Tyler D. Tunney
Center for Limnology • University of Wisconsin-Madison, 680 N Park St., Madison, WI, 53706 USA •
ttunney@wisc.edu
www.tylertunney.weebly.com
Phone: (608) 695-2255 •Fax: (608) 265-2340
EDUCATION
2014 PhD. Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON.
PhD Thesis: Lake food web responses across environmental gradients.
Mentor: K.S. McCann
2008 MSc. University of Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland.
MSc. Thesis:Foraging mode of wild salmonids in Icelandic streams
Mentor: S.Ó. Steingrímsson
2003 BSc. (Honours), Zoology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON.
Honours project: Temporal variation in catches of smallmouth bass and yellow perch using NORDIC multi- mesh gill nets.
Mentor: J.M. Gunn
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2014-Present Postdoctoral Research Associate. Center for Limnology. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Project: Climate change and the resilience of sport fisheries in lakes.
Mentors: M. Jake VanderZanden and Stephen R. Carpenter
2004 Research Assistant. R. L. McLaughlin. University of Guelph. Guelph, ON, Canada.
2003 Aquatic Research Technician. Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit. Sudbury, ON Canada.
2002-2003 Aquatic Research Technician. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Summer Student - Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit, Laurentian University. Sudbury, ON, Canada.
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION
Peer reviewed articles
In Review
Book Chapters
Reports and Extended Abstracts
Oral Presentations (Recent not including co-authored)
2016 Tunney, T.D., Foodweb Forethought: Considering Trophic Interaction to Better Understand Fisheries in Our Changing World. Invited Speaker. Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre. St. John’s Newfoundland.
Tunney, T.D., Ambiguity in food web predictions. North Temperate Lakes LTER (long term ecological research) meeting
2015 Tunney, T.D., Foodweb Forethought: Considering Biotic Interaction to Better Understand Our Changing World. Invited Seminar Speaker. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Science. Millbrook, NY. U.S.A.
2014 Tunney, T.D., Lake food web responses across environmental gradients.
PhD Defense.University of Guelph. Guelph, ON.
2012 Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Lester, N.P., Shuter, B.S. The effects of differential habitat warming on complex communities. Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
2011 Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Lester, N.P., Shuter, B.S. Climate change and the structure of spatially coupled lake food webs. Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America. Austin, TX, U.S.A.
2010 Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Shuter, B.J. What happens to big fish when the pond gets smaller? LEREC Workshop “Dynamics of Aquatic Systems”. Umea, Sweden.
2010 Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Shuter, B.J. Lake trout food webs in a changing world. OMNR Northwest fisheries meeting. Thunder Bay, ON.
Poster Presentations
2003 Tunney, T.D. T. Kleinboeck, E. Snucins and J.M. Gunn. Temporal variation in catches of smallmouth bass and yellow perch using NORDIC multi-mesh gill nets. Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research (CCFFR). Ottawa, ON, Canada.
GRANTS/AWARDS
2016 Co-applicant. P.I Stephen Carpenter. “A safe operating space for walleye: adaptation of fisheries for climate change”. USGS grant. $ 1,200,000.00 ($250,000.00 annually)
2014 Nominated by the Integrative Biology Department, University of Guelph, for the Canadian Society of Zoologists T. W. M. Cameron Outstanding Ph. D. Thesis Award
2005 OLIN Fellowship. Atlantic Salmon Federation. NB, Canada
2003 Dean’s Scholarship Award. Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
SERVICE
Peer review
Journals
Basic and Applied Ecology, Biological Reviews, Biological Invasions, Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecosphere, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Food webs, Freshwater Biology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Limnology and Oceanography, Nature Communications, Oecologia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B, Theoretical Ecology
Funding
NSF proposal reviewer
Great Lakes Fisheries Commission proposal reviewer
Committees
Co-chair, Center for Limnology Social Committee (2014/2015)
Member, Center for Limnology Museum Archive Committee (2014-Present)
Member, Center for Limnology Library Committee (2014-Present)
Outreach (2016)
Presently co-organizing a public consultation for lake selection for a whole lake experiment.
