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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
104
Citations
39589
World Ranking
225
National Ranking
93

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award

Overview

Thomas P. Quinn is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research is primarily focused in the field of Environmental Science with a significant concentration on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Aquatic Science, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and Fisheries Research, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, and Marine Animal Studies Overview.

Among their recent papers are:

  • North American diadromous fishes: Drivers of decline and potential for recovery in the Anthropocene, 2022, Science Advances
  • Implications of Large-Effect Loci for Conservation: A Review and Case Study with Pacific Salmon, 2021, Journal of Heredity
  • Community Ecology and Conservation of Bear-Salmon Ecosystems, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Group size affects predation risk and foraging success in Pacific salmon at sea, 2022, Science Advances
  • Challenges in the Identification and Interpretation of Phenological Shifts: Anthropogenic Influences on Adult Migration Timing in Salmonids, 2021, Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture

Thomas P. Quinn has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Andrew H. Dittman, Aaron J. Wirsing, James P. Losee, Mark D. Scheuerell, and Katherine N. McElroy.

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, notably the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), Ecology Of Freshwater Fish, and Science Advances.

Best Publications

  • Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species

    Daniel E. Schindler;Ray Hilborn;Brandon Chasco;Christopher P. Boatright

  • The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout

    Thomas P. Quinn

  • Biocomplexity and fisheries sustainability.

    Ray Hilborn;Thomas P. Quinn;Daniel E. Schindler;Donald E. Rogers

  • Movement, migration, and smolting of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    Stephen D McCormick;Lars P Hansen;Thomas P Quinn;Richard L Saunders

  • HOMING IN PACIFIC SALMON: MECHANISMS AND ECOLOGICAL BASIS

    Andrew H. Dittman;Thomas P. Quinn

  • Potential responses to climate change in organisms with complex life histories: evolution and plasticity in Pacific salmon

    L. G. Crozier;A. P. Hendry;P. W. Lawson;T. P. Quinn

  • Rapid evolution of reproductive isolation in the wild: evidence from introduced salmon.

    Andrew P. Hendry;John K. Wenburg;Paul Bentzen;Eric C. Volk

  • A critical review of adaptive genetic variation in Atlantic salmon: implications for conservation

    C. Garcia de Leaniz;I. A. Fleming;S. Einum;E. Verspoor

  • A review of homing and straying of wild and hatchery-produced salmon

    Thomas P. Quinn

  • An evaluation of the effects of conservation and fishery enhancement hatcheries on wild populations of salmon.

    Kerry A. Naish;Joseph E. Taylor;Phillip S. Levin;Thomas P. Quinn

  • The secular evolution of disk structural parameters

    Victor P. Debattista;Victor P. Debattista;Lucio Mayer;C. Marcella Carollo;Ben Moore

  • The Structural evolution of substructure

    Eric Hayashi;Julio F. Navarro;Julio F. Navarro;James E. Taylor;James E. Taylor;Joachim Stadel

  • Stream-bed scour, egg burial depths, and the influence of salmonid spawning on bed surface mobility and embryo survival

    D R Montgomery;J M Buffington;N P Peterson;D Schuett-Hames

  • Environmental Changes Affecting the Migratory Timing of American Shad and Sockeye Salmon

    Thomas P. Quinn;Dean J. Adams

  • Channel type and salmonid spawning distribution and abundance

    David R Montgomery;Eric M Beamer;George R Pess;Thomas P Quinn

  • Evolution of temporal isolation in the wild: genetic divergence in timing of migration and breeding by introduced chinook salmon populations.

    Thomas P. Quinn;Martin J. Unwin;Michael T. Kinnison

  • Behavioural thermoregulation and homing by spring chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum), in the Yakima River

    C. H. Berman;T. P. Quinn

  • Diazinon disrupts antipredator and homing behaviors in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

    Nathaniel L. Scholz;Nathan K. Truelove;Barbara L. French;Barry A. Berejikian

  • Density and size of juvenile salmonids in response to placement of large woody debris in western Oregon and Washington streams

    Philip Roni;Thomas P Quinn

  • The effects of body size and sexual dimorphism on the reproductive behaviour of sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka

    Thomas P. Quinn;Chris J. Foote

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Governato
Fabio Governato University of Washington
Joachim Stadel
Joachim Stadel University of Zurich
Lucio Mayer
Lucio Mayer University of Zurich
Ray Hilborn
Ray Hilborn University of Washington
Andrew P. Hendry
Andrew P. Hendry McGill University
Paul Bentzen
Paul Bentzen Dalhousie University
Michael T. Kinnison
Michael T. Kinnison University of Maine
Ben Moore
Ben Moore University of Zurich
James Wadsley
James Wadsley McMaster University
Daniel E. Schindler
Daniel E. Schindler University of Washington

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