Jonathan L. Dunnum

  Senior Collection Manager

  Division of Mammals

  Museum of Southwestern Biology

 

 

• Ph.D. 2009 - Zoology, Minor: Museum Science, Texas Tech University.

• Dissertation: Phylogeny, evolution, and systematics within the family Caviidae (Mammalia: Rodentia).

 

• M.S. 2003 - University of New Mexico.
  • Thesis:  Systematics of Bolivian Cavia, with biogeographic notes on the genus.

   

• B.S. 1993 - Biology, University of New Mexico.

Research Interests:

• Systematics, phylogeography and taxonomy of the Caviidae.
• Evolution of South American Caviomorphs.
• Integrated natural history collection archiving.
• Databasing of natural history collection data.

Publications:

• Dunnum, J. L.  2014. Family Caviidae, In Mammals of South America. Volume 2, Rodents, edited by J. L. Patton, U. F. J. Pardiñas, and G. D’Elía, pp. xxx-xxx.  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.  in press.

• Kryštufek, B., and J.L. Dunnum. 2012. On the history of European mammalogy. Mammalia76(4):351–353.
• Dunnum, J.L., and J.A. Cook.  2012. Gerrit Smith Miller: his influence on the enduring legacy of natural history collections. Mammalia 76(4):365–373.

 

• Dunnum , J.L., and J. Salazar-Bravo.  2010.  Molecular systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of the genus Cavia (Rodentia: Caviidae).   Journal of zoological systematics and evolutionary research 48(4):376–388.

 

• Dunnum, J. L., and J. Salazar-Bravo.  2010.  Phylogeny, evolution and systematics of the Galea musteloides complex (Rodentia: Caviidae).  Journal of Mammalogy 91(1):243–259.

• Dunnum, J. L., and J. Salazar-Bravo.  2006.  Karyotypes of some members of the genus Cavia (Rodentia: Caviidae) from Bolivia.  Journal of Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde 71(6):366-370.

• Dunnum, J., and J. Salazar-Bravo.  2004.  Dactylomys boliviensis.  Mammalian Species No. 745:1-4.

• R. R. Parmenter, T. L. Yates, D. R. Anderson, K. P. Burnham, J. L. Dunnum, A. Franklin, M. T. Friggens, B. Lubow, M. Miller, G. S. Olson, C. A. Parmenter, J. Pollard, E. Rexstad, T. Shenk, T. R. Stanley, and G. C. White.  2003.  Small mammal density estimation: a field comparison of grid-based vs. web-based density estimators.  Ecological Monographs 73(1):1-26.

• Tinnin, D., Dunnum, J., Salazar-Bravo, J., Batsaikhan, N., Burt, M., and T. Yates.  2002.  Contributions to the mammalogy of Mongolia, with a checklist of species for the country.  Special Publications, Museum of Southwestern Biology no. 6. 38 pp.

• Dunnum, J.L., Frey, J.K., Tinnin, D.S., Salazar-Bravo, J., and Yates, T.L.  2002. An elevational range extension for the hispid cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus, (Rodentia: Muridae).  Southwestern Naturalist 47(4):637-639.

• Yates, T. L., J. N. Mills, C. A. Parmenter, T. G.  Ksiazek, R. R. Parmenter, J. R. Vande Castle, C.H. Calisher, S. T. Nichol, K. D. Abbott, J. C. Young, M. L. Morrison, B. J. Beatty, J. L. Dunnum, J. Salazar-Bravo, R. J. Baker, and C. J. Peters.  2002.  The ecology and evolutionary history of an emergent disease: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.  Bioscience 52(11):989-998.  * 2007 - Sustainability Science Award, Ecological Society of America.

• Dunnum, J.L., Salazar-Bravo, J., and Yates, T.L. 2001.  The Bolivian Bamboo Rat, Dactylomys boliviensis (Rodentia: Echimyidae), a new record for chromosome number in a mammal.  Mammalian Biology, Zeitschrift für Saügetierkunde 66(2):121-126.

• Parmenter, C. A., T. L. Yates, R. R. Parmenter, J. L. Dunnum.  1999.  Statistical Sensitivity for Detection of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Rodent Population Densities. Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases 5(1):118-125.

• Parmenter, C.A, R.R. Parmenter, T.L. Yates, J.N. Mills, J.E. Childs, M.L. Campbell, J.L. Dunnum, J. Milner.  1998.  Small mammal survival and trapability in mark-recapture monitoring programs for Hantavirus.  Journal of Wildlife Diseases 34(1):1-12.

• Salazar Bravo, J., M.L. Campbell, S. Anderson, S.L. Gardner, J.L. Dunnum.  1994.  New records of Bolivian mammals.  Mammalia 58:125-130. 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                            

 

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