Thomas Connor

Selected Media

National Geographic (Spain) - Las hembras panda recorren largas distancias para aparearse

Doctoral candidate

Education:

B.S. in Natural Resources, concentration in Environmental Studies - 2012 - Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Ithaca, NY

Bio:

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 plans to investigate the complex relationships between human and natural systems by studying giant pandas.

Publications

Title	Book/Journal	Year
Effectiveness of China’s protected areas in reducing deforestation	Environmental Science and Pollution Research	2019
What is Telecoupling?	Telecoupling -- Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World	2019
Evolution of multiple global virtual material flows	Science of The Total Environment	2019
Complex effects of natural disasters on protected areas through altered telecouplings	Ecology and Society	2018
Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability	2018
Revealing pathways from payments for ecosystem services to socioeconomic outcomes	Science Advances	2018
Effects of grain size and niche breadth on species distribution modeling	Ecography	2017
Climate variability and trends at a national scale	Scientific Reports	2017
Modeling activity patterns of wildlife using time- series analysis	Ecology and Evolution	2017
Divergent responses of sympatric species to livestock encroachment at fine spatiotemporal scales	Biological Conservation	2017
Telemetry research on elusive wildlife: a synthesis of studies on giant pandas	Integrative Zoology	2016

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The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national to global scales.

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