Winter Limnology (Middle school age students go outside to learn about lakes in the winter)
Lakeshore Path Invasive Species Removal (Removing invasive species along nature path)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant
2011 University of Guelph. Instructed/graded weekly field/lab sessions. BIOL 1040. Biodiversity.
2010 University of Guelph. Mentored/graded group projects. BIOL 4110 Ecological Methods.
2009 University of Guelph. Mentored/graded group projects. BIOL 4110 Ecological Methods.
2008 University of Guelph. Instructed/graded weekly lab/tutorial. BIOL 3110 Population Ecology.
Guest Lectures
2016 University of Wisconsin Madison. Ecology of Fishes. Guest lecture
2015 University of Wisconsin Madison. Conservation Biology. Two lectures. (Food Web Thinking in Conservation and Management).
2015 University of Wisconsin Madison. Ecology of Fishes. One lecture (Food Webs Across Gradients).
2015 University of Wisconsin Madison. Ecosystem Ecology. One lecture (Predation).
2010 University of Guelph. BIOL 4110 Ecological Methods. One lecture (Climate Signatures in Lake Food Webs).
2009 University of Guelph. BIOL 4110 Ecological Methods. One lecture (Climate Signatures in Lake Food Webs).
2008 University of Guelph. BIOL 3110 Population Ecology. One lecture (Lake Morphometry and Trophic Structure).
2006 Holar University College. Fish Biology. Two lectures (Behavioural Ecology of Fishes).
Undergraduate Mentoring
2014-2015 Collin Ludwig. Predator associations in large and small lakes. 1st year Undergrad Research Scholar Program. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2014-2015 Eric Miller. Independent Study Project. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(Independent Research Projects Co-advised with Kevin McCann, University of Guelph)
2012 & 2011 Lauren Jarvis. (1) Spatial structure, food web stability and the effects of coupling by an intermediate mobile consumer.
(2) Spider web traits and density patterns across forest and field habitats. (Completed MSc. Integrative Biology, University of Guelph 2014).
2011 Rachel Salt. Impact of an introduced predator in boreal shield lakes. (Now a PhD. Student in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph)
2011 Erica Hall. Anthropogenic effects on biostructure in boreal lakes. (transitioned to Jane Goodall Institute, Tanzania)
2010 Justin Verhey. Linking ecosystem size and variability in predator growth rates.
OTHER AFFILATIONS
Invited Participant. USGS Funded Working Group. The Effects of Global Climate Change on Inland fish and fisheries in the United States and Canada. Bozeman, MN.U.S.A. 2015.
Invited Participant. NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis). Funded Working Group: Synthesizing theory and databases to advance a general framework for how warming affects trophic interactions. Santa Barbara, CA.U.S.A. 2012-2013.
Invited Participant. CIEE (Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution) Funded Working Group: Thermal scaling and body size: the next frontier in climate change ecological theory. Loon Lake, BC.CAN. 2012.
NSERC Strategic Group. Impacts of climate change on limnetic biodiversity and fisheries in Ontario and Quebec.University of Toronto/ University of Guelph. 2009-2013.
Invited Participant. LEREC Workshop “Dynamics of Aquatic Systems”. Umea, Sweden. 2010.
PRESS
At Guelph Article – Diary Bush takes learning outside. atguelph.uoguelph.ca/2011/12/dairy-bush-takes-learning-outside/
REFEREES
Carpenter, S. R. Center for Limnology. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 680 N Park St., Madison, WI, 53706 USA
email:srcarpen@wisc.edu.
Phone: (608) 262-3014
McCann, K. S. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd. E, Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1
email: ksmccann@uoguelph.ca.
