While no longer a regular faculty member and no longer accepting new graduate students, I continue to analyze and write concerning research projects involving field studies of birds, mammals, and beetles. Projects employ a number of techniques and approaches, including multivariate statistical techniques, field surveys, and geographic information systems (GIS).

Mammal studies include a long-term study of distributions and ecology of mammals of Colima, Mexico. I also have been engaged in long-term population and ecology studies of the American burying beetle, a federally listed endangered species.

• Poindexter, C. J., G. D. Schnell, C. Sánchez-Hernández, M. L. Romero-Almaraz, M. L. Kennedy, T. L. Best, M. C. Wooten, and Juliann L. Waits.  2013.  Demographic features and habitat preferences of Osgoodomys banderanus (Osgood’s deermouse) in Colima, Mexico.  Southwestern Naturalist  58:8-19.

• Poindexter, C. J., G. D. Schnell, C. Sánchez-Hernández, M. L. Romero-Almaraz, M. L. Kennedy, T. L. Best, M. C. Wooten, and R. D. Owen.  2012.  Variation in habitat use of coexisting rodent species in a tropical dry deciduous forest.  Mammalian Biology  77:249-257.

• Poindexter, C. J., G. D. Schnell, C. Sánchez-Hernández, M. L. Romero-Almaraz, M. L. Kennedy, T. L. Best, M. C. Wooten, and R. D. Owen.  2012.  Co-occurrence of small mammals in a tropical dry deciduous forest:  comparisons of communities and individual species in Colima, Mexico.  Journal of Tropical Ecology  28:65-72.

• Estébanes-González, C. Sánchez-Hernández, M. L. Romero-Almaraz, and G. D. Schnell.  2011.  Ácaros parásitos de roedores de Playa de Oro, Colima, Mexico.  Parasitic and phoretic Acari on rodents from Playa de Oro, Colima, Mexico.  Acta Zoológica Mexicana  27:169-176.

• Schnell, G. D., M. L. Romero-Almaraz, S. T. Martínez-Chapital, C. Sánchez-Hernández, M. L. Kennedy, T. L. Best, M. C. Wooten, and R. D. Owen.  2010.  Habitat preferences and demographic characteristics of the west Mexican cotton rat (Sigmodon mascotensis).  Mammalia  74:379-393.

• Schnell, G. D., E. A. Gilland, C. Sánchez-Hernández, M. L. Kennedy, T. L. Best, and M. C. Wooten.  2010.  Microhabitat preferences and spatial distribution of the vesper rat (Nyctomys sumichrasti) in Colima, Mexico. Mammalian Biology  75:482-495.

• Sánchez-Hernández, C., M. L. Romero-Almaraz, A. Taboada-Salgado, J. A. Almazán-Catalán, G. D. Schnell, and L. Sánchez-Vázquez.  2010.  Five albino bats from Guerrero and Colima, Mexico.  Chiroptera Neotropical  16:522-527.