Robert M. Timm
Robert Mark Timm (born August 28, 1949 in Wilber , Nebraska ) is an American zoologist and parasitologist. His research focus is on tropical mammals and their parasites.
Life
After graduating from high school, Timm began studying zoology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1967 , where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1971 . In 1971 he studied at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis , where he graduated from the Department of Ecology and Behavioral Biology with a Master of Science degree in 1975 . In 1974 he studied tropical ecology at the Organization for Tropical Studies of the Universidad de Costa Rica in San José , Costa Rica . From 1975 he studied at the University of Minnesota at St. Paul , where he received his Ph. D. in August 1979 in the Department of Entomology, Fisheries and Wildlife. From 1980 to 1986 he was the curator and director of the mammal division at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. From 1989 to 2002 he served on the board of the American Society of Mammalogists . He was Vice President from 2002 to 2004 and President of the American Society of Mammalogists from 2006 to 2008.
Timm had several research stays in Costa Rica, including as coordinator for tropical ecology of the Organization for Tropical Studies of the Universidad de Costa Rica in 1982, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1991 and from 1994 to 2004. Since 1997 he has been for Las Cruces Biological Station Advisory Committee in Costa Rica.
Timm has been a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas at Lawrence since 1986 . He has published more than 150 professional articles, two books and a number of online-based publications on various aspects of mammals, mammalian parasites, and the coevolution of parasites and their mammalian hosts. His research focuses on tropical mammals, in particular on systematics and nature conservation. Since the 1970s he has been conducting field studies on the systematics, ecology, parasites and nature conservation of tropical mammals. He teaches field courses in the tropics, including as a regular faculty member of the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica for undergraduate and graduate schools. He also teaches specialty courses on Neotropical bats.
Timm is one of the first to describe several new mammal species, including Cryptotis hondurensis (1992), Cryptotis colombiana (1993), Notiosorex villai (2000), the cloud forest spiny mouse ( Heteromys nubicolens ) (2006), the Manus rat ( Rattus detentus ) (2016) and Cryptotis monteverdensis (2017). In 1994 he described the pine louse Eutrichophilus hershkovitzi .
In 2017 Timm received the Joseph Grinnell Award from the American Society of Mammalogists.
Fonts (selection)
- Lawrence R. Heaney , Robert M. Timm: Relationships of pocket gophers of the genus Geomys from the Central and Northern Great Plains. Miscellaneous publication (University of Kansas. Museum of Natural History) No. 74, 1983
- Robert M. Timm: A Key to the Bats of Costa Rica, University of Kansas , Center of Latin American Studies, 1998
- Robert M. Timm, Hugh H. Genoways : West Indian Mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection: Biological and Historical Information. Mammalogy Papers: University of Nebraska State Museum, No. 107, 2003
- Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera, Rodrigo A. Medellín, Robert M. Timm: Murciélagos Neotropicales Que Acampan En Hojas: Guía De Campo / Neotropical Tent-roosting Bats: Field Guide , 2007
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| SURNAME | Timm, Robert M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Timm, Robert Mark (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mammal logist and parasitologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilber , Nebraska |