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Dawn M Kaufman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
 
Email: dkaufman@jsd.claremont.edu
Office: Keck Science Center 13
Phone: 909-607-8277
Office Hours: T/Th 2:30-4:00 pm, or by appt
Web Site:
   
Courses Taught This Year:
Fall BIOL 062L Environmental Science (Global Ecology and Environmental Issues) Section 1
  TTh 1:15-2:30 <> KS 31
  http://Lab W 1:15-5:15
   
Spring BIOL 131L Vertebrate Physiology Section 1
  MW 12:00-1:10 <> KS 31
 
   
Educational Background:
B.S., Kansas State University
M.S., Texas Tech University
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California - Santa Barbara
Courses Taught:
BIOL 043L Introductory Biology - Laboratory only
BIOL 044L Introductory Biology - Laboratory only
BIOL 062 Environmental Biology (Global Ecology and Environmental Problems)
BIOL 131L Vertebrate Physiology
Research Interests:
Macroecology and biogeography (large-scale geographical patterns of species abundance, distribution, and diversity)
Community ecology and mammalian natural history & field ecology (structure and assembly of communities)
Physiological ecology (environmental limitations of species and their distributions)
Paleoecology and climate change (effects of past and future climates on species and ecosystems)
Thesis Topics:
 
Selected Publications List: Click to open new window.
1.   Field, R., B.A. Hawkins, H.V. Cornell, D.J. Currie, A. F. Diniz-Filho, J. F. Guégan, D.M. Kaufman, J.T. Kerr, G.G. Mittelbach, T. Oberdorff, E.M. O’Brien, and J.R.G. Turner . (2009). Spatial species-richness gradients across scales: a meta-analysis. Journal of Biogeography   36: 132-147.
 
2.   Fay, P.A., D.M. Kaufman, J.B. Nippert, J. D. Carlisle, and C.W. Harper . (2008). Changes in ecosystem function due to extreme rainfall events in grassland: implications for responses to climate change. Global Change Biology   14: 1600-1608.
 
3.   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 & O14223.
 
4.   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.
 
5.   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.
 
6.   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.
 
7.   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.
 
8.   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.
 
9.   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.
 
10.   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.
 
11.   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.
 
12.   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.
 
13.   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. Ecological Archives E084-094 &. Ecology   84: 3403.
 
14.   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.
 
15.   Shurin, J.B., S.E. Gergel, D.M. Kaufman, D.M. Post, E.W. Seabloom, and J.W. Williams . (2001). In defense of ecology. The Scientist   15: 6.
 
16.   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.
 
17.   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.
 
18.   Kaufman, D.M . (1997). Latitudinal patterns of mammalian diversity in the New World: the role of taxonomic hierarchy. Mastozoología Neotropical   4: 73-75.
 
19.   Brown, J.H., G.C. Stevens, and D.M. Kaufman . (1996). The geographic range: size, shape, boundaries, and internal structure. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics   27: 597-623.
 
20.   Kaufman, D.M., D.W. Kaufman, and G.A. Kaufman . (1996). An introduction to the women in the early years of the American Society of Mammalogists (1919-1949). Journal of Mammalogy   77: 642-654.
 
21.   Smith, F.A., and D.M. Kaufman . (1996). Contributions of female mammalogists from 1919-1994: a quantitative analysis based on a survey of the Journal of Mammalogy. Journal of Mammalogy   77: 613-628.
 
22.   Kaufman, D.M . (1995). Diversity of New World mammals: universality of the latitudinal gradients of species and bauplans. Journal of Mammalogy   76: 322-334.
 
23.   Kaufman, D.M., and D.W. Kaufman . (1992). Geographic variation in length of tail of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy   73: 789-793.
 
24.   Kaufman, D.M., and D.W. Kaufman . (1984). Size preference for novel objects by the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana) under field conditions. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science   87: 129-131.