Carmine A. Lanciani

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Emeritus Professor
Ph.D.   Cornell University, 1968

322 CAR
Box 118525
Gainesville, FL
32611-8525
Voice: (352) 392-1197  
Fax: (352) 392-3704
carmine@zoology.ufl.edu

Research Interests

Population ecology of aquatic arthropods.   Host exploitation patterns, resource use, and intraspecific crowding in parasitic water mites; parasite-induced effects on growth, survival, and reproduction of the host.

Representative Publications

White, C. P. and C. A. Lanciani. 2001. Possible adaptive significance of pigmentation in Simocephalus (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Daphniidae). Freshwater Ecol. 16: 649-651. 
 
Stromgren E. S. and C. A. Lanciani. 2001. Early abscission in hackberry leaves bearing Pachypsylla galls (Homoptera: Psyllidae). Florida Entomol. 84:727-728.

Lanciani, C. A. 1998. A simple equation for presenting reproductive value to introductory biology and ecology classes. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Am. 79: 192-193.
 
Lanciani, C. A. 1996. Alteration of host stage distribution by parasitic water mites of the species Hydrachna virella (Acari: Hydrachnidae). J. Parasitol. 82:531-533.