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Tom Lindstrom

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Phone: 02 9351 8791
Location: Office 444, Heydon-Laurence Building A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006

Research

My research interests mainly concerns spatial and temporal considerations of population processes within the fields of ecology and epidemiology, how this can be modeled and how to fit models to data. For the latter, I mainly use Bayesian statistics implemented with Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques.

At the Shine lab, my main focus is Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of cane toad movement, currently focusing on individual differences in movement behavior, with the aim of understanding how the toads may have changed their movement behavior. I am also developing methods for assessing synchrony in animal movement.

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Publications

# Publication
1. Westerberg L, Lindström T, Nilsson E, Wennergren U. 2008. The effect on dispersal from complex correlations in small-scale movement. Ecological Modelling 213:263-272.
2. Lindström T, Håkansson N, Westerberg L, Wennergren U. 2008. Splitting the tail of the displacement kernel shows the unimportance of kurtosis. Ecology 89:1784-1790.
3. Lindström T, Sisson SA, Nöremark M, Jonsson A, Wennergren, U. 2009. Estimation of distance related probability of animal movements between holdings and implications for disease spread modeling. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 91:85-94.
4. Nöremark M, Håkansson N, Lindström T, Wennergren U, Sternberg Lewerin S. 2009. Spatial and temporal investigations of reported movements, births and deaths of cattle and pigs in Sweden. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 51:37.
5. Håkansson N, Jonsson A, Lennartsson J, Lindström T, Wennergren U. 2010. Generating structure specific networks. Advances in Complex Systems 13:239-250.
6. Lindström T, Sisson SA, Stenberg Lewerin S, Wennergren U. 2010. Estimating animal movement contacts between holdings of different production types. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 95:23-31.
7. Lindström T, Håkansson N, Wennergren U. 2010. The tail of the spatial kernel and its implications for biological invasions in patchy environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:1564-1571.
8. Lindström, T, Sisson SA, Stenberg Lewerin S, Wennergren, U. 2011. Bayesian analysis of animal movements related to factors at herd and between herd levels: Implications for disease spread modeling. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 98:230-242.
9. Lindström T, Sternberg Lewerin S, Wennergren U. 2011. Influence on disease spread dynamics of herd characteristics in a structured livestock industry. Journal of the Royal Society Interface: in press