The main focus of the Taylor Lab is the study of the biota of caves, karst, groundwater, & other subterranean environments, especially where there is relevance to conservation and management issues. There is a very general video about my cave research on YouTube. Particular areas of focus are briefly described below.
Illinois Bat Conservation Program
A collaborative survey & monitoring effort by the Illinois Natural History Survey, Eastern Illinois University and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Illinois Bat Conservation Program website
Monitoring & Detection of White Nose Syndrome
Subterranean ecosystem structure and function
Human impacts on subterranean ecosystems at a variety of scales from landscape level to site-specific impacts
Karst preserve research, monitoring, and management
Considerations in cave and karst preserve design in relation to cave ecosystems
Subterranean biodiversity and knowledge gaps
Life history traits, taxonomy (especially pseudoscorpions and Stygobromus amphipods), and distribution of cave and karst organisms
Other Research Areas
- Braidwood Dunes & Savannah Nature Preserve invertebrate bioinventory (with Felipe N. Soto-Adames, Sam W. Heads, Alan Yanahan, Jim Wiker, Jamie Zahnieser, Dan Swanson and Scott Bundy). A bioinventory of select terrestrial insects at Braidwood Dunes and Savanna Nature Preserve (Will County, Illinois)
- Regional biodiversity of terrestrial Heteroptera and Orthoptera in southwestern Illinois (with Sam Heads and Dan Swanson)
- Lespedeza cuneata (Fabaceae) invasion dynamics (in collaboration with Tony Yannarell)
- Heteroptera: biology, taxonomy and systematics
- Aradidae
- Gerromorpha (with J.E. McPherson)
- Reduviidae (with Dan Swanson, Sam W. Heads and J.E. McPherson)
- Carabidae (ground beetles) – diversity & ecology in Illinois
- Algific Slopes (with Alan Yanahan)
- Strepsiptera (with Jeyaraney Kathirithamby)
- Aquatic Zoology
- Bioassessment of Illinois streams and rivers (with Chris Taylor, Kevin Cummings, Mark Wetzel, Andy Kuhns, & Jeremy Tiemann)
