David M. Armstrong

Professor

david.armstrong@colorado.edu
303-492-7965
Ramaley N117

Ph. D. University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1971

Research Interests

evolutionary biogeography; community and conservation ecology; human impact on native ecosystems; ecology, distribution, and systematics of mammals of western North America and Middle America; science in general education; history of biology, especially ecology & evolution.

Teaching

EBIO 2040, “Principles of Ecology” (and predecessor courses)
EPOB 3770, "Vertebrate Zoology”
EPOB 4460, "History of Biology"
EPOB 4760/5760, "Mammalogy"
EPOB 4800/5800, "The Darwinian Revolution"
EPOB 4800/5800, “Pattern in the Ecosphere”
EBIO 4800/5800, “Biodiversity”

Recent Publications

2006. Lions, Ferrets & Bears. A Guide to the Mammals of Colorado, 2nd edition. Colorado Division of Wildlife, Denver, 65 pp. [for middle and high school audience). in press. Rocky Mountain Mammals, 3rd Edition. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

2001. Vertebrates of Niwot Ridge. Pp. 128-156 in Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem: Niwot Ridge (W. Bowman and T. Seastedt, eds.). Oxford University Press, New York (with J. C. Halfpenny and C. H. Southwick).

2000. Epilogue: conservation of wildlife in Rocky Mountain forests: process, pattern, and perspective. Pp. 431-450 in Forest fragmentation in the Southern Rocky Mountains. (R. L. Knight, F. W. Smith, S. W. Buskirk, W. H. Romme, and W. L. Baker, editors). University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

1994. Mammals of Colorado (J. P. Fitzgerald and C. A. Meaney). Colorado Associated University Press, Niwot, and Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver.