Allen Allison

Assistant Director of Research
Bishop Museum
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1979
Zoology Website
Bishop Museum Website
allison@hawaii.edu

         
   

Research Interests

My research interests span a broad spectrum and center mainly on population biology and systematics. I am particularly interested in life history strategies and systematics of amphibians and reptiles and the structure and diversity of insect populations. My principal field technique is to conduct comparative studies of species and communities along environmental gradients. I have used this approach in to study life history strategies in lizards and patterns of diversity of insect communities in the canopy of New Guinea rain forest trees. I am also interested in conservation biology and the use of information from museum collections and biological surveys to assist resource managers in developing conservation priorities.

  

Selected Publications
Kraus, Fred, Earl W. Campbell, Allen Allison, and Thane Pratt. SUBMITTED. Three new frogs in Hawaii. Journal of Herpetology
Allison, Allen, and Lucius Eldredge. IN PRESS. Polynesia and Micronesia. In Russell Mittermeier (ed.) Conservation hotspots of the world. 25 pp.[manuscript]. Conservation International, Washington, D.C.
Allison, Allen , David Bickford, Stephen Richards, and Geordie Torr. IN PRESS. Herpetofauna. In Andrew Mack (ed.) Flora and fauna of the Lakekamu Basin. Conservation International, Washington, D.C.
Allison, Allen and Ilaiah Bigelale. IN PRESS. Herpetofauna of New Ireland. Conservation International, Washington, D.C.
Allison, Allen, and Scott E. Miller. IN PRESS. Hawaii Biological Survey: Museum resources in support of conservation. In Nature and human society: the quest for a sustainable world. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Novotny, Vojtech, Yves Basset, Scott Miller, Allen Allison, G.A. Samuelson, and Larry Orsak. 1997. The diversity of tropical insect herbivores: an approach to collaborative international research in Papua New Guinea. In B.H Lee, J.C. Choe and H.Y. Han (eds.), Taxonomy and biodiversity in East Asia. Proceedings of International Conference on Taxonomy and Biodiversity in East Asia. KIBIO Series 2, pp. 112-125. Korean Biodiversity Council and Korean Institute for Biodiversity Research, Chonju, Korea.
Allison, Allen, Scott E. Miller, and G. Allan Samuelson. 1997. Patterns of beetle species diversity in Castanopsis acuminatissima (Fagaceae) trees studied with canopy fogging in mid-Montane New Guinea rain forest. In N.E. Stork, J. Adis and R.K. Didham (eds.), Canopy Arthropods. pp. 224-236. Chapman and Hall, London.
Woolley, Patricia A., and A. Allison. 1996. Reproduction in Pipistrellus papuanus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Wau, Papua New Guinea. Science in New Guinea 21(3): 131-138.
Allison, Allen. 1996. Zoogeography of amphibians and reptiles of New Guinea and the Pacific region. In Allen Keast and Scott E. Miller (eds.), The origin and evolution of Pacific Island biotas, New Guinea to eastern Polynesia. pp. 407-436. SPB Academic Publishing, Amsterdam. 1996. How many species of host-specific insects feed on a species of tropical tree? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society] 59(2): 201-216.
Allison, Allen, Scott E. Miller, and G. Allan Samuelson. 1993. Patterns of beetle species diversity in Castanopsis acuminatissima (Fagaceae) trees studied with canopy fogging techniques in mid-montane New Guinea rain forest. Biological Society of New Guinea Programe and abstracts third annual meeting 30/8 - 2/9/93 Wau Ecology Institute
Basset, Yves, G.Allan Samuelson, Allen Allison, and Scott E. Miller. Allison, Allen, Scott E. Miller, and Gordon M. Nishida. 1995. Hawaii Biological Survey. In Edward T. LaRoe, Gaye S. Farris, Catherine E. Puckett, Peter D. Doran and Michael J. Mac (eds.), Our living resources: a report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals and ecosystems. p. 362. U.S. Department of the Interior -- National Biological Service, Washington, D.C.
Allison, Allen, G. Allan Samuelson, and Scott E. Miller. 1993. Patterns of beetle diversity in New Guinea rain forest as revealed by canopy fogging: preliminary findings. Selbyana 14:16-20.
Allison, Allen. 1993. Biodiversity and conservation of the fishes, amphibians and reptiles of Papua New Guinea in Beehler, B. [ed.] Papua New Guinea conservation needs assessment, volume 2, Biodiversity Support Program, Washington D.C., pp. 157-225.