Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Thomas Connor

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Email:
connor2@msu.edu

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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Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

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Pandas active posters on social media

Published on December 19, 2023
URSUS - Social network analysis uncovers hidden social complexity in giant pandas

Published on December 7, 2023
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

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Thomas Connor