Associate Professor Lisa Schwanz

Associate Professor

Science

School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences

B.A. (Honors), 2000, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., 2006, University of New Mexico

I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in how animals respond to change in their environment. I work in the field and the lab with a variety of organisms and questions. I also develop novel evolutionary and ecological theory.

Keywords: evolution, ecology, animal, reptile, mammal, plasticity, adaptation, parental effects, reproduction, temperature, climate, stress, theory

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Phone

+61 (0)2 9385 0034

E-mail

l.schwanz@unsw.edu.au

Location

Room 5108, Level 5 West Biological Sciences South (E26) UNSW, Kensington 2052

Journal articles | 2024

Chan RL; Hodgson M; Schwanz LE, 2024, 'The two environmental drivers of thermoregulatory costs: Interactions between thermal mean and heterogeneity influence thermoregulation', Functional Ecology, 38, pp. 1697 - 1707,

Journal articles | 2024

Chia SS; Leggett K; Schwanz L, 2024, 'Spatial mosaics of small animal communities across habitat and vegetation cover in semiarid Australia', Australian Journal of Zoology, 72, pp. 1 - 11,

Journal articles | 2024

Crowther C; Bonser SP; Schwanz LE, 2024, 'Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change', Evolution Letters, 8, pp. 64 - 75,

Journal articles | 2024

Dor D; Booth DT; Schwanz LE, 2024, 'Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291,

Journal articles | 2024

Hodgson MJ; Schwanz LE, 2024, 'Best of both worlds: Acclimation to fluctuating environments confers advantages and minimizes costs of constant environments', Functional Ecology, 38, pp. 724 - 738,

Journal articles | 2024

Pottier P; Noble DWA; Seebacher F; Wu NC; Burke S; Lagisz M; Schwanz LE; Drobniak SM; Nakagawa S, 2024, 'New horizons for comparative studies and meta-analyses', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 39, pp. 435 - 445,

Journal articles | 2024

Raynal RS; Bonduriansky R; Schwanz LE, 2024, 'The Impact of Acclimation on Standard and Maximum Metabolic Rate in a Small Freshwater Fish', Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology, pp. 000 - 000,

Journal articles | 2023

Flores-Moreno H; Dalrymple RL; Cornwell WK; Popovic G; Nakagawa S; Atkinson J; Cooke J; Laffan SW; Bonser SP; Schwanz LE; Crean AJ; Eldridge DJ; Garratt M; Brooks RC; Vergés A; Poore AGB; Cohen DR; Clark GF; Sen Gupta A; Reich PB; Cornelissen JHC; Craine JM; Hemmings FA; Kattge J; Niinemets Ü; Peñuelas J; Moles AT, 2023, 'Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11,

Journal articles | 2023

Wild KH; Roe JH; Schwanz L; Rodgers E; Dissanayake DSB; Georges A; Sarre SD; Noble DWA, 2023, 'Metabolic consequences of sex reversal in two lizard species: a test of the like-genotype and like-phenotype hypotheses', Journal of Experimental Biology, 226,

Journal articles | 2022

Pottier P; Burke S; Zhang RY; Noble DWA; Schwanz LE; Drobniak SM; Nakagawa S, 2022, 'Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance: Ontogenetic variation, persistence, and future directions', Ecology Letters, 25, pp. 2245 - 2268,

Journal articles | 2022

Raynal RS; Noble DWA; Riley JL; Senior AM; Warner DA; While GM; Schwanz LE, 2022, 'Impact of fluctuating developmental temperatures on phenotypic traits in reptiles: a meta-analysis', Journal of Experimental Biology, 225,

Journal articles | 2022

Raynal RS; Schwanz LE; Riley JL; Umbers KDL, 2022, 'Genetic and environmental drivers of colour and pattern in the Australian jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus)', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35, pp. 1229 - 1239,