Phone:(519) 824-4120 ext. 56861
Vander Zanden, M. J. Center for Limnology. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 680 N Park St., Madison, WI, 53706 USA
email: mjvanderzand@wisc.edu.
Phone: (608) 262-9464
Center for Limnology • University of Wisconsin-Madison, 680 N Park St., Madison, WI, 53706 USA •
ttunney@wisc.edu
www.tylertunney.weebly.com
Phone: (608) 695-2255 •Fax: (608) 265-2340
EDUCATION
2014 PhD. Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON.
PhD Thesis: Lake food web responses across environmental gradients.
Mentor: K.S. McCann
2008 MSc. University of Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland.
MSc. Thesis:Foraging mode of wild salmonids in Icelandic streams
Mentor: S.Ó. Steingrímsson
2003 BSc. (Honours), Zoology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON.
Honours project: Temporal variation in catches of smallmouth bass and yellow perch using NORDIC multi- mesh gill nets.
Mentor: J.M. Gunn
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2014-Present Postdoctoral Research Associate. Center for Limnology. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Project: Climate change and the resilience of sport fisheries in lakes.
Mentors: M. Jake VanderZanden and Stephen R. Carpenter
2004 Research Assistant. R. L. McLaughlin. University of Guelph. Guelph, ON, Canada.
2003 Aquatic Research Technician. Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit. Sudbury, ON Canada.
2002-2003 Aquatic Research Technician. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Summer Student - Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit, Laurentian University. Sudbury, ON, Canada.
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION
Peer reviewed articles
- Javis, L., McCann, K.S., Tunney, T.D., Gellner, G., Fryxell, J. Early Warning Signals Detect Critical Impacts of Experimental Warming. 2016. Ecology and Evolution online early DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2339.
- Len M. Hunt, Eli P. Fenichel, David C. Fulton, Robert Mendelsohn, Jordan W. Smith, Tyler D. Tunney, Abigail J. Lynch, Craig P. Paukert, James E. Whitney. 2016. Identifying Alternate Pathways for Climate Change to Impact Inland Recreational Fishers. Fisheries 41 (7) 362-372.
- McMeans, B., McCann, K.S., Tunney, T.D., Fisk, A., Muir, A.M., Rooney, N. 2016. The Adaptive Capacity of Lake Ecosystems: From Individuals to Ecosystems. Ecological Monographs 86 (1) 4-19.
- DeLong, J.P., Gilbert, B., Shurin, J.B., Savage, V., Barton, B.T., Clements, C., Dell, A.I. Grieg, H. Harley, C., Kratina, P., McCann, K.S., Savage, V., Tunney, T.D., Vasseur, D.A., O’Connor, M.I. 2015.The body size dependence of trophic cascades. American Naturalist. 185 (3) 354-366
- Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Lester, N.P., Shuter, B.J. 2014. The effects of differential habitat warming on complex communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.111 (22) 8077-8082
- Gilbert, B., Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., et al. 2014. A bioenergetic framework for the temperature dependence of trophic interactions. Ecology Letters. 17(8) 902-914.
- Vasseur, D.A., DeLong, J.P., Gilbert, B., Grieg, H. Harley, C., McCann, K.S., O’Connor, M.I., Tunney, T.D., Savage, V. 2014. Increased temperature variation poses greater risk to species than climate warming. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281(1779): 20132612.
- Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Lester, N.P., Shuter, B.S. 2012. Food web expansion and contraction in response to environmental conditions. Nature Communications. 3, 1105.doi:10.1038/ncomms2098
- Tunney, T.D. and Steingrímsson, S.Ó. 2012. Foraging mode variation within and among three stream-dwelling salmonid fishes. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 21: 570–580
In Review
- Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Jarvis, L., Lester, N.P., Shuter, B.J. Increased energy pathway coupling and predator abundance with water transparency decrease across lakes. In Revision Oecologia.
