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Postal Address 501 W. Carpenter Ave. E-mail address: sjames@ku.edu Phone: (641) 919-0275
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Research Interest
Education
Professional Experience
Grants and Awards
Other Professional Activities
Presentations
Publications
Scientific Affiliations & Honors
Exploration of earthworm biodiversity, phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of megascolecid earthworms; earthworms as a model taxon for determining past land area relationships in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean
A.B. Summa Cum Laude, Biology, 1975, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Ph.D. 1983, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| 1983-1985 | Assistant Professor of Biology | Maharishi International University |
| 1985-1988 | Research Scientist | Division of Biology, Kansas State University |
| 1988-1990 | Assistant Professor of Biology | Maharishi International University |
| 1990- 2003 | Associate Professor of Biology | Maharishi University of Management |
| 1995- present | Research Associate | Kansas University Natural History Museum |
NSF-funded projects as PI:
NSF-funded projects as co-PI:
Other Professional Activities
US-UK workshop on Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function, invited participant; The Natural History Museum, London 1994.
Fifth International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology, Columbus Ohio, 1994; member of national organizing committee.
Panelist for soil biota impact assessment and research needs identification, for USDA-Forest Service eastern Columbia River Basin ecosystem management program, February 1995.
Taxonomic working group workshop at the Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica, April 1995; responsible for earthworm inventory project plan for the GCA.
Contributor to the Soil and Sediment Biodiversity Monitoring manual development program at IUBS/CABI, Egham, UK.
Sixth International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology, Vigo, Spain 1998; Co-chair of Systematics and Biogeography session.
Earthworm identification training courses at Maharishi University of Management, 1999; National Museum of the Philippines April 2001; Mindanao State University, Iligan, Philippines November 2003, EMBRAPA, Londrina, Brazil. December 2003.
Earthworm identification services to the scientific community.
Keynote address- The state of the art in earthworm biology and technology, to be delivered at the Philippine Department of Science and Technology Symposium on Vermitechnology, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines, by invitation of R.D. Guerrero, Director. November 25-26 2003.
History and ecology of invasive earthworms, University of Tennessee (by invitation of Dan Simberloff), 2002.
Invasive earthworms: history, mechanisms, and consequences (by invitation of Dan Richter). Soil Science Society of America, annual meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana 2002.
Practical earthworm management for the organic farmer, Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference, Sinsinawa Wisconsin, 1995, 1996 and 2004.
Earthworms as biogeographical indicators. Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, 2001.
Diversity and biogeography of Philippine earthworms, 7th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology, Cardiff, Wales 2002.
Taxonomy and ecology of vermicomposting earthworms. Vermillennium, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2000.
Negative effects of earthworms. Philippines Rice Research Institute, Munoz, Nueva Ecija Philippines 1999.
Native and introduced earthworms of the central USA. The Nature Conservancy annual meeting, Iowa Chapter, 1992.
Book Chapters
James, S.W. 1990. Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae and other earthworms from southern and midwestern North America. In D. Dindal (ed.) Soil Biology Guide. pp. 379-386. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
James, S.W. 1995. Systematics, biogeography and ecology of earthworms from eastern, central, southern and southwestern USA. in P. Hendrix (ed.) Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North America, pp. 29-51. CRC Press, Inc, Boca Raton, Florida.
Fragoso, C., S.W. James and S. Borges. 1995. Native earthworms of the north.
Neotropical region: current status and controversies. in P. Hendrix (ed.)
Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North America, pp. 67-115. CRC Press, Inc, Boca Raton, Florida.
James, S.W. 1996. Earthworms. In G. Hall (ed.) Methods for the examination of organismal diversity in soils and sediments. IUBS Methodology Series. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, UK.
James, S.W. 1998. Earthworms and earth history. Pp. 3-14 in: C.A. Edwards, ed. Earthworm Ecology. Proc 5th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology. St. Lucie Press, Boca Raton.
James, S.W. 2004. Planetary processes and their interactions with earthworm and distributions and ecology. in: C.A. Edwards, ed. Earthworm Ecology. 2nd edition. St. Lucie Press, Boca Raton. (in press)
James, S.W. and P.W. Hendrix. 2004. Invasion of Exotic Earthworms into North America. in: C.A. Edwards, ed. Earthworm Ecology. 2nd edition. St. Lucie Press, Boca Raton. (in press)
Peer-reviewed Publications:
James, S.W. 1982. Effects of fire and soil type on earthworm populations in a tallgrass prairie. Pedobiologia 24:37-40.
Boucher, D., S.W. James and K.E. Keeler. 1982. The ecology of mutualism. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 13:315-347.
James, S.W. 1985. An unexpected effect of autumn burning on tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist 114:400-403.
James, S.W. and T.R. Seastedt. 1986. Nitrogen mineralization by native and introduced earthworms: effects on big bluestem growth. Ecology 67:1094-1097.
Seastedt, T.R., T.C. Todd, and S.W. James. 1987. Experimental manipulations of the arthropod, nematode and earthworm communities in a North American tallgrass prairie. Pedobiologia 30:9-17.
James, S.W. 1988. Diplocardia hulberti and D. rugosa, new earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Kansas. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101 : 300-307.
James, S.W. 1988. The postfire environment and earthworm populations in tallgrass prairie. Ecology 69: 476-483
Seastedt, T.R., S.W. James and T.C. Todd. 1989 Interactions among soil invertebrates, microbes and plant growth in the tallgrass prairie. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 24:219-228.
