Professor of Zoology Curator of Birds, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

Phone: (405)325-5050 Fax: (405)325-7699 RM/Lab:SNOMNH302

Current Research Interests and Subject Areas Available for Graduate Research Currently, I have active research projects involving field studies of birds, mammals, and beetles. Projects employed a number of techniques and approaches, including multivariate statistical techniques, field surveys, and geographic information systems (GIS). Graduate students in my laboratory have conduced a range of studies involving ecology, behavior, and systematics. I and graduate students working under my direction have active projects on birds involving evaluation of field survey techniques, analysis of habitat and land-cover use relative to scale, and analysis of distribution patterns based on breeding bird surveys. Mammal studies include a long-term study of distribution and ecology of mammals of Colima, Mexico. We also have been engaged in long-term population and ecology studies of the American burying beetle, a federally listed endangered species. Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., University of Kansas M.S., Northern Illinois University B.S., Central Michigan University     Back to Zoology Faculty

Selected publications: Schnell, G. D., M. L. Kennedy, C. Sánchez-Hernández, M. L. Romero-Almaraz, B. D. N. Estevez, J. A. Guerrero, T. L. Best, M. L. Wooten, and R. D. Owen. 2008. Habitat preference of the endemic tawny deermouse (Peromyscus perfulvus), a species of conservation concern. Southwestern Naturalist 53:9-20. Akins, J. B., M. L. Kennedy, G. D. Schnell, C. Sánchez-Hernández, M. L. Romero-Almaraz, M. C. Wooten, and T. L. Best. 2007. Flight speeds of three species of Neotropical bats: Glossophaga soricina, Natalus stramineus, and Carollia subrufa. Acta Chiropterologica 9:477-482 Brennan, S. P., and G. D. Schnell. 2007. Multiscale analysis of tyrannid abundances and landscape variables in the Central Plains. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119:631-647. Sánchez-Hernández, C., M. L. Romero-Almaraz, M. C. Wooten, G. D. Schnell, and M. L. Kennedy. 2006. Speed in flight of common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus). Southwestern Naturalist 51:422-425. Roberts, J. P., and G. D. Schnell. 2006. Comparison of survey methods for wintering grassland birds. Journal of Field Ornithology 77:46-60. Brennan, S. P., and G. D. Schnell. 2005. Relationship between bird abundances and landscape characteristics: the influence of scale. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 105:209-228.

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