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Overview

Thomas P. Sullivan is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and focuses primarily on research in Environmental Science. Their work covers several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, and Small Animals. The main topics addressed in their research involve fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, forest ecology and management, and forest management and policy.

The scientist has published multiple papers spanning over a decade, with recent works including:

  • "Twenty-Five Years after Stand Thinning and Repeated Fertilization in Lodgepole Pine Forest: Implications for Tree Growth, Stand Structure, and Carbon Sequestration" (2020) in Forests
  • "Acceleration of Forest Structural Development for Large Trees and Mammals: Restoration in Decades or Centuries?" (2021) in Forests
  • "Thirty-year responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in lodgepole pine forest: Old-forest attributes, stand structure, and forest-floor small mammals" (2025) in Forest Ecology and Management
  • "Woody Debris Structures on Large Clearcut Openings: Oases for Small Mustelids and Prey Species?" (2023) in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Restoration of Coniferous Forest and Myodes gapperi: Responses to Thinning, Fertilization, and Succession over a 45-Year Period" (2025) in Forests

The researcher's work has appeared predominantly in the journal Forests, with three publications there. Other venues include Forest Ecology and Management, SSRN Electronic Journal, Crop Protection, and Journal of Arid Environments.

Frequent collaborators include Druscilla S. Sullivan, Pontus M.F. Lindgren, Douglas B. Ransome, Walt Klenner, and Lisa Zabek, reflecting ongoing cooperative research efforts in their focus areas.

Best Publications

  • Use of predator odors as repellents to reduce feeding damage by herbivores : II. Black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus).

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Lance O. Nordstrom;Druscilla S. Sullivan

  • Influence of variable retention harvests on forest ecosystems. II. Diversity and population dynamics of small mammals

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Druscilla S. Sullivan

  • STAND STRUCTURE AND SMALL MAMMALS IN YOUNG LODGEPOLE PINE FOREST: 10-YEAR RESULTS AFTER THINNING

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Druscilla S. Sullivan;Pontus M. F. Lindgren

  • Use of predator odors as repellents to reduce feeding damage by herbivores : III. Montane and meadow voles (Microtus montanus andMicrotus pennsylvanicus).

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Douglas R. Crump;Druscilla S. Sullivan

  • Clearcutting and burning of northern spruce-fir forests: implications for small mammal communities

    Thomas P. Sullivan;R. A. Lautenschlager;Robert G. Wagner

  • DEMOGRAPHY AND DISPERSAL IN ISLAND AND MAINLAND POPULATIONS OF THE DEER MOUSE, PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS'

    Thomas Priestlay Sullivan

  • Use of predator odors as repellents to reduce feeding damage by herbivores : I. Snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus).

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Lance O. Nordstrom;Druscilla S. Sullivan

  • Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest: II. Diversity and population dynamics of forest floor small mammals

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Druscilla S. Sullivan;Pontus M.F. Lindgren;Douglas B. Ransome

  • Responses of Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) Populations to Supplemental Food

    Thomas P. Sullivan

  • Partial and clear-cut harvesting of high-elevation spruce-fir forests: implications for small mammal communities

    Walt Klenner;Thomas P. Sullivan

  • Vegetation management and ecosystem disturbance: impact of glyphosate herbicide on plant and animal diversity in terrestrial systems

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Druscilla S. Sullivan

  • A call for applying trophic structure in ecological restoration

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;William L. Harrower;Heath W. Garris;Scott Davidson

  • If we build habitat, will they come? Woody debris structures and conservation of forest mammals

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Druscilla S. Sullivan;Pontus M. F. Lindgren;Douglas B. Ransome

  • SMALL MAMMALS AND STAND STRUCTURE IN YOUNG PINE, SEED-TREE, AND OLD-GROWTH FOREST, SOUTHWEST CANADA

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Druscilla S. Sullivan;Pontus M. F. Lindgren

  • Use of predator odors as repellents to reduce feeding damage by herbivores : IV. Northern pocket gophers (Thomomys talpoides).

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Douglas R. Crump;Druscilla S. Sullivan

  • Influence of mustelid scent-gland compounds on suppression of feeding by snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus).

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Douglas R. Crump

  • Changes in diversity of plant and small mammal communities after herbicide application in sub-boreal spruce forest

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Thomas P. Sullivan;Robert G. Wagner;Douglas G. Pitt;R. A. Lautenschlager

  • Influence of alternative vegetation management treatments on conifer plantation attributes: abundance, species diversity, and structural diversity

    Pontus M.F Lindgren;Thomas P Sullivan

  • THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE FOODS TO REDUCE LODGEPOLE PINE SEED PREDATION BY SMALL MAMMALS

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Druscilla S. Sullivan

  • Influence of variable retention harvests on forest ecosystems. I. Diversity of stand structure

    Thomas P. Sullivan;Druscilla S. Sullivan;Pontus M.F. Lindgren

  • Partial and clearcut harvesting of dry Douglas-fir forests : Implications for small mammal communities

    Walt Klenner;Thomas P. Sullivan

Frequent Co-Authors

Druscilla S. Sullivan
Druscilla S. Sullivan Mammal Research Institute
Robert G. Wagner
Robert G. Wagner Purdue University West Lafayette
Charles J. Krebs
Charles J. Krebs University of British Columbia
Rudy Boonstra
Rudy Boonstra University of Toronto
Roy Turkington
Roy Turkington University of British Columbia
Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
Lauchlan H. Fraser
Lauchlan H. Fraser Thompson Rivers University
Anthony R. E. Sinclair
Anthony R. E. Sinclair University of British Columbia
Oswald J. Schmitz
Oswald J. Schmitz Yale University

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