Renae Brodie
Assistant Professor
rbrodie@mtholyoke.edu
413-538-3380
Office: Clapp 112

EDUCATION
B.A. Aquatic Biology, UC Santa Barbara, 1991
Ph.D., Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Washington 1999
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

Smithsonian (Marine Station/Tropical Research Institute), 2000-2002

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Behavior, Development and Ecophysiology of Terrestrial Crabs
COURSES
Biology 150 Introductory Biology Fall
Biology 315 Ethology Spring
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Godley Jenice, and Renae J.Brodie. 2007. The effect of summer storms on early life stages of Uca minax, U. pugnax and U. pugilator in North Inlet Estuary, SC, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series In press

Brodie, Renae J. 2005. Desiccation resistance in megalopae of the terrestrial hermit crab Coenobita compressus: water loss and the role of the shell. Invertebrate
Biology 124: 265-272.

Behum, Matthew E., and Renae J. Brodie. 2005. Distribution of juvenile Uca pugnax and Uca pugilator across habitats in a South Carolina Estuary, assessed by molecular techniques. Marine Ecology Progress Series 288:211-220.

Brodie, R., M. Behum, E. Monroe, J. Staton and N. Glenn. 2005. Recruitment to
adult habitats following marine planktonic development in the in the fiddler crabs
Uca pugilator, Uca pugnax and Uca minax. Marine Biology 147:105-111.

Brodie, Renae J. 2002. Timing of the water-to-land transition and metamorphosis
in the land hermit crab Coenobita compressus H. Milne Edwards: evidence that
settlement and metamorphosis are de-coupled. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol. 272:1-11.

Brodie, Renae J. and Alan J. Harvey. 2001. Development of the terrestrial hermit
crab, Coenobita compressus, in the laboratory. Journal of Crustacean Biology,
21(3):715-732.

Brodie, Renae J. 1999. Ontogeny of shell-related behaviors and transition to land
in the terrestrial hermit crab, Coenobita compressus (Crustacea: Coenobitidae).
J Exp Mar Biol Ecol. 241: 67-80.

Hunt, James H., Renae J. Brodie, T. Paige Carithers, Paul Goldstein, and Daniel
Janzen. 1999. Dry season migration by Costa Rican lowland paper wasps to high
elevation cold dormancy sites. Biotropica 31(1):192-196.

Brodie, Renae J. 1998. Movements of the terrestrial hermit crab, Coenobita
clypeatus (Crustacea: Coenobitidae). Rev. Biol. Trop., 46 Supl. (4):181-185.

Last Modified: February 6, 2007

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