Publications

2026

• Krause, S.W., T.R. Bonnell, M.J. Dostie, S.I. Booth, P.C. Mower, D.M. Logue A spatial approach to duet function in Adelaide's warbler, Setophaga adelaidae. Animal Behaviour, 236, 123575.
• Carboni, S., T.R. Bonnell, L. Stover, M. Watsa, G. Erkenswick, A.D. Melin Responses to scent marks in a wild group of Leontocebus weddelli: insights for sexual communication. American Journal of Primatology, 88(5), e70167.
• Logue, D.M., J. Vazquez-Cardona, S. Huang, H.R. Petkau, K.V. Castaño, et al. (incl. T.R. Bonnell) Song type sharing, song type matching and collective themes in a dawn chorus communication network. Animal Behaviour, 234, 123524.
• Mower, P.C., J. Vazquez-Cardona, S.W. Krause, T.R. Bonnell, D.M. Logue Fight song: variation in singing behaviour and song structure during natural agonistic interactions in a tropical songbird, Adelaide's warbler (Setophaga adelaidae). Ibis, 168(2), 766-778.
• Vilette, C., C.M. Nord, T.R. Bonnell, M.J. Dostie, R. McFarland, C. Young, et al. Social status as a developmental process in wild vervet monkeys: beyond maternal inheritance. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 80(3), 35.

2025

• Vilette, C., T.R. Bonnell, M.J. Dostie, S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett The transition to motherhood as the temporal locus of change for social network integration among wild vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 219, 123028.
• Pritchard, A.J., T. Bonnell, B. Chakraborty, R.A. Blersch, B. McCowan, et al. Delineating connectivity and quality of peer–peer pre-pubescent rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) relationships by examining coupled social behaviours. Royal Society Open Science, 12(10), 250860.
• Logue, D.M., T.R. Bonnell, J. Vazquez-Cardona On the use of double quantile regression and visual assessment to estimate performance constraints. Behavioral Ecology, 36(3), araf030.
• Clarke, M., T. Bonnell, R. Blersch, C. Nord, C. Vilette, C. Young, P. Henzi, et al. Social induction and the developmental trajectory of participation in intergroup conflict by vervet monkeys. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 7, e9.
• Petkau, H.R., O.J. Medina Rodriguez, P.C. Mower, S.W. Krause, L.R. Mitchell, et al. (incl. T.R. Bonnell) Community algorithms reveal song type themes in Adelaide's warbler song type sequence networks. Bioacoustics, 34(1), 50-65.
• Lam, A., T. Bonnell, P. Pathak, S. Shukla, R. Sengupta Analyzing impact of urban green infrastructure on nocturnal air temperatures using sensors and geospatial analysis: implications for canopy-level urban heat islands. Geomatica, 100090.
• Henzi, S.P., R.A. Blersch, T.R. Bonnell, M. Clarke, M.J. Dostie, M. Lucas, J. Jarrett, R. McFarland, C. Nord, A. Takahashi, C. Vilette, C. Young, M.M. Young, L. Barrett Estimates of life history parameters in a high latitude, arid-country vervet monkey population. American Journal of Primatology, 87(1), e23527. [PDF]

2024

• Bonnell, T.R., Michaud R., Dupuch A., Lesage V., Chion C. Estimating spatial mixing within the St. Lawrence Estuary beluga population by comparing local individual diversity and abundance. Mar Mamm Sci 40:e13162. [PDF]

