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Robert F. Rockwell
Title Adjunct Professor
Affiliation/Department Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History
Telephone: (212) 769-5793
Email: rfr@amnh.org
Website http://research.amnh.org/~rfr/
Professional degree Ph.D. Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1975)
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Research Description see website
Representative Publications: Jefferies, RL, RF Rockwell and KF Abraham. 2004. Agricultural food subsidies, migratory connectivity and large-scale disturbance in Arctic coastal systems: a case study. Integrative and Comparative Biology 44:130-139.

Nguyen, L. P., R. F. Rockwell, and D. Larsen. 2004. Atypical nest site of a Semipalmated Plover. Wilson Bulletin 116(2) 184-186.

Jefferies, RL, RF Rockwell and KF Abraham. 2003. The Embarrassment Of Riches: Agricultural Subsidies, Goose Dynamics And Their Impact On Arctic Wetlands - Continuing Saga. Environmental Reviews (National Research Council of Canada) 11:193-232.

Rockwell, RF, BM Pezzanite and P Matulonis. 2003. Developmental abnormalities in wild populations of birds: examples in lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens). American Museum of Natural History Novitates 3400:1-14.

Rockwell, RF, CR Witte, RL Jefferies and PJ Weatherhead. 2003. Response Of Nesting Savannah Sparrows To 25 Years Of Habitat Change In A Snow Goose Colony. Écoscience 10:33-37.

Cooch, EG, G Gauthier and RF Rockwell. 2003. Apparent differences in stochastic growth rates based on timing of census: a cautionary note. Ecological Modeling 159:133-143.

Jefferies, RL and RF Rockwell. 2002. Foraging geese, vegetation loss and soil degradation in an Arctic salt marsh. Applied Vegetation Science 5:7-16.
Current Teaching

Conservation Biology (Biology 45300), City College of New York

Seminar in Ecological Genetics (Biology 79303), American Museum of Natural History