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  Dr. Gordon Pritchard  
     
 

Position:

Professor Emeritus

Qualifications:

Ph.D. 1963 University of Alberta
BSc. 1960 University of London


Email:

gpritcha@ucalgary.ca

 
     
 

Research Interests

1) Functional morphology of insects; 2) Insect phylogeny and systematics; 3) Impact of highways on insects.

 
     
 

Selected publications

  • Townsend, G.d. and G. Pritchard (2001). A comparison of methods for analysis of a long aquatic insect life history: Pteronarcys californica (Plecoptera) in the Crowsnest River, Alberta. In: trends in Research in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. Ed. E. Dominguez. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, pp. 251-258.
  • Zloty, J. and G. Pritchard. (2001). Cora chiribiquete spec. nov., a new species from Colombia (Zygoptera: Polythoridae). Odonatologica 30:227-232
  • Pritchard, G., L.D. Harder, A. Kortello and R. Krishnaraj. (2000). The response of larval growth rate to temperature in three species of coenagrionid damselflies (Odonata; Zygoptera; Coenagrionidae) and a comparison with Lestes disjunctus (Lestidae). International Journal of Odonatology 3:105-110.
  • Townsend, G.D. and G. Pritchard. 2000. Egg development in the stonefly Pteronarcys californica Newport (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae). Aquatic Insects 22:19-26.
  • Townsend, G.D. and G. Pritchard. 2000. Egg development in the stonefly Pteronarcys californica Newport (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae). Aquatic Insects 22:19-26.
  • Townsend, G.D. and G. Pritchard. 1998. Larval growth and development of the stonefly Pteronarcys californica (Insecta: Plecoptera) in the Crowsnest River, Alberta. Can. J. Zool. 76; 2274-2280.
  • Pritchard, G.D. and A. Kortello. 1997. Roosting, perching and habitat selection in Argia vivida and Amphiagrion abbreviatum (Odonata: Coenagrionidae), two damselflies inhabiting geothermal springs. Can. Entomologist. 129: 733-743.
  • Zloty, J.S., and G. Pritchard. 1997. Larvae and adults of Ameletus mayflies from Alberta. Canadian Entomologist. 129: 251-289.
  • Pritchard, G., Harder, L.D., & Mutch, R.A. 1996. Development of aquatic insect eggs in relation to temperature and strategies for dealing with different thermal environments. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 58: 221-244.
  • Pritchard, G. 1996. The life history of a tropical dragonfly: Cora marina in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12: 573-581.
  • Zloty, J.S., Pritchard, G. and C. Esquivel. 1993. Larvae of the Costa Rican Hetaerina (Odonata), with comments on distribution. Systematic Entomology, 18: 253-265.
  • Zloty, J.S., G. Pritchard, & R. Krishnaraj. 1993. Larval insect identification by cellulose acetate gel electrophoresis and its application to life history evaluation and cohort analysis. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 12: 270-278.
  • Pritchard, G., McKee, M., Pike, E., Scrimgeour, G., & Zloty, J. 1993. Did the first insects live in water or in air? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 49:31-44.

 

 

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