Philip Ashmole and Myrtle Ashmole (nee Goodacre)

1. List of publications on St Helena and Ascension

2. List of publications on Atlantic and Pacific island biology

3. Full list of publications    

1. Publications on St Helena and Ascension

Ashmole, N P (1962) The Black Noddy Anous tenuirostris on Ascension Island. Part 1. General   biology. Ibis 103b: 235-273.

Ashmole, N P (1963) The biology of the Wideawake or Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata on Ascension Island. Ibis 103b: 297-364.

Ashmole, N P (1963) Sub-fossil bird remains on Ascension Island. Ibis 103b: 382-389.

Ashmole, N P (1963) The extinct avifauna of St Helena Island. Ibis 103b: 390-408.

Cullen, J M & Ashmole, N P (1963) The Black Noddy Anous tenuirostris on Ascension Island. Part 2. Behaviour. Ibis 103b: 423-446.

Dorward, D F & Ashmole, N P (1963) Notes on the biology of the Brown Noddy Anous stolidus on Ascension Island. Ibis 103b: 447-457.

Ashmole, N P (1963) The regulation of numbers of tropical oceanic birds. Ibis 103b: 458-473.

Ashmole, N P (1963) Molt and breeding in populations of the sooty tern Sterna fuscata. Postilla 76. 18 p.

Ashmole, N P (1965) Adaptive variation in the breeding regime of a tropical sea bird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 53: 311-318.

Millidge, A F & Ashmole, N P (1994) A new genus and species of cave spider from Ascension Island (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 221-223.

Ashmole, N P, Ashmole, M J & Simmons, K E L (1994) Seabird conservation and feral cats on Ascension Island, South Atlantic. Pp. 94-121 in Seabirds on Islands: Threats, Case Studies and Action Plans. Birdlife Conservation Series No. 1.

Bell, B D & Ashmole, P (1995) The feasibility of the eradication of feral cats and rats from Ascension Island. Report prepared on behalf of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 127 p.

Merrett, P & Ashmole, N P (1997) Redescription of Catonetria caeca Millidge & Ashmole from Ascension Island (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 247-248.

Ashmole, N P & Ashmole, M J (1997) The land fauna of Ascension Island: new data from caves and lava flows, and a reconstruction of the prehistoric ecosystem. Journal of Biogeography 24: 549-589.

Lienhard, C & Ashmole, N P (1999) Sphaeropsocopsis myrtleae sp. n., a blind subterranean psocid from St Helena (Psocoptera: Sphaeropsocidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 106: 905-912.

Ashmole, N P, Ashmole, M J & Bourne, W R P (1999) Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii on St Helena. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1999: 91-94.

Ashmole, P & Ashmole, M J (2000) St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history. Anthony Nelson, Oswestry. 500 p.

Bourne, W R P, Ashmole, N P & Simmons, K E L (2003) A new subfossil night heron and a new genus for the extinct rail from Ascension Island, central tropical Atlantic Ocean. Ardea 91(1): 45-51.

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Ashmole, N P, Dorward, D F & Stonehouse, B (1961) Numbering of primaries. Ibis 103a: 235-273.
 
Ashmole, N P (1962) The Black Noddy Anous tenuirostris on Ascension Island. Part 1. General biology. Ibis 103b: 235-273.
 
Ashmole, M J (1963) Guide to the Birds of Samoa. Publication of the Pacific Scientific Information Center. 21 p.

Ashmole, N P (1963) The biology of the Wideawake or Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata on Ascension Island. Ibis 103b: 297-364.

Ashmole, N P (1963) Sub-fossil bird remains on Ascension Island. Ibis 103b: 382-389.

Ashmole, N P (1963) The extinct avifauna of St Helena Island. Ibis 103b: 390-408.

Cullen, J M & Ashmole, N P (1963) The Black Noddy Anous tenuirostris on Ascension Island. Part 2. Behaviour. Ibis 103b: 423-446.

Dorward, D F & Ashmole, N P (1963) Notes on the biology of the Brown Noddy Anous stolidus on Ascension Island. Ibis 103b: 447-457.

Ashmole, N P (1963) The regulation of numbers of tropical oceanic birds. Ibis 103b: 458-473.

Ashmole, N P (1963) Molt and breeding in populations of the sooty tern Sterna fuscata. Postilla 76. 18 p.

Ashmole, N P (1965) Adaptive variation in the breeding regime of a tropical sea bird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 53: 311-318.

