Kenneth D. Frank, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, is a retired physician with a life-long interest in natural history.
Kenneth D. Frank
Education.
1968 BA Amherst College
1972 MD Harvard Medical School
1976 Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Professional activity.
1976 - 2011 Primary care, internal medicine.
2011 Retired.
Interests.
Urban ecology and natural history.
Primary publications.
Frank KD. 1969. Action spectra for phase shifts of a circadian rhythm in Drosophila. Science 163:688-689. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/163/3868/688
Frank KD. 1972. Government support of nursing-home care. New England Journal of Medicine 287:538-545. https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM197209142871105
Frank KD. 1986. History of the ailanthus silkmoth (Lepidoptera - Saturniidae) in Philadelphia: a case study in urban ecology. Entomological News 97:41-51. https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_55417_historyoftheailanthussilkmothl1925
Frank KD. 1988. Impact of outdoor lighting on moths: an assessment. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 42 63-93. https://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/1980s/1988/1988-42(2)63-Frank.pdf
Frank KD. 2006. Effect of artificial night lighting on moths. Pages 203-344 in Rich C, Longcore T, eds. Ecological Consequences Artificial Night Lighting, Island Press. 458 pages. http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/38531/1/79.pdf#page=326
Frank KD. 2009. Exploitation of artificial light by a jumping spider. Peckhamia 78.1:1-3. https://peckhamia.com/peckhamia/PECKHAMIA%2078.1.pdf
Frank KD. 2015. Apparent dispersal of Reboulia hemisphaerica (Aytoniaceae) by springtails. Bartonia 67:85-89. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43233856?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Frank KD. 2015. Ecology of Center City, Philadelphia. Fitler Square Press. 387 pages. https://archive.org/details/EcologyOfCenterCityPhiladelphia/mode/2up
Frank KD. 2016. Establishment of the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) in North America near Philadelphia a Century ago. Entomological News 126:153-174. https://doi.org/10.3157/021.126.0302
Frank KD, Cowper GW. Skyscrapers as ecological traps of the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae): preliminary observations. Entomological News. In press.
Over time this passion has led to a library of visual observations.
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