Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer
ABOUT
Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer (he/him and she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, working in Dr. Bethany Bradley's Spatial Ecology Lab. Originally from Tucker, Georgia, Thomas received his BA in Biology & History from Marlboro College.Thomas' research interests include biogeography, invasive plants, and climate driven range-shifts of native plants in the Northeastern US. She is a fellow with the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, a Spaulding-Smith Fellow, a steward and member of GEO-UAW 2322, and a member of the Northeast Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change network leadership team. He is also a poet and visual artist whose work draws largely from ecology and the natural world.
RESEARCH
Nuhfer, T. W. M., & Bradley, B. A. (2025). Balancing Risk and Resilience: Which Plant Traits Should Inform Managed Relocation Species Selection? Global Change Biology, 31(3), e70145. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.7014Ongoing projects:
- Macroscale comparisons of local abundance for native, introduced, and invasive plants in the US
- Understanding the role of species nomenclature in plant risk assessment via practitioner surveying
- Documenting 'nativar' traits using plant patents
- Developing a list of invasive plant species in the Northeast region
POETRY
- NATURAL CAUSES - CHAPBOOK AT BOTTLECAP PRESS
- BREAKFAST POEM
- THE FISH AND THE RING
- TREY
- SUBSONG
- NANDINA & NICHE PARTITIONING
- AFTER THE SURVEY
- DEEP SCATTERING LAYER & ANADROMY
OUTREACH
VISUAL ART
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