Ashmole, N P (1965) Sea bird studies on Christmas Island. Discovery (Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University) 1: 20-24.

Ashmole, N P & Ashmole, M J (1967) Comparative feeding ecology of sea birds of a tropical oceanic island. Peabody Museum, Yale University, Bulletin 24. 131 p.

Ashmole, M J & Ashmole, N P (1967) The use of food samples from seabirds in the study of seasonal variation in the surface fauna of tropical oceanic areas. Pacific Science 22: 1-10.

Ashmole, M J & Ashmole, N P (1967) Notes on the breeding season and food of the Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) on Oahu, Hawaii. Ardea 55: 265-267.

Ashmole, N P (1968) Breeding and molt in the White Tern (Gygis alba) on Christmas Island, Pacific Ocean. Condor 70: 35-55.

Ashmole, N P & Tovar S, H (1968) Prolonged parental care in Royal Terns and other birds. Auk 85: 90-100.

Ashmole, N P (1968) Body size, prey size, and ecological segregation in five sympatric tropical terns (Aves: Laridae). Systematic Zoology 17: 292-304.

Tovar S, H & Ashmole, N P (1970) A breeding record for the Gray-hooded Gull, Larus cirrocephalus, on the Peruvian coast. Condor 72: 119-122.

Schreiber, R W & Ashmole, N P (1970) Sea-bird breeding seasons on Christmas Island, Pacific Ocean. Ibis 112: 363-394.

Ashmole, N P (1971) Sea bird ecology and the marine environment. Pp. 223-286 in Farner, D S & King, J R (eds) Avian Biology, vol. 1. Academic Press.

Ashmole, N P (1974) Pelecaniformes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th Edition. 6 p.

Ashmole, N P & Ashmole, M J (1988) Insect dispersal on Tenerife, Canary Islands: high altitude fallout and seaward drift. Arctic and Alpine Research 20: 1‑12.

Ashmole, M J & Ashmole, N P (1989) Natural history excursions in Tenerife: a guide to the countryside, plants and animals. Kidston Mill Press, Peebles.

Merrett, P & Ashmole, N P (1989) A new troglobitic Theridion (Araneae: Theridiidae) from the Azores. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 51-54.

Ashmole, N P, Ashmole, M J & Oromí, P (1990) Arthropods of recent lava flows on Lanzarote. Vieraea 18: 171‑187.

Disney, R H L, Baéz, M & Ashmole, N P (1990) A revised list of the Phoridae (Diptera) from the Canary Islands, with habitat notes. Vieraea 18: 261-265.

Oromí, P, Martín, J L, Ashmole, N P & Ashmole M J (1990) A preliminary report on the cavernicolous fauna of the Azores. Mémoires de Biospéologie 17: 97‑105.

Ashmole, N P, Oromí, P, Ashmole, M J & Martín, J L (1992) Primary faunal succession in volcanic terrain: lava and cave studies on the Canary Islands. Biological    Journal of the Linnean Society 46: 207‑234.

Eason, E H & Ashmole, N P (1992) Indigenous centipedes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from Azorean caves and lava flows. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 407-429.

Ashmole, N P (1993) Colonization of the underground environment in volcanic islands. Mémoires de Biospéologie 20: 1-11.

Millidge, A F & Ashmole, N P (1994) A new genus and species of cave spider from Ascension Island (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 221-223.

Ashmole, N P, Ashmole, M J & Simmons, K E L (1994) Seabird conservation and feral cats on Ascension Island, South Atlantic. Pp. 94-121 in Seabirds on Islands: Threats, Case Studies and Action Plans. Birdlife Conservation Series No. 1.

Bell, B D & Ashmole, P (1995) The feasibility of the eradication of feral cats and rats from Ascension Island. Report prepared on behalf of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 127 p.

Ashmole, P & Ashmole, M (1995) Arthropod fauna of a cave on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, English Channel. The Entomologist 114: 79-82.
 
Ashmole, N P, Oromí, P, Ashmole, M J & Martín, J L (1996) The invertebrate fauna of early successional volcanic habitats in the Azores. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 48 (264): 5-39.

Merrett, P & Ashmole, N P (1997) Redescription of Catonetria caeca Millidge & Ashmole from Ascension Island (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 247-248.

Ashmole, N P & Ashmole, M J (1997) The land fauna of Ascension Island: new data from caves and lava flows, and a reconstruction of the prehistoric ecosystem. Journal of Biogeography 24: 549-589.

