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Steve Taylor
1816 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820
MC–652
Phone: 217-649-0240   Fax: 217-244-0729
Email: sjtaylor@inhs.uiuc.edu
Title: Macroinvertebrate Biologist
Unit: DBEE–SBSM
Office Location: rm 069 NRB

Activities Aquatic macroinvertebrate surveys; Cave and karst biology, conservation, and management; Biology, ecology, and taxonomy of True Bugs (Heteroptera); Aquatic Biologist/Aquatic Zoology Coordinator for the Statewide Biological Survey and Assessment Program.
Research
 Biota of caves and other subterranean environments in relation to groundwater quality, invasive species, and human impacts; Life history and biology of waterstriders and related taxa (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha); Biology, taxonomy, and distribution of Aradidae (Heteroptera).
Recognition The Kudo Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation, Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1996; The Richard E. Blackwelder Award, Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1992; Dissertation Research Award, The Graduate School, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1991
Professional
affiliations		 Entomological Society of America, American Entomological Society, Florida Entomological Society, Michigan Entomological Society, New York Entomological Society, North American Benthological Society, Illinois State Academy of Science, National Speleological Society, International Heteropterists' Society.
Selected
publications		 Wetzel, M. J. and S. J. Taylor. 2001. First records of freshwater oligochaetes (Annelida, Clitellata) from caves in Illinois and Missouri, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 63(3):99-104.



Taylor, S. J., G. Tescari, and M. Villa. 2001. A Nearctic pest of Pinaceae accidentally introduced into Europe: Leptoglossus occidentalis (Heteroptera: Coreidae) in northern Italy. Entomological News 112(2):101-103.

Taylor, S. J. and D. L. Wood. 2000. Rearing Hydrometra martini (Heteroptera: Hydrometridae): food and substrate effects. Florida Entomologist 83(1):17-25.

Taylor, S. J. and J. E. McPherson. 1999. Morphological variation and polyvoltinism of Microvelia pulchella (Heteroptera: Veliidae) in southern Illinois, USA. Acta Societaris Zoologicae Bohemicae 63:237-249.

Davidova-Vilimova, J., S. J. Taylor, and J. E. McPherson. 1996. A new species of Mezira (Heteroptera: Aradidae) from the southeastern United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 98(4):630-639.
Program
Affiliates		 Department of Entomology, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Professional
society
involvement
and activities		 Associate Editor for Life Sciences for the Journal of Cave and Karst Studies; Executive Secretary, Biospeleology Section of the National Speleological Society (July 1999-July 2000); Technical subcommitte chair and team member, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Karst Invertebrate Recovery Team (Texas); Team member, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Illinois Cave Amphipod Recovery Team.
Education PhD, Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1996

MS, Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, 1987

BA, Biology, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, 1983


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