2023

• Logue, D. M., & Bonnell, T. R. Skewed performance distributions as evidence of motor constraint in sports and animal displays. Royal Society Open Science, 10(11), 230692. [PDF]
• Vilette, C., T.R. Bonnell, M.J. Dostie, S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 201, 137-156. [PDF]
• Dijkstra, P. D., Piefke, T. J., & Bonnell, T. R. Behavioral changes during social ascent and descent in replicate social networks of an African cichlid fish. Hydrobiologia, 850(10), 2405-2423. [PDF]
• Blersch, R.A., T.R. Bonnell, M. Clarke, M.J. Dostie, M. Lucas, J. Jarrett, R. McFarland, C. Nord, A. Takahashi, S. Varsanyi, C. Vilette, C. Young, L. Barrett, S.P. Henzi Maternal social position and survival to weaning in arid-country vervet monkeys. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181(1), 3-9. [PDF]
• Bonnell, T.R., J.R. Ochieng, C.A. Chapman Conditions facilitating a "landscape of fear from disease" in African forest mammals. Movement Ecology of Afrotropical Forest Mammals, 133-150.
• Vazquez-Cardona, J., T.R. Bonnell, P.C. Mower, O.J. Medina, H. Jiskoot, D.M. Logue Vocal performance increases rapidly during the dawn chorus in Adelaide's warbler (Setophaga adelaidae). Behavioral Ecology, arad030. [PDF]
• Stulp G., T.R. Bonnell, L. Barrett Simulating the evolution of height in the Netherlands in recent history. The History of the Family, 28(2), 434-456. [PDF]
• Bonnell, T.R., C. Vilette, S.P. Henzi, & L. Barrett Network reaction norms: taking account of network position and plasticity in response to environmental change. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 77(3), 35. [PDF]

2022

• Vilette, C., T.R. Bonnell, M.J. Dostie, S.P. Henzi, & L. Barrett Network formation during social integration in juvenile vervet monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 194, 205-223. [PDF]
• Nord, C, T.R. Bonnell, D. Roth, M. Clarke, M. Dostie, S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett Fear of missing out? Personality and plasticity in food neophilia by wild vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus pygerythrus. Animal Behaviour, 0003-3472. [PDF]
• Bonnell, T.R, S. Peter Henzi and Louise Barrett Using network synchrony to identify drivers of social dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20220537. [PDF]
• Lagrois, D., T.R. Bonnell, Ankita Shukla, Clément Chion Gradient boosting method to tackle high computing demand in underwater acoustic propagation modeling. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(7), 899. [PDF]
• Bonnell T.R., Michaud R., Dupuch A., Lesage V., Chion C. Extracting spatial networks from capture–recapture data reveals individual site fidelity patterns within a marine mammal's spatial range. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8616. [PDF]

2021

• McFarland R., S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett, T.R. Bonnell, A. Fuller, C. Young, R.S. Hetem Fevers and the social costs of acute infection in wild vervet monkeys. PNAS, 118(44), e2107881118. [PDF]
• Blersch R., Bonnell T.R., Ganswindt A., Young C., Barrett L., Henzi S.P. Sick and tired: sickness behaviour, polyparasitism and food stress in a gregarious mammal. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75, 169. [PDF]
• Henzi S.P., T.R. Bonnell, G. M. Pasternak, N. J. Freeman, M. J. Dostie, S. Kienzle, C. Vilette, L Barrett Keep calm and carry on: reactive indifference to predator encounters. Animal Behaviour, 181, 1-11. [PDF]
• Chion C., T.R. Bonnell, D. Lagrois, R. Michaud, V. Lesage, A. Dupuch, I.H. McQuinn, S. Turgeon Agent-based modelling reveals a disproportionate exposure of females and calves to a local increase in shipping and associated noise in an endangered beluga population. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 173, 112977. [PDF]
• Blersch, R., Bonnell, T.R., Barrett, L., Henzi, S.P. Seasonal Effects in Gastrointestinal Parasite Prevalence, Richness and Intensity in Vervet Monkeys Living in a Semi-Arid Environment. Journal of Zoology, 314: 163-173. [PDF]
• Adams, F., Arseneau-Robar, T.J., Bonnell, T.R., Stead, S., Teichroeb, J. Temporal patterns in the social network of core units in Rwenzori Angolan colobus monkeys: effects of food availability and inter-unit dispersal. Ecology and Evolution, 11: 3251-3263. [PDF]
• Piefke, T., T.R. Bonnell, G. DeOliveira, H. Janeski, S.E. Border, T. Brown, P.D. Dijkstra Social network stability is impacted by removing a dominant male in replicate dominance hierarchies of a cichlid fish. Journal of Animal Behaviour, 175: 7-20. [PDF]
• Nord, C., T.R. Bonnell, S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett Tolerance of muzzle contact underpins the acquisition of foraging information in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 135(3), 349-359. [PDF]

