patterns in an...

GASTROINTESTINAL PARASITES OF THE COLOBUS MONKEYS OF UGANDA (2005)

Thomas R. Gillespie, Ellis C. Greiner, Colin A. Chapman

From August 1997 to July 2003, we collected 2,103 fecal samples from free-ranging individuals of the 3 colobus monkey species of Uganda—the endangered red colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles), the...

Respiratory Ecology of Macroinvertebrates in a Swamp–River System of East Africa1 (2004)

Lauren J. Chapman, Kimberly R. Schneider, Chrissy Apodaca, Colin A. Chapman

Hypoxia (oxygen scarcity) is widespread in tropical freshwaters, particularly in dense swamps, and may be an important factor structuring benthic macroinvertebrate communities. Macroinvertebrates...

GASTROINTESTINAL PARASITES OF THE GUENONS OF WESTERN UGANDA (2004)

Thomas R. Gillespie, Ellis C. Greiner, Colin A. Chapman

From January 1998 to December 2002, we collected 293 fecal samples from free-ranging individuals of the 4 guenon species of western Uganda, i.e., redtail guenons (Cercopithecus ascanius), blue...

Fragmentation and Alteration of Seed Dispersal Processes: An Initial Evaluation of Dung Beetles, Seed Fate, and Seedling Diversity1 (2003)

Colin A. Chapman, Lauren J. Chapman, Kevina Vulinec, Amy Zanne, Michael J. Lawes

ABSTRACT Given current accelerated trends of tropical land conversion, forest fragments are being incorporated into many conservation programs. For investing in fragments to be a viable conservation...

Biodiversity and Fishery Sustainability in the Lake Victoria Basin: An Unexpected Marriage? (2003)

JOHN S. BALIRWA, COLIN A. CHAPMAN, LAUREN J. CHAPMAN, IAN G. COWX, KIM GEHEB, LES KAUFMAN, ...

Lake Victoria is Africa's single most important source of inland fishery production. After it was initially fished down in the first half of the 20th century, Lake Victoria became home to a series of...

Foraging strategies, patch use, and constraints on group size in three species of Costa Rican primates / (1987)

Chapman, Colin A. (Colin Austin)

Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Departments of Anthropology and Zoology.

Nuclear markers reveal unexpected genetic variation and a Congolese-Nilotic origin of the Lake Victoria cichlid species flock.

Seehausen, Ole, Koetsier, Egbert, Schneider, Maria Victoria, Chapman, Lauren J, Chapman, Colin A, Knight, Mairi E, ...

Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial (mt) DNA have indicated that the cichlid species flock of the Lake Victoria region is derived from a single ancestral species found in East African...