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Introduction. STABIB (click to search the file) is the scientific bibliography of Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Florida. STABIB now includes 1,782 citations for 1942-2009, a 68-year period.

Included. STABIB includes 1) all scientific publications by Archbold Staff (either based on data collected or papers written while employed), 2) scientific publications by visiting scientists based on research done at Archbold or at MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center (MAERC), and 3) theses/dissertations based on research conducted while the author was at Archbold/MAERC. Thus STABIB is the record of scientific information about the ecosystems of the Station and MAERC.

Excluded. STABIB omits 1) published abstracts, 2) book reviews, 3) and contract reports by Staff; 4) publications that include mention of specimens collected at Archbold/MAERC but were not written by the collector;  and 4) publications by visiting scientists based on library research at Archbold and written while the author was on sabbatical at Archbold/MAERC.

Kinds of Publications Included (see keyword analysis below). 

• aa ArticleJournal - articles in scientific journals
• aa ArticlePopular - articles about science or conservation in popular magazines
• aa Book - books authored or edited
• aa BookChapter - chapters in books
• aa Dissertation - Ph.D. dissertations based on research conducted while the author was at Archbold/MAERC
• aa Report - government agency reports
• aa Thesis - Master's and Senior Honors theses based on research conducted while the author was at Archbold/MAERC

History. The Archbold Biological Station scientific bibliography was initiated in 1972 by Fred E. Lohrer. Station annual reports (1941-1972) were the initial source of publication citations. Reprints of many of these items were already in the Station's library. Once these citations were assembled, visiting scientists were contacted and asked to review their portion of the bibliography for any omissions. Subsequent annual reports were always the primary source for new citations, but as the compiler learned the names of Archbold visiting scientists,  missed items were occasional discovered serendipitously. The compiler also scanned contents pages of many journals received by the library for bibliography items and contacted visiting scientists for reprints or other follow-up concerning the bibliography. Particular attention was devoted to obtaining copies of theses and dissertations from graduate students. Each citation was typed on a 3 x 5 card and the cards were stored in a separate drawer in the Library card catalog. Occasionally, typed lists were created.

Electronic Format. STABIB, the electronic file, was created in the second half of 1987, when bird-lab intern Nancy G. Stotz  transferred the bibliography from catalog cards to Sci-Mate, a DOS-based, bibliographic software program. (Several bibliographic programs were evaluated by Lohrer and Shirley R. Denton, Archbold Post-Doctoral Fellow, and Sci-Mate was selected.) First Lohrer and Stotz assembled a set of reprints, filling in missing items with xerox copies from the library's serials or from interlibrary loan. Then Lohrer assigned keywords for each item, and Stotz did the keyboard work and mastered the fine points of the software. She also wrote a software procedures manual for STABIB that was very useful for subsequent annual additions (1988-1990) to the file. The file remained in Sci-Mate, mostly dormant during the 1990s, until 2000 when Lohrer moved the file from Sci-Mate to ProCite4, a windows-based bibliographic software program, and added citations for 1991-1999. He also posted STABIB on the Archbold Web site as a searchable bibliography using Reference Web Poster. In 2003 Lohrer moved the file to ProCite5 which allowed the addition of links (in Field 38) to URLs for electronic documents. These links (435 as of 2009 or 25% of STABIB; search keyword=full text) are of three kinds: 1) to PDF files (stored on the Archbold server) of Staff publications; 2) to articles in open-access journals, or 3) to documents on stable (academic library or government) Web sites. During summer 2002, keywords were added for 1991-1999 citations. During 2000-2005 STABIB was updated biannually, and since 2006 updates are made frequently.

Bibliography Analysis. This analysis is based on 1,324 publications, 1942-2001 (with some sections updated through 2009), a 60-year history of science at Archbold Biological Station.

• annual totals (Table 1)
• most frequent authors (Table 2)
• journals published in (Table3)

Table 1. STABIB: Annual Totals, 1,782 Publications, 1942-2009.

	1940s	1950s	1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000
0		2	6	20	38	42	55
1		5	12	25	25	43	35
2	2	2	17	25	36	47	53
3	1	4	19	18	32	39	77
4	5	2	15	16	43	52	61
5	1	9	14	24	30	43	37
6	2	6	20	34	37	62	53
7	5	4	19	39	37	40	45
8	2	11	19	38	27	45	37
9	3	9	15	22	38	58	23
Total	21	54	156	261	343	471	476

Table 2. STABIB: Authors and Number of Publications. About 840 authors are included in STABIB. Listed here, in descending order, are Archbold Staff (present and past) and number of publications, and visiting scientists with 10 or more publications. 

Archbold Staff 121  Eisner, T. 89  Layne, J.N. 72  Deyrup, M.A. 72  Woolfenden, G.E. 44  Menges, E.S. 38  Fitzpatrick, J.W. 34  Abrahamson, W.G. 34  Yosef, R. 31  Meshaka, W.E. 27  Lohrer, F.E. 18  Bowman, R. 17  Krombein, K.V. 11  Myers, R.L. 10  Brach, V. 10  Swain, H.M. 8  Hailman, J.P. 8  Johnson, A.F.

