Chantal Stoner

Postdoctoral Researchers

Office: Room 54, Mulford Hall
cjstoner@berkeley.edu
Phone/Fax: 510-643-3918
Mailing address: 137 Mulford Hall #3114 University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Ph.D. University of California, Davis, Dec 2005
B.S. University of California, Davis, June 1999

Research Interests

My general interests focus on the conservation of African wildlife and include basic research on behavior, physiology and ecology. I am particularly interested in individual and population-level responses of harvested species to different conservation strategies. My dissertation research focused on the effectiveness of heavily and partially protected areas in buffering large herbivores in East Africa from population declines. Currently I am studying the behavioral and physiological characteristics of antelope populations exposed to different protection strategies (different restrictions on legal wildlife-use) in central Tanzania. This work is geared toward testing whether responses to harvest risk significantly influence antelope demographics.

Publications

Stoner, C.J., Caro, T.M., Mduma, S., Mlingwa, C., Sabuni, G., and M. Borner. 2007. Effectiveness of protection strategies in Tanzania: assessing long-term aerial survey data for large herbivores. Conservation Biology 21: 635-646.

Stoner, C.J., Caro, T.M., Mduma, S., Mlingwa, C., Sabuni, G., Borner, M. and C. Schelten. 2007. Population trends for large herbivores across large areas of Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 45: 202-215.

Malmstrom, C.M., C.J. Stoner, S. Brandenburg, and L.A. Newton. 2006. Virus infection and grazing exert counteracting influence on survivorship of native bunchgrass seedlings competing with invasive exotics. Journal of Ecology 94: 264-275.

Malmstrom, C.M., Hughes, C.C., Newton, L.A. and C.J. Stoner. 2005. Virus infection in remnant native bunchgrasses from invaded California grasslands. New Phytologist 168: 217-230.

Caro, T.M., C.M. Graham, C.J. Stoner, and J. A. Vargas. 2004. The adaptive significance of antipredator behavior in artiodactyls. Animal Behaviour 67: 207-228.

Mooring, M.S., D.T. Blumstien, and C.J. Stoner, 2004. The evolution of parasite-defense grooming in ungulates. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 81: 17-37.

Stoner, C.J., O.R.P. Bininda-Emonds, and T.M. Caro. 2003. The adaptive significance of lagomorph coloration. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79: 309-328.

Stoner, C.J., T.M. Caro, and C.M. Graham. 2003. Ecological and behavioral correlates of coloration in artiodactyls: systematic attempts to verify conventional hypotheses. Behavioral Ecology 14: 823-840.

Pelkey, N.W., C.J. Stoner, and T.M. Caro. 2003. Assessing habitat protection regimes in Tanzania using AVHRR NDVI composites: a comparison of temporal and spatial scales. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24: 2533-2558.

Caro, T.M., and C.J. Stoner. 2003. The potential for interspecific competition among African carnivores. Biological Conservation 110: 67-75

Caro, T.M., C.M. Graham, C.J. Stoner, and M.M. Flores. (2003). Adaptive significance of horn and antler shape in bovids and cervids. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 32-41.

Pelkey, N.W., C.J. Stoner, and T.M. Caro. 2000. Vegetation in Tanzania: long term trends and effects of protection. Biological Conservation 94: 297-309.

Caro, T.M., J.A. Shargel, and C.J. Stoner. 2000. Frequency of medium-sized mammal road kills in an agricultural landscape in California. American Midland Naturalist 144: 362-369.