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Overview

Michael Thompson is affiliated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Their research spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable focus areas including Plant Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, particularly in Weed Control and Herbicide Applications, Marine animal studies overview, Marine and fisheries research, Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Seed Germination and Physiology, and Plant tissue culture and regeneration.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Thompson include:

  • "COVID-19 vaccination and breakthrough infections in patients with cancer" (2021, Annals of Oncology)
  • "Sensitivity of sand lance to shifting prey and hydrography indicates forthcoming change to the northeast US shelf forage fish complex" (2020, ICES Journal of Marine Science)
  • "Birds of a Feather Eat Plastic Together: High Levels of Plastic Ingestion in Great Shearwater Adults and Juveniles Across Their Annual Migratory Cycle" (2022, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "Response of glyphosate-resistant and susceptible biotypes of Echinochloa colona to low doses of glyphosate in different soil moisture conditions" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Target-Site Resistance to Glyphosate in Chloris Virgata Biotypes and Alternative Herbicide Options for its Control" (2020, Agronomy)

Frequent co-authors in Michael Thompson's research include Bhagirath Singh Chauhan, David N. Wiley, Michael Fehr, Justin J. Suca, and Les Kaufman. This reflects collaboration across several studies and contributes to the multidisciplinary nature of the scientist's output.

Michael Thompson publishes regularly in various scientific venues. The most common journals and platforms where their work appears include Frontiers in Marine Science, PLoS ONE, Agronomy, Conservation Science and Practice, and UNC Libraries.

Best Publications

  • Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value

    Michael Thompson

  • Divided We Stand: Redefining Politics, Technology and Social Choice

    Eileen Leonard;Michiel Schwarz;Michael Thompson

  • Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World. The Case of Climate Change

    Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel

  • Prehistoric technology : an experimental study of the oldest tools and artefacts from traces of manufacture and wear

    S. A. Semenov;M. W. Thompson

  • Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions

    Marco Verweij;Michael Thompson

  • Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World

    Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel

  • Cultural Theory as Political Science

    M. Thompson;Gunnar Grendstad;Per Selle

  • Uncertainty on a Himalayan Scale

    M. Thompson;M. Warburton;T. Hatley

  • A Cultural Theory of Information Bias in Organizations

    Michael Thompson;Aaron Wildavsky

  • Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen

    S. I Rudenko;Michael Welman Thompson

  • Entrepreneurs, Elites, and Exclusion in Maasailand: Trends in Wildlife Conservation and Pastoralist Development

    Michael Thompson;Katherine Homewood

  • The Limits to Scarcity Contesting the Politics of Allocation

    Lyla Mehtc;Steve Rayner;Michael Thompson

  • Risk and Governance Part I: The Discourses of Climate Change

    Michael Thompson;Steve Rayner

  • Human needs and wants

    M. Douglas;D. Gasper;S. Ney;M. Thompson

  • Clumsy solutions for a wicked world

    M. Verweij;S. Ney;M. Thompson

  • Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value

    Jonathan Benthall;Michael Thompson

  • Cultural theory and integrated assessment

    Michael Thompson

  • Among the Energy Tribes: A cultural framework for the analysis and design of energy policy

    Michael Thompson

  • A Proposal to Create a Cultural Theory of Risk

    Michael Thompson;Aaron Wildavsky

  • Culture Matters: Essays In Honor Of Aaron Wildavsky

    Richard J. Ellis;Michael Thompson

  • Cultural Theory, Climate Change and Clumsiness

    Michael Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Rayner
Steve Rayner University of Oxford
Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas University College London
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
John C. Moore
John C. Moore Beijing Normal University
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute
Anthony Patt
Anthony Patt ETH Zurich
Simon J. Langan
Simon J. Langan International Water Management Institute
Masatomo Fujiwara
Masatomo Fujiwara Hokkaido University
Simon Shackley
Simon Shackley University of Edinburgh

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