Archbold Staff 8  Winegarner, C.E. 7  Bancroft, G.T. 7  Pranty, B. 7  Watts, W.A. 7  Wolfe, J.L. 6  Kinsella, J.M. 6  McMillian, M.A. 6  Quintana-A., P.F. 4  Battoe, L.E. 4  Curry, R.L. 4  Rand, A.L. 2  Deyrup, N. 2  Friedman, S.K. 2  Gallo, N.P. 1  Bohlen, P.J. 1  Brass, L.J. 1  Kohfeldt, N.

Visiting Scientists 27  Kurczewski, F.E. 26  Kilham, L. 24  Carrel, J.E. 19  Brower, L.P. 18  Frost, S.W. 17  Aneshansley, D.J. 16  Eisner, M. 16  Morse, R.A. 14  Penner, L.R. 13 Brower, J.V.Z. 12  Conner, W.E. 12  Douglass, J.F. 12  Mumme, R.L. 10  Hartman, F.A. 10 Visscher, P.K.

Journals Published In. STABIB includes 1,015 articles published in 280 journals. A plot of articles and journals reveals a J-shaped curve with half (507) of all articles appearing in only 7% (20) of the journals (see Table 3, below). At the other end of the curve, about half (157) of the journals contain only one article each. A complete list of all journals (280), and the number of articles in each, is available elsewhere on this Web site  < http://209.26.79.3/abs/library/WebPoster/STABIBjournals2002.htm >.

Table 3. STABIB: The 20 Most Frequent Journals and Number of Articles in Each.

Florida Field Naturalist - 65 Florida Entomologist - 64 Science - 36 Auk - 33 Florida Scientist - 31 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. - 26 Ecology - 25 American Midland Naturalist - 21 Condor - 21 Herpetological Review - 21

Journal of Field Ornithology - 21 Annals of the Entomological Society of America - 19 Entomological News - 19 Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington - 18 Wilson Bulletin - 17 American Museum Novitates - 16 Animal Behaviour - 16 Psyche - 14 Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society - 13 American Journal of Botany - 11

Keyword Analysis. STABIB keywords (see complete list, Table 4, below) are assigned by the compiler.

Document Types. Of the 1,324 publications (1942-2001) in STABIB, the majority, 77%, are journal articles (1015). Book chapters (106) are second in frequency at 8%. Next are master's theses (53) and Ph.D. dissertations (59) at 4% each. Books (37) and popular articles (38) are 3% each, and reports (16) are 1%.

Taxonomic Analysis. STABIB publications about zoology (1070) are 81% of total (1322) publications and botany (158) is 12%. Among animals, half of the publications (546) are about insects or spiders. Birds (327) are 30%, mammals (115) are 10%, reptiles (78) are 7%, spiders (46) are 4%, amphibians (31) are 3%, and fishes (10) are 1%.

Among insects (500), 2 orders account for 60% of the publications, and 5 orders for 85%: Hymenoptera (178), Lepidoptera (116), Coleoptera (75), Diptera (32) Orthoptera (24). 

Among certain species of special interest by Archbold scientists the Florida scrub-jay tallies 106 publications; all rodents, 60; honey bee, 42; Florida mouse, 24; and gopher tortoise, 20.

Divisions of Biology. Among the divisions of biology, the three most frequently assigned keywords in STABIB are behavior (287), ecology (263), and taxonomy (166). The list of keywords below has a complete frequency tally.

Table 4. STABIB: Keyword Frequency for 1,324 Citations, 1942-2001
A publication may be assigned several descriptive keywords, such as ecology and behavior or distribution and taxonomy.

Graduate Student Analysis.

Tally. STABIB (1942-2008) includes 147 Theses/ Dissertations (T/D) (72 Master's, 75 Ph.D.), produced from 41 schools, based on research done at Archbold (or nearby), or while the student was at Archbold. Although the first Archbold graduate student T/D appeared in 1957 (Pistey, W.D., Univ. Conn.), the annual occurrence of T/D commenced in 1964. Over the ensuing 45 years (1964-2008), Archbold graduate students have produced, on average, 3 T/D each year (range 1-7). Of the 147 T/D, 17 have been conducted at Archbold's MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center (1992-2008, 8T/9D).

Where do they come from? Archbold graduate students come from 36 United States universities (almost all east of the Great Plains), and one each from Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Scotland, and Switzerland (see Table 5, below). Six universities account for 66% of the graduate students; U. Florida (28), U. South Florida (26), Cornell U. (21), U. Connecticut (10), U. Wisconsin (8), Florida International U. (5). Five Florida universities account for 42% of the graduate students; U. Central Florida (1), U. Florida (28), U. Miami (4), U. South Florida (26).

What do they study? Many Archbold graduate students (79%) pursued research in zoology, with 11% in botany, 8% in agro-ecology, 2% in limnology and one student in meteorology. In zoology, 85% of the students studied either birds (37%), insects (30%), or mammals (18%). Taxonomically, nearly half of all T/D focused on 4 subjects; Florida scrub-jays (31), rodents (12), invertebrate parasites (14), and honey bees (10). Four keywords describe the majority (96%) of the T/D; ecology (60%), behavior (25%), physiology (6%), and taxonomy (5%).

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