Amy Freestone

Temple University Logo

Amy Freestone

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Associate Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

CHEM 3881

Cooperative Research

Undergraduate

ENVS 4085

Internship: Environmental Science

Undergraduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Freestone, A., Torchin, M., Jurgens, L., Bonfim, M., López, D., Repetto, M., Schlöder, C., Sewall, B., & Ruiz, G. (2021). Stronger predation intensity and impact on prey communities in the tropics. Ecology, 102(8). doi: 10.1002/ecy.3428.

  • Torchin, M., Freestone, A., McCann, L., Larson, K., SchlÖder, C., Steves, B., Fofonoff, P., Repetto, M., & Ruiz, G. (2021). Asymmetry of marine invasions across tropical oceans. Ecology, 102(8). doi: 10.1002/ecy.3434.

  • López, D. & Freestone, A. (2021). History of co-occurrence shapes predation effects on functional diversity and structure at low latitudes. Functional Ecology, 35(2), 535-545. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13725.

  • Freestone, A., Carroll, E., Papacostas, K., Ruiz, G., Torchin, M., & Sewall, B. (2020). Predation shapes invertebrate diversity in tropical but not temperate seagrass communities. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(2), 323-333. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13133.

  • Papacostas, K. & Freestone, A. (2019). Multi-trophic native and non-native prey naiveté shape marine invasion success. PLoS ONE, 14(9). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221969.

  • Papacostas, K. & Freestone, A. (2019). Stronger predation in a subtropical community dampens an invasive species-induced trophic cascade. Biological Invasions, 21(1), 203-215. doi: 10.1007/s10530-018-1819-8.

  • Jurgens, L., Bonfim, M., Lopez, D., Repetto, M., Freitag, G., McCann, L., Larson, K., Ruiz, G., & Freestone, A. (2018). Poleward range expansion of a non-indigenous bryozoan and new occurrences of exotic ascidians in Southeast Alaska. BioInvasions Records, 7(4), 357-366. doi: 10.3391/bir.2018.7.4.02.

  • Jurgens, L., Freestone, A., Ruiz, G., & Torchin, M. (2017). Prior predation alters community resistance to an extreme climate disturbance. Ecosphere, 8(10). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1986.

  • Rielly-Carroll, E. & Freestone, A. (2017). Habitat fragmentation differentially affects trophic levels and alters behavior in a multi-trophic marine system. Oecologia, 183(3), 899-908. doi: 10.1007/s00442-016-3791-2.

  • Papacostas, K., Rielly-Carroll, E., Georgian, S., Long, D., Princiotta, S., Quattrini, A., Reuter, K., & Freestone, A. (2017). Biological mechanisms of marine invasions. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 565, 251-268. doi: 10.3354/meps12001.