WANT A PROFILE LIKE THIS?
Create my FREE Plan Or learn about other options
Thomas Etherington
PeerJ Author
610 Points

Contributions by role

Author 540
Preprint Author 70
Preprint Feedback 15
Links 1
Answers 2

Contributions by subject area

Biogeography
Ecology
Statistics
Computational Science
Spatial and Geographic Information Science
Environmental Sciences
Data Science
Ecosystem Science
Plant Science
Climate Change Biology
Science and Medical Education
Computer Education
Software Engineering
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Spatial and Geographic Information Systems
Human-Computer Interaction
Conservation Biology

By Q&A topic

Conservation-biology
Ecology
Environmental-sciences
Science-and-medical-education
Statistics

Thomas R Etherington

PeerJ Author

Summary

My research is interdisciplinary, using geoinformatics to examine environmental questions and problems through the combination of theories and methods from geography and ecology. Primary applications have included modelling species’ distributions and connectivity across landscapes for applications in conservation ecology, epidemiology, and invasion ecology. While my research is generally driven by environmental questions and problems, where necessary my research also includes the development of new methods, data sets, and algorithms. Therefore, I also have technical interests in computer programming and the use and development of open-source and cross-platform scientific software, and I develop and publish my own software when I require it to support my research.

Biogeography Computational Science Data Science Ecology Scientific Computing & Simulation Soil Science Spatial & Geographic Information Science Spatial & Geographic Information Systems

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Oxford

Work details

Spatial Modeller, Ecology

Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research

Identities

@tretherington

Websites

  • Google Scholar
  • GitHub

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 4
  • Preprints 2
  • Feedback 1
  • Questions 2
May 11, 2021
Mahalanobis distances for ecological niche modelling and outlier detection: implications of sample size, error, and bias for selecting and parameterising a multivariate location and scatter method
Thomas R. Etherington
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11436 PubMed 34026369
May 3, 2021
Ecosystem services show variable responses to future climate conditions in the Colombian páramos
Mauricio Diazgranados, Carolina Tovar, Thomas R. Etherington, Paula A. Rodríguez-Zorro, Carolina Castellanos-Castro, Manuel Galvis Rueda, Suzette G.A. Flantua
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11370 PubMed 33987031
July 13, 2020
Discrete natural neighbour interpolation with uncertainty using cross-validation error-distance fields
Thomas R. Etherington
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.282
April 2, 2019
Mahalanobis distances and ecological niche modelling: correcting a chi-squared probability error
Thomas R. Etherington
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6678 PubMed 30972255
May 28, 2019 - Version: 1
A research institution framework for publishing open code to enable reproducible science
Thomas R Etherington, Ben Jolly, Jan Zörner, Nick Spencer
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27762v1
September 11, 2018 - Version: 1
Seven simple suggestions to be a better teacher sooner: experiences of a nearly new lecturer
Thomas R Etherington
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27185v1

Provided feedback on

1 vote
29 Feb 2016

Open computational landscape genetics

I agree that landscape genetics could benefit from greater input from geoscientists, and that this would be best achieved through the provision of open software. However, I woul...

2 Questions

0
Combing climate and geography in a single PCA
about Phytoregionalisation of the Andean páramo
0
Could community developed courses help promote quantitative ecology?
about Lack of quantitative training among early-career ecologists: a survey of the problem and potential solutions