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[image:] Frank R. Thompson Frank R. Thompson

Title: Project Leader / Research Wildlife Biologist
Unit: Sustainable Management of Central Hardwood Ecosystems and Landscapes
Previous Unit: Ecology & Management of Central Hardwood Ecosystems
Address: Northern Research Station
202 ABNR Bldg., University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211-7260
Phone: 573-875-5341; ex 224
E-mail: Contact Frank R. Thompson

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Education

  • University of Missouri, Ph.D. Wildlife Biology, 1987
  • University of Vermont, M.S. Wildlife Biology, 1982.
  • Cook College, Rutgers University, B.S Wildlife Science, 1979.

Civic & Professional Affiliations

The Wildlife Society, The American Ornithologists Union, Cooper Ornithological Society

Current Research

I discover and develop information needed for conservation strategies for songbirds and other wildlife. My primary focus is to determine the effects of selected land use practices on forest songbirds, determine population demographics of selected neotropical migratory birds and identify factors regulating populations, and to determine factors affecting nest predation and brood parasitism. This information is used in landscape and habitat modeling to assist with conservation planning at landscape and ecoregional-scales. As Project Leader, I lead a multidisciplinary unit to develop the information needed for sustainable management of Central Hardwood ecosystems.

Why is This Important

Land managers and conservationists need tools based on state of the art science to accomplish conservation and management objectives.

Future Research

I am very interested in the development of tools and technologies to assist conservation planners and managers in planning wildlife conservation at large spatial scales. This involves the development of landscape change and wildlife habitat and viability models that can be used with existing data sources and GIS products over large areas such as national forests and ecological sections and provinces.

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Last Modified: 11/19/2008