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Tim Meehan - Biology and Environmental Studies
Phone: 828-771-2022
E-Mail: tmeehan@warren-wilson.edu
Office : Morse 103
Address : CPO# 6132
Warren Wilson College Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000
Arrival Year: 2008
Education:
Bachelor of University Studies, University of New Mexico
M.S., Wildlife Biology, Humboldt State University
Ph.D., Biology, University of New Mexico
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Environmental Studies
Ecology
Conservation and Wildlife Biology
Research Design
Entomology
Research Interests:
Terrestrial ecosystem ecology, animal physiological ecology, ecological energetics, nutrient cycling, global change biology, sustainability
Recent Publications (PDF files are available):
Meehan, T. D., and R. L. Lindroth. 2008. Scaling of phosphorus flux by whitemarked tussock moth caterpillars. Journal of Insect Science.
Habeck, C. W., and T. D. Meehan. 2008. Mass invariance of population nitrogen flux by terrestrial mammalian herbivores: an extension of the energetic equivalence rule. Ecology Letters.
Meehan, T. D., and R. L. Lindroth. 2007. Modeling nitrogen flux by larval insect herbivores from a temperate hardwood forest. Oecologia 153:833-843.
Pennington, L. A., and T. D. Meehan. 2007. Influence of body mass and environmental temperature on carbon dioxide production by forest centipedes from southwestern North America. Environmental Entomology 36:673-680.
Meehan, T. D. 2006. Energy use and animal abundance in litter and soil communities. Ecology 87:1650-1658.
Meehan, T. D., P. K. Drumm, R. S. Farrar, K. Oral, K. E. Lanier, E. A. Pennington, L. A. Pennington, I. T. Stafurik, D. V. Valore, and A. D. Wylie. 2006. Energetic equivalence in a soil arthropod community from an aspen-conifer forest. Pedobiologia 50:307-312.
Meehan, T. D. 2006. Mass and temperature dependence of metabolic rate in litter and soil invertebrates. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 79:878-884.