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8072
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6530
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2208

Overview

Thomas E. Lacher is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology and related subfields. Their research portfolio includes 42 publications within Environmental Science, encompassing areas such as Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis

Recent notable papers authored by Thomas E. Lacher include:

  • A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities, 2022, Journal of Biogeography
  • Integrating Agriculture and Ecosystems to Find Suitable Adaptations to Climate Change, 2020, Climate
  • Land cover drives amphibian diversity across steep elevational gradients in an isolated neotropical mountain range: Implications for community conservation, 2020, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Global patterns of extinction risk and conservation needs for Rodentia and Eulipotyphla, 2021, Diversity and Distributions

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Climate
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Conservation Biology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Journal of Biogeography

Thomas E. Lacher commonly collaborates with certain coauthors in their research efforts. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Barney Long
  • Rosalind J. Kennerley
  • Nicolette S. Roach
  • Shelby D. McCay

Best Publications

  • The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

    Jan Schipper;Jan Schipper;Janice S. Chanson;Janice S. Chanson;Federica Chiozza;Neil A. Cox;Neil A. Cox

  • The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

    Michael Hoffmann;Craig Hilton-Taylor;Ariadne Angulo;Monika Böhm

  • Changing the Course of Biodiversity Conservation in the Caatinga of Northeastern Brazil

    Inara R. Leal;José Maria Cardoso Da Silva;Marcelo Tabarelli;Thomas E. Lacher

  • Mudando o curso da conservação da biodiversidade na Caatinga do Nordeste do Brasil

    Inara R. Leal;Maria C. Da Silva;Marcelo Tabarelli;Thomas E. Lacher

  • The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Jason Pither;Andrew J. Kerkhoff

  • The functional roles of mammals in ecosystems

    Thomas E Lacher;Ana D Davidson;Theodore H Fleming;Emma P Gómez-Ruiz

  • An ecological risk assessment of lead shot exposure in non‐waterfowl avian species: Upland game birds and raptors

    Ronald J. Kendall;Thomas E. Lacher Jr.;Christine Bunck;Bernard Daniel

  • Environmental Degradation in the Pantanal EcosystemIn Brazil, the world's largest wetland is being threatened by human activities

    Cleber J. R. Alho;Thomas E. Lacher;Humberto C. Gonçalves

  • The Brazilian Caatinga in South American zoogeography : tropical mammals in a dry region

    Michael A. Mares;Michael R. Willig;Thomas E. Lacher

  • Tropical ecotoxicology: Status and needs

    Thomas E. Lacher;Michael I. Goldstein

  • 4. The mammals of northeastern Brazil: a preliminary assessment

    Michael A Mares;Michael R Willig;Karl E Streilein;Thomas E Lacher

  • Agrochemical use on banana plantations in Latin America : Perspectives on ecological risk

    William Henriques;Russel D. Jeffers;Thomas E. Lacher;Ronald J. Kendall

  • The comparative social behavior of Kerodon rupestris and Galea spixii and the evolution of behavior in the Caviidae

    Thomas E. Lacher

  • Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities

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  • Monocrotophos-Induced Mass Mortality of Swainson's Hawks in Argentina, 1995–96

    Michael I. Goldstein;T. E. Lacher;B. Woodbridge;M. J. Bechard

  • Parasitism of trees by marmosets in a central Brasilian gallery forest

    T. E. Lacher;G. A. Bouchardet Da Fonseca;C. Alves;B. Magalhaes-Castro

  • A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets.

    Louise Mair;Leon A. Bennun;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Stuart H. M. Butchart;Stuart H. M. Butchart

  • An Experimental Analysis of Social Spacing in Tamias Striatus

    Michael A. Mares;Michael A. Mares;Thomas E. Lacher;Thomas E. Lacher;Michael R. Willig;Michael R. Willig;Nancy A. Bitar;Nancy A. Bitar

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Terrestrial Small Mammal Richness and Habitat Associations in an Amazon Forest–Cerrado Contact Zone1

    Thomas E. Lacher;Cleber J. R. Alho

  • Mamíferos da Fazenda Nhumirim, sub-região de Nhecolândia, Pantanal do Mato Grosso do Sul: I - levantamento preliminar de espécies

    Cleber J.R. Alho;Thomas E. Lacher;Zilca M.S. Campos;Humberto C. Gonçalves

  • FOOD PREFERENCE AS A FUNCTION OF RESOURCE ABUNDANCE WITH MULTIPLE PREY TYPES: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF OPTIMAL FORAGING THEORY

    Thomas E. Lacher;Michael R. Willig;Michael A. Mares

  • Exudate-feeding byCallithrix jacchus penicillata in semideciduous woodland (Cerradão) in central Brazil

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Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Mares
Michael A. Mares University of Oklahoma
Ronald J. Kendall
Ronald J. Kendall Texas Tech University
Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
Michael R. Willig
Michael R. Willig University of Connecticut
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Russell A. Mittermeier
Russell A. Mittermeier Conservation International
Simon N. Stuart
Simon N. Stuart Synchronicity Earth
Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann California Institute of Technology
Ana S. L. Rodrigues
Ana S. L. Rodrigues University of Montpellier
Lawrence R. Heaney
Lawrence R. Heaney Field Museum of Natural History

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