Kenneth Cramer Ph.D.
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Education
- B.S., University of Missouri, 1979
- M.S., University of Oklahoma, 1983
- Ph.D., Utah State University,
1988
Teaching Experience
General Zoology, Ecology, Environmental
Science, Field Zoology, Comparative Vertebrate Morphology, Animal Behavior,
Evolution of Human Behavior, Life on Earth, Freshman Seminar. In addition
to teaching these courses at Monmouth, Dr. Cramer has ample experience
living, learning, and teaching in Latin America. He lived in Chile for
one year while conducting postdoctoral research on the effects of predation
on rodent communities. He has also visited Venezuela, Mexico, and Costa
Rica. His two visits to Mexico were as a
student on courses similar to the ITEC experience, and his two trips
to Costa Rica were in a teaching capacity. In Costa Rica, he assisted
in the Organization for Tropical Studies summer course for graduate
students.
Research Interests
Animal ecology,
diversity, and behavior. Distribution and natural history of the brown
recluse spider in Illinois and Iowa. Spider diversity in restored and
virgin tall grass prairies. Effects of climate change on leaf litter
spider communities. General interest in the evolution and preservation
of diversity.
Recent Publications
- Cramer, K. L. (in preparation). Response
of leaf litter spider communities to altered precipitation regimes.
J. Arachnology.
- Cramer, K. L. (in preparation). Spider
communities in restored and remnant tall grass prairies. J. Arachnology.
- Cramer, K. L. 2003. The influence
of precipitation change on spiders as top predators in the detrital
community. Chapter 20 in North American Temperate Deciduous
Forest Responses to Changing Precipitation Regimes, Ecological Studies
vol. 166, ed. P. J. Hanson and S. D. Wullschleger. Springer, New York,
NY, 472 pp.
- Cramer, K. L. 1998. Effects
of twig morphology on oviposition and hatching success of the twig-girdling
beetle Oncideres cingulata (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae). Coleopterist's
Bulletin 52:186-193.
- Chambers, P. E. and K. L. Cramer. 1995.
Lessons in ecological economics from Dr. Seuss.
Proceedings of 1995 International Interdisciplinary Conference on
the Environment.
- Meserve, P. L., J. A. Yunger, J. R.
Gutierrez, L. C. Contreras, W. B. Milstead, B. K. Lang, K. L.
Cramer, S. Herrera, V. O. Lagos, S. I. Silva, E. L. Tabilo, M. Torrealba,
and F. M. Jaksic. 1995. Heterogeneous responses of small mammals to
an El Nino Southern Oscillation
event in northcentral semiarid Chile and the importance of ecological
scale. J. Mammalogy 76:580-595.
- Cramer, K. L. 1994. New mammal record
for Fremont Island, with an updated checklist of
mammals on islands in the Great Salt Lake. Great Basin Naturalist
54:287-289.
- Chapman, J. A., K. L. Cramer, N. J.
Dippenaar and T. J. Robinson. 1992. Systematics and
biogeography of the New England cottontail Sylvilagus transitionalis
(Bangs, 1895), with
the description of a new species from the Appalachian mountains. Proc.
Biol. Soc. Wash. 105:841-866.
- Cramer, K. L. and J. A. Chapman.
1992. Life history characteristics of insular Peromyscus
maniculatus in the Bonneville Basin, Utah. Amer. Midl. Nat.
128:345-359.
- Cramer, K. L. and J. A. Chapman. 1990.
Reproduction of three species of pocket mice
(Perognathus) in the Bonneville Basin, Utah. Great Basin
Nat. 50:361-365.
- Cramer, K. L., A. L. Foote, and J. A.
Chapman. 1990. Small mammal records from Dolphin
Island, the Great Salt Lake, and other localities in the Bonneville
Basin, Utah. Great
Basin Nat. 50:283-285.
- Cramer, K. L. 1988. Constant sex ratios
of progeny in nutritionally stressed wild house mice.
Southwest. Nat. 33:255-261.
- Carroll, S. P. and K. L. Cramer. 1985.
Age differences in kleptoparasitism by laughing gulls
(Larus atricilla) on adult and juvenile brown pelicans (Pelecanus
occidentalis). Anim.
Behav. 33:201-205.
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