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Joyce Hofmann
1816 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820
MC–652
Phone: 217-244-2366   Fax: 217-265-5110
Email: jhofmann@inhs.uiuc.edu
Title: Mammalogist
Unit: DECS–SWPE
Office Location: I-BLDG

Activities Conduct surveys for mammals, especially endangered and threatened species, at Illinois Department of Transportation project areas

Curator INHS Mammal Collection and Co-Curator University of Illinois Museum of Natural History Mammal Collection


Research
Distribution of endangered, threatened and rare mammals in Illinois; Summer habitat requirements of the federally endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis); Demography of microtine rodents; Identification of bats tested for rabies by the Illinois Department of Public Health; Programs for school classes and the general public on bats or Illinois mammals

Professional
affiliations
Illinois State Academy of Science; American Society of Mammalogists; Ecological Society of America; Animal Behavior Society; Northeastern Bat Working Group

Selected
publications
Hofmann, J.E., E.J. Heske, and D.G. Wenny. 2001. Small mammal survey of upland habitats at the Savanna Army Depot, Carroll and Jo Daviess counties, Illinois. Transactions ot the Illinois State Academy of Science 94:231-242.

Getz, L.L., J.E. Hofmann, B. McGuire, and T.W. Dolan III. 2001. Twenty-five years of population fluctuations of Microtus ochrogaster and M. pennsylvanicus in three habitats in east-central Illinois. Journal of Mammalogy 82:22-34.

Getz, L.L. and J.E. Hofmann. 1999. Diversity and stability of small mammals in tallgrass prairie habitat in central Illinois, USA. Oikos 85:356-363.

Gardner, J.E., J.E. Hofmann, and J.D. Garner. 1996. Summer distribution of the federally endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) in Illinois. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 89:187-196.

Hofmann, J.E. 1991. Status and distribution of wetland mammals in Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 34:410-416.


Education PhD, Zoology (Ecology,Ethology, and Evolution), University of Illinois, 1978

MS, Zoology, University of Illinois, 1973

BS, Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1970