Tulane University

Contact Info
argunderson3@gmail.com

Department Affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Degrees

• Ph.D., Duke University, 2013
• M.S., College of William and Mary , 2007
• B.S., Minnesota State University, 2004

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2018-
• Post-doctoral scholar, UC Berkeley, 2014, 2017
• Post-doctoral scholar, San Francisco State University, 2014-2017

Research & Teaching Specializations: Tropical Ecology, Climate Change and Species Vulnerability

Distinctions

• Katherine Goodman Stern Fellow, Duke University, 2012-2013

Overseas Experience

• Puerto Rico
• Jamaica

Selected Publications

• 2018. “Visual “playback” of colorful signals in the field supports sensory drive for signal detectability.” Current Zoology. 64: 93-98

• 2018. “Thermal niche evolution across replicated Anolis lizard adaptive radiations.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285: 20172241.

• 2016. “A conceptual framework for understanding thermal constraints on ectotherm activity with implications for predicting responses to global change.” Ecology Letters 19: 111-120.

• 2012. “Geographic variation in vulnerability to climate warming in a tropical Caribbean lizard.” Functional Ecology 26: 783-793.

• 2011. “Tests of the contribution of acclimation to geographic variation in water loss rates of the West Indian lizard Anolis cristatellus.” Journal of Comparative Physiology B 181: 965-972.

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Curriculum Vitae
The Gunderson Lab – Tulane