2020

• Green S.J., B.J. Boruff, T.R. Bonnell, C.C. Grueter Chimpanzees use least-cost routes to out-of-sight goals. Current Biology, 30, 4528-4533.e5. [PDF]
• Vilette C., T.R. Bonnell, S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett Comparing dominance hierarchy methods using a data-splitting approach with real-world data. Behavioural Ecology, 31: 1379-1390. [PDF]
• Bonnell, T.R., C. Vilette, C. Young, S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett Formidable females redux: male social integration into female networks and the value of dynamic multilayer networks. Current Zoology, zoaa041. [PDF]
• Bonnell, T.R., C. Vilette Constructing and analyzing time-aggregated networks: the role of bootstrapping, permutation, and simulation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 00, 1-13. [PDF]
• Jarrett, J. D., T.R. Bonnell, M. J. Jorgensen, C. A. Schmitt, C. Young, M. Dostie, L. Barrett, S. P. Henzi Modeling variation in the growth of wild and captive juvenile vervet monkeys in relation to diet and resource availability. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 171, 89-99. [PDF]

2019

• Young C., T.R. Bonnell, L.R. Brown, M.J. Dostie, A. Ganswindt, S. Kienzle, R. McFarland, S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett Climate induced stress and mortality in vervet monkeys. Royal Society Open Science, 6, 191078. [PDF]
• Bonnell, T.R., Henzi, S.P., Barrett, L. Functional Social Structure in Baboons: Modelling Interactions Between Social and Environmental Structure in Group-Level Foraging. Journal of Human Evolution. [PDF]

2018

• Kessler, S., T.R. Bonnell, J. Setchell, C.A. Chapman Social Structure Facilitated the Evolution of Care-giving as a Strategy for Disease Control in the Human Lineage. Scientific Reports. [PDF]
• Bonnell, T.R., R.R. Ghai, T.L. Goldberg, Raja Sengupta, C.A. Chapman Simulations of environmentally-transmitted parasites under habitat fragmentation suggests that as habitat is lost, its configuration becomes more important. Landscape Ecology. [PDF]
• C.A. Chapman, K. Valenta, T.R. Bonnell, K.A. Brown, L.J. Chapman Solar radiation and ENSO predict fruiting phenology patterns in a 16-year record from Kibale National Park, Uganda. Biotropica. [PDF]
• J.D. Jarrett, T.R. Bonnell, C.J. Young, L. Barrett, S.P. Henzi Social Inheritance and Limits to Network Integration in Vervet Monkeys. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. [PDF]
• R. Reyna-Hurtado, J.A. Teichroeb, T.R. Bonnell, R.U. Hernández-Sarabia, S.M. Vickers, J.C. Serio-Silva, P. Sicotte, C.A. Chapman Primates adjust movement strategies due to changing food availability. Behavioral Ecology. [Link]

2017

• Bonnell, T.R., Clarke, P.M., Henzi, S.P., Barrett, L. Individual-level movement bias leads to the formation of higher-order social structure in a mobile group of baboons. Royal Society Open Science. [PDF]
• S.E. Kessler, T.R. Bonnell, R.W. Byrne, C.A. Chapman Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition. Journal of Human Evolution. [PDF]

