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John Thomlinson
Title:
Associate Professor
Department: Biology
Phone: 310-243-3381
Email: jthomlinson@csudh.edu
Office Location: NSM A-141
Laboratory Location: NSM B-134
Research Interests:
Landscape ecology, bird communities, human-modified ecosystems.
I am mainly interested in the interactions of humans and their
environment. I currently have research projects on bird use of rubber
plantations in southern China and aspects of faunal communities in
restoration projects in Southern California. I am writing up a number of
recent projects in Puerto Rico, including habitat characteristics and
conservation of a tropical land crab, structure of tree and millipede
communities in regenerated forest patches, use of urban forest patches
by birds, exotic tree species in a hurricane-dominated tropical forest,
and some theoretical aspects of community structure in a montane
tropical forest.
Highest degree obtained: Ph.D.
Discipline: Biology
Institution/Year: University of North Texas/1993
Thesis Title/Director: Landscape
Ecological Characteristics of Habitat of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
Master's Degree:
Discipline: Natural Sciences
Institution/Year: University of Cambridge/1980
Bachelor's Degree:
Discipline: Natural Sciences
Institution/Year: University of Cambridge/1976
Thesis Title/Director:
Positions since highest degree earned:
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras: Scientist, Assistant Professor,
Associate Professor
Grants:
City of Compton, $10,000. Habitat
Restoration of Compton Creek.
Awards & Recognitions:
CSUDH Sally Casanova
Memorial RSCAAP Summer
Fellowship, 2006
New Century of Service Award,
United States Forest Service,
2002
Special recognition award, San
Juan Bay Estuary Program, 2000
Puerto Rico EPSCoR Scholarly
Productivity Award, 1996
Publications:
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Tossas, A. G. and J. R.
Thomlinson. 2007. Landscape
characteristics of Puerto Rican
Vireo (Vireo latimeri) nesting
habitat, with source-sink
implications. Ornitologia
Neotropical 18:233-242.
Lugo, A. E., L. Miranda Castro,
A. Vale, T. del M. López, E.
Hernández Prieto, A. García
Martinó, A. R. Puente Rolón, A.
G. Tossas, D. A. McFarlane, T.
Miller, A. Rodriguez, J.
Lundberg, J. R. Thomlinson, J.
Colón, J. H. Schellekens, O.
Ramos, and E. Helmer. 2004. El
karso de Puerto Rico – un
recurso vital. Servicio Forestal
de los Estados Unidos.
Traducción – Informe Técnico
General WO-65, Washington, DC,
USA.
Grau, H. R., T. M. Aide, J. K.
Zimmerman, J. R. Thomlinson.
2004. Trends and scenarios of
the carbon budget in
post-agricultural Puerto Rico
(1936-2060). Global Change
Biology 10:1163-1179.
Grau, H. R., T. M. Aide, J. K.
Zimmerman, J. R. Thomlinson, E.
Helmer, and X. Zou. 2003. The
ecological consequences of
socioeconomic and land-use
changes in postagriculture
Puerto Rico. Bioscience
53:1159-1168.
Lugo, A. E., L. Miranda Castro,
A. Vale, T. del M. López, E.
Hernández Prieto, A. García
Martinó, A. R. Puente Rolón, A.
G. Tossas, D. A. McFarlane, T.
Miller, A. Rodriguez, J.
Lundberg, J. R. Thomlinson, J.
Colón, J. H. Schellekens, O.
Ramos, and E. Helmer. 2001.
Puerto Rican karst – a vital
resource. U. S. Forest Service
General Technical Report WO-65,
Washington, DC, USA.
Clark, D. A., S. Brown, D.
Kicklighter, J. Q. Chambers, J.
R. Thomlinson, J. Ni, and E. A.
Holland. 2001. Net primary
production in tropical forests:
an evaluation and synthesis of
existing field data. Ecological
Applications 11: 371-384.
Clark, D. A., S. Brown, D.
Kicklighter, J. Q. Chambers, J.
R. Thomlinson, and J. Ni. 2001.
Measuring net primary production
in forests: concepts and field
methods. Ecological Applications
11:356-370.
Clark, D. A., S. Brown, D. W.
Kicklighter, J. Q. Chambers, J.
R. Thomlinson, J. Ni, and E. A.
Holland. 2001. Net primary
production in tropical forests:
an evaluation and synthesis of
existing field data. Ecological
Archives A011-006.
López, T. del M., T. M. Aide,
and J. R. Thomlinson. 2001.
