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Ted Fleming
Professor
227 Cox Science Center, Dept. of Biology
1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33124
(305)284-6881
Fax (305)284-3039
email
Laboratory Website
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Education and Professional Experience
- Albion College, B.A., l964
- University of Michigan, M.S., l968; Ph.D., l969
- Visiting Scientist, Dept. Zoology, Oxford Univ., 1977-78
- Board of Directors, Organization for Tropical Studies, l979-1985
- Program chairman, Association for Tropical Biology, l984
- Visiting Professor, Department of Botany, Duke University, 1984-85
- Councilor, Association for Tropical Biology, 1988-89
- Member, Chiroptera Specialist Group, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,
1988-present
- President, Association for Tropical Biology, 2001
- Scientific Advisory Board, Lubee Bat Conservancy, 1990-present
- National Science Foundation, Ecology Panel member, 1990-1992
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1992-93
- Editorial Board, Biotropica,1996-99
- Adjunct Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2003-05
- Interim Chairman, Department of Biology, University of Miami, 2004-05
- Co-organizer, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation annual meeting, 2004
- North American Pollinator Protection Campaign Research Committee, 2004-present
Areas of Focus
Behavior and Behavioral Ecology
Conservation and Restoration Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Tropical Biology
Research Interests
My students and I study ecological and evolutionary interactions between plants and animals with a strong emphasis on
bat-plant interactions. Our current work focuses on the evolution of plant-visiting bats in the West Indies using
molecular genetics techniques. We are also studying the genetic consequences of lek mating in the West Indian buffy
flower bat.
Selected Publications
- Fleming, T. H., and A. Valiente-Banuet (eds). 2002. Columnar Cacti and Their Mutualists: Evolution, Ecology,
and Conservation. University of Arizona Press. 371 pp.
- Fleming, T. H. 2003. A Bat Man in the Tropics: Chasing El Duende. University of California Press. 333
pp.
- Fleming, T.H. 2005. The relationship between species richness of vertebrate mutualists and their food plants
in tropical and subtropical communities differs among hemispheres. Oikos 111: 556-562.
- Fleming, T.H., N. Muchhala, and J.F. Ornelas. 2005. New World nectar-feeding vertebrates: community
patterns and processes. Pp. 161-184 in V. Sanchez-Cordero and R. Medellin (eds.) Contribuciones Mastozoologicas
en Homenaje a Bernardo Villa-R. Instituto de Biologia e Instituto de Ecologia, UNAM, Mexico City.
- Fleming, T. H. 2006. Reproductive consequences of early flowering in organ pipe cactus, Stenocereus thurberi.
International Journal of Plant Sciences 167: 473-481.
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