Lienhard, C & Ashmole, N P (1999) Sphaeropsocopsis myrtleae sp. n., a blind subterranean psocid from St Helena (Psocoptera: Sphaeropsocidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 106: 905-912.

Ashmole, N P, Ashmole, M J & Bourne, W R P (1999) Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii on St Helena. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1999: 91-94.

Ashmole, N P & Ashmole, M J (2000) Fallout of dispersing arthropods supporting invertebrate communities in barren volcanic habitats. Case study: Canary Islands. In Wilkens, J H, Humphreys, W & Culver, D, eds. Ecosystems of the World, Vol. 30, Subterranean Ecosystems. Elsevier Science, Oxford.

Ashmole, P & Ashmole, M J (2000) St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history. Anthony Nelson, Oswestry. 500 p.

Bourne, W R P, Ashmole, N P & Simmons, K E L (2003) A new subfossil night heron and a new genus for the extinct rail from Ascension Island, central tropical Atlantic Ocean. Ardea 91(1): 45-51.

3. Full list of publications                    Home     <<Back        

      Ashmole, N P, Brown, R G B & Tinbergen, N (1956) Feeding association

            between coot and little grebe. British Birds 49: 501.

 

      Ashmole, N P, Brown, R G B & Campbell, R P (1957) La migration á Gavarnie

            en automne 1955. Alauda 25: 94-115.

 

      Brown, R G B, Ashmole, N P & Campbell, R P (1958) Insect migration in the

            Pyrenees in the autumn of 1955. Entomologists' Monthly Magazine 94:

            217-226.

      Goodacre, M J & Lack, D (1959) Early breeding in 1957. British Birds 52:

            74-83.

      Goodacre, M J (1959-1960) The origin of winter visitors to the British Isles.

1. Blackbird (Turdus merula). Bird Study 6: 37-50.

2. Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs). Bird Study 6: 102-108.

3. Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla). Bird Study 6: 106-111.

4. Starling (Sturnus vulgaris). Bird Study 6: 180-192.

5. Redwing (Turdus musicus). Bird Study 7: 102-107.

6. Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos). Bird Study 7: 108-110.

7. Fieldfare(Turdus pilaris). Bird Study 7: 111-113.

      Ashmole, N P, Dorward, D F & Stonehouse, B (1961) Numbering of primaries.

            Ibis 103a: 235-273.

      Ashmole, M J (1962) Migration of European thrushes: a comparative study

            based on ringing recoveries. Ibis 104: 314-346; 522-559.

      Ashmole, N P (1962) The Black Noddy Anous tenuirostris on Ascension

            Island. Part 1. General biology. Ibis 103b: 235-273.

      Ashmole, M J (1963) Guide to the Birds of Samoa. Publication of the

            Pacific Scientific Information Center. 21 p.

      Ashmole, N P (1963) The biology of the Wideawake or Sooty Tern Sterna

            fuscata on Ascension Island. Ibis 103b: 297-364.

      Ashmole, N P (1963) Sub-fossil bird remains on Ascension Island. Ibis

            103b: 382-389.

      Ashmole, N P (1963) The extinct avifauna of St Helena Island. Ibis 103b:

            390-408.

      Cullen, J M & Ashmole, N P (1963) The Black Noddy Anous tenuirostris on

            Ascension Island. Part 2. Behaviour. Ibis 103b: 423-446.

      Dorward, D F & Ashmole, N P (1963) Notes on the biology of the Brown Noddy

            Anous stolidus on Ascension Island. Ibis 103b: 447-457.

      Ashmole, N P (1963) The regulation of numbers of tropical oceanic birds.

            Ibis 103b: 458-473.

      Ashmole, N P (1963) Molt and breeding in populations of the sooty tern

            Sterna fuscata. Postilla 76. 18 p.

      Ashmole, N P (1965) Adaptive variation in the breeding regime of a

tropical sea bird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)

53: 311-318.

      Ashmole, N P (1965) Sea bird studies on Christmas Island. Discovery

            (Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University) 1: 20-24.

      Ashmole, N P & Ashmole, M J (1967) Comparative feeding ecology of sea

            birds of a tropical oceanic island. Peabody Museum, Yale University,

            Bulletin 24. 131 p.

      Ashmole, N P (1967) Sexual dimorphism and colonial breeding in the

            woodpecker Centurus striatus. American Naturalist 101: 353-356.

      Ashmole, M J & Ashmole, N P (1967) The use of food samples from seabirds

            in the study of seasonal variation in the surface fauna of tropical

            oceanic areas. Pacific Science 22: 1-10.

