Dr George Gibbs

Teaching Fellow

:same:1:--> Dr George Gibbs Teaching Fellow Phone: 0-4-463 6089 Fax: 0-4-463 5331 Email: address Room 418, New Kirk Building, Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus

Memberships

Entomological Society of New Zealand; New Zealand Ecological Society; Royal Society of New Zealand.

Research Interests

The New Zealand insect fauna and its biogeographic history, with special emphasis on primitive Lepidoptera (Micropterigidae, Mnesarchaeidae), butterflies and weta (Deinacridinae).

Current Teaching

BIOL 219: NEW ZEALAND FLORA AND FAUNA (Course Coordinator)

Selection of Publications

Gibbs, G.W., 'A new species of tusked weta from the Raukumara Range, North Island, New Zealand (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: Motuweta)', New Zealand Journal of Zoology , 29 (2002), pp. 293-301.

Molloy, J., Bell, B.D., Clout, M., de Lange, P., Gibbs, G., Given, D., Norton, D., Smith, N., Stephens, T., Classifying species according to threat of extinction - a system for New Zealand (Wellington, Department of Conservation, Threatened Species Occasional Publication, 22, (2002), 26 pp.
Dr Ben D Bell (Academic)

Gibbs, G.W., Pencarrow Lakes, conservation values and management (Wellington Conservancy, Department of Conservation, 2002), 35pp.

Watts, C.H., and Gibbs, G.W., 'Revegetation and its effect on the ground-dwelling beetle fauna of Matiu-Somes Island, New Zealand', Restoration Ecology , 10 (2002), pp. 96-106.