John S. Stimson

PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1968
Associate Professor of Zoology

Research Interests:

My research is primarily concerned with the population and community of ecology of reef animals, particularly corals, and can be divided into the following topics: 1) The influence of the interactions between coral species on the diversity within coral communities, 2) The operation of the zooxanthellae--coral mutualism, 3) The influence of the interactions between corals and other organisms on the diversity within coral communities, 4) The process of succession in coral communities, 5) The growth rates and morphology of corals. At the present time a large part of my research is concerned with the competiton between a macroscopic green alga and the reef building corals in Kaneohe Bay. In all these ecological studies, my approach has been a combination of field-observation, and field and laboratory experiments.

Recent Publications:

Stimson, J.  1990.  Density dependent recruitment in the reef fish Chaetodon 
     miliaris.  Environmental Biol. Fishes 29:1-13.

Stimson, J.  1990.  Stimulation of fat body production in the coral Pocillopora by  
    mutualistic crabs of the genus Trapezia.  Marine Biology 106:211-218. 

Stimson, J. and M. Berman.  1990.  Predator induced color polymorphism in
     Danaus plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Hawaii.  Heredity
     65:401-406.

Stimson, J. and R. Kinzie.  1991.  The diel pattern of release of  zooxanthellae by 
     colonies of Pocillopora damicornis maintained under control and      
     nitrogen-enriched conditions.  J. Exptl. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 153:63-74.

Polacheck, T. and J. Stimson.  (1994).  Experimental analysis of the basis 
     of the uniform dispersion pattern of Pocillopora meandrina Dana var.
     nobilis Verrill, 1864.  J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol.,181: 189-199.

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