H. Jane Brockmann

personal site

Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1976

320 Bartram
Box 118525
Gainesville, FL
32611-8525
Voice: (352) 392-1297
Fax: (352) 392-3704
hjb@zoology.ufl.edu

Research Interests

I am an animal behaviorist interested in the evolution of alternative strategies and tactics and the economics and mechanisms of decision making in animals. In particular, I am studying the evolution of mating and nesting behavior of horseshoe crabs. I am also interested in sexual selection, mate choice, and paternal care, the evolution of sex ratios, the evolution of life-history patterns (e.g. emergence and diapause) and the evolution of social behavior (e.g. nesting behavior of solitary and social wasps).

Post-doctoral Associates

Sheri Johnson (PhD)
The Evolution of Polyandry in the Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus.

Students Currently Supervised

Matthew D. Smith (PhD)
Alternative tactics in crickets.

Hope Klug (PhD)
Personal Website
Filial cannibalism in gobies and flagfish.

Clare Rittschof (PhD)
Alternative tactics in the golden orb-weaving spider.

Daniel Sasson (PhD)
Sperm competition and alternative tactics in horseshoe crabs.

Representative Publications

Brockmann, H.J. 2002. An experimental approach to altering mating tactics in male horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus). Behavioral Ecology 13:232-238.

Harari A.R., P.J. Landolt , C.W. O’Brien, H.J. Brockmann. 2003. Prolonged guarding behavior and sperm competition in the weevil Diaprepes abbreviatus (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Behavioral Ecology 14: 89-96.

Sirot, LK and HJ Brockmann, C. Marinis and G. Muschett. 2003. Maintenance of a female-limited polymorphism in Ischnura ramburi (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae): evaluation of hypotheses and new insights. Animal Behaviour 66:763-775.

Brockmann, H.J. 2003. Nesting behavior: a shoreline phenomenon and Male competition and satellite behavior. IN The American Horseshoe Crab. Ed. By C.S. Shuster, R.B Barlow and H. J. Brockmann. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Pp. 33-49and 50-82.

Brockmann, H.J. 2003. Mating behavior of male horseshoe crabs. IN The American Horseshoe Crab. Ed. By C. Shuster, R. Barlow and J. Brockmann. Harvard University Press pp. 50-82.

Brockmann, H.J. 2004. Variable life-history and emergence patterns of the pipe-organ mud-daubing wasp, Trypoxylon politum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77: 503-527.

Brockmann, H.J. 2004. Variable Life-History Patterns in the Pipe-Organ Mud-daubing Wasp, Trypoxylon politum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society (invited memorial volume for Howard E. Evans)

King, T.L., M.S. Eackles, A.P. Spidle and H. J. Brockmann. 2004. Regional differentiation and sex-biased dispersal among populations of the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus). Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134: 441-465.

Duffy, E.E., D. Penn, M.L. Botton, H. J. Brockmannn and R.E. Loveland. 2006. Eye and clasper damage influence male mating tactics in the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. Journal of Ethology 24: 67-74.

Vélez, M. and H.J. Brockmann. 2006. Seasonal variation in selection on male calling song in the field Cricket, Gryllus rubens. Animal Behaviour 72:439-448.

Vélez, M. and H.J. Brockmann. 2006. Seasonal variation in female phonotaxis to male calling song of the field cricket Gryllus rubens. Ethology 112:1041-1049.

Sirot, L.K., H.J. Brockmann and S.L. Lapointe. 2007. Male postcopulatory reproductive success in the beetle, Diaprepes abbreviatus. Animal Behaviour 74:143-152.

Schwab, R., H.J. Brockmann. 2007. The role of visual and chemical cues in the mating decisions of satellite male horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus). Animal Behaviour 74: 837-846.

Brockmann, H.J. (in press) Alternative reproductive tactics in insects. IN: Alternative Reproductive Tactics – An Integrative Approach. R.F. Oliveira, M. Taborsky and H.J. Brockmann (eds.). Cambridge University Press. (in press).

Brockmann, H.J and M. Taborsky. (in press) Life histories and alternative phenotypes. IN: Alternative Reproductive Tactics – An Integrative Approach. R.F. Oliveira, M. Taborsky and H.J. Brockmann (eds.). Cambridge University Press. (in press).