Boyce Drummond
Visiting Professor

 

E-mail: Boyce.Drummond@coloradocollege.edu Phone: (719) 389-6240 Fax: (719) 389-6940   Address:  The Colorado College Biology Department 14 E. Cache La Poudre St. Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Education

Ph.D.    Ecology, 1976      University of Florida, Gainesville

M.A.   Zoology, 1971         University of Texas, Austin

B.S.  Biology, 1967           Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, AR

Affiliations

Denver Museum of Nature and Science:  Research Associate in Zoology

Colorado State University:  Faculty Affiliate in Bioagricultural Sciences and Research Associate, Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity

Florida State Museum:  Research Associate, McGuire Center

             for Lepidoptera Research

Research Interests

       Ecology and Evolution

• Community ecology

• Conservation of Species Diversity

• Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Animal Interactions

• Plant Reproductive Ecology

• Reproductive Biology of Lepidoptera

• Paleoentomology

Course Information

• BY100 - Ecology of Pikes Peak Region
• BY109 - Biology of Vertebrates
• BY208 - Ecology
• BY442 - Reproductive Ecology of Plants

Selected Publications

Drummond, B. A. 2007. Pawnee Montane Skipper Monitoring Study for the Upper South Platte Watershed Protection and Restoration Project, August 2006.  Final Report. Prepared for the US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Denver Water.  Natural Perspectives, Fort Collins, CO: 40 pp.

 Sovell, J. R. and B. A. Drummond.  2006. Pawnee Montane Skipper Post-fire Habitat Assessment Survey --- September 2005.  Prepared for US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Denver Water.  Final Report.  Colorado Natural Heritage Program, Fort Collins, CO: 70 pp.

 Drummond, B. A. 2000. The write stuff: preparing manuscripts for publication. In Winter Jr., W. D. (ed.), Basic Techniques for Observing and Studying Moths and Butterflies, pp. 362-364.  Memoirs of the Lepidopterists Society, No. 5, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles.  444 pp.

 Drummond, B. A. 1995.  Complex life histories and diverse reproductive physiologies of endangered invertebrates: Implications for captive conservation.  In Gibbons, E., B. Durrant, & J. Demarest (eds.), Conservation of Endangered Species in Captivity: An Interdisciplinary Approach, pp. 21-35.  State University of New York Press, Albany. 810 pp.

 Emmel, T. C., M. C. Minno, & B. A. Drummond. 1992.  Florissant Butterflies: A Guide to Fossil and Present-day Species of Central Colorado.  Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. 118 pp., 53 figures, 9 color plates.

 Drummond, B. A. & K. S. Brown, Jr. 1987. Ithomiinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): Summary of known larval foodplants.  Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis) 74(2): 341-358.

 Drummond, B. A. 1986. Coevolution of ithomiine butterflies and solanaceous plants.  In D'Arcy, W. G. (ed.), The Solanaceae: Biology and Systematics, pp. 303-327.  Columbia University Press, New York. 603 pp.

 Armstrong, J. E. & B. A. Drummond.  1986.  Floral biology of nutmeg, Myristica fragrans (Myristicaceae).  Biotropica 18(1): 32-38.

 Drummond, B. A. 1984.  Multiple mating and sperm competition in Lepidoptera.  In Smith, R. L. (ed.), Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems, pp. 291-370.  Academic Press, New York. 687 pp.

 Drummond, B. A. 1981.  Ecological chemistry, animal behavior, and plant systematics.  Solanaceae Newsletter 2(1): 59-66.

 Neck, R. W., G. L. Bush, & B. A. Drummond. 1971.  Epistasis, associated lethals and brood effect in larval colour polymorphism of the patch butterfly, Chlosyne lacinia.  Heredity 26(1): 73-84.

Personal Interests