http://www.ksu.edu/biology K-State Division of Biology

Dawn Kaufman

 

Dawn M. Kaufman

Research Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 1998, University of New Mexico
Ecology

Community ecology; structure and assembly of communities; macroecology; geographical gradients of diversity; biogeography; paleoecology; effects of climate change on species and ecosystems; grassland ecology; conservation

 

106 Bushnell Hall
(785) 532-0123
dkaufman@ksu.edu

Rainfall Mesocosm Experiment


Selected Research Publications

White, E.P., P.B. Adler, W.K. Lauenroth, R.A. Gill, D. Greenberg, D.M. Kaufman, A. Rassweiler, J.A. Rusak, M.A. Smith, J. Steinbeck, R.B. Waide, and J. Yao.  2006.  A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups.  Oikos 112: 185-195.  

Kaufman, D.W., D.M. Kaufman, and G.A. Kaufman.  2005.  [Review of] Mammals of North America (R.W. Kays and D.E. Wilson).  Wildlife Society Bulletin 33: 1183-1184.  

Adler, P.B., E.P. White, W.K. Lauenroth, D.M. Kaufman, A. Rassweiler, and J.A. Rusak.  2005.  Evidence for a general species-time-area relationship.  Ecology 86: 2032-2039.  

Fay, P.A., D.M. Kaufman, J.M. Blair, S.L. Collins, A.K. Knapp, M.D. Smith, J.B. Nippert, and C. Harper.  2005.  Rainfall variability and ecosystem response in a mesic grassland.  Geophysical Research Abstracts 7: 11155.  

Parmesan, C., S. Gaines, L. Gonzalez, D.M. Kaufman, J. Kingsolver, A.T. Peterson, and R. Sagarin.  2005.  Empirical perspectives on species borders:  from traditional biogeography to global change.  Oikos 108: 58-75.  

Fortin, M.‑J., T. Keitt, B.A. Maurer, M.L. Taper, D.M. Kaufman, and T.M. Blackburn.  2005.  Species’ geographic ranges and distributional limits:  pattern analysis and statistical issues.  Oikos 108: 7-17.  

Currie, D.J., G.G. Mittelbach, H.V. Cornell, R. Field, J.-F. Guégan, B.A. Hawkins, D.M. Kaufman, J.T. Kerr, T. Oberdorff, E.M. O’Brien, and J.R.G. Turner.  2004.  Predictions and tests of climate-based hypotheses of broad‑scale variation in taxonomic richness.  Ecology Letters 7: 1121-1134.  

Maurer, B.A., J. Alroy, J.H. Brown, T. Dayan, B.J. Enquist, S.K.M. Ernest, E.A. Hadly, J.P. Haskell, D. Jablonski, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, S.K. Lyons, K.J. Niklas, W.P. Porter, K. Roy, F.A. Smith, B. Tiffney, and M.R. Willig.  2004.  Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates.  Evolutionary Ecology Research 6: 783-797.  

Smith, F.A., J.H. Brown, J.P. Haskell, S.K. Lyons, J. Alroy, E.L. Charnov, T. Dayan, B.J. Enquist, S.K.M. Ernest, E.A. Hadly, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, P.A. Marquet, B.A. Maurer, K.J. Niklas, W.P. Porter, B. Tiffney, and M.R. Willig.  2004.  Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time.  The American Naturalist 163: 672-691.  

Willig, M.R., D.M. Kaufman, and R.D. Stevens.  2003.  Latitudinal gradients of biodiversity:  pattern, process, scale, and synthesis.  Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics  34: 273-309.  

Smith, F.A., S.K. Lyons, S.K.M. Ernest, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, T. Dayan, P.A. Marquet, J.H. Brown, and J.P. Haskell.  2003.  The body mass of late Quaternary mammals.  Ecology 84:3403 and Ecological Archives E084-094.  

Hawkins, B.A., R. Field, H.V. Cornell, D.J. Currie, J.-F. Guégan, D.M. Kaufman, J.T. Kerr, G.G. Mittelbach, T. Oberdorff, E.M. O’Brien, E.E. Porter, and J.R.G. Turner.  2003.  Energy, water, and broad‑scale geographic patterns of species richness.  Ecology 84: 3105-3117.  

Kaufman, G.A., D.M. Kaufman, and R.L. Rehmeier.  2002.  How can we produce educational products with GAP data?  Gap Analysis Bulletin 11: 52-54.  

Kaufman, D.M., G.A. Kaufman, and D.W. Kaufman.  2000.  Faunal structure of small mammals in tallgrass prairie:  an evaluation of richness and spatiotemporal nestedness.  Pp. 47-70.  In Reflections of a naturalist:  papers honoring Professor Eugene D. Fleharty (J.R. Choate, ed.).  Fort Hays Studies, Special Issue, 1: 1-241.  

Kaufman, D.M., and M.R. Willig.  1998.  Latitudinal patterns of mammalian species richness in the New World :  the effects of sampling method and faunal group.  Journal of Biogeography 25: 795-805.

 


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