Publications

Kays, R. (and 114 others including S.T. Giery). Climate, food, and humans predict mammal communities in the United States. in review.

Giery, S.T., Z. Chejanovski, B.A. Assis, T. Langkilde, and J.J. Kolbe. Evidence for urban food limitation in a widespread invasive lizard. in revision.

Michaelides, S.N, J.T. Stroud, S.T. Giery, B.E. Smith, R.E. Glor, and J.J. Kolbe. Invasion histories differ markedly among the four Anolis lizard species introduced to Bermuda. in revision.

Rooney, B. (and 150+ others including S.T. Giery). Snapshot USA 2022: Year 4 of the coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. in revision.

Stroud, J.T., S.T. Giery, R. Heathcote, O. Ljustina, S. Tiatragula, V. Vargas, E. Vezzani†, and K.J. Feeley. Natural selection drives ecological character displacement in the wild. in revision.

Hila, S. (and 148 others including S.T. Giery). 2024. SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States – initial trends. Ecology. e4318. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4318. [PDF]

Giery, S.T., R.K. Sloan, J. Watson, A. Grosbeak, and J.D. Davenport. 2024. Ecosystem effects of intraspecific variation in a color polymorphic amphibian. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B. 291:20240016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0016. [PDF]

Lapiedra, O, N. Morales, L. Yang, D. Fernández-Bellon, S.T. Giery, J. Piovia-Scott, T.W. Schoener, J.J. Kolbe, and J.B. Losos. 2024. Predator-driven behavioral shifts in a common lizard modify resource flow dynamics from marine to terrestrial ecosystems. Ecology Letters 27(1): e14335. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14335. [PDF]

Kolbe, J.J., S.T. Giery, O. Lapiedra, K. Lyberger, J.N. Pita-Aquino, M. Leal, D. A. Spiller, J.B. Losos, T.W. Schoener, and J Piovia-Scott. 2023. Experimentally simulating the evolution-to-ecology connection: divergent predator morphologies alter natural food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.120 (24) e2221691120. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221691120. [reprint upon request].

Zimova, M., B.C. Weeks, D.E. Willard, S.T. Giery, V. Jirinec, R.C. Burner, and B.M. Winger. 2023. Body size predicts the rate of contemporary morphological change in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 120(20): e2206971120. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206971120. [reprint upon request].

Urban, M.C., Nadeau C., and S.T. Giery. 2023. Using mechanistic insights to predict the climate-induced expansion of a key aquatic predator. Ecological Monographs. e1575. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1575. [PDF]

Reynolds, R.G., and S.T. Giery. 2023. Amphibians of the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands. in H. Heatwole & N. Rios-Lopez, eds. The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean. Pelagic Press, Exeter, UK. [reprint upon request].

Chejanovski, Z.A., S.T. Giery, and J.J. Kolbe. 2022. Effects of urbanization on the trophic niche of the brown anole, a widespread invasive lizard. Food Webs 33:e00257.[PDF] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2022.e00257

Ingram, T., S.T. Giery, and J.B. Losos. 2022. Hierarchical partitioning of multiple niche dimensions among ecomorphs, species and sexes in Puerto Rican anoles. Journal of Zoology. [PDF] https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.13004

Kays, R. (and 148 others including S.T. Giery). 2022. SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ecology. [PDF] https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3775

Evans, A., M. Zimova, S.T. Giery, H. Golden, A. Pastore, C. Nadeau, and M.C. Urban. 2022. An eco-evolutionary perspective on community restoration. Oikos 11(11):e08978. [PDF] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.08978

Layman, C.A., O. Patterson Maura, S.T. Giery, J.E. Allgeier, and A.L. Rypel. 2022. Direct monetary inputs of scientists to the economy of Abaco Island, The Bahamas. Caribbean Journal of Science 52 (1):16-23. [PDF]

Giery, S.T., Drake D.L., and M.C. Urban. 2021. Microgeographic evolution of metabolic physiology in a salamander metapopulation. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3488. [PDF]

Giery, S.T., M. Zimova, D.L. Drake, and M.C. Urban. 2021. Balancing selection and drift in a polymorphic salamander metapopulation. Biology Letters 17(4): 20200901. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0901. Link to the original study Ruth 1992 [PDF].

