General interests

Animal ecology, ecosystem ecology, global change biology, sustainable bioenergy

Current projects

My current work involves exploring the effects of food, fiber, and fuel production on biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Recent publications

Meehan, T. D., B. P. Werling, D. A. Landis, and C. Gratton. 2011. Agricultural landscape simplification and insecticide use in the Midwestern United States. PNAS.

Werling, B. P., T. D. Meehan, C. Gratton, and D. A. Landis. 2011. Influence of habitat and landscape perenniality on insect natural enemies in three candidate biofuel crops. Biological Control.

Werling, B. P., T. D. Meehan, B. A. Robertson, C. Gratton, and D. A. Landis. 2011. Biocontrol potential varies with changes in biofuel–crop plant communities and landscape perenniality. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy.

Meehan, T. D, A. H. Hurlbert, and C. Gratton. 2010. Bird communities in future bioenergy landscapes of the Upper Midwest. PNAS 107:18533-18538. Supplemental material.

Webster, C. R, D. J. Flaspohler, R. D. Jackson, T. D. Meehan, and C. Gratton. 2010. Diversity, productivity and landscape-level effects in North American grasslands managed for biomass production. Biofuels 1:451-461.

Meehan, T. D., M. S. Crossley, and R. L. Lindroth. 2010. Impacts of elevated carbon dioxide and ozone on aspen leaf-litter chemistry and earthworm and springtail productivity. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 42:1132-1137.

Hillstrom, M., T. D. Meehan, K. Kelly, and R. L. Lindroth. 2010. Soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization following deposition of insect frass and greenfall from forests under elevated CO2 and O3. Plant and Soil 336:75-85.

Meehan, T. D., and R. L. Lindroth. 2009. Scaling of phosphorus flux by whitemarked tussock moth caterpillars. Journal of Insect Science 9:42.

Habeck, C. W., and T. D. Meehan. 2008. Mass invariance of population nitrogen flux by terrestrial mammalian herbivores: an extension of the energetic equivalence rule. Ecology Letters 11:898-903.

Meehan, T. D., and R. L. Lindroth. 2007. Modeling nitrogen flux by larval insect herbivores from a temperate hardwood forest. Oecologia 153:833-843.

Pennington, L. A., and T. D. Meehan. 2007. Influence of body mass and environmental temperature on carbon dioxide production by forest centipedes from southwestern North America. Environmental Entomology 36:673-680.

Meehan, T. D. 2006. Energy use and animal abundance in litter and soil communities. Ecology 87:1650-1658.

Meehan, T. D., P. K. Drumm, R. S. Farrar, K. Oral, K. E. Lanier, E. A. Pennington, L. A. Pennington, I. T. Stafurik, D. V. Valore, and A. D. Wylie. 2006. Energetic equivalence in a soil arthropod community from an aspen-conifer forest. Pedobiologia 50:307-312.

Other publications

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