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  • 2013 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Evolution of a genetic polymorphism with climate change in a Mediterranean landscape. PNAS 110:2893–2897

Overview

John D. Thompson is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on ecology and plant science.

Their work extensively covers topics related to plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics, species distribution and climate change, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, essential oils and antimicrobial activity, Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna, as well as forest insect ecology and management.

The frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Oecologia
  • Plants
  • Ecologia mediterranea
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Evolution Letters

John D. Thompson has contributed to research in various subfields such as ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and plant science.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Thompson are:

  • From genotype to phenotype: Genetic redundancy and the maintenance of an adaptive polymorphism in the context of high gene flow (2022, Evolution Letters)
  • Effects of environmental heterogeneity on phenotypic variation of the endemic plant Lilium pomponium in the Maritime and Ligurian Alps (2020, Oecologia)
  • When ecological marginality is not geographically peripheral: exploring genetic predictions of the centre-periphery hypothesis in the endemic plant Lilium pomponium (2021, PeerJ)
  • Niche Differentiation at Multiple Spatial Scales on Large and Small Mediterranean Islands for the Endemic Silene velutina Pourr. ex Loisel. (Caryophyllaceae) (2021, Plants)
  • Ecological niche differentiation among six annual Lythrum species in Mediterranean temporary pools (2021, Oecologia)

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Perrine Gauthier
  • Gabriele Casazza
  • Virginie Pons
  • Thibaut Ferraille
  • Christian Kerbiriou

In 2013, John D. Thompson received the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America for work on the evolution of a genetic polymorphism in response to climate change in a Mediterranean landscape, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean

    John D. Thompson

  • The evolutionary dynamics of polyploid plants: origins, establishment and persistence.

    John D. Thompson;Roselyne Lumaret

  • Phenotypic plasticity as a component of evolutionary change.

    John D. Thompson

  • The biology and ecology of narrow endemic and widespread plants: a comparative study of trait variation in 20 congeneric pairs

    Sébastien Lavergne;John D. Thompson;Eric Garnier;Max Debussche

  • Geographic variation in genetic and demographic performance: new insights from an old biogeographical paradigm.

    Samuel Pironon;Guillaume Papuga;Guillaume Papuga;Jesús Villellas;Amy L. Angert

  • QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE VARIATION IN MONOTERPENE CO-OCCURRENCE AND COMPOSITION IN THE ESSENTIAL OIL OF Thymus vulgaris CHEMOTYPES

    John D. Thompson;Jean-Claude Chalchat;André Michet;Yan B. Linhart

  • How do visitation patterns vary among pollinators in relation to floral display and floral design in a generalist pollination system

    John D. Thompson

  • Population differentiation in mediterranean plants: insights into colonization history and the evolution and conservation of endemic species

    John D Thompson

  • Regional priority setting for rare species based on a method combining three criteria

    Perrine Gauthier;Max Debussche;John D. Thompson

  • Distyly and variation in heteromorphic incompatibility in Gaertnera vaginata (Rubiaceae) endemic to La Reunion Island.

    Thierry Pailler;John D. Thompson

  • Ecological differentiation of Mediterranean endemic plants

    John D. Thompson;Sébastien Lavergne;Laurence Affre;Myriam Gaudeul

  • The inclusion of biodiversity in environmental impact assessment: Policy-related progress limited by gaps and semantic confusion

    Charlotte Bigard;Sylvain Pioch;John D. Thompson

  • Variation in flowering phenology and selfing rate across a contact zone between diploid and tetraploid Arrhenatherum elatius (Poaceae)

    Christophe Petit;Philippe Lesbros;Xuejun Ge;John D Thompson

  • Protected areas and their surrounding territory: socioecological systems in the context of ecological solidarity

    Raphaël Mathevet;John D. Thompson;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;F. Stuart Chapin

  • The rise of research on futures in ecology: rebalancing scenarios and predictions

    Audrey Coreau;Gilles Pinay;John D. Thompson;Pierre-Olivier Cheptou

  • Do co-occurring plant species adapt to one another? The response of Bromus erectus to the presence of different Thymus vulgaris chemotypes

    Bodil Kirstine Ehlers;JD Thompson

  • Species diversity and ecological range in relation to ploidy level in the flora of the Pyrenees

    Christophe Petit;John D. Thompson

  • Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean: Insights for conservation

    John D. Thompson

  • Intra-specific variation in the inhibitory effects of Thymus vulgaris (Labiatae) monoterpenes on seed germination.

    Michèle Tarayre;John D Thompson;José Escarré;Yan B Linhart

  • Variation of pollen limitation in the early flowering Mediterranean geophyte Narcissus assoanus (Amaryllidaceae).

    Angela M. Baker;Spencer C. H. Barrett;John D. Thompson

  • Floral Display in Narcissus: Variation in Flower Size and Number at the Species, Population, and Individual Levels

    Anne C. Worley;Angela M. Baker;John D. Thompson;Spencer C. H. Barrett

  • Evolution of a genetic polymorphism with climate change in a Mediterranean landscape

    John Thompson;Anne Charpentier;Guillaume Bouguet;Faustine Charmasson

Frequent Co-Authors

Max Debussche
Max Debussche Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yan B. Linhart
Yan B. Linhart University of Colorado Boulder
Spencer C. H. Barrett
Spencer C. H. Barrett University of Toronto
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sébastien Lavergne
Sébastien Lavergne Grenoble Alpes University
Juan Arroyo
Juan Arroyo University of Seville
Gilles Pinay
Gilles Pinay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Frédéric Médail
Frédéric Médail Aix-Marseille University
Aurélien Besnard
Aurélien Besnard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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