Prof. Dr. Brian V. Timms

Associated Scientists

Associated Scientists are professional scholars who formally and actively collaborate with CeNak scientific staff through co-authored publications, collaborative projects, etc. including regular use of the research collections and other facilities of the CeNak. Associated Scientists have achieved a degree, usually a doctorate, and have professional status within their academic community, they are generally affiliated with a recognized academic institution as active or retired staff and have an active publication record.

Academic Career  Summary

• 1966/68 - Lecturer, Avondale College of Advanced Education, Cooranbong, NSW.
• 1969/72 - Senior Teaching Fellow, Dept of Zoology, Monash University
• 1973/91 - Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Biology, Avondale College of Advanced Education, Cooranbong, NSW
• 1990 July-August - Visiting Limnologist, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
• 1992/93 - Assistant Director, Sanitarium Research Laboratories, Cooranbong.
• 1996/2009 - Conjoint Professor, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle
• 1994/present - Specialist Environmental Consultant ---wetlands; lower crustaceans.
• 2004/present - Honorary Research Associate, Australian Museum, College St, Sydney.
• 2010/present - Adjunct Professor, Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Joint publications with scientific staff of the CeNak

• Timms, B.V., Schwentner, M. (2017): A revision of the clam shrimp Australimnadia Timms and Schwentner, 2012 (Crustacea: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) with two new species from Western Australia. Zootaxa, 4291:081-098.
• Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2015): Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in Australia’s arid zone: Unparalleled diversity at regional scales and within water bodies. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 35(3): 366-378.
• Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2014): Evolutionary systematics of the Australian Eocyzicus fauna (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) reveals hidden diversity and phylogeographic structure. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 52: 15-31.
• Schwentner, M., Clavier S., Fritsch M., Olesen J., Padhye S., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2013): Cyclestheria hislopi (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): a group of morphologically cryptic species with origins in the Cretaceous. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 66: 80-810.
• Timms, B.V., Schwentner, M. (2012): A new genus and species of large limnadiid clam shrimp from Australia (Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 32(6): 981-990.
• Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2012): Flying with the birds? Recent large-area dispersal of four Australian Limnadopsis species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Ecology and Evolution, 2(7):1605–1626.
• Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2012): Description of four new species of Limnadopsis from Australia (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Zootaxa, 3315:42-64.
• Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2011): An integrative approach to species delineation incorporating different species concepts: a case study of Limnadopsis (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 104: 575-599.
• Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Bastrop, R., Richter, S. (2009): Phylogeny of Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) based on three molecular markers – An Australian origin for Limnadopsis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 53: 716-725.

