Chandler S. Robbins
Retired on December 30, 2005;
A.B., Harvard College (1940)
M.S., George Washington University (1950)
Sc.D. (Hon.), University of Maryland (1995)
|Areas of Expertise/Interest: Monitoring of bird populations; census methods; avian habitat requirements; effects of habitat fragmentation; landscape ecology|
Developed North American Breeding Bird Survey, 1966
Distinguished Service Award (U.S. Dept. of the Interior), 1987
Elliott Coues Award (American Ornithologists’ Union), 1997
Audubon Medal (National Audubon Society), 2000
Promoted to Senior Research Scientist, 2002
Lifetime Achievement Award, Partners in Flight, 2005
Scroll of Honor, U.S. Geological Survey, 2005
Lifetime Achievement Award, The Wildlife Society, Maryland/Delaware Chapter, 2006
Evaluation of Breeding Bird Atlas Protocol
50-year changes in breeding bird populations
Tropical forest conservation plan (Cerro San Gil Ecological Reserve, Guatemala)
Population dynamics of the Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses
Demographic Modeling of North Pacific Albatross Populations
Efford, M. G., D. K. Dawson, and C. S. Robbins. 2004. DENSITY: software for analyzing capture-recapture data from passive detector arrays. Animal Diversity and Conservation 27(1):275-228.
Dawson, D.K., C.S. Robbins, and L.J. Darr. 2001. Effects of urbanization on the distribution of area-sensitive forest birds in Prince George's County, Maryland. Pages 207-213 in G.D. Therres, ed. Conservation of Biological Diversity: A Key to the Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem and Beyond. Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Annapolis, MD.
C. S., Senior Editor. 1996. Atlas of the breeding birds of Maryland and
the District of Columbia. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press. 479 pp.
C. S., D. K. Dawson, and B. A. Dowell. 1995. Changing land use: Problems
and opportunities. Pages 1-14 in
M. H. Wilson and S. A. Sader, Conservation of neotropical migratory birds
in Mexico. Misc. Pub. 727, Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment
Station, Orono. 288 pp.
C. S., B. A. Dowell, D. K. Dawson, J. A. Colón, R. Estrada, A. Sutton, R.
Sutton, and D. Weyer. 1992. Comparison
of neotropical migrant landbird populations wintering in tropical forest,
isolated forest fragments, and agricultural
habitats. Pages 207-220in John M. Hagan III and David W. Johnston, editors. Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. xiii, 609 pp.
C. S., J. R. Sauer, R. S. Greenberg, and S. Droege. 1989. Population
declines in North American birds that migrate to the neotropics.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 86(19):7658-7662.
C. S., D. K. Dawson, and B. A. Dowell. 1989. Habitat area requirements of
breeding forest birds of the Middle Atlantic States. Wildlife Monographs
103. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, MD. 34 pp.
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