James, S.W. and M.R. Cunningham. 1989. Feeding ecology of some earthworms in Kansas tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist 121:78-83.
James, S.W. 1990. Diplocardia kansensis, a new earthworm from Kansas, with redescriptions of Diplocardia riparia Smith and D. fuscula Gates (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of
Washington 103:179-186.
James, S.W. 1990. Diplotrema murchiei and D. papillata, new earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Mexico. Acta Zoologica Mexicana 38:18- 27.
James, S.W. 1990. Martiodrilus olivaceous and M. panamensis, new earthworms from Colombia and Panama. (Oligochaeta: Glossoscolecidae). Zoologica Scripta 19:305-308.
James, S.W. 1991. Soil, organic matter, nitrogen, and phosphorus processing by native and introduced earthworm species in tallgrass prairie. Ecology 72:2101-2109.
James, S.W. 1991. New species of earthworms from Puerto Rico, with a redefinition of the earthworm genus Trigaster. (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 110:337-353.
James, S.W. 1992. Experimental and seasonal variation in population structure of earthworms in tallgrass prairie. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 24:1445-1449.
James, S.W. 1992. Localized dynamics of earthworm populations in relation to bison dung in North American tallgrass prairie. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 24:1471- 1476.
Todd, T.C., S.W. James and T.R. Seastedt. 1992. Soil invertebrate and plant responses to mowing and carbofuran application in a North American tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil 144:117-124.
Wood, H.B. and S.W. James. 1993. Native and introduced earthworms from selected chaparral, woodland, and riparian zones in southern California. Gen.Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-142. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, USDA; 20 p.
James, S.W. 1994. New acanthodriline earthworms from southern Mexico (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). Acta Zoologica Mexicana. 60:1-21.
James, S.W. 1994. New species of Diplocardia and Argilophilus (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from southern California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 107:622-633.
Hendrix, P.F., M.A. Callaham, Jr., and S.W. James. 1994. Ecology of nearctic earthworms in the southern USA. I. Characteristics of Diplocardia longa (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) surface casts in grass, hardwood and pine
microhabitats on the lower piedmont of Georgia. Megadrilogica 5:45-51.
James, S.W. 1996. Nine new species of Dichogaster from Guadeloupe, French West Indies (Oligochaeta, Megascolecidae) Zoologica Scripta 25:21-24.
Goodman, S.M., P. Parillo, S.W. James and P. Sierwald. 1996. Elevational variation in soil macroinvertebrates on the eastern slopes of the Reserve Naturelle Integrale d'Andingitra, Madagascar. Fieldiana (Zoology) NS. 85:144-151
Wood, H.B, K.L. Olivier and S.W. James. 1997. Relict Megascolecidae and exclusion of Lumbricidae from basalt-derived soils in Southern California. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 29:241-244.
Hendrix, P.F, M.A. Callaham, Jr., S.L. Lachnicht, J.M. Blair, S.W. James and X. Zou. 1999. Stable isotopic studies of resource utilization by nearctic earthworms (Diplocardia, Oligochaeta) in subtropical savanna and forest ecosystems. Pedobiologia 43:818-823.
James, S.W. 2000. Earthworms of the eastern Columbia River Basin. USDA- Forest Service General Technical Report, Pacific NW Region.
Joshi, R.C., O.R. Matchoc, J.C. Cabigat and S.W. James. 2000. Survey of the earthworms in the Ifugao rice terraces, Philippines. Journal of Environmental Science and Management 2(2):1-12
Hong, Y. and S. W. James. 2001. Five new earthworms of the genus Amynthas Kinberg (Megascolecidae) with four pairs of spermathecae. Zoological Studies 40 (4): 269-275.
Hong, Y. and S. W. James. 2001. New species of Korean Amynthas Kinberg 1867 (Oligochaeta, Megascolecidae) with two pairs of spermathecae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 108(1):65-93.
Jamieson, B.G.M., S. Tillier, A. Tillier, J-L. Justine, E. Ling, S. James, K. McDonald and A.F. Hugall. 2002. Phylogeny of the Megascolecidae (Oligochaeta, Annelida): combined versus partitioned analysis using nuclear (28s) and mitochondrial (12s, 16s) rDNA. Zoosystema 24(4): 707-734.
James, S.W. 2004. An illustrated key to the earthworms of the Samoan Archipelago. Micronesica 37:1-13.
James, S.W. 2004. Earthworms from the eastern mountains of Jamaica: fourteen new species of Dichogaster (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). (in press, Organisms, Diversity and Evolution)
James, S.W. 2004. New species of Amynthas, Pheretima, and Pleionogaster (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) of the Mt. Kitanglad Range, Mindanao Island, Philippines. (in press, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology).
James S.W. 2004. The earthworm genus Pleionogaster in southern Luzon, Philippines. (in prep).
James, S.W., Y. Hong and T.H. Kim. 2004. New species of Pheretima and Pithemera (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Mt. Arayat, Luzon Island, Philippines. (in press, Revue Suisse de Zoologie)
Hong, Y. and S.W. James 2004. New species of Amynthas Kinberg, 1867 from the Philippines (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). (in press, Revue Suisse de Zoologie)
James, S.W. 2004. New genera and new species of earthworms (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) from southern Luzon, Philippines. (in press, Systematics and Biodiversity)
James, S.W. 2004. New species of Archipheretima (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) from Luzon, Philippines, with a revision of the genus. (in prep.)
James, S.W., H.-T. Shih and H.-W. Chang. 2004. Seven new species of Amynthas (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) and new earthworm records from Taiwan. Journal of Natural History. (in press).
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