Journal articles | 2022

Schwanz LE; Gunderson A; Iglesias-Carrasco M; Johnson MA; Kong JD; Riley J; Wu NC, 2022, 'Best practices for building and curating databases for comparative analyses', Journal of Experimental Biology, 225,

Journal articles | 2022

Wild KH; Roe JH; Schwanz L; Georges A; Sarre S, 2022, 'Evolutionary stability inferred for a free ranging lizard with sex-reversal', Molecular Ecology, 31, pp. 2281 - 2292,

Journal articles | 2022

Wild KH; Roe JH; Schwanz L; Georges A; Sarre SD, 2022, 'Evolutionary stability inferred for a free ranging lizard with sex-reversal (vol 31, pg 2281, 2022)', MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 31, pp. 3266 - 3266,

Journal articles | 2021

Noble DWA; Senior AM; Uller T; Schwanz LE, 2021, 'Heightened among-individual variation in life history but not morphology is related to developmental temperature in reptiles', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34, pp. 1793 - 1802,

Journal articles | 2021

Schwanz LE; Georges A, 2021, 'Sexual Development and the Environment: Conclusions from 40 Years of Theory', Sexual Development, 15, pp. 7 - 22,

Journal articles | 2021

Whiteley SL; Georges A; Weisbecker V; Schwanz LE; Holleley CE, 2021, 'Ovotestes suggest cryptic genetic influence in a reptile model for temperature-dependent sex determination', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288,

Journal articles | 2020

Liu G; Cain K; Schwanz L, 2020, 'Maternal Temperature, Corticosterone, and Body Condition as Mediators of Maternal Effects in Jacky Dragons (Amphibolurus muricatus)', Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ, 93, pp. 434 - 449,

Journal articles | 2020

Schwanz LE; Crawford-Ash J; Gale T, 2020, 'Context dependence of transgenerational plasticity: the influence of parental temperature depends on offspring environment and sex', Oecologia, 194, pp. 391 - 401,

Journal articles | 2020

Schwanz LE; Georges A; Holleley CE; Sarre SD, 2020, 'Climate change, sex reversal and lability of sex-determining systems', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33, pp. 270 - 281,

Journal articles | 2019

Hodgson MJ; Schwanz LE, 2019, 'Drop it like it's hot: Interpopulation variation in thermal phenotypes shows counter-gradient pattern', Journal of Thermal Biology, 83, pp. 178 - 186,

Journal articles | 2018

Hooper AK; Lehtonen J; Schwanz LE; Bonduriansky R, 2018, 'Sexual competition and the evolution of condition-dependent ageing', Evolution Letters, 2, pp. 37 - 48,

Journal articles | 2018

Lehtonen J; Schwanz LE, 2018, 'Mate limitation and sex ratio evolution', Royal Society Open Science, 5,

Journal articles | 2018

McDonald S; Schwanz LE, 2018, 'Thermal parental effects on offspring behaviour and their fitness consequences', Animal Behaviour, 135, pp. 45 - 55,

Journal articles | 2018

Merkling T; Nakagawa S; Lagisz M; Schwanz LE, 2018, 'Maternal Testosterone and Offspring Sex-Ratio in Birds and Mammals: A Meta-Analysis', Evolutionary Biology, 45, pp. 96 - 104,

Journal articles | 2018

Noble DWA; Stenhouse V; Riley JL; Warner DA; While GM; Du WG; Uller T; Schwanz LE, 2018, 'Data Descriptor: A comprehensive database of thermal developmental plasticity in reptiles', Scientific Data, 5,

Journal articles | 2018

Noble DWA; Stenhouse V; Schwanz LE, 2018, 'Developmental temperatures and phenotypic plasticity in reptiles: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Biological Reviews, 93, pp. 72 - 97,

Journal articles | 2018

Schwanz LE; Hodgson MJ; May A, 2018, 'Costs of thermoregulation in variable thermal environments in the jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus)', Journal of Zoology, 305, pp. 267 - 273,

