Publications and Presentations

Kit Muma. July 5th 2009. Poster Presentation: "Fireflies: You Light up My Life" at the Queen's University Biological Station, Chaffey's Lock, Canada.  I met with and encouraged cottagers to get involved in the "Firefly Watch" survey to document if firefly numbers are declining.

Ratcliffe, J.M., A.R. Soutar, K.E. Muma, C. Guignion and J.H. Fullard. 2008. Anti-bat flight activity in sound-producing versus silent moths. Can. J. Zool. 86:582-587.

Patrick J. Weatherhead, Katherine E. Muma, J. Dylan Maddox, Jenny M. Knox, and Kevin W. Dufour. 2007. “Morphology versus molecules: sexing Red-winged Blackbird Nestlings.” J Field Ornithol. 78(4):428-435. View the PDF of the abstract here.

Smith, B.P. and K.E. Muma. 2006. Oral Presentation: Biodiversity and Conservation: sabbatical travels in the South Pacific.  Queen's University Biological Station Seminar Series. Wed. July 19th

Forbes, M.R.L., K.E. Muma, B.P. Smith. 2004. Recapture of male and female dragonflies in relation to parasitism by mites, time of season, wing length and wing cell symmetry. Exp. and Applied Acarology. 34: 79-93. Also reprinted in book form (same page numbers): Aquatic Mites: From Genes to Communities, edited by J.C. Proctor. Kluwer Academic Publishing, The Netherlands.

Muma, K.E. and J.H. Fullard. 2004. Persistence and regression of hearing in the exclusively diurnal moths, Trichodezia albovittata (Geometridae) and Lycomorpha pholus (Arctiidae). Ecological Entomology. 29(6): 718-726.

Muma, K.E., B.P. Smith and M.R. Forbes. 2003. Poster presentation, Patterns of Parasitism: Crowding of Arrenurus planus Water Mites on Sympetrum internum and Sympetrum obtrusum Dragonflies. Amer. Soc. of Parasitologists Annual Meeting. Halifax NS Canada. August 1-5.

(also presented at the Odonate Ecology and Evolution Symposium. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. September 2004)

Fullard, J.H., K.E. Muma, J.W. Dawson. 2003. Quantifying an anti-bat flight response by eared moths. Can. J. Zool. 81: 395-399.

Forbes, M.R.L., K.E. Muma, B.P. Smith. 2002. Diffuse coevolution: constraints on a generalist parasite favor use of a dead-end host. Ecography 25: 345-351.

Forbes, M.R.L., K.E. Muma, B.P. Smith. 1999. Parasitism of Sympetrum dragonflies by Arrenurus planus mites: host coexistence lessens parasite-host conflict? Intl. J. Parasit. 29:991-999

Weatherhead, P.J., K.J. Metz, D. Shutler, K.E. Muma and G.F. Bennett. 1995. Blood parasites and dominance in captive blackbirds. Journal of Avian Biology.

Muma, K.E. and P.J. Weatherhead. 1991. Plumage variation and dominance in captive female red-winged blackbirds. Can. J. Zool. 69:49-54.

Muma, K.E. and P.J. Weatherhead. 1989. Male traits expressed in females: direct or indirect sexual selection? Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 25:23-31.

Teather, K.L., K.E. Muma and P.J. Weatherhead. 1988. Estimating female settlement from nesting data. Auk 105:196-200.

Muma, K.E. and C.D. Ankney. 1987. Variation in weight and composition of Red-winged Blackbird eggs. Can. J. Zool. 65:605-607.

Ried, M.L., C.G. Eckert and K.E. Muma. 1986(b). Booming odontocetes and deaf cephalopods: putting the cart before the horse. Am. Nat. 128:438-439.

Muma, K.E. 1986(a). Seasonal changes in the hour of oviposition by red-winged blackbirds in southwestern Ontario. J. Field Ornith. 57:228-229.