John Thomlinson, Ph.D

Title: Profeesor and department Chair, Biology

Department: Biology

Office: NSM A-141
Phone Extension: x3381
Email Username: jthomlinson

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Galanes, I. and J. R. Thomlinson. 2011. Soil millipede diversity in tropical forest patches and its relation to landscape structure in northeastern Puerto Rico. Biodiversity and Conservation 20.13: 2967-2980.
Galanes, I. and J. R. Thomlinson. 2009. Relationships between spatial configuration of tropical forest patches and woody plant diversity in Puerto Rico. Pp 101-113 in van der Valk, A. G. ed. Forest Ecology: Recent Advances in Plant Ecology. Springer, New York, NY.
Suarez-Rubio, M., and J. R. Thomlinson. 2009. Landscape and patch-level factors influence bird communities in an urbanized tropical island. Biological Conservation 142:1311-1321.
Galanes, I. and J. R. Thomlinson. 2009. Relationships between spatial configuration of tropical forest patches and woody plant diversity in northeastern Puerto Rico. Plant Ecology 201:101-113.
Barone, J. A., J. Thomlinson, P. Anglada Cordero, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2008. Metacommunity structure of tropical forest along an elevation gradient in Puerto Rico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24:525-534.
Thompson, J., A.E. Lugo, and J. Thomlinson. 2007. Land use history, hurricane disturbance, and the fate of introduced species in a subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico. Plant Ecology 192:289-301.
Tossas, A. G. and J. R. Thomlinson. 2007. Landscape characteristics of Puerto Rican Vireo (Vireo latimeri) nesting habitat, with source-sink implications. Ornitología 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 Ric 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

Other Publications

Thomlinson, J. R. 2003. El Yunque y el agua: El Yunque and water. Bilingual outreach poster. U.S. Forest Service and UPR.

Selected 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.

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