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Paul Bartels - Environmental Studies and Biology

Phone: 828-771-3069
E-Mail: pbartels@warren-wilson.edu
Office : Morse 202
Address : CPO# 6032
Warren Wilson College Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000

Arrival Year: 1986

Education:

B.S. Zoology, Southern Illinois University, 1976

M. Phil. Zoology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, 1978

Ph.D. Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1983

Research:
Inventory of the Phylum Tardigrada in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. My students have discovered over 20 new species, that we are now working on describing both morphologically and genetically.

Selected Publications:

Bartels, P.J. (1984). Extra-territorial movements of a perennially territorial damselfish, Eupomacentrus dorsopunicans. Behaviour 91: 312-322.

Bartels, P.J. (1985). Field observations of multiple mating in Lasius alienus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). American Midland Naturalist 113: 190-192. Full Text (Available on-campus only)

Bartels, P.J. (1986). Sperm wars: a book review. Bioscience 36: 687-688.

Bartels, P.J. (1988). Reproductive caste inhibition in Argentine ants: new mechanisms of queen control. Insectes Sociaux 35:70-81.

Burley, N. & Bartels, P.J. (1990). Phenotypic similarities of sibling zebra finches. Animal Behavior 39: 174-180.

Williams, E.H., Jr., Bartels, P.J., & Bunkley-Williams, L. (1996). Predicted disappearance of coral reef cays: A direct result of marine major ecological disturbances. Global change biology 2: 18-25.

Bartels, P.J., Bruckner, A.W., Bruckner, R.J., & Williams, E.H., Jr. (1996). The cost of mutualism: cleaning symbiosis in Puerto Rican coral reef fish. 6th symposium on the Natural History of the Bahamas.

Bartels, P.J. (1998). Discovering the Bahamian Wilderness. Bahamas Journal of Science 5(2): 21-26.

Bartels, P.J. & Nelson, D.R. (in press). A large-scale, multi-habitat inventory of the tardigrades in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hydrobiologia.

Personal:
Married to Margo Flood, Director of the Environmental Leadership Center. 5 kids and 1 big stinky dog.