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  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert M. Timm is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research contributions span several areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, focusing on subfields such as ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, ecological modeling, and insect science.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Hugh H. Genoways
  • Suzanne McLaren
  • Neal Woodman
  • Deb Bennett
  • Luis A. Ruedas

Most of Robert M. Timm's publications appear in the Journal of Mammalogy, with additional work published in journals such as Therya, Archaeofauna, Mammalian Species, and Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species (2021, Journal of Mammalogy)
  • Innovations that changed Mammalogy: dermestid beetles-the better way to clean skulls (2020, Journal of Mammalogy)
  • Innovations that changed Mammalogy: fluid preparation of research specimens (2021, Journal of Mammalogy)

Robert M. Timm received the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines of the american society of mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research

    Robert S. Sikes;William L. Gannon;Darrin S. Carroll;Brent J. Danielson

  • Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage

    Gary J. San Julian;Robert M. Timm

  • Mammals of the La Selva-Braulio Carrillo Complex, Costa Rica

    Robert M. Timm;Don E. Wilson;Barbara L. Clauson;Richard K. LaVal

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Predation by squirrel monkeys and double-toothed kites on tent-making bats

    Sue Boinski;Robert M. Timm

  • Geographic variation and evolutionary relationships among broad-clawed shrews of the Cryptotis goldmani-group (Mammalia, Insectivora, Soricidae)

    Neal Woodman;Robert M. Timm

  • SHEEP KILLING BEHAVIOR OF CAPTIVE COYOTES

    E Guy;Robert M. Timm;Fisheries Biology;Walter E. Howard

  • Mammalian distributional records in Yucatán and Quintana Roo, with comments on reproduction, structure, and status of peninsular populations.

    Elmer C. Birney;John B. Bowles;Robert M. Timm;Stephen L. Williams

  • Paleoecological and Taphonomic Implications of Insect-Damaged Pleistocene Vertebrate Remains from Rancho La Brea, Southern California

    Anna R. Holden;John M. Harris;Robert M. Timm

  • Evaluation of the paraphyletic assemblages within Lonchophyllinae, with description of a new tribe and genus

    Julie A. Parlos;Robert M. Timm;Vicki J. Swier;Horacio Zeballos

  • A newly recognized clade of trans-Andean Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae), with description of a new genus

    Ronald H. Pine;Ronald H. Pine;Robert M. Timm;Marcelo Weksler

  • Intraspecific and interspecific variation in the Cryptotis nigrescens species complex of small-eared shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae), with the description of a new species from Colombia

    Neal Woodman;Robert M. Timm

  • SPECIATION WITHIN BONNETED BATS (GENUS EUMOPS): THE COMPLEXITY OF MORPHOLOGICAL, MITOCHONDRIAL, AND NUCLEAR DATA SETS IN SYSTEMATICS

    Molly M. McDonough;Loren K. Ammerman;Robert M. Timm;Hugh H. Genoways

  • Systematic notes on the philippine slow loris, Nycticebus coucang menagensis (Lydekker, 1893) (Primates: Lorisidae)

    Robert M. Timm;Elmer C. Birney

  • Morphology, genetics, and ecology of pocket gophers (genus Geomys) in a narrow hybrid zone

    Lawrence R. Heaney;Robert M. Timm

  • Characters and phylogenetic relationships of nectar-feeding bats, with descriptions of new Lonchophylla from western South America (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllini)

    Neal Woodman;Robert M. Timm

  • THE FLORIDA BONNETED BAT, EUMOPS FLORIDANUS (CHIROPTERA: MOLOSSIDAE): DISTRIBUTION, MORPHOMETRICS, SYSTEMATICS, AND ECOLOGY

    Robert M. Timm;Hugh H. Genoways

  • Tent-making by Artibeus jamaicensis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae) with comments on plants used by bats for tents

    Mercedes S. Foster;Robert M. Timm

  • Systematics and distribution of shrews of the genus Crocidura (Mammalia: Insectivora) in Vietnam.

    Lawrence R. Heaney;Robert M. Timm

  • Migration and molt patterns of red bats, Lasiurus borealis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), in Illinois

    Robert M. Timm

  • Annotated checklist of the mammals of Cuzco Amazónico, Peru

    Neal Woodman;Robert M. Timm;Rosa Arana C.;Victor Pacheco

  • Phylogeny of plecotine bats (Chiroptera: “Vespertilionidae”): summary of the evidence and proposal of a logically consistent taxonomy

    Darrel R. Frost;Robert M. Timm

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence R. Heaney
Lawrence R. Heaney Field Museum of Natural History
Robert J. Baker
Robert J. Baker Texas Tech University
Bruce D. Patterson
Bruce D. Patterson Field Museum of Natural History
Don E. Wilson
Don E. Wilson National Museum of Natural History
Robert P. Anderson
Robert P. Anderson City College of New York
Jacob A. Esselstyn
Jacob A. Esselstyn Louisiana State University
Kathryn E. Stoner
Kathryn E. Stoner Colorado State University
Donna D. Baird
Donna D. Baird National Institutes of Health
Christopher B. Boyko
Christopher B. Boyko American Museum of Natural History
Scott Lyell Gardner
Scott Lyell Gardner University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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