Devos, T.B., and S.T. Giery. 2021. Establishment of the invasive Brahminy Blind Snake (Indotyphlops braminus) on Abaco Island, The Bahamas, with notes on potential niche overlap with a native blind snake. Reptiles & Amphibians, Conservation and Natural History. 28(3):555-557. [PDF]

Cove, M. (and 152 others including S.T. Giery). 2021. SNAPSHOT USA 2019: the first coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology [PDF] DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3353.

Zimova, M., S.T. Giery, S. Newey, J. Nowak, M. Spencer, and L.S. Mills. 2020. Lack of phenological shift leads to increased camouflage mismatch in mountain hares. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B. 287: 20201786. [PDF] DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1786.

Urban, M.C., F. Pelletier, S.M. Carlson, S.Y. Strauss, E.P. Palkovacs, L. De Meester, A.L. Angert, M.A. Leibold, A.P. Hendry, S.T. Giery. 2020. Evolutionary Origins for Ecological Patterns in Space. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA [PDF] DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1918960117.

Layman, C.A., J.E. Allgeier, and S.T. Giery. 2020. Moving beyond semantics: Advancing restoration with food web approaches. Food Webs 25:e00175. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.foodweb.2020.e00175.

Giery, S.T. and C.A. Layman. 2019. Ecological consequences of sexually selected traits: An eco-evolutionary perspective. The Quarterly Review of Biology 94(1):29-74.[PDF] DOI: 10.1086/702341

Stroud, J.S., S.T. Giery, M. Outerbridge, and K.J. Feeley. 2019. Ecological character displacement alters the outcome of priority effects during community assembly. Ecology 100(8):e02727. [PDF] DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2727.

Maurer, A.S., C. Thawley, A.F. Fireman, S.T. Giery, and J.T. Stroud. 2019. Nocturnal activity of Antiguan lizards under artificial light. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 14(1):105-110. [PDF]

Giery, S.T., Pita-Aquino, J.N., Kolbe, J. and J. Piovia-Scott. Mourning Geckos (Lepidodactylus lugubris) established on Abaco Island, The Bahamas. Reptiles & Amphibians, Conservation and Natural History 26(2):161-162. [PDF]

Giery, S.T., and J.T. Stroud. 2019. Geographic variation in trophic ecology of the Brown anole (Anolis sagrei): species-rich communities are composed of more diverse populations. Anolis Newsletter VII. p. 76-100. Eds. Stroud, J.T., Geneva, A.J., Losos, J.B., Washington University, St. Louis MO. [PDF]

Giery, S.T. 2018. Evolutionary community ecology: from coexistence to coevolution. Ecology 99(5):1247-1249. *Review of McPeek, M.A. 2017. Evolutionary community ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
[PDF] DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2150

Rossi, R.E., S.T. Giery, E.W. Bonnema*, A.L. Todd*, and C.A. Layman. 2017. Characterizing trophic ecology of the checkered puffer (Sphoeroides testudineus). Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 45(5):1075-1078.
[PDF] DOI: 10.3856/vol45-issue5-fulltext-24
*Undergraduates

Giery, S.T, D. Richard*, and J.T. Stroud. 2017. Introduction of eastern narrow-mouthed frog to Abaco Island, The Bahamas and notes on their current distribution in the Greater Caribbean. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians, Conservation and Natural History 24(2):139-141. [PDF]
*Bahamian high school student

Giery, S.T., E. Vezzanni*, S. Zona, and J.T. Stroud. 2017. Frugivory and seed dispersal by the invasive knight anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida, USA. Food Webs 11:13-16.
[PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2017.05.003
*Undergraduate

Giery, S.T., and C.A. Layman. 2017. Dissolved organic carbon and unimodal variation in sexual signal coloration in mosquitofish: a role for light limitation? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20170163.
[PDF] DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0163

Stroud, J.T., S.T. Giery, and M. Outerbridge. 2017. Brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) on Bermuda: a novel ecological threat to the endangered Bermudian skink. Invasion Biology 19(6): 1723-1731.
[PDF] DOI: 10.1007/s10530-017-1389-1

