 |
Tania KimAssociate Professor 125 Waters Hall Manhattan KS 66506 Phone: (785) 532-4709 Fax: (785) 532-6232 |
Website: kimecolab.com
Education
B.S. – McGill University
M.S. – University of Florida
Ph.D. – Florida State University
Research
I am a broadly trained community and landscape ecologist with a particular interest in understanding how environmental variability influences plant-insect interactions and biodiversity patterns. I use this basic knowledge about environmental variability to better manage insects and plants for conservation and sustainable agriculture, and to understand and predict how land-use and land-cover change influence insect biodiversity patterns and the provisioning of ecosystem services in agricultural and natural landscapes.
Teaching
Economic Entomology (ENTOM 300) Spring term (annually)
Issues in Insect Ecology (ENTOM 692/892) Fall term (odd years)
Selected Publications (Complete list on Google Scholar)
*Anderson, M. A., R. Harman, and T. N. Kim. 2024. Ground beetle movement is deterred by habitat edges: a mark-release-recapture study on the effectiveness of border crops in agricultural landscapes. Journal of Insect Science (accepted)
Harman, R., and T. N. Kim. 2024. Differentiating spillover: an examination of cross-habitat movement in ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2707
Robinson, M.L., P.G. Hahn, B.D. Inouye, N. Underwood, S.R. Whitehead, K.C. Abbott, E.M.
Bruna, N.I. Cacho, L.A. Dyer, [+179 authors including T.N. Kim]. 2023. Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain variability in global herbivory. Science. 382: 679-683. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh8830
Kim, T. N., Bukhman, Y. V., Jusino, M. A., Scully, E. D., Spiesman, B. J., and Gratton, C. 2022. Using High-Throughput Amplicon Sequencing to Determine Diet of Generalist Lady Beetles in Agricultural Landscapes. Biological Control 170: 104920
*Stowe, H., Michaud, J.P., and T. N. Kim. 2021. Floral Resources Enhance Fecundity, but not Flight Activity, in a Specialized Aphid Predator, Hippodamia convergens (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.748870
*Ponce, M. A., Kim, T. N., and W. R. Morrison III. 2021. A Systematic Review of the Behavioral Responses by Stored-Product Arthropods to Individual or Blends of Microbially Produced Volatile Cues. Insects 12:391.
Tamburini, G., Santoiemma, G., O’Rourke, M. Bommarco, R., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Dainese, M., Karp, D. S., Kim, T. N., Martin, E. A., and L. Marini. 2020. Species traits elucidate crop pest response to landscape composition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Kim, T. N., *Bartel, S., and C. Gratton. 2019. Annual harvesting influences isotopic signals of plants and ants; implications for trophic structure in grasslands. Ecology and Evolution. 9 (17): 9815-9826. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5523
Dainese, M., Martin, E., [+ 102 authors including T. N. Kim], and I. Steffan-Dewenter. 2019. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production. Science Advances. 5 (10) eaax0121 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0121
Kim, T. N., *Bartel, S., Wills, B. D., Landis, D. A., and C. Gratton. 2018. Harvesting differentially affects alpha and beta diversity of ant communities in tallgrass prairies. Ecosphere 9 (10) e02399. https://doi-org.er.lib.k-state.edu/10.1002/ecs2.2399
Karp, D. S, Chaplin-Kramer, R, Meehan, T.D. Martin, E. A., DeClerck, F., Grab, H. Gratton, C., Hunt, L., Larsen, A., Martinez-Salinas, A. O’Rourke, M., Rusch, A., Poveda, K., Jonsson, M., Rosenheim, J. A., Schellhorn, N., Tscharntke, T., Wratten, S. D., Zhang, W., Iverson, A. L., [+137 authors including Kim, T.N.]. 2018. Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800042115