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Peter D. Smallwood

Department of Biology University of Richmond Richmond, VA 23173 Phone: 804-289-8803 e-mail: psmallwo@richmond.edu Fax 804-289-8233

Education

1992 Ph. D. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona Thesis: Temporal and Spatial Scales in Foraging Ecology: Testing Hypotheses With Spiders and Squirrels. Advisor: Prof. Michael L. Rosenzweig

1986 Organization for Tropical Studies, at the University of Costa Rica (Summer tropical biology field course)

1985 M.S. Biology, University of North Carolina

1983 B.S. in Zoology (Minor in Statistics), Ohio State University

Positions held

Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Richmond (1997-present)

Lecturer in Biology, University of Pennsylvania (1995-1997)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Bryn Mawr College (1994-1995) Professorial Lecturer, Kennedy Institute of Philosophy and Ethics, Georgetown University (1995) Postdoctoral Fellow in Integrative Biology, Bryn Mawr College (1992-1994)

Professional Organizations

International Society of Behavioral Ecology Ecological Society of America American Association for the Advancement of Science Animal Behaviour Society Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Sigma Xi

B: PUBLICATIONS

Smallwood, P.D., M.A. Steele, E. Ribbens, and William F. McShea (1998) The effects of seed hoarders on the distribution of tree species: Grey squirrels and oaks as a model system. book chapter in The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Tree Squirrels (M.A. Steele, and J. F. Merritt, and D. A. Zegers, eds), Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication #6. in press

Smallwood, P. D. and J. A. Smallwood (1998) Seasonal shifts in fledgling sex ratios of American kestrels: The early bird hypothesis. Evolutionary Ecology 12:000-000 in press

Hadj-Chikh, L.Z., M.A. Steele, and P.D. Smallwood (1996) Caching decisions by Grey Squirrels: A test of the handling time and perishability hypotheses. Animal Behavior 52:941-948.

Smallwood, P.D. (1996) An introduction to risk sensitivity: The use of Jensen's inequality to clarify evolutionary arguments of adaptation and constraint. American Zoologist 36:392-401.

Smallwood, P.D., and R.V. Cartar (1996) Risk sensitivity in behavior: Where are we now? American Zoologist 36:389-391.

Steele, M.A., and P.D.Smallwood (1994) What are squirrels hiding? Natural History 10/94: 40-45.

Smallwood, P.D. (1993) Web-site tenure in the Long-Jawed Spider: Is it risk-sensitive foraging, or conspecific interactions? Ecology 74: 1826-1835.

Smallwood, P.D., and W.D. Peters (1986) Grey squirrel food preferences: The effects of tannin and fat concentration. Ecology 67:168-174

Steele, M. A. and P. D. Smallwood. (accepted, by invitation). Oak and acorn dispersal. In W. McShea, andW. M. Healy (eds.) The Ecology and Mangement of Oaks for Wildlife. Under contract with the Smithsonian Institution Press.

C: OTHER COLLABORATORS

All persons I have collaborated with are listed as authors on the publication list.

D: GRADUATE STUDENTS

I have not had graduate students or postdoctoral scholars in my lab.

E. ADVISORS

M.S. advisor: m Alan Stivens, University of North Carolina

Ph. D. advisor: Michael Rosenzweig, University of Arizona

Postdoctoral advisor: Paul Grobstein, Bryn Mawr College