Stroud, J.T., M. Outerbridge, and S.T. Giery. 2016. First specimen of an American Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) on the oceanic island of Bermuda, with a review of the species’ current global distribution. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians, Conservation and Natural History 23(3):188-190. [PDF]

Reynolds, R.G., S.T. Giery, W.A.M. Jesse, and Q.N. Quack. 2016. A preliminary analysis of road mortality in the Northern Bahamas Boa, Chilabothrus exsul. Caribbean Naturalist 34:1-10. [PDF]

Stroud, J.T. and S.T. Giery. 2016. Nesting behavior of introduced brown basilisks (Basiliscus vittatus) in South Florida. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians, Conservation and Natural History 23(2):104–107. [PDF]

Giery, S.T., C.A. Layman, and R.B. Langerhans. 2015. Anthropogenic ecosystem fragmentation drives shared and unique patterns of sexual signal divergence among three species of Bahamian mosquitofish. Evolutionary Applications 8:679-691.
[PDF] DOI: 10.1111/eva.12275

Giery, S.T., and C.A. Layman. 2015. Interpopulation variation in a condition-dependent signal: predation regime affects signal intensity and reliability. The American Naturalist 186:187-195. [PDF] DOI: 10.1086/682068

Chacin, D.H.*, S.T. Giery, L. Yeager, C.A. Layman and R.B. Langerhans. 2015. Does hydrological fragmentation affect coastal bird communities? A study from Abaco Island, The Bahamas. Wetland Ecology and Management 23:551–557. [PDF] DOI: 10.1007/s11273-014-9389-8
*Undergraduate author.

Araújo, M.S., R.B. Langerhans, S.T. Giery and C.A. Layman. 2014. Ecosystem fragmentation drives increased diet variation in an endemic live-bearing fish of The Bahamas. Ecology and Evolution 4:3298-3308. [PDF] DOI: 10.1002%2Fece3.1140

Gallagher, A.J., D.S. Shiffman, N. Hammerschlag and S.T. Giery. 2014. Evolved for extinction: the cost and conservation implications of specialization in hammerhead sharks. BioScience 64(7):619-624. [PDF] DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu071
Press: Conservation Magazine, Oceana

Lemoine, N.P., S.T. Giery and D.E. Burkepile. 2014. Differing nutritional constraints of consumers across ecosystems. Oecologia 174:1367-1376. [PDF] DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2860-z

Giery, S.T., N.P. Lemoine, C.M. Hammerschlag-Peyer, R.N. Abbey-Lee and C.A. Layman. 2013. Bidirectional trophic linkages couple canopy and understorey food webs . Functional Ecology 27: 1436–1441. [PDF] DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12139

Giery, S.T. 2013. First records of the corn snake (Pantherophis guttata) from Abaco Island, The Bahamas, and notes on their current distribution in the greater Caribbean region. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians, Conservation and Natural History 20(1): 36-39. [PDF]

Stroud, J. and S.T. Giery. 2013. Anolis equestris (Cuban Knight Anole). Nocturnal Activity. Herpetological Review 44(4): 660-661. [PDF]

Luzar, J.B., K.M. Silvius, H. Overman, S.T. Giery, J.M. Read and J.M.V. Fragoso. 2011. Large-scale environmental monitoring by indigenous peoples. BioScience 61(10):771-781. [PDF] DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.10.7
Stanford Press Release

Read, J.M., J.M.V. Fragoso, K.M. Silvius, J. Luzar, H. Overman, A. Cummings, S.T. Giery and L.F. de Oliveira. 2010. Space place and hunting patterns among indigenous peoples of the Guyanese Rupununi region. Journal of Latin American Geography 9(3) 213-243. [PDF] https://www.jstor.org/stable/25765339

Giery, S.T. and R.S. Ostfeld. 2007. The role of lizards in the ecology of Lyme disease in two endemic zones of the Northeastern United States. Journal of Parasitology 93(3): 511-517. [PDF] DOI: 10.1645/GE-1053R1.1