      Ashmole, M J & Ashmole, N P (1967) Notes on the breeding season and food

of the Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) on Oahu, Hawaii. Ardea 55:

265-267.

      Ashmole, N P (1968) Breeding and molt in the White Tern (Gygis alba) on

            Christmas Island, Pacific Ocean. Condor 70: 35-55.

      Ashmole, N P & Tovar S, H (1968) Prolonged parental care in Royal Terns

            and other birds. Auk 85: 90-100.

      Ashmole, N P (1968) Body size, prey size, and ecological segregation in

five sympatric tropical terns (Aves: Laridae). Systematic Zoology

17:292-304.

      Ashmole, N P (1968) Competition and interspecific territoriality in

            Empidonax flycatchers. Systematic Zoology 17: 210-212.

      Ashmole, N P (1968) Phoebe dividing clutch between two nests. Wilson

            Bulletin 80: 332-333.

      Ashmole, P (1969) Population: covered dish dynamics. Science 166: 1354.

      Ashmole, M J (1970) Feeding of Western and Semipalmated Sandpipers in

            Peruvian winter quarters. Auk 87: 131-135.

      Ashmole, N P (1970) Overpopulation: from apathy to action. Discovery

            (Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University) 5: 79-87.

Tovar S, H & Ashmole, N P (1970) A breeding record for the Gray-hooded

 Gull, Larus cirrocephalus, on the Peruvian coast. Condor 72: 119-122.

      Uzzell, T & Ashmole, N P (1970) Suture zones: an alternative view.

            Systematic Zoology 19: 197-199.

      Schreiber, R W & Ashmole, N P (1970) Sea-bird breeding seasons on

            Christmas Island, Pacific Ocean. Ibis 112: 363-394.

      Ashmole, N P (1971) Sea bird ecology and the marine environment. Pp.

223-286 in Farner, D S & King, J R (eds) Avian Biology, vol. 1.

Academic Press.

      Ashmole, N P (1974) Pelecaniformes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th

            Edition. 6 p.

      Ashmole, N P, Locket, G H, Lodhi, A Q K, Smith, C J & Sudd, J H (1978)

            Pityohyphantes phrygianus (C.L. Koch), a possible recent colonist of

            Britain. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 279-284.

      Ashmole, N P (1979) The spider fauna of Shetland and its zoogeographic

            context. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 78B: 63-122.

      Ashmole, N P & Planterose, B R (1979) Spiders from arctic Fennoscandia.

            Fauna Norvegica Series B 26: 26-30.

      Ashmole, N P (1980) An interim list of the spiders of the Cairngorms. A

            report to the Nature Conservancy Council. 36 p.

      Ashmole, N P & Merrett, P (1981) Lepthyphantes antroniensis Schenkel, a

spider new to Britain (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the

British Arachnological Society 5: 234-236.

      Ashmole, N P (1983) Spiders and beetles (and other insects) at high levels

            on the Cairngorms. A report to the Nature Conservancy Council. 30 p.

      Ashmole, N P, Nelson, J M, Shaw, M R & Garside, A (1983) Insects and

spiders on snowfields in the Cairngorms, Scotland. Journal of

Natural History 17: 599‑613.

      Ashmole, N P (1987) Sparrowhawk caching and returning repeatedly to prey.

            Scottish Birds 14: 182-183.

      Ashmole, M J & Ashmole, N P (1987) Arthropod communities supported by

            biological fallout on recent lava flows in the Canary Islands.

            Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 32: 67‑88.

      Ashmole, N P & Ashmole, M J (1988) Insect dispersal on Tenerife, Canary

            Islands: high altitude fallout and seaward drift. Arctic and Alpine

            Research 20: 1‑12.

      Ashmole, M J & Ashmole, N P (1989) Natural history excursions in Tenerife:

            a guide to the countryside, plants and animals. Kidston Mill Press,

            Peebles.

      Merrett, P & Ashmole, N P (1989) A new troglobitic Theridion (Araneae:

            Theridiidae) from the Azores. Bulletin of the British Arachnological

            Society 8: 51-54.

      Ashmole, N P, Ashmole, M J & Oromí, P (1990) Arthropods of recent lava

            flows on Lanzarote. Vieraea 18: 171‑187.

      Disney, R H L, Baéz, M & Ashmole, N P (1990) A revised list of the

Phoridae (Diptera) from the Canary Islands, with habitat notes. Vieraea

18: 261-265.