Journal articles | 2018

So CKJ; Schwanz LE, 2018, 'Thermal plasticity due to parental and early-life environments in the jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus)', Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 329, pp. 308 - 316,

Journal articles | 2018

While GM; Noble DWA; Uller T; Warner DA; Riley JL; Du WG; Schwanz LE, 2018, 'Patterns of developmental plasticity in response to incubation temperature in reptiles', Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 329, pp. 162 - 176,

Journal articles | 2016

Boyle M; Schwanz L; Hone J; Georges A, 2016, 'Dispersal and climate warming determine range shift in model reptile populations', Ecological Modelling, 328, pp. 34 - 43,

Journal articles | 2016

Schwanz LE; Cordero GA; Charnov EL; Janzen FJ, 2016, 'Sex-specific survival to maturity and the evolution of environmental sex determination', Evolution, 70, pp. 329 - 341,

Journal articles | 2016

Schwanz LE; Robert KA, 2016, 'Costs of rearing the wrong sex: Cross-fostering to manipulate offspring sex in tammar wallabies', PLoS ONE, 11,

Journal articles | 2016

Schwanz LE; Sherwin WB; Ognenovska K; Lacey EA, 2016, 'Paternity and male mating strategies of a ground squirrel (Ictidomys parvidens) with an extended mating season', Journal of Mammalogy, 97, pp. 576 - 588,

Journal articles | 2016

Schwanz LE, 2016, 'Parental thermal environment alters offspring sex ratio and fitness in an oviparous lizard', Journal of Experimental Biology, 219, pp. 2349 - 2357,

Journal articles | 2015

Halstead JE; Schwanz LE, 2015, 'Impacts of thermal limitation on thermoregulatory behaviour and reproductive success in a lizard', Australian Journal of Zoology, 63, pp. 225 - 232,

Journal articles | 2015

Schwanz LE, 2015, 'The Evolution of Sex Determination. By Leo W. Beukeboom and Nicolas Perrin. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $89.95. xvi + 222 p. + 2 pl.; ill.; taxonomic, author, and subject indexes. ISBN: 978-0-19-965714-8. 2014.', The Quarterly Review of Biology, 90, pp. 333 - 334,

Journal articles | 2015

Tan WC; Schwanz LE, 2015, 'Thermoregulation across thermal environments in a nocturnal gecko', Journal of Zoology, 296, pp. 208 - 216,

Journal articles | 2014

Boyle M; Hone J; Schwanz LE; Georges A, 2014, 'Under what conditions do climate-driven sex ratios enhance versus diminish population persistence?', Ecology and Evolution, 4, pp. 4522 - 4533,

Journal articles | 2014

Boyle M; Schwanz LE; Hone J; Georges A, 2014, 'How do climate-linked sex ratios and dispersal limit range boundaries?', BMC Ecology, 14,

Journal articles | 2014

Esquerré D; Keogh JS; Schwanz LE, 2014, 'Direct effects of incubation temperature on morphology, thermoregulatory behaviour and locomotor performance in jacky dragons (Amphibolurus muricatus)', Journal of Thermal Biology, 43, pp. 33 - 39,

Journal articles | 2014

Harts AMF; Schwanz LE; Kokko H, 2014, 'Demography can favour female-advantageous alleles', Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 281,

Journal articles | 2014

Roche DG; Lanfear R; Binning SA; Haff TM; Schwanz LE; Cain KE; Kokko H; Jennions MD; Kruuk LEB, 2014, 'Troubleshooting Public Data Archiving: Suggestions to Increase Participation', PLoS Biology, 12,

Journal articles | 2014

Schwanz LE; Robert KA, 2014, 'Proximate and ultimate explanations of mammalian sex allocation in a marsupial model', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68, pp. 1085 - 1096,

Journal articles | 2013

Booksmythe I; Schwanz LE; Kokko H, 2013, 'The complex interplay of sex allocation and sexual selection', Evolution, 67, pp. 673 - 678,

