Office: 1282 Academic Surge
Phone: (530)754-5803 
Lab: (530)754-5804
Email: pscranston@ucdavis.edu Fax: (530)754-5804

Peter S. Cranston, Ph.D.

Professor of Entomology

Education:

B.Sc. (Honours) Biology, University of London, U.K.

Ph.D Entomology, University of London, U.K.

 

Appointment:

46% Instruction and Research 
54% Organized Research

Teaches:  Systematic Entomology; Biodiversity

Grad students (2009): Scott McCluen, Nick Herald

Research Interests:
Systematics, ecology and biogeography of aquatic insects, particularly the Chironomidae (non-biting midges).

Chironomidae web site:

http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/chiropage/

Full publication list and links at: http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/chiropage/publications.htm or

http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/gullanandcranstonlab/PSCranstonPubs.html

Selected Publications:

1.  Cranston, P.S. (2010). Insect Biodiversity and Conservation in Australasia. Annual Review of Entomology  55: 55-75.

2. P.J. Gullan and P.S. Cranston. (2004) Insects: An Outline of Entomology, 3rd edition. Blackwell Science, 502 pp.

3.  Armitage, P. Cranston, P.S. and Pinder, L.C.V. (eds.) (1994) Chironomidae: Biology and Ecology of Non-biting Midges, edited by Chapman and Hall, London, Glasgow, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Madras, pp. 572. 

4.   Krosch, Matt N., Baker, Andrew M., McKie, Brendan G., Mather, Peter B. & Peter S. Cranston (2009). Deeply divergent mitochondrial lineages reveal patterns of local endemism in chironomids of the Australian Wet Tropics. Austral Ecology 34: 317-32

5.  Cranston, P.S. & Edward, D.H.D. (1998) Afrochlus Freeman - an African gondwanan midge, and the phylogeny of the Podonominae (Diptera; Chironomidae). Systematic Entomology 23, 77-90. 

6. Cranston, P.S. (2007). The Chironomidae larvae associated with the tsunami-impacted waterbodies of the coastal plain of south-western Thailand. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 55: 231-244.

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