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Frank R. Thompson

Frank R. Thompson

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
67
Citations
18452
World Ranking
1589
National Ranking
582

Overview

Frank R. Thompson is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics focus on diverse areas such as Avian ecology and behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Fire effects on ecosystems, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Frank R. Thompson include:

  • Thomas R. Thompson
  • Emily Sinnott
  • Mitch D. Weegman
  • Alisha R. Mosloff
  • Jennifer L. Reidy

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as Ornithological Applications, Wildlife Society Bulletin, Journal of Wildlife Management, Fire Ecology, and Diversity and Distributions.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Frank R. Thompson include:

  • High spatiotemporal overlap in the non-breeding season despite geographically dispersed breeding locations in the eastern whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus), 2022, Diversity and Distributions
  • Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas, 2024, Fire Ecology
  • Resource selection and movement by northern bobwhite broods varies with age and explains survival, 2021, Oecologia
  • Northern Bobwhite juvenile survival is greater in native grasslands managed with fire and grazing and lower in non-native field borders and strip crop fields, 2021, Ornithological Applications
  • Indirect effects mediate direct effects of climate warming on insect disturbance regimes of temperate broadleaf forests in the central U.S., 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology

Best Publications

  • Regional Forest Fragmentation and the Nesting Success of Migratory Birds

    Scott K. Robinson;Frank R. Thompson Iii;Therese M. Donovan;Donald R. Whitehead

  • Variation in Local-Scale Edge Effects: Mechanisms and landscape Context

    Therese M. Donovan;Peter W. Jones;Elizabeth M. Annand;Frank R. Thompson

  • Nest Predators and Fragmentation: a Review and Meta-Analysis

    Anna D. Chalfoun;Frank R. Thompson;Mary J. Ratnaswamy

  • Reproductive Success of Migratory Birds in Habitat Sources and Sinks

    Therese M. Donovan;Frank R. Thompson;John Faaborg;John R. Probst

  • The role of disturbance in the ecology and conservation of birds

    Jeffrey D. Brawn;Scott K. Robinson;Frank R. Thompson

  • POLEWARD SHIFTS IN WINTER RANGES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS

    Frank A. La Sorte;Frank R. Thompson

  • Conserving migratory land birds in the new world: do we know enough?

    John Faaborg;Richard T. Holmes;Angela D. Anders;Keith L. Bildstein

  • Recent advances in understanding migration systems of New World land birds

    John Faaborg;Richard T. Holmes;Angela D. Anders;Keith L. Bildstein

  • Juvenile Survival in a Population of Neotropical Migrant Birds

    Angela D. Anders;Donald C. Dearborn;John Faaborg;Frank R. Thompson

  • Landscape And Edge Effects On The Distribution Of Mammalian Predators In Missouri

    William D. Dijak;Frank R. Thompson Iii

  • Forest bird response to regeneration practices in central hardwood forests.

    Elizabeth M. Annand;Frank R. Thompson

  • Postfledging dispersal, habitat use, and home-range size of juvenile wood Thrushes

    Angela D. Anders;John Faaborg;Frank R. Thompson

  • MODELING THE ECOLOGICAL TRAP HYPOTHESIS: A HABITAT AND DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS FOR MIGRANT SONGBIRDS

    Therese M. Donovan;Frank R. Thompson

  • Video identification of predators at songbird nests in old fields

    F. R. Thompson;W. Dijak;D. E. Burhans

  • Post-fledging survival in passerine birds and the value of post-fledging studies to conservation

    W. Andrew Cox;Frank R. Iii Thompson;Allison S. Cox;John Faaborg

  • Modeling the effects of habitat fragmentation on source and sink demography of neotropical migrant birds

    Therese M. Donovan;Roland H. Lamberson;Allison Kimber;Frank R. Thompson

  • Factors affecting nest predation on forest songbirds in North America

    Frank R. Thompson

  • Linking population viability, habitat suitability, and landscape simulation models for conservation planning

    Michael A. Larson;Frank R. Thompson;Joshua J. Millspaugh;William D. Dijak

  • Differences in Predators of Artificial and Real Songbird Nests: Evidence of Bias in Artificial Nest Studies

    Frank R. Thompson;Dirk E. Burhans

  • Predation of Songbird Nests Differs By Predator and Between Field and Forest Habitats

    Frank R. Thompson;Dirk E. Burhans

Frequent Co-Authors

John Faaborg
John Faaborg University of Missouri
Hong S. He
Hong S. He University of Missouri
Joshua J. Millspaugh
Joshua J. Millspaugh University of Montana
Stephen R. Shifley
Stephen R. Shifley United States Department of Agriculture
Christopher W. Swanston
Christopher W. Swanston US Forest Service
Louis R. Iverson
Louis R. Iverson US Forest Service
Anantha Prasad
Anantha Prasad US Forest Service
Raymond D. Semlitsch
Raymond D. Semlitsch University of Missouri
Scott K. Robinson
Scott K. Robinson University of Florida
Wayne E. Thogmartin
Wayne E. Thogmartin United States Geological Survey

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