- Tunney, T.D., Carpenter, S.R., and Vander Zanden, M.J. Network Uncertainty and Predictability of Species Responses to Alternate Press Perturbations. In Revision Ecology.
- Hansen, G.J.A., Tunney, T.D., Winslow, L.A., Vander Zanden, M.J. Community interaction network differences in two littoral habitats revealed by the experimental removal of an invasive crayfish. In Review Ecosphere.
Book Chapters
- Vander Zanden, M.J., Olden, J.D., Gratton, C., Tunney, T.D. In Press. Food Web Theory and Ecological Restoration. In Foundations of Restoration Ecology (Second Edition). Edited by Margaret A. Palmer, Joy B Zedler and Donald A Falk.
Reports and Extended Abstracts
- Steingrímsson S.Ó. & Tunney T.D. 2007. Feeding behaviour and habitat selection of salmonids in Icelandic rivers. Fræðaþing landbúnaðarins (Conference proceedings of the Icelandic agricultural conference), 4. 216-219.
- Steingrímsson, S.Ó., Tunney, T.D., Gunnarson, G.D. 2015. Foraging mode and Territoriality in Icelandic Salmonids. Náttúrufræðingurinn. 85(1-2) 28-36. In Icelandic with English Summary.
Oral Presentations (Recent not including co-authored)
2016 Tunney, T.D., Foodweb Forethought: Considering Trophic Interaction to Better Understand Fisheries in Our Changing World. Invited Speaker. Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre. St. John’s Newfoundland.
Tunney, T.D., Ambiguity in food web predictions. North Temperate Lakes LTER (long term ecological research) meeting
2015 Tunney, T.D., Foodweb Forethought: Considering Biotic Interaction to Better Understand Our Changing World. Invited Seminar Speaker. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Science. Millbrook, NY. U.S.A.
2014 Tunney, T.D., Lake food web responses across environmental gradients.
PhD Defense.University of Guelph. Guelph, ON.
2012 Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Lester, N.P., Shuter, B.S. The effects of differential habitat warming on complex communities. Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
2011 Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Lester, N.P., Shuter, B.S. Climate change and the structure of spatially coupled lake food webs. Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America. Austin, TX, U.S.A.
2010 Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Shuter, B.J. What happens to big fish when the pond gets smaller? LEREC Workshop “Dynamics of Aquatic Systems”. Umea, Sweden.
2010 Tunney, T.D., McCann, K.S., Shuter, B.J. Lake trout food webs in a changing world. OMNR Northwest fisheries meeting. Thunder Bay, ON.
Poster Presentations
2003 Tunney, T.D. T. Kleinboeck, E. Snucins and J.M. Gunn. Temporal variation in catches of smallmouth bass and yellow perch using NORDIC multi-mesh gill nets. Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research (CCFFR). Ottawa, ON, Canada.
GRANTS/AWARDS
2016 Co-applicant. P.I Stephen Carpenter. “A safe operating space for walleye: adaptation of fisheries for climate change”. USGS grant. $ 1,200,000.00 ($250,000.00 annually)
2014 Nominated by the Integrative Biology Department, University of Guelph, for the Canadian Society of Zoologists T. W. M. Cameron Outstanding Ph. D. Thesis Award
2005 OLIN Fellowship. Atlantic Salmon Federation. NB, Canada
2003 Dean’s Scholarship Award. Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
SERVICE
Peer review
Journals
Basic and Applied Ecology, Biological Reviews, Biological Invasions, Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecosphere, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Food webs, Freshwater Biology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Limnology and Oceanography, Nature Communications, Oecologia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B, Theoretical Ecology
Funding
NSF proposal reviewer
Great Lakes Fisheries Commission proposal reviewer
Committees
Co-chair, Center for Limnology Social Committee (2014/2015)
Member, Center for Limnology Museum Archive Committee (2014-Present)
Member, Center for Limnology Library Committee (2014-Present)
Outreach (2016)
Presently co-organizing a public consultation for lake selection for a whole lake experiment.
