THOMAS
G. WOLCOTT
Professor
Tel. (919) 515-7866
E-mail: tom_wolcott@ncsu.edu
Dr.
Wolcott's Home Page
Curriculum Vitae
B. A. (Zoology) magna cum laude, University of California, Riverside
(1 year study in Goettingen, W. Germany), 1966
PhD
(Zoology), University of California, Berkeley
1971
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
AREAS
Physiological
ecology, particularly the role of physical environmental factors
in limiting the range or distribution of marine invertebrates,
and the energetic or reproductive advantages of adaptations to
physical environments. Nitrogen, water and salt relations in herbivorous
terrestrial crabs. Development of field instrumentation, including
low-power microelectronics and radio- and ultrasonic telemetry
of behavioral and physiological information from free-ranging
animals.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS:
Wolcott,
T.G., and A.H. Hines. 1990. Ultrasonic telemetry of small-scale
movements and microhabitat selection by molting blue crabs (Callinectes
sapidus). Bulletin of Marine Science 46:83-94.
Shirley, M.A. and T.G. Wolcott. 1991. A telemetric study of microhabitat
selection by premolt and molting blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus
(Rathbun) within a subestuary of the Pamlico River, North Carolina.
Marine Behavior and Physiology 19: 133-148.
Wolcott,
T.G. and D.L. Wolcott. 1991. Ion conservation by reprocessing
of urine in the land crab Gecarcinus lateralis (Freminville).
Physiological Zoology 64: 344-361.
Hines,
A.H., T.G. Wolcott, E. Gonzalez-Gurriaran, J.L. Gonzalez-Escalante,
and J. Friere.
1995. Movement patterns and migrations in crabs:
telemetry studies of juvenile and adult behaviour in Callinectes
sapidus and Maja squinado. Journal of the Marine Biological
Association of the U.K. 75: 27-42.
Wolcott,
T.G. 1995. New Options in Physiological and Behavioural Ecology
Through Multichannel Telemetry. Journal of Experimental Marine
Biology and Ecology 193: 257-275. |