Journal articles | 2013

Kahn AT; Schwanz LE; Kokko H, 2013, 'Paternity Protection Can Provide A Kick-Start For The Evolution Of Male-Only Parental Care', Evolution, 67, pp. 2207 - 2217,

Journal articles | 2013

Robert KA; Schwanz LE, 2013, 'Monitoring the health status of free-ranging tammar wallabies using hematology, serum biochemistry, and parasite loads', Journal of Wildlife Management, 77, pp. 1232 - 1243,

Journal articles | 2013

Schwanz LE; Ezaz T; Gruber B; Georges A, 2013, 'Novel evolutionary pathways of sex-determining mechanisms', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, pp. 2544 - 2557,

Journal articles | 2013

Schwanz LE, 2013, 'Revealing the links between climate and demography for reptiles with environmental sex determination', Animal Conservation,

Journal articles | 2013

Schwanz LE, 2013, 'Revealing the links between climate and demography for reptiles with environmental sex determination', Animal Conservation, 16, pp. 495 - 497,

Journal articles | 2012

Schwanz LE; Previtali MA; Gomes-Solecki M; Brisson D; Ostfeld RS, 2012, 'Immunochallenge reduces risk sensitivity during foraging in white-footed mice', Animal Behaviour, 83, pp. 155 - 161,

Journal articles | 2012

Schwanz LE; Robert KA, 2012, 'Reproductive ecology of wild tammar wallabies in natural and developed habitats on Garden Island, Western Australia', Australian Journal of Zoology, 60, pp. 111 - 119,

Journal articles | 2011

Robert KA; Schwanz LE, 2011, 'Emerging sex allocation research in mammals: Marsupials and the pouch advantage', Mammal Review, 41, pp. 1 - 22,

Journal articles | 2011

Schwanz L; Warner DA; McGaugh S; Di Terlizzi R; Bronikowski A, 2011, 'State-dependent physiological maintenance in a long-lived ectotherm, the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta)', Journal of Experimental Biology, 214, pp. 88 - 97,

Journal articles | 2011

Schwanz LE; Brisson D; Gomes-Solecki M; Ostfeld RS, 2011, 'Linking disease and community ecology through behavioural indicators: Immunochallenge of white-footed mice and its ecological impacts', Journal of Animal Ecology, 80, pp. 204 - 214,

Journal articles | 2011

Schwanz LE; Voordouw MJ; Brisson D; Ostfeld RS, 2011, 'Borrelia burgdorferi has minimal impact on the lyme disease reservoir host peromyscus leucopus', Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 11, pp. 117 - 124,

Journal articles | 2010

McGaugh SE; Schwanz LE; Bowden RM; Gonzalez JE; Janzen FJ, 2010, 'Inheritance of nesting behaviour across natural environmental variation in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277, pp. 1219 - 1226,

Journal articles | 2010

Robert KA; Schwanz LE; Mills HR, 2010, 'Offspring sex varies with maternal investment ability: Empirical demonstration based on cross-fostering', Biology Letters, 6, pp. 242 - 245,

Journal articles | 2010

Schwanz LE; Janzen FJ; Proulx SR, 2010, 'Sex allocation based on relative and absolute condition', Evolution, 64, pp. 1331 - 1345,

Journal articles | 2010

Schwanz LE; Spencer RJ; Bowden RM; Janzen FJ, 2010, 'Climate and predation dominate juvenile and adult recruitment in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination', Ecology, 91, pp. 3016 - 3026,

Journal articles | 2009

Schwanz LE; Bowden RM; Spencer RJ; Janzen FJ, 2009, 'Nesting ecology and offspring recruitment in a long-lived turtle: Ecological Archives E090-119', Ecology, 90, pp. 1709,

Journal articles | 2008

Schwanz LE; Janzen FJ, 2008, 'Climate change and temperature-dependent sex determination: Can individual plasticity in nesting phenology prevent extreme sex ratios?', Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 81, pp. 826 - 834,