      Oromí, P, Martín, J L, Ashmole, N P & Ashmole M J (1990) A preliminary

report on the cavernicolous fauna of the Azores. Mémoires de Biospéologie

17: 97‑105.

      Ashmole, N P, Oromí, P, Ashmole, M J & Martín, J L (1992) Primary faunal

            succession in volcanic terrain: lava and cave studies on the Canary

            Islands. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 46: 207‑234.

      Eason, E H & Ashmole, N P (1992) Indigenous centipedes (Chilopoda:

            Lithobiomorpha) from Azorean caves and lava flows. Zoological Journal of

            the Linnean Society 105: 407-429.

      Ashmole, N P (1993) Colonization of the underground environment in

            volcanic islands. Mémoires de Biospéologie 20: 1-11.

      Millidge, A F & Ashmole, N P (1994) A new genus and species of cave spider

             from Ascension Island (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British

            Arachnological Society 9: 221-223.

      Ashmole, N P, Ashmole, M J & Simmons, K E L (1994) Seabird conservation

            and feral cats on Ascension Island, South Atlantic. Pp. 94-121 in Seabirds

            on Islands: Threats, Case Studies and Action Plans. Birdlife Conservation

             Series No. 1.

      Ashmole, N P (ed) (1994) Restoring Borders Woodland. Peeblesshire

            Environment Concern, Peebles.

      Bell, B D & Ashmole, P (1995) The feasibility of the eradication of feral

            cats and rats from Ascension Island. Report prepared on behalf of the

            Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, for the Foreign and

            Commonwealth Office. 127 p.

      Ashmole, P & Ashmole, M (1995) Arthropod fauna of a cave on Tresco, Isles

            of Scilly, English Channel. The Entomologist 114: 79-82.

      Ashmole, N P, Oromí, P, Ashmole, M J & Martín, J L (1996) The invertebrate

            fauna of early successional volcanic habitats in the Azores. Boletim do

            Museu Municipal do Funchal 48 (264): 5-39.

      Merrett, P & Ashmole, N P (1997) Redescription of Catonetria caeca

      Millidge & Ashmole from Ascension Island (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin

            of the British Arachnological Society 10: 247-248.

      Ashmole, N P & Ashmole, M J (1997) The land fauna of Ascension Island: new

            data from caves and lava flows, and a reconstruction of the prehistoric

            ecosystem. Journal of Biogeography 24: 549-589.

      Newton, A C & Ashmole, P (eds) (1998) Native woodland restoration in

            southern Scotland: principles and practice. The University of Edinburgh

            and the Borders Forest Trust.

      Newton, A C & Ashmole, N P (1998) How may native woodland be restored to

            Southern Scotland? Scottish Forestry 52: 168-171.

      Whitfield, D P, Cresswell, W, Ashmole, N P, Clark, N A & Evans, D A (1999)

            No evidence for Sparrowhawks selecting Redshanks according to size or

            condition. Journal of Avian Biology 30: 31-39.

      Lienhard, C & Ashmole, N P (1999) Sphaeropsocopsis myrtleae sp. n., a

            blind subterranean psocid from St Helena (Psocoptera: Sphaeropsocidae).

            Revue suisse de Zoologie 106: 905-912.

      Ashmole, N P, Ashmole, M J & Bourne, W R P (1999) Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria

            bulwerii on St Helena. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1999:

            91-94.

      Ashmole, N P (1999) Carrifran Wildwood and the Borders Forest Trust -

            using the past? Scottish Woodland History Discussion Group: notes IV:

            36-39. Centre for Enironmental History and Policy, University of St

            Andrews.

      Ashmole, N P & Ashmole, M J (2000) Fallout of dispersing arthropods

            supporting invertebrate communities in barren volcanic habitats. Case

            study: Canary Islands. In Wilkens, J H, Humphreys, W & Culver, D, eds.

             Ecosystems of the World, Vol. 30, Subterranean Ecosystems. Elsevier

            Science, Oxford.

      Ashmole, P & Ashmole, M J (2000) St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural

             history. Anthony Nelson, Oswestry. 500 p.

      Bourne, W R P, Ashmole, N P & Simmons, K E L (2003) A new subfossil night

            heron and a new genus for the extinct rail from Ascension Island, central

            tropical Atlantic Ocean. Ardea 91(1): 45-51.

      Ashmole, M J (2003) The Wild Wood of Carrifran. Living Lightly 25: 5-7.

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