Urban expansion and the loss of
prime agricultural lands in
Puerto Rico. Ambio 30:49-54.
Thomlinson, J. R., and L. Y.
Rivera. 2000. Suburban growth in
Luquillo, Puerto Rico: some
consequences of development on
natural and semi-natural
systems. Landscape and Urban
Planning 49:15-23.
Thomlinson, J. R., P. V. Bolstad,
and W. B. Cohen. 1999.
Coordinating Methodologies for
scaling land-cover
classifications from
site-specific to global: steps
toward validating global map
products. Remote Sensing of
Environment 70:16-28.
Myster, R. W., J. R. Thomlinson,
and M. C. Larsen. 1997.
Predicting landslide vegetation
in patches on landscape
gradients in Puerto Rico.
Landscape Ecology 12:299-307.
Thomlinson, J. R., M. I.
Serrano, T. Del M. López, T. M.
Aide, and J. K. Zimmerman. 1996.
Land-use dynamics in a
post-agricultural Puerto Rican
landscape (1936-1988).
Biotropica 28:525-536.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1996.
Predicting status change in
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
cavity-tree clusters. J.
Wildlife Management 60:350-354.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1995.
Landscape characteristics
associated with active and
abandoned Red-cockaded
Woodpecker clusters in east
Texas. Wilson Bulletin
107:603-614.
NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Thomlinson, J. R. 2003. El
Yunque y el agua: El Yunque and
water. Bilingual outreach
poster. U.S. Forest Service and
UPR.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN
PROCEEDINGS
VOLUMES
Schaefer, D. A., T. M. Aide, J.
D. Chinea, N. Fetcher, M.
Keller, S. Molina, J. A.
Molinelli, J. R. Thomlinson, G.
A. Toranzos, R. B. Waide, B. R.
Weiner, J. K. Zimmerman, and X.
Zou. 1997. Land management in
the tropics and its effects on
the global environment: the NASA
Institutional Award. Pages
665-670 in NASA University
Research Centers: Technical
Advances in Education,
Aeronautics, Space, Autonomy,
Earth, and Environment, Volume
1. Albuquerque, New Mexico,
February 16-19.
Thomlinson, J. R., F. N. Scatena,
D. A. Schaefer, and R. B. Waide.
1996. Regionalization of the
Luquillo Experimental Forest
LTER Site. LTER Coordinating
Committee Meeting, Petersham,
MA, Oct 4-5. http://atlantic.evsc.virginia.edu/regionalization/luq.html
Thomlinson, J. R. 1995.
Endangered species habitat
identification from space: an
example from the southern United
States coastal plain. Proc.
Conference for Remote Sensing
and Environmental Monitoring for
the Sustained Development of the
Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
March 21-22.
Atkinson, S. F. and J. R.
Thomlinson. 1994. An examination
of ground water pollution
potential through GIS modeling.
Pages 71-80 in ASPRS/ASCM Annual
Convention and Exposition.
Volume 1: ASPRS Technical
Papers.
Thomlinson, J. R., 1992. A
renaissance in attitudes towards
nature: the development of
contemporary environmental
ethics. Proc. Conference on the
Renaissance, Lawton, OK, April
23-25.
Atkinson, S. F. and J. R.
Thomlinson. 1991. The use of
geological data in unsupervised
habitat classification with
satellite imagery. Pages
1297-1308 in Proc. Eighth
Thematic Conference on Geologic
Remote Sensing, Volume II.
Presentations:
Thomlinson, J. R. 2006. Changes
in the landscape of Puerto Rico
following agricultural
abandonment: what lessons can we
learn about the future of the
Neotropics? Pacific Coast
Council on Latin American
Studies, Carson, CA, November
4-5, 2006.
Thomlinson, J. R. and J.A.
Barone. 2005. Analyzing Tropical
Forest Communities using
Remotely Sensed Data.
Association for Tropical Biology
and Conservation, Uberlandia,
Brazil, July 25-29, 2005.
Thomlinson, J.R. 2005. Patterns
of land-use change in Puerto
Rico: What lessons can we learn
about the future of the tropics?
Symposium on tropical land-use
change, Xishuangbanna Tropical
Botanic Garden, Yunnan, China,
July 19-22, 2005.
Thomlinson, J.R. 2005.
Development Threats to the
Northeastern Ecological Corridor
of Puerto Rico: How GIS can be
used to inform public policy.
Simposio organizado por el
Smithsonian Conservation
Research Center: Uso de Sistemas
de Información Geográficos en
Ecología Aplicada y Conservación,
May 28, 2005.