2016

• Bonnell, T.R., S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett Direction matching for sparse movement data sets: determining interaction rules in social groups. Behavioural Ecology. [PDF]
• Bonnell, T.R., R.R. Ghai, T.L. Goldberg, R. Sengupta, C.A. Chapman Spatial patterns of persistence for environmentally transmitted parasites: Effects of regional climate and local landscape. Ecological Modelling. [PDF]
• M.J. Dostie, D. Lusseau, T.R. Bonnell, P.M.R. Clarke, G. Chaplin, S. Kienzle, L. Barrett, S.P. Henzi Proof of principle: the adaptive geometry of foraging baboons. Animal Behaviour. [PDF]
• Bonnell, T.R., C.A. Chapman, R. Sengupta Interaction between scale and scheduling choices in simulations of spatial agents. International Journal of Geographic Information Science. [PDF]
• Joseph N., T.R. Bonnell, M. Dostie, L. Barrett, P. Henzi Working the crowd: Sociable vervets benefit by reducing exposure to risk. Behavioral Ecology. [PDF]
• Schoof V. A. M., T.R. Bonnell, K.M. Jack, T.E. Ziegler, A.D. Melin, L.M. Fedigan Male endocrine response to seasonal varying environmental and social factors in a Neotropical primate, Cebus capucinus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. [PDF]

2015

• Reyna-Hurtado R., H. Beck, M. Altrichter, C.A. Chapman, T. R. Bonnell, A. Keuroghlian, A.L.J. Desbiez, J. Moreira, G. O'Farrill, J. Fragoso, E. J. Naranjo What Ecological and Anthropogenic Factors Affect Group Size in White-lipped Peccaries (Tayassu pecari)? Biotropica. doi:10.1111/btp.12269. [PDF]
• Chapman C.A., V.A.M. Schoof, T.R. Bonnell, J.F. Gogarten, S. Calmé Competing pressures on populations: how disease may interact with food availability and stress to influence animal abundance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 370, 20140112. [PDF]

2014

• Gogarten J.F., T.R. Bonnell, L.M Brown, M. Campenni, M.D. Wasserman, C.A. Chapman Increasing group size alters behaviour of a folivorous primate. International Journal of Primatology, 35, 590-608. [PDF]
• Jacobs A.L., T.R. Bonnell, N. Dowhaniuk, J. Hartter Topographic and spectral data resolve land cover misclassification to distinguish and monitor wetlands in western Uganda. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 94, 114-126. [PDF]

2013

• Bonnell, T.R., M. Campenni, C.A. Chapman, J.F. Gogarten, R.A. Reyna-Hurtado, J.A. Teichroeb, M.D. Wasserman, R. Sengupta Emergent group level navigation: an agent-based evaluation of movement patterns in a folivorous primate. PLoS ONE, 8(10):e78264. [Link]
• Chapman, C.A., T.R. Bonnell, R. Sengupta, T.L. Goldberg, J.M. Rothman Is Markhamia lutea's abundance determined by animal foraging? Forest Ecology and Management, 308(2), 62-66. [Link]
• Bonnell, T.R., P. Dutilleul, C.A. Chapman, R. Reyna-Hurtado, R. Sengupta, U. Sarabia Analyzing small-scale aggregation in animal visits in space and time: the ST-BBD method. Animal Behaviour, 85(2), 483-492. [Link]

2012

• Chapman, C.A., T.R. Bonnell, J.F. Gogarten, J.E. Lambert, P.A. Omeja, D. Twinomugisha, M.D. Wasserman, J.M. Rothman Are Primates Ecosystem Engineers? International Journal of Primatology, 34(1), 1-14. [Link]

2011

• Bonnell, T.R., Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Colin A. Chapman Post-logging recovery time is longer than expected in an East African tropical forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 261(4), 855-864. [Link]

2010

• Bonnell, T.R., Raja R. Sengupta, Colin A. Chapman, Tony L. Goldberg An agent-based model of red colobus resources and disease dynamics implicates key resource sites as hot spots of disease transmission. Ecological Modelling, 221(20), 2491-2500. [Link]