University of Liverpool, England. 1987

    Ph.D.  Biology
   

  University of Stirling, Scotland. 1980

    B.Sc. Biology

   

 

 

Tropical forest ecology, including plant population and community dynamics.
 

 

Current project:

To investigate the effect of human land use history and hurricane impacts on tree population dynamics and community structure of tropical forest. 

This Project is based in the Luquillo Experimental Forest Puerto Rico and uses the 16 ha LFDP.  

 

 
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Uriarte, M., Canham, C.D., Thompson, J. and Zimmerman, J.K.  (2004).  A maximum-likelihood, neighborhood analysis of tree growth and survival in a tropical forest. Ecological Monographs (in press).

 

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Rice, K., Brokaw, N. and Thompson, J.  (2004). Liana abundance in a Puerto Rican forest.  Forest Ecology and Management 190, 33-41.

 

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Brokaw, N., Fraver, S., Rear, J.S., Thompson, J., Zimmerman, J.K., Waide, R. B., Everham, E.M., Hubbell, S.P., Condit, R. and Foster, R.B.  (2004).  Disturbance and Canopy structure in two tropical forests.  (eds. E. Losos and E.G. Leigh).  Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism: Results from a Network of Large Plots.  Smithsonian Institution (in press).

 

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Thompson, J., Brokaw, N., Zimmerman, J.K., Waide, R.B., Everham, E.M. and Schaefer, D.A. (2004).  The Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot.  (eds. E. Losos and E.G. Leigh).  Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism: Results from a Network of Large Plots.  Smithsonian Institution (in press).

 

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Thompson, J., Brokaw, N., Zimmerman, J.K., Waide, R.B., Everham, III, E.M., Lodge, D.J., Taylor, C.M,. García-Montiel, D. and Fluet, M.  (2002).  Land use history, environment, and tree composition in a tropical forest.  Ecological Applications 12, 1344-1363.

 

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  My main teaching activities are:

 

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Training students in tropical forest inventory techniques during the LFDP censuses and

 

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Advising students conducting ecological research in the Luquillo Experimental Forest.

 

 

 

Office: 
El Verde Field Station

UPR extensión number:
787-764-0000 x 6740

Other telephone numbers:


Fax number:
787-887-5974

Additional contact information:

jithompson@uprrp.edu