Winter Limnology (Middle school age students go outside to learn about lakes in the winter)
Lakeshore Path Invasive Species Removal (Removing invasive species along nature path)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant
2011 University of Guelph. Instructed/graded weekly field/lab sessions. BIOL 1040. Biodiversity.
2010 University of Guelph. Mentored/graded group projects. BIOL 4110 Ecological Methods.
2009 University of Guelph. Mentored/graded group projects. BIOL 4110 Ecological Methods.
2008 University of Guelph. Instructed/graded weekly lab/tutorial. BIOL 3110 Population Ecology.
Guest Lectures
2016 University of Wisconsin Madison. Ecology of Fishes. Guest lecture
2015 University of Wisconsin Madison. Conservation Biology. Two lectures. (Food Web Thinking in Conservation and Management).
2015 University of Wisconsin Madison. Ecology of Fishes. One lecture (Food Webs Across Gradients).
2015 University of Wisconsin Madison. Ecosystem Ecology. One lecture (Predation).
2010 University of Guelph. BIOL 4110 Ecological Methods. One lecture (Climate Signatures in Lake Food Webs).
2009 University of Guelph. BIOL 4110 Ecological Methods. One lecture (Climate Signatures in Lake Food Webs).
2008 University of Guelph. BIOL 3110 Population Ecology. One lecture (Lake Morphometry and Trophic Structure).
2006 Holar University College. Fish Biology. Two lectures (Behavioural Ecology of Fishes).
Undergraduate Mentoring
2014-2015 Collin Ludwig. Predator associations in large and small lakes. 1st year Undergrad Research Scholar Program. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2014-2015 Eric Miller. Independent Study Project. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(Independent Research Projects Co-advised with Kevin McCann, University of Guelph)
2012 & 2011 Lauren Jarvis. (1) Spatial structure, food web stability and the effects of coupling by an intermediate mobile consumer.
(2) Spider web traits and density patterns across forest and field habitats. (Completed MSc. Integrative Biology, University of Guelph 2014).
2011 Rachel Salt. Impact of an introduced predator in boreal shield lakes. (Now a PhD. Student in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph)
2011 Erica Hall. Anthropogenic effects on biostructure in boreal lakes. (transitioned to Jane Goodall Institute, Tanzania)
2010 Justin Verhey. Linking ecosystem size and variability in predator growth rates.
OTHER AFFILATIONS
Invited Participant. USGS Funded Working Group. The Effects of Global Climate Change on Inland fish and fisheries in the United States and Canada. Bozeman, MN.U.S.A. 2015.
Invited Participant. NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis). Funded Working Group: Synthesizing theory and databases to advance a general framework for how warming affects trophic interactions. Santa Barbara, CA.U.S.A. 2012-2013.
Invited Participant. CIEE (Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution) Funded Working Group: Thermal scaling and body size: the next frontier in climate change ecological theory. Loon Lake, BC.CAN. 2012.
NSERC Strategic Group. Impacts of climate change on limnetic biodiversity and fisheries in Ontario and Quebec.University of Toronto/ University of Guelph. 2009-2013.
Invited Participant. LEREC Workshop “Dynamics of Aquatic Systems”. Umea, Sweden. 2010.
PRESS
At Guelph Article – Diary Bush takes learning outside. atguelph.uoguelph.ca/2011/12/dairy-bush-takes-learning-outside/
REFEREES
Carpenter, S. R. Center for Limnology. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 680 N Park St., Madison, WI, 53706 USA
email:srcarpen@wisc.edu.
Phone: (608) 262-3014
McCann, K. S. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd. E, Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1
email: ksmccann@uoguelph.ca.
Phone:(519) 824-4120 ext. 56861
Vander Zanden, M. J. Center for Limnology. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 680 N Park St., Madison, WI, 53706 USA
email: mjvanderzand@wisc.edu.
Phone: (608) 262-9464
