Roger A. Beaver Explained

Roger Anthony Beaver (born 1936) is a biologist who has worked at University College of North Wales,^[1] Chiang Mai University,^[2] the University of Zambia^[3] and the University of the South Pacific.^[4] He has published several important papers on Nepenthes infauna, including "Fauna and food webs of pitcher plants in West Malaysia" (1979), "The communities living in Nepenthes pitcher plants: fauna and food webs" (1983), and "Geographical variation in food web structure in Nepenthes pitcher plants" (1985). The species Cryptoxilos beaveri was named in his honour.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Smith, Anthony . Mato Grosso, last virgin land . 1971 . . 191973258 . 284 .
2. Beaver . R. A. . June 1974 . Intraspecific Competition among Bark Beetle Larvae (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) . Journal of Animal Ecology . . 43 . 2 . 455–467 . 3376 . 10.2307/3376 . 88217243 .
3. Beaver . R. A. . September 1979 . Host specificity of temperate and tropical animals . . 281 . 139–141 . 10.1038/281139a0 . 5727. 1979Natur.281..139B .
4. 10.1163/187631286X00189 . Beaver . R. A. . 1986 . The taxonomy, mycangia and biology of Hypothenemus curtipennis (Schedl), the first known cryphaline ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) . Insect Systematics & Evolution . . 17 . 1 . 131–135 . 1399-560X .
5. Shaw . Scott Richard . Jocelyn A. Berry . December 2005 . Two new Cryptoxilos species (Hymenoptera : Braconidae : Euphorinae) from New Zealand and Fiji parasitising adult Scolytinae (Coleoptera) . Invertebrate Systematics . . 19 . 5 . 371–381 . 10.1071/IS05021 .