Thomas Connor
Major Advisor:
Jianguo "Jack" Liu
Background:
Thomas graduated in 2012 from Cornell University with a degree in natural resources. Fieldwork in college and a post-graduation hike of the Appalachian Trail deepened his appreciation of and desire to study the natural world. Since then he has pursued research in watershed management, wildfire ecology, primate behavior, and fisheries biology in positions that have taken him from Alaska to Madagascar. At Michigan State, he is a PhD candidate investigating the complex relationships between human and natural systems by studying giant pandas.
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Related Work
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY - Complex effects of habitat amount and fragmentation on functional connectivity and inbreeding in a giant panda population
Published on September 20, 2021
Pandas’ popularity ‘umbrella’ not protecting neighbors
Published on January 4, 2021
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION - The hidden risk of using umbrella species as conservation surrogates
Published on December 3, 2020
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS - Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO2 nexus across 2 metacoupled systems
Published on November 17, 2020
SUSTAINABILITY - Metacoupled Tourism and Wildlife Translocations Affect Synergies and Trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals across Spillover Systems
Published on September 17, 2020
New method adds and subtracts for sustainability’s true measure
Published on September 17, 2020
Modeling habitat that’s just right
Published on October 14, 2019
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - Interactive spatial scale effects on species distribution modeling: The case of the giant panda
Published on October 10, 2019
Effectiveness of China's protected areas in reducing deforestation
Published on May 7, 2019