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Bruce Gill
with two field assistants at Caparu on the Río Apaporis
in the
Colombian Amazon, November 1995.
Photo by Sacha Spector. |
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Bruce Douglas Gill is
an identification and regulatory entomologist with the Centre
for Plant Quarantine Pests, Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
During office hours, Bruce identifies insects, mites, and terrestrial
molluscs from Canada and the rest of the world in support of
the plant health and quarantine programs of the C.F.I.A. After
hours, he continues a life-long interest in the Scarabaeoidea
initiated at the age of 8 when he stumbled across a Polyphylla
decemlineata racing through the streets of Vancouver. His
main interests lie in the taxonomy, systematics and ecology
of dung beetles and other detritus-feeding scarabs. An avid
field biologist, he has travelled extensively in Latin America
with occasional forays into Africa and Asia. Long-term research
projects include revision of the species-rich Neotropical genera
Canthidium and Uroxys, and ecological studies
comparing dung beetle assemblages in Old World and New World
tropical forests. He also keeps busy providing taxonomic support
to various biodiversity and conservation projects utilizing
scarabs in Southeast Asia, Africa and South America.
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BRUCE
GILL
Centre for Plant Quarantine Pests
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Room 4125, K.W. Neatby Bldg.
960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa K1A 0C6
CANADA
TEL: (613) 759-1842
FAX: (613) 759-6938
INTERNET: GillBD@inspection.gc.ca |
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SCARAB
PUBLICATIONS:
Floate, K.D. and B.D. Gill. 1998. Seasonal activity of dung beetles
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) associated with cattle dung in southern
Alberta and their geographic distribution in Canada. Canadian
Entomologist 130: 131-151.
Chin, K. and B.D. Gill. 1996. Dinosaurs, dung beetles, and conifers:
participants in a Cretaceous food web. Palaios 11: 280-285.
Howden, H.F. and B.D. Gill. 1995. Trachycrusis, a new
genus of Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) with two new
species from Peru. Canadian Entomologist 127: 587- 593.
Howden, H.F. and B.D. Gill. 1993. Mesoamerican Onthophagus
Latreille in the dicranius and mirabilis species
groups (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Canadian Entomologist 125:
1091- 1114.
Howden, H.F. and B.D. Gill. 1993. A second species of Termitoderus
from Angola and Namibia (Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Termitoderini).
Sociobiology 21: 203-208.
Gill, B.D. 1991. Dung beetles in tropical American forests. Chapter
12 in The Ecology of Dung Beetles (Ed. by I. Hanski and Y. Cambefort),
pp. 211-229. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
Gill, B.D. 1990. Two new species of Eurysternus Dalman
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) from Venezuela with notes on the genus.
Coleopterists Bulletin 44: 355-361.
Howden, H.F. and B.D. Gill. 1988. A fourth genus of unusually
modified Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Canadian
Journal of Zoology 66: 2077-2079.
Howden, H.F. and B.D. Gill. 1988. Xenocanthus, a new
genus of inquiline Scarabaeidae from southeastern Venezuela (Coleoptera).
Canadian Journal of Zoology 66: 2071-2076.
Howden, H.F. and B.D. Gill. 1987. New species and new records
of Panamanian and Costa Rican Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae).
Coleopterists Bulletin 41: 201-224.
Gill, B.D. 1986. A new species of Copris Müller (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae) from South India. Journal of the Bombay Natural
History Society 83: 632-633.
Gill, B.D. and H.F. Howden. 1985. A review of the North American
genus Aphonus LeConte (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleopterists
Bulletin 39: 119-129.
Howden, H.F. and B. Gill. 1984. Two new species of Neoathyreus
Howden and Martínez from Costa Rica with notes on other Athyreini
from Mexico and Central America (Coleoptera: Geotrupinae). Canadian
Entomologist 116: 1637-1641.
Gill, B.D. 1984. Flight activity, foraging behaviour, and community
structure among Neotropical Scarabaeinae. XVII International Congress
of Entomology, Abstract Vol., p. 318.
RELATED PUBLICATIONS:
Parker III, T.A., R.B. Foster, L.H. Emmons, P. Freed, A.B. Forsyth,
B. Hoffman, and B.D. Gill. 1993. A Biological Assessment of the
Kanuku Mountain Region of Southwestern Guyana. Rapid Assessment
Program Working Papers #5. Conservation International, Washington,
D.C. (Report, 70pp.) |
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