Contact: shanelle.wikramanayake@colostate.edu

I am a PhD student in the Funk Lab at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. I am broadly interested in evolutionary ecology and conservation in tropical rainforests. My current research examines the impacts of habitat fragmentation and climate change on the persistence of tropical ectotherms, with a focus on Sri Lankan agamid lizards.

I did my M.S. in the Robertson lab at California State University, Northridge, where I studied the of role of female mate choice in mediating premating behavioural reproductive isolation along the speciation continuum of the Red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas).

My undergraduate research in the Leaché lab focused on the population genetics of the endangered and endemic Sri Lankan Rough-nosed horned lizard (Ceratophora aspera).