Frank A. Pitelka, Ph.D.

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1985 Zoology University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 
Area:
Animal Behavior, Ecology
Website:
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/frankaloispitelka.html
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Bio:

(1916 - 2003)
https://www.esa.org/history/pitelka-f-a/

Parents

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S. Charles Kendeigh research assistant 1939 UIUC
Alden Holmes Miller grad student 1951 UC Berkeley (Evolution Tree)
 (Speciation and ecologic distribution in American jays of the genus Aphelocoma.)

Children

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Paul Herbert Baldwin grad student 1950 UC Berkeley
Francis Sidney Lanier Williamson grad student 1955 UC Berkeley
Henry Everett Childs grad student 1959 UC Berkeley
William Lay Thompson grad student 1959 UC Berkeley
Jerram Brown grad student 1960 UC Berkeley (Cell Biology Tree)
Oscar H. Paris grad student 1960 UC Berkeley
Gordon H. Orians grad student 1956-1960 UC Berkeley
William Joseph Maher grad student 1961 UC Berkeley
Howard Lyman Cogswell grad student 1962 UC Berkeley
Richard T. Holmes grad student 1964 UC Berkeley (Evolution Tree)
Richard Bruce Root grad student 1964 UC Berkeley (Evolution Tree)
George Oliver Batzli grad student 1969 UC Berkeley
Nicolaas Antonius Maria Verbeek grad student 1970 UC Berkeley
Arnthor Gardarsson grad student 1971 UC Berkeley
Donald Leonard Beaver grad student 1972 UC Berkeley (Computer Science Tree)
Thomas Wayne Custer grad student 1974 UC Berkeley
Jerry O. Wolff grad student 1977 UC Berkeley (Neurotree)
Raymond Glenn Ford grad student 1978 UC Berkeley
Walter Daniel Koenig grad student 1978 UC Berkeley
J. Van Remsen grad student 1978 UC Berkeley (Evolution Tree)
John Peterson Myers grad student 1979 UC Berkeley
Fernando Ignacio Ortiz-Crespo grad student 1980 UC Berkeley
Russell Greenberg grad student 1976-1981 UC Berkeley
David W. Winkler grad student 1983 UC Berkeley (Evolution Tree)
Ronald Lane Mumme grad student 1984 UC Berkeley
Scott Alexander Hatch grad student 1985 UC Berkeley
Stephen Glen Pruett-Jones grad student 1985 UC Berkeley (Neurotree)
Carol Jo Baird grad student 1986 UC Berkeley
Gregory M. Ruiz grad student 1987 UC Berkeley (Marine Ecology Tree)
Thomas Bates Smith grad student 1988 UC Berkeley (Evolution Tree)
Pamela Lorraine Williams grad student 1988 UC Berkeley
Philip Norman Hooge grad student 1989 UC Berkeley
A. Townsend Peterson grad student 1990 University of California, Berkeley (adoptive)
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Pitelka FA, Batzli GO. (2007) Population cycles of lemmings near Barrow, Alaska: A historical review Acta Theriologica. 52: 323-336
Holmes RT, Pitelka FA, Poole A, et al. (1998) Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) The Birds of North America Online
Dickinson JL, Koenig WD, Pitelka FA. (1996) Fitness consequences of helping behavior in the western bluebird Behavioral Ecology. 7: 168-177
Dickinson J, Haydock J, Koenig W, et al. (1995) Genetic monogamy in single-male groups of acorn woodpeckers, Melanerpes formicivorus Molecular Ecology. 4: 765-769
Koenig WD, Mumme RL, Stanback MT, et al. (1995) Patterns and consequences of egg destruction among joint-nesting acorn woodpeckers Animal Behaviour. 50: 607-621
Koenig WD, Pitelka FA, Carmen WJ, et al. (1992) The evolution of delayed dispersal in cooperative breeders. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 67: 111-50
Mumme RL, Koenig WD, Pitelka FA. (1988) Cost and benefits of joint nesting in the acorn woodpecker American Naturalist. 131: 654-677
Hannon SJ, Mumme RL, Koenig WD, et al. (1987) Poor acorn crop, dominance, and decline in numbers of acorn woodpeckers. Journal of Animal Ecology. 56: 197-207
Hannon SJ, Mumme RL, Koenig WD, et al. (1985) Replacement of breeders and within-group conflict in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 17: 303-312
Batzli GO, Pitelka FA. (1983) Nutritional ecology of microtine rodents: food habits of lemmings near Barrow, Alaska. Journal of Mammalogy. 64: 648-655
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