Anna Thonis

Stony Brook University | Stony Brook · Department of Ecology and Evolution

Driven by climate change, tropical cyclones (TCs) are predicted to change in intensity and frequency through time. Given these forecasted changes, developing an understanding of how TCs impact insular wildlife is of heightened importance. Previous work has shown that extreme weather events may shape species distributions more strongly than climatic...

Interspecific competition is widely considered a powerful process underlying species coexistence and ecological community structure. Although coexistence theory predicts stronger competition between more ecologically similar species, empirical support has largely relied on inferring competition from patterns of species co-occurrence. Coexistence th...

Eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina) are becoming increasingly threatened by the rate of urbanization and habitat fragmentation. The high population density and heavy urbanization of Long Island, New York, provide an ideal system to examine possible drivers of differences in eastern box turtle shell damage and health in an urban landscape, as w...

Tropical ectotherms are generally believed to be more vulnerable to global heating than temperate species. Currently, however, we have insufficient knowledge of the thermoregulatory physiology of equatorial tropical mammals, particularly of small diurnal mammals, to enable similar predictions. In this study, we measured the resting metabolic rates...