| Tad Theimer | ||
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Telephone: 928- 523-8374 Email:Tad.Theimer@nau.edu Office:Bld 21 Room 301 More info: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tct/ Research/Teaching Interests: Vertebrate Biology, Mammalogy, Wildlife Management, Ornithology Academic Highlights: PhD: Northern Arizona University, 1991 M.S.: Colorado State University, 1983 B.S. 1980, University of the Pacific Asst Professor of Biology, 1991-1994, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO. Visiting Research Fellow, 1995-1999, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT. |
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| My research has focused on two major areas in mammal and bird ecology: 1) foraging behavior and the importance of vertebrate-plant interactions and 2) social behavior and the genetic structure of populations. Two on-going research programs include the effects of ground dwelling vertebrates on the diversity of rainforest tree seedlings in the tropical rainforests of Queensland, Australia, and the ecological role of small mammals and birds in the pinyon-juniper and ponderosa pine woodlands of northern Arizona. Undergraduates and graduate students working with me have studied questions as varied as the genetic differentiation of wild turkey subspecies, prairie dog earless lizard interactions, hairy woodpecker home range and foraging behavior, and seed dispersal by rodents. |
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Dr. Theimer as Charles Darwin in a class on evolution |
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| Selected publications |
Pearson, K. M. & T.C. Theimer. In press. Seed caching and pilfering by two species of Peromyscus: implications for pinyon pine establishment. OECOLOGIA .  Theimer, T.C. In press. Rodent scatterhoarders as conditional mutualists. Pp. 283-296 In: Seed Fate, P.-M. Forget, J. E. Lambert, P. E. Hulme and S. B. Vander Wall, eds, CABI  Davis, J. R. and T. C. Theimer. 2003. Increased lesser earless lizard abundance on Gunnison’s prairie dog colonies and short term response to artificial prairie dog burrows. American Midland Naturalist: 150:282-290. Theimer, T.C. 2003. Intraspecific variation in seed size affects scatterhoarding behaviour of an Australian tropical rain forest rodent. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY 19:95-98. Mock, K. E., T. C. Theimer, O.E. Rhodes, Jr., D.L. Greenberg and P. Keim. 2002. Genetic variation across the historical range of the wild turkey. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 11:643-657. |