Journal articles | 2008

Schwanz LE; Proulx SR, 2008, 'Mutual information reveals variation in temperature-dependent sex determination in response to environmental fluctuation, lifespan and selection', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275, pp. 2441 - 2448,

Journal articles | 2008

Schwanz LE, 2008, 'Chronic parasitic infection alters reproductive output in deer mice', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62, pp. 1351 - 1358,

Journal articles | 2008

Schwanz LE, 2008, 'Persistent effects of maternal parasitic infection on offspring fitness: Implications for adaptive reproductive strategies when parasitized', Functional Ecology, 22, pp. 691 - 698,

Journal articles | 2006

Schwanz LE; Bowden RM; Spencer R-J; Janzen FJ, 2006, 'The influence of climate on offspring sex ratios in Painted turtles', INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, 46, pp. E127 - E127,

Journal articles | 2006

Schwanz LE; Bragg JG; Charnov EL, 2006, 'Maternal condition and facultative sex ratios in populations with overlapping generations', American Naturalist, 168, pp. 521 - 530,

Journal articles | 2006

Schwanz LE, 2006, 'Annual cycle of activity, reproduction, and body mass in Mexican ground squirrels (Spermophilus mexicanus)', Journal of Mammalogy, 87, pp. 1086 - 1095,

Journal articles | 2006

Schwanz LE, 2006, 'Schistosome infection in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus): Impacts on host physiology, behavior and energetics', Journal of Experimental Biology, 209, pp. 5029 - 5037,

Journal articles | 2003

Schwanz LE; Lacey EA, 2003, 'Olfactory discrimination of gender by colonial tuco-tucos (Ctenomys sociabilis)', Mammalian Biology, 68, pp. 53 - 60,
Preprints | 2022

Pottier P; Burke S; Zhang R; Noble D; Schwanz L; Drobniak S; Nakagawa S, 2022, Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance is insufficient to compensate for rising temperatures: a meta-analysis,

Conference Papers | 2009

Schwanz LE; Brisson D; Gomes-Solecki M; Ostfeld RS, 2009, 'The impact of the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi on white-footed mice: implications for the ecology of Lyme disease', in INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, MA, Boston, pp. E153 - E153, presented at Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology, MA, Boston, 03 January 2009 - 07 January 2009,

ARC Discovery Project (DP170101147): Sex determination in dragons -- genetics, epigenetics and environment. Prof Arthur Georges, A/Prof Janine Deakin, Prof Stephen Sarre, Prof Tariq Ezaz, Dr Paul Waters, Dr Lisa Schwanz, Prof Jennifer Graves, Dr Clare Holleley

My research asks: How do animals respond to change? In more scientific terms, research in my lab focuses on the evolution and ecology of phenotypic plasticity - when traits change as a function of the environment. When is plasticity adaptive, how does it evolve in different environments, and does it allow populations to track or adapt to changing conditions? I employ theoretical and empirical approaches to explore these questions, and mostly focus on vertebrate study organisms. My main research foci are temperature-dependent sex determination, parental effects, thermal biology, and sex allocation in mammals.

Topics of interest include:

Evolution and adaptation of plasticity
Effects of incubation temperature on reptile sex determination and hatchling phenotypes
The evolution of sex-determining mechanisms
Reproductive ecology
Parental care
Parental effects
Investment in sons vs. daughters in mammals
Physiological correlates of life-history trade-offs
Thermal Ecology
Alterations in behaviour and reproduction under parasitic infection
Ecoimmunology and endocrinology

My Research Supervision

Claudia Crowther (PhD 2019 - )

Phil Pearson (U Canberra PhD 2018 - )

Rebecca Raynal (PhD 2018 - )

Kris Wild (U Canberra PhD 2018 - 2022)

Mitchell Hodgson (PhD 2017- 2021)

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My Teaching

BIOS 4517 - Honours, Co-Convener

BIOS 3161 - Life in Arid Lands, Convener

BIOS 3011 - Animal Behaviour

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