Sarah K. Thomsen
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Education
Ph.D. (Biological Sciences), 2017
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada
Supervisor: Dr. David Green
Certificate Program in University Teaching and Learning, 2014
Centre for Teaching and Learning, Simon Fraser University
B.A. (Conservation Biology and Avian Ecology), 2002-2006
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Publications (peer-reviewed)
Thomsen, S.K. and D.J. Green. (2019). Predator-mediated effects of drought associated with poor reproductive success in a nocturnal seabird in a cross-ecosystem cascade. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14595
Thomsen, S.K., D.M. Mazurkiewicz, T.R. Stanley and D.J. Green. (2018). ENSO-driven rainfall pulse amplifies predation by owls on seabirds via apparent competition with mice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Thomsen, S.K. and D.J. Green. (2016). Cascading effects of predation risk determine how marine predators become terrestrial prey on an oceanic island. Ecology 97:3530-3537 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1614 [PDF]
Huang, A., J.E. Elliott, K.M. Cheng, K. Ritland, S.K. Thomsen, S. Hindmarch, and K. Martin. (2016). Barn owls (Tyto alba) in Western North America: Phylogeographic structure, connectivity, and genetic diversity. Conservation Genetics 17:357-367. DOI: 10.1007/s10592-015-0787-0
Thomsen, S.K, C.E Kroeger, P.H. Bloom and A.L. Harvey. (2014). Space use and home range size of Barn Owls on Santa Barbara Island. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist. 7:339–347. [PDF]