Christopher M. Tonra

Christopher M. Tonra studies the ecology, migration, and physiology of wild birds, using tools like tracking devices, feather pigment analysis, and DNA-based diet studies to understand how birds move, breed, and respond to environmental change across their full annual cycle. His work spans topics such as migratory timing, climate change impacts on breeding and phenology, habitat selection, and disease surveillance in bird populations. This research is relevant to students interested in wildlife ecology, ornithology, conservation, and environmental monitoring.

Publication output has been relatively steady over the past decade, fluctuating between roughly 3 and 9 papers per year with no sustained increase or decrease, averaging about 6 per year over the last five years.

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