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Education

Ph.D. (Systematics and Ecology): University of Kansas, 1992
M.Phil. (Systematics and Ecology): University of Kansas, 1986
M.S. (Geology): University of Iowa, 1982
B.A. (Geology): Earlham College, 1980

Research Interests

Taxonomy, phylogenetic systematics, and biogeography of mammals, with a focus on shrews and bats; membership and community structure of tropical mammalian faunas.

Recent Publications

Woodman, N., and R. M. Timm. 2006. Characters and phylogenetic relationships of nectar-feeding bats, with descriptions of new Lonchophylla from western South America (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllini). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119: 437–476. [pdf]

Woodman, N. 2005. Size Evolution in Goodwin’s Small-eared Shrew, Cryptotis goodwini (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae), pp. 125-138. In J.F. Merritt, S. Churchfield, R. Hutterer, and B.I. Sheftel, eds. Advances in the Biology of Shrews II .Special Publication of the International Society of Shrew Biologists, Number 01 , New York. 454 pp.

Woodman, N. 2005. Evolution and biogeography of Mexican small-eared shrews of the Cryptotis mexicana group (Insectivora: Soricidae). Chapter 43, pp. 513-524. in: V. Sanchez-Cordero and R. A. Medellín, eds., Contribuciones Mastozoológicas en Homenaje a Bernardo Villa (Contributions to Mexican mammalogy in honor of Dr. Bernardo Villa). Instituto de Biología e Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.

Woodman, N., and J. J. P. Morgan. 2005. Skeletal morphology of the forefoot in shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) of the genus Cryptotis, as revealed by digital x-rays. Journal of Morphology, 266(1): 60-73.

Woodman, N., and D. A. Croft. 2005. Fossil shrews from Honduras and their significance for late glacial evolution in body size (Mammalia: Soricidae: Cryptotis). Fieldiana, Geology, New Series 51: 1-30.

Woodman, N., C. J. Dove, and S. C. Peurach. 2005. A curious pellet from a Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus). Northeastern Naturalist, 12(2): 127-132.

Woodman, N., and A. D. de Pascual. 2004. Cryptotis meridensis. Mammalian Species, 761: 1-5. American Society of Mammalogists.

Woodman, N. 2004. Designation of the type species of Musaraneus Pomel, 1848 (Mammlia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 117: 266–270. [pdf]

Woodman, N. 2003. A new small-eared shrew of the Cryptotis nigrescens-group from Colombia (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 116: 853–872. [pdf]

Woodman, N. 2003. New record of the rare emballonurid bat Centronycteris centralis Thomas, 1912 in Costa Rica, with notes on feeding habits. Caribbean Journal of Science, 39: 399–402.

Woodman, N., C. A. Cuartas C., and C. A. Delgado V. 2003. The humerus of Cryptotis colombiana and its bearing on the phylogenetic relationships of the species (Soricomorpha: Soricidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 84: 832–839.