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Thomas Madsen is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia, focusing primarily on environmental science. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including ecology, genetics, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as ecological modeling.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of topics, notably wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, veterinary oncology research, genetic diversity and population structure, animal behavior and reproduction, animal ecology and behavior studies, and amphibian and reptile biology.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • Current Biology
  • Conservation Biology
  • Ecology
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Thomas Madsen's recent papers demonstrate their research interests, such as:

  • "Darwin, the devil, and the management of transmissible cancers" (2020) published in Conservation Biology
  • "Genetic rescue restores long-term viability of an isolated population of adders (Vipera berus)" (2020) published in Current Biology
  • "Negative frequency-dependent selection on polymorphic color morphs in adders" (2022) published in Current Biology
  • "Komodo dragons are not ecological analogs of apex mammalian predators" (2020) published in Ecology
  • "The impact of an extreme climatic event on adder (Vipera berus) demography in southern Sweden" (2023) published in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Beáta Újvári, Frédéric Thomas, Marcel Klaassen, Rodrigo Hamede, and Nynke Raven.

Overall, Thomas Madsen's body of research contributes to understanding complex ecological interactions, conservation genetics, and the influence of environmental change on species dynamics. Their work is disseminated through prominent scientific journals specializing in ecology, genetics, and conservation biology.

Best Publications

  • Restoration of an inbred adder population

    Thomas Madsen;Richard Shine;Mats Olsson;Håkan Wittzell

  • Why do female adders copulate so frequently

    Thomas Madsen;Thomas Madsen;Richard Shine;Jon Loman;Thomas Håkansson

  • Is sperm really so cheap? Costs of reproduction in male adders, Vipera berus

    Mats Olsson;Thomas Madsen;Richard Shine

  • Inbreeding depression in an isolated population of adders Vipera berus

    Thomas Madsen;Thomas Madsen;Bo Stille;Richard Shine

  • 13 – Sexual Selection and Sperm Competition in Reptiles

    M. Olsson;T. Madsen

  • Silver spoons and snake body sizes: prey availability early in life influences long-term growth rates of free-ranging pythons

    Thomas Madsen;Richard Shine

  • Major histocompatibility complex and mate choice in sand lizards.

    Mats Olsson;Thomas Madsen;Jessica Nordby;Erik Wapstra

  • Sexual dimorphism in lizard body shape: the roles of sexual selection and fecundity selection.

    Mats Olsson;Mats Olsson;Richard Shine;Erik Wapstra;Beata Ujvari;Beata Ujvari

  • Sperm selection by females

    Mats Olsson;Richard Shine;Thomas Madsen;Annica Gullberg

  • Seasonal Migration of Predators and Prey‐‐A Study of Pythons and Rats in Tropical Australia

    Thomas Madsen;Richard Shine

  • Movements, home range size and habitat use of radio-tracked grass snakes (Natrix natrix) in Southern Sweden

    Thomas Madsen

  • Is Thermoregulation Unimportant for Most Reptiles? An Example Using Water Pythons (Liasis fuscus) in Tropical Australia

    Richard Shine;Thomas Madsen

  • PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN BODY SIZES AND SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN EUROPEAN GRASS SNAKES

    Thomas Madsen;Thomas Madsen;Richard Shine

  • High prevalence of Hepatozoon spp. (Apicomplexa, Hepatozoidae) infection in water pythons (Liasis fuscus) from tropical Australia.

    Beata Ujvari;Beata Ujvari;Thomas Madsen;Thomas Madsen;Mats Olsson;Mats Olsson

  • THE INFLUENCE OF NEST TEMPERATURES AND MATERNAL BROODING ON HATCHLING PHENOTYPES IN WATER PYTHONS

    Richard Shine;Thomas R. L. Madsen;Melanie J. Elphick;Peter S. Harlow

  • Determinants of mating success in male adders, Vipera berus

    Thomas Madsen;Thomas Madsen;Richard Shine;Jon Loman;Thomas Håkansson

  • Testosterone, ticks and travels: a test of the immunocompetence-handicap hypothesis in free-ranging male sand lizards.

    Mats Olsson;Erik Wapstra;Thomas Madsen;Bengt Silverin

  • Widespread convergence in toxin resistance by predictable molecular evolution

    Beata Ujvari;Beata Ujvari;Nicholas R. Casewell;Kartik Sunagar;Kevin Arbuckle

  • Costs of reproduction in a population of European adders

    Thomas Madsen;Richard Shine

  • Female choice on male quantitative traits in lizards — why is it so rare?

    Mats Olsson;Thomas Madsen

  • The adjustment of reproductive threshold to prey abundance in a capital breeder

    Thomas Madsen;Richard Shine

Frequent Co-Authors

Beata Ujvari
Beata Ujvari Deakin University
Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
Mats Olsson
Mats Olsson University of Gothenburg
Erik Wapstra
Erik Wapstra University of Tasmania
Gregory P. Brown
Gregory P. Brown Macquarie University
Katherine Belov
Katherine Belov University of Sydney
Anthony T. Papenfuss
Anthony T. Papenfuss Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Tobias Uller
Tobias Uller Lund University
Frédéric Thomas
Frédéric Thomas University of Montpellier
Tim S. Jessop
Tim S. Jessop Deakin University

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