Kimberly S. Sheldon

Dr. Kimberly S. Sheldon is a faculty member in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with over 20 years of experience in ecological research. She studies the processes that determine species' distributions and uses this information to predict impacts of anthropogenic change on species and ecological communities. Sheldon works across broad latitudinal and elevational gradients and integrates the fields of ecology, physiology, behavior, and evolution. Though she works with a variety of taxa, much of the experimental research in her lab is with dung beetles. Sheldon received a BS in Resource Ecology & Management from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Zoology from the University of Washington.