Thomlinson, J. R., J. Thompson,
and N. Brokaw. 2002. Exploration
of relative tree species density
in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics
Plot, Puerto Rico. Association
for Tropical Biology, Panama
City, Panama, July 29-Aug 2,
2002.
Thomlinson, J. R. 2000. Patrones
de desarrollo en el noreste de
Puerto Rico. Invited speaker,
17o Simposio de Ecología Isleña,
Universidad Interamericana, San
Juan, Puerto Rico, October 27.
Thomlinson, J. R. 2000. Issues
of scale in land-cover
classification. Invited
participant in CIAT workshop:
Scale in Decision Making for
Ecoregional Development, San
Jose, Costa Rica, July 4-6.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1999. A visual
assessment of the response of
different forest types to the
passage of Hurricane Georges
across eastern Puerto Rico.
Ecological Society of America
Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA, Aug
8 - 12.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1999. The Use
of GIS and Animation to Deliver
the Message of Land-use Change
to Community Groups. 5th.
International Congress of the
International Association for
Landscape Ecology, Snowmass, CO,
July 29 - Aug 3.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1997.
Crecimiento de bosques o
concreto: Luquillo, 1936 - 1993.
IV Simposio de Recursos
Naturales Publicos: Puerto Rico
en Transición de Agricola a
Urbano. Ponce, Puerto Rico,
November 15.
Alvarez, N. and J. R. Thomlinson.
1997. Fractal dimension as a
tool to analyze changes in land
use. Ecological Society of
America 82nd Annual Meeting,
Albuquerque, NM, August 9-14.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1997. The use
of remotely sensed data for
environmental analysis. Invited
speaker, 3rd Regional AIDIS
Congress for North America and
the Caribbean, San Juan, June
9-11.
Thomlinson, J. R., L. Rivera,
and D. A. Schaefer. 1997.
Estimating ecosystem attributes
at the landscape scale in the
humid Neotropics: The LTER-NASA
EOS validation project. 3rd
Annual NASA EPSCoR Conference,
Fajardo, PR, May 23-24.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1997. Fractal
dimension, diversity index, and
Eigenvalue as measures of TM
image variability. XVI Annual
Symposium on Caribbean Geology:
Remote sensing in the earth
sciences. Mayaguez, PR, Feb
24-Mar 1.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1996. Factors
influencing land-cover change
trajectory in a
post-agricultural neotropical
landscape. Ecological Society of
America 81st Annual Meeting,
Providence, RI, August 10-14.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1996. Analysis
of land-use change in
northeastern Puerto Rico. First
Annual Puerto Rico Arc/Info
Users' Group Seminar, San Juan,
PR, March 8.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1995.
Structural and compositional
equilibrium in the Luquillo
Experimental Forest, Puerto
Rico. Ecological Society of
America 80th Anniversary
Meeting, Snowbird, UT, July
30-August 3.
Schaefer, D. A. and Thomlinson,
J. R. 1995. Using geographic
information systems and local
measurements to extrapolate
atmosphere-terrestrial flux
measurements to regional scales.
1st Puerto Rico NASA-EPSCoR
Mini-Gordon Conference, Ponce,
PR, February 24-25.
Atkinson, S. F., Thomlinson, J.
R., and Sill, P. E. 1993. Gully
erosion versus sheet-and-rill:
are management efforts
addressing the larger problem?
29th Annual American Water
Resources Association
Conference, Tucson, AZ, August
29-September 2.
Thomlinson, J. R. and S. F.
Atkinson. 1993. Patch
characteristics of Red-cockaded
Woodpecker colonies: A
geographic information systems
approach. Proc. Texas Academy of
Science Annual Meeting, Denton,
Texas, March 5-6.
Thomlinson, J. R. 1992.
Geographic information systems
and landscape ecology: a
powerful tool for analyzing the
fragmented forest. Third Annual
Texas ARC/INFO Users Conference,
San Antonio, Texas, October
20-21.
Thomlinson, J. R. and S. F.
Atkinson. 1992. DRASTIC mapping
of the State of Texas: A
geographic information systems
approach. Proc. American Water
Resources Association Symposium:
"Availability of Ground-Water
Resources", Raleigh, NC, April
12-16.
Thomlinson, J. R. and Atkinson,
S. F. 1991. Raster-based GIS and
large data bases: the art of the
state, Second Annual Texas
ARC/INFO Users Conference,
Denton, TX, Nov. 6-8.
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