Current postdoc on the @SRScorridor project. Recent @UFwildlife alum | Landscape ecology, experimental systems, diversity, entomology, stats, programming, etc!
Aiken, SC
Joined November 2017
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New in @ESAEcology:
Landscape experiments unlock relationships among habitat loss, fragmentation, and patch-size effects
doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4037
With #OpenData in @figshare
#FragmentationDebate
#HabitatLoss #NSFFunded @NSF @FletcherEcology @BrunaLab @NKortessis @thomasAHsmith
ALT Experiments for isolating the roles of landscape-scale habitat loss & fragmentation & patch size on populations. (a) Experiments altered the amount/distribution of prickly pear cactus; response was occurrence of 4 specialist herbivores. (b) Experiment 1: patches were removed in random/aggregated pattern. (c) Experiment 2: patches were removed with low/high loss; fragmentation treatments altered the number of patches
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
Excited to see our paper out! Thanks @FletcherEcology for leading! Habitat fragmentation results in interdependent patch and landscape patterns. Cross-scale research is needed to inform conservation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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We're searching for an REU to study how habitat fragmentation and corridors affect plants and insects this summer. A great opportunity to work in an experiment that's been running for three decades. Apply by March 31. brudviglab.plantbiology.msu.…
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Great paper by Moore et al comparing various methods to aggregate expert elicited estimates and illustrating this process using matrix population models for a freshwater turtle species 🐢
doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.20…
🗞️#158-2022
ALT cover page of paper "Evaluating the effect of expert elicitation techniques on population status assessment in the face of large uncertainty"
ALT Two figures showing Beta distributions fitted to the elicited quantiles obtained from nine experts with respect to adult/juvenile survival
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
Congratulations to WEC PhD student, Thomas Smith, who has won the award for Best Student Presentation at the 2022 meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology-North America (IALE-NA)!
Thomas is advised by Dr. Rob Fletcher and Dr. Emilio Bruna.
ALT Photo courtesy of Thomas Smith. Thomas sitting at his desk working.
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Very proud of @JFMwildlife for being shortlisted for the Robert May Prize for #ECR research published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! @UFWildlife
📢We're pleased to announce the shortlist for our annual Robert May Prize #ECR award!
👀Take a look at the outstanding articles that made the shortlist⬇️
methodsblog.com/2022/03/08/r…
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
Dr. Rachel Mallinger is seeking to fill an undergrad
research tech position in her Pollinator Ecology and Conversation lab! If you're interested, be sure to email Opeyemi Adedoja by December 3, 2021. See flyer for more details!
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
📅📢Next Tuesday, we are happy to say Bob Holt will be giving our seminar on "COVID-19 meets the Hutchinsonian niche"
As ever, totally free for all, Zoom link and details here: iite.info/seminar/ and to check times in your region see: timeanddate.com/worldclock/f…
See you there!
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
Does anyone have experience with the Barker capture mark recapture models that would be willing to answer a few questions? @stephen_parker7 @pylodictis
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Congrats to my colleagues on a wonderful paper out today on African Wildcat in Rwanda. These are the first photos of this species in about 30 years in this area. Also my first senior (last) author paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
Need advice: A colleague's paper was rejected - AE said "substantive concerns about statistical models raised by reviewer 1" - the reviews are easy fixes or completely incorrect - can I ask for the paper to be sent to another reviewer? should I send a rebuttal with my request?
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
Read about our new arboreal camera trap review paper in Mongabay!
Publication available here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Big thanks to @thomasAHsmith for sharing his research on habitat matrices using cactus bugs as a model species with our @UFWildlife Techniques students at the @UF @UF_IFAS Ordway-Swisher Biological Station... @FletcherEcology @BrunaLab #landscape #ecology #cactus #bugs
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#Network ecology in dynamic landscapes
A cool new review by @FortinMJ and colleagues
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Evaluating monitoring program performance to inform restoration - new paper out today w/ @pylodictis @thePeerJ peerj.com/articles/11378 @NFWFnews @UFWildlife @UFCALS @UFExplore
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
A new study by WEC Post-doc @JFMwildlife evaluates how ranger patrols can be more efficient when tracking down illegal wildlife activity within protected areas at minimal cost via decision and spatial analysis.
ow.ly/H5P450EkNNW
#UFwildlife #wildlife
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
Hypothesis angst? Find out when and why hypotheses are useful in ecology and evolution. Our lab's take on the matter at least. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Thomas AH Smith retweeted
I am recruiting an MSc graduate student for a project focused on piecing together LA's historic avian communities from existing egg/nest records followed up by bird resurveys of historic nest sites. Please help me spread the word. Further details in link.
ornithologyexchange.org/jobs…
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New version of the samc package is available. It fixes a regression in v1.2.0 that would cause crashes if input landscapes didn't have at least one NA cell. andrewmarx.github.io/samc/ne… @FletcherEcology
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samc 1.2.0 is now available. Added support for custom P matrices (allows for any use case), a new metric, a new convenience function, and an important bugfix for a corner case involving landscape data. andrewmarx.github.io/samc/ne… @FletcherEcology #RStats