Selected other Publications

• Timms, B.V. 1980  The benthos of Australian lakes.  pp23-39 in: 'An Ecological Basis for Water Resource Management' (Edit Williams, W.D.) (ANU Press: Canberra).
• Timms, B.V. 1985  The structure of macrobenthic communities in Australian lakes.  Proceedings Ecological Society Australia  14: 51-9.
• Timms, B.V.  1986  The coastal dune lakes of eastern Australia  in: 'Limnology in Australia'  (Edit DeDeckker, P., and Williams, W.D.) (CSIRO/Junk: Melbourne/Dordrecht).
• Timms, B.V. & Morton, D.W. 1988 Crustacean zooplankton assemblages in freshwaters of tropical Australia.  Hydrobiologia  164: 161-9.
•  Timms, B.V. 1993. 'Lake Geomorphology'  (Gleneagles Publishing: Adelaide)   180pp.
• Timms, B.V. 1993 Saline lakes of the Paroo, inland New South Wales, Australia.   Hydrobiologia  267: 269-289.
• Timms, B.V. 2001  Large freshwater lakes in arid Australia: A review of their limnology and threats to their future.  Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management 6: 183-196.
•  Timms, B.V. &  Boulton A. 2001  Typology of arid-zone floodplain wetlands of the Paroo River, inland Australia and the influence of water regime, turbidity, and salinity on their aquatic invertebrate assemblages.  Archiv für Hydrobiologie 153: 1-27.
• Hancock, M. & Timms, B.V. 2002  Ecology of four turbid clay pans during a filling-drying cycle in the Paroo, semi-arid Australia. Hydrobiologia 479: 95-107.
• Timms, B.V. & Sanders, P. 2002  Biogeography and Ecology of Anostraca (Crustacea) in middle Paroo catchment of the Australian arid-zone.  Hydrobiologia 486:225-238.
•  Timms, B.V. 2005 Salt lakes in Australia: present problems and prognosis for the future.  Hydrobiologia 552: 1-15.
•  Timms, B.V. 2007 The biology of the saline lakes of the central and eastern inland of Australia: a review with special reference to their biogeographical affinities. Hydrobiologia 576: 27-37.
•  Timms, B.V. 2009 A study of the salt lakes inland of Esperance, Western Australia, with special reference to the role of ground water acidity and episodicity. In: Oren, A, Natfz, D, Palacois, P. & Wurstburgh, W.A. (eds)  Saline Lakes Around the World; Unique Systems with Unique Values, Natural Resources and Environmental Issues, Volume XV.  S.J. and Jessie E Quincey Natural Resource Research Library. Logan, Utah, USA, pp 215-224.
• Timms, B.V., Pinder A., and Campagna, V. 2009 The biogeography and conservation status of the Australian endemic brine shrimp Parartemia (Crustacea, Anostraca, Parartemiidae). Conservation Science Western Australia 7(2): 413-427.
• Timms, B.V. and Sue Lindsay. 2011  Morphometrics of the resting eggs of the fairy shrimp Branchinella in Australia (Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae).  Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 133: 51-68.
• Vanschoenwinkel, Bram, Tom Pinceel, Maarten P.M. Vanhove, Carla Denis, Merlijn Jocque, Brian V. Timms & Luc Brendonck. 2012. Toward a Global Phylogeny of the “Living Fossil” Crustacean Order of the Notostraca   PLoS ONE 7(4): e34998. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034998
• Timms, B.V. 2013. A Revision of the Australian species of Lynceus Müller, 1776 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata, Lynceidae).  Zootaxa 3072: 501-533.
• Rogers, D.C. & B.V. Timms. Anostraca (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) zoogeography III Australian bioregions. Zootaxa 3881: 453-487.
•  Timms, B.V., Coleman, P., & Cooper, J. 2014  Seagull Lake, western Eyre Peninsula, South Australia: A saline lake to benefit from climate change?  Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 138: 161-180.
• Brendonck, L., Jocqué, M., Tuytens, K., Timms, B.V. & Vanschoenwinkel, B. 2015 Hydrological stability drives both local and regional diversity patterns in rock pool metacommunities. Oikos  124: 741-761
•  Timms, B.V. 2015 A revised key to the fairy shrimps (Crustacea: Anostraca: Anostracina) of Australia.  Museum Victoria Science Reports 19: 1-44.
• Timms, B.V. 2016 A partial revision of the Australian Eulimnadia Parkard, 1874 (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae).  Zootaxa 4066 (4): 351-389.
• Brendonck, L, Lanfranco, S, Timms, B. & Vanschoenwinkel, B. 2016. Invertebrates in Rock Pools  pp25-53. In: Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands (ed Batzer, D. & Boix, D) Springer, Switzerland. 645 pp.
• Timms, B.V. 2016 A review of the Australian endemic clam shrimp, Paralimnadia Sars 1896 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata).  Zootaxa 4161(4): 451-508.
• Timms, B. V. 2017 A study of the gnammas (rock pools) in some granitic outcrops in central Victoria, with a comparsison of their invertebrate communities across southern Australia.  The Royal Society of Victoria 129: 21-36.
• Timms, B.V. 2018. Keys to the Australian clam shrimps (Crustacea:Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida).  Museum Victoria Science Reports 20: 1-25.
• Timms, B.V. In Press  On the influence of season and salinity on the phenology of invertebrates in Australian saline lakes, with special reference to those of the Paroo in the semiarid inland.  Journal of Oceanography and Limnology.