Robert M. Timm - Tropical Ecology, Systematics, Mammalian Ecology, Host/parasite Relationships
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Phone: (785) 864-4180
Fax: (785) 864-5335
Working with one of my doctoral students, Robert P. Anderson, and collaborators from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto we conducted an assessment of the species diversity and abundance of mammals in the Iwokrama Rain Forest Reserve in Central Guyana. This is one of the most remote rain forests remaining on the South American continent. This newly formed reserve was found to have an especially rich bat fauna. Numbers of species as well as individuals of predaceous bats, which are indicators of high quality forest and lack of disturbance by humans, were particularly high. The abundance of highly prized game species such as pacas (a large rain forest rodent) is also indicative of little human disturbance. We discovered 11 species new to the Guyana fauna and documented the presence of olingos in the Reserve, a species that had not been found in the country since the turn of the century. The United Nations Global Environmental Fund provided financial support for this work.
Stoner, K. E. and R. M. Timm. 2002. Tropical dry forest mammals: Conservation priorities in a changing landscape. In Biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica : Learning the lessons in the seasonal dry forest (G. W. Frankie, A. Mata, and S. B. Vinson, eds.). University of California Press.
Timm, R. M. 2002. Mammal. In The World Book Encyclopedia , Vol. 14. Chicago, Illinois.
Timm, R. M. and J. H. Brandt. 2001. Pseudonovibos spiralis (Artiodactyla: Bovidae): new information on this enigmatic South-east Asian ox. Journal of Zoology (London) 253(2):157-166.
Timm, R. M., L. E. Olson, J. H. Brandt, and M. Dioli. 2001. What is Pseudonovibos spiralis ? Pp. 437-440. In Debate on the authenticity of Pseudonovibos spiralis as a new species of wild bovid from Vietnam and Cambodia. Journal of Zoology (London) 255(4):437-444.
Timm, R. M. and R. D. Price. 1999. A new species Eutrichophilus (Phthiraptera: Trichodectidae) from the Brazilian black dwarf porcupine (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72(1):28-31.
Woodman, N. and R. M. Timm. 1999. Geographic variation and evolutionary relationships among broad-clawed shrews of the Cryptotis goldmani group (Mammalia: Insectivora: Soricidae). Fieldiana: Zoology (New Series) 141:1-35.
Timm, R. M. and R. K. LaVal. 1998. Mammals of Monteverde. In Ecology and conservation of a tropical cloud forest (N. M. Nadkarni and N. T. Wheelwright, eds.). Oxford University Press, New York.
Timm, R. M. 1994. The mammal fauna. In La Selva : Ecology and natural history of a Neotropical rain forest . (L. A. McDade et al., eds.) University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 486 pp.
Timm, R. M. and B. L. Clauson. 1990. A roof over their feet: tent making bets of the New World tropics turn leaves into living quarters. Natural History 3/90:54-59.
Timm, R. M. et al. 1989. Mammals of the La Selva-Braulio Carrillo Complex, Costa Rica. North American Fauna 75:1-162.
Web Publication
Timm, R. M., G. Pisani, and N. A. Slade. 2002. Mammals of Kansas ( www.ku.edu/~mammals ): A book length web site on the natural history, distribution, and systematics of the native mammals of Kansas; includes numerous original black & white and color photographs and a dichotomous key to all species. It also includes a chapter on the physiography of Kansas.
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