Thomas Diggins

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Dr. Thomas Diggins

Professor

Chemical & Biological Sciences

Ward Beecher Hall 4042

phone: (330) 941-3605

tpdiggins@ysu.edu

  • 1997

    Ph D, Biological Sciences

    State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

  • 1991

    MS, Natural Sciences/Environmental Studies

    SUNY at Buffalo

  • 1986

    BA, Political Science

    Kent State University

  • 2023

    Youngstown State University

    Research Professorship

  • 2022

    Youngstown State University

    Research Professorship

  • 2022

    Youngstown State University

    Distinguished Professor Award in Scholarship

  • 2018

    Youngstown State University

    Research Professorship

  • 2015

    Youngstown State University

    Faculty Improvement Leave

  • 2006

    Youngstown State University

    Research Professorship

  • 2005

    Youngstown State University

    Research Professorship

  • 2003

    Youngstown State University

    Research Professorship

  • 1997

    International Association for Great Lakes Research

    IAGLR-Hydrolab Award

  • 1996

    SUNY at Buffalo

    Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award

  • 1996

    Great Lakes Research Consortium

    Don Rennie Memorial Award

  • 2002 - 2029

    Biology, Youngstown State University, OH

    Assistant/Associate/Full Professor

  • 2001 - 2002

    Biological Sciences, Hamilton College, Clinton NY

    Visiting Assistant Professor

  • 2000 - 2001

    Biomaterials Department, SUNY at Buffalo

    Research Assistant Professor

  • 1998 - 2000

    Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces, SUNY at Buffalo

    Research Scientist

  • 1997 - 1998

    Biological Sciences, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport NY

    Adjunct Professor

  • 2024

    "Steep slopes and cliff edges are browsing refugia for woody species within temperate deciduous forest."

    H. Assour, T. Diggins, e. al.

    Natural Areas Journal

  • 2024

    "Large boulders provide refuge to browse-sensitive species and reveal a legacy of overbrowsing and shifting baselines in temperate old-growth forest."

    G. Revenis, T. Diggins, e. al.

    Journal of Vegetation Science

  • 2023

    "Understory plant communities fail to recover after excluding deer for nearly 20 years."

    A. Knauer, T. Diggins, e. al.

    Canadian Journal of Forest Research, volume 53, p. 379-390

  • 2023

    "Native tree species prosper while exotics falter during gap-phase regeneration, but only where deer densities are near historical lows"

    A. Yacucci, T. Diggins, e. al.

    New Forests, volume 55, p. 1083-1100

  • 2021

    "Punctuated decadal morphodynamics and coupled vegetation succession along a nontidal, wave-dominated Great Lakes barrier spit, Gull Point, Lake Erie, USA"

    R. Mattheus, T. Diggins, J. Santoro

    Journal of Great Lakes Research, volume 47, p. 1538-1553

  • 2014

    "Topographic patterns in forest composition and diversity on slopes of Zoar Valley Canyon, western New York State."

    T. Diggins, R. Catterlin

    Northeastern Naturalist, volume 21, p. 337-350

  • 2013

    "A 300-year successional sequence in an eastern United States riparian hardwood forest."

    T. Diggins

    Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, volume 140, p. 65-88

  • 2007

    "Volume, composition, and orientation of down deadwood in old-growth riparian woodlands in Zoar Valley, New York, USA."

    E. Pfeil, T. Diggins, e. al.

    Forest Ecology and Management, volume 239, p. 159-168

  • 2005

    "Canopy and understory composition of old-growth riparian forest in Zoar Valley, New York, USA."

    T. Diggins, B. Kershner

    Natural Areas Journal, volume 25, p. 219-227