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
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Pandas active posters on social media
Published on December 19, 2023
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URSUS - Social network analysis uncovers hidden social complexity in giant pandas
Published on December 7, 2023
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Pandas’ popularity ‘umbrella’ not protecting neighbors
Published on January 4, 2021
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BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION - The hidden risk of using umbrella species as conservation surrogates
Published on December 3, 2020
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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS - Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO2 nexus across 2 metacoupled systems
Published on November 17, 2020
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New method adds and subtracts for sustainability’s true measure
Published on September 17, 2020
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Modeling habitat that’s just right
Published on October 14, 2019