Christopher Tracy

Contact Information

Office: MH 294A

Phone: 657-278-5608

Email: ctracy@fullerton.edu

Christopher R. Tracy

Assistant Professor

Degrees

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

MS, University of Oklahoma

BS, Colorado State University

Research Areas

Physiological Ecology of Reptiles and Amphibians, Physiology of Terrestrial Vertebrates, Ecology of Desert Vertebrates

Courses Regularly Taught

Principles of Physiology and Ecology, Mammalian Physiology, Comparative Physiology, Herpetology

Publications

McWhorter, T.J., B. Pinshow, W.H. Karasov, C.R. Tracy. Paracellular absorption is relatively low in the herbivorous Egyptian Spiny-Tailed Lizard, Uromastyx aegyptia. PloS One 8:e61869.

Seymour, R.S., C.M. Gienger, M.L. Brien, C.R. Tracy, S.C. Manolis, G.J.W. Webb, K.A. Christian. Scaling of standard metabolic rate in estuarine crocodiles Crocodylus porosus. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 183: 491-500. 

Tracy, C.R. K.A. Christian, N. Burnip, B.J. Austin, A. Cornall, S. Iglesias, S.J. Reynolds, T. Tixier, C. LeNoëne. 2013. Thermal and hydric implications of diurnal activity by a small tropical frog during the dry season. Austral Ecology 38: 476-483. 

Iglesias, C.R. Tracy, G. Bedford, K. Christian. 2012. Habitat differences in body size and shape of the Australian Agamid lizard, Lophognathus temporalis. Journal of Herpetology 46: 297-303. 

Gienger, C.M., C.R. Tracy, M.L. Brien, S.C. Manolis, G.J.W. Webb, R.S. Seymour, K.A. Christian. 2012. Energetic costs of digestion in Australian crocodiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 59: 416-421.