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Overview

Len Thomas is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work includes research topics that concentrate on marine and ecological studies. Some of the main topics covered in their body of work are:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Underwater Acoustics Research
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Len Thomas has contributed to a variety of research papers, including the following notable recent publications:

  • "Designing line transect surveys for complex survey regions" (2023), published in The "journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue"
  • "Distribution and abundance of marine mammals in the coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada" (2023), published in The "journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue"
  • "Understanding the combined effects of multiple stressors: A new perspective on a longstanding challenge" (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "REVIEW Assessing North Atlantic right whale health: threats, and development of tools critical for conservation of the species" (2021), published in Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
  • "A guide to state-space modeling of ecological time series" (2020), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in Len Thomas's research include:

  • Lori H. Schwacke
  • Enrico Pirotta
  • Catriona M. Harris
  • Tiago A. Marques
  • Theoni Photopoulou

Len Thomas regularly publishes research in a selection of dedicated scientific venues. These include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • The "journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue"
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Introduction to Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations

    S.T. Buckland;D.R. Anderson;K.P. Burnham;J.L. Laake

  • Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size.

    Len Thomas;Stephen T. Buckland;Eric A. Rexstad;Jeff L. Laake

  • Advanced distance sampling

    S. T. Buckland;D. R. Anderson;Kenneth P. Burnham;J. L. Laake

  • State-space models of individual animal movement.

    Toby A. Patterson;Toby A. Patterson;Len Thomas;Chris Wilcox;Otso Ovaskainen

  • Estimating animal population density using passive acoustics

    Tiago A. Marques;Tiago A. Marques;Len Thomas;Stephen Martin;David Mellinger

  • Retrospective Power Analysis

    Len Thomas

  • Flexible and practical modeling of animal telemetry data: hidden Markov models and extensions

    Roland Langrock;Ruth King;Jason Matthiopoulos;Len Thomas

  • Spatial models for distance sampling data: recent developments and future directions

    David Lawrence Miller;M Louise Burt;Eric Rexstad;Len Thomas

  • State-space models for the dynamics of wild animal populations

    S.T. Buckland;K.B. Newman;L. Thomas;N.B. Koesters

  • Estimating cetacean population density using fixed passive acoustic sensors: an example with Blainville's beaked whales.

    Tiago A. Marques;Len Thomas;Jessica Ward;Nancy A. DiMarzio

  • IMPROVING ESTIMATES OF BIRD DENSITY USING MULTIPLE- COVARIATE DISTANCE SAMPLING

    Tiago A. Marques;Tiago A. Marques;Len Thomas;Steven G. Fancy;Stephen T. Buckland

  • Distance sampling

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  • A general discrete‐time modeling framework for animal movement using multistate random walks

    Brett Thomas McClintock;Ruth King;Len Thomas;Jason Matthiopoulos

  • Distance sampling in R

    David L. Miller;Eric Rexstad;Len Thomas;Laura Marshall

  • First direct measurements of behavioural responses by Cuvier's beaked whales to mid-frequency active sonar

    Stacy L. DeRuiter;Brandon L. Southall;Brandon L. Southall;John Calambokidis;Walter M. X. Zimmer

  • Monitoring Long‐Term Population Change: Why are there so Many Analysis Methods?

    Len Thomas

  • Inferences About Landbird Abundance from Count Data: Recent Advances and Future Directions

    James D. Nichols;Len Thomas;Paul B. Conn

  • Understanding the population consequences of disturbance.

    Enrico Pirotta;Enrico Pirotta;Cormac G. Booth;Daniel P. Costa;Erica Fleishman;Erica Fleishman

  • Design and analysis of line transect surveys for primates

    Stephen Terrence Buckland;A J Plumptre;Len Thomas;Eric A Rexstad

  • A guide to state-space modeling of ecological time series

    Marie Auger-Méthé;Ken Newman;Diana J. Cole;Fanny Empacher

  • The importance of statistical power analysis: an example from Animal Behaviour

    Len Thomas;Francis Juanes

  • Using short-term measures of behaviour to estimate long-term fitness of southern elephant seals

    Leslie F. New;James S. Clark;Daniel P. Costa;E. Fleishman;E. Fleishman

  • Metapopulation consequences of site fidelity for colonially breeding mammals and birds

    Jason Matthiopoulos;John Harwood;Len Thomas

  • An interim framework for assessing the population consequences of disturbance

    Stephanie L. King;Robert S. Schick;Carl Donovan;Cormac G. Booth

  • HIDDEN PROCESS MODELS FOR ANIMAL POPULATION DYNAMICS

    K. B. Newman;S. T. Buckland;S. T. Lindley;L. Thomas

  • Field trials of line transect methods applied to estimation of desert tortoise abundance

    David R. Anderson;Kenneth P. Burnham;Bruce C. Lubow;L. E. N. Thomas

  • From echolocation clicks to animal density--acoustic sampling of harbor porpoises with static dataloggers.

    Line A. Kyhn;Jakob Tougaard;Len Thomas;Linda Rosager Duve

  • A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR MODELLING WILDLIFE POPULATION DYNAMICS

    Len Thomas;Stephen T. Buckland;Ken B. Newman;John Harwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen T. Buckland
Stephen T. Buckland University of St Andrews
John Harwood
John Harwood University of St Andrews
Peter L. Tyack
Peter L. Tyack University of St Andrews
Byron J. T. Morgan
Byron J. T. Morgan University of Kent
Olivier Gimenez
Olivier Gimenez Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jay Barlow
Jay Barlow National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Patrick J. O. Miller
Patrick J. O. Miller University of St Andrews
Jason Matthiopoulos
Jason Matthiopoulos University of Glasgow
Erica Fleishman
Erica Fleishman Oregon State University
Brandon L. Southall
Brandon L. Southall University of California, Santa Cruz

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