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PUBLICATIONS

Calhoun, K.L., Smith, J.A., Tingley M.W., Heeren, A., Van Scoyoc A., Serota, M.W., ... & Furnas, B.J. (2025). Human-wildlife conflict is amplified during periods of drought. Science Advances, 11(46), eadx0286. https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adx0286

Calhoun, K. L., P., Steel, Z.L., Parker-Shames , Oyler, H., Brashares, J.S. Severity outweighs

pyrodiversity in shaping avian and bat species distributions following an oak woodland megafire. (2025). Ecosphere 16 (7). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70263.

Devarajan, Kadambari, Mason Fidino, Zach J. Farris…Calhoun, K. L., et al. (2025). When the Wild

Things Are: Defining Mammalian Diel Activity and Plasticity. Science Advances 11 (9): eado3843. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado3843.

Calhoun, K. L., Connor, T., Gaynor, K. M., Van Scoyoc, A., McInturff, A...., & Brashares, J. S. (2024). Movement behavior in a dominant ungulate underlies successful adjustment to a rapidly changing landscape following megafire. Movement Ecology, 12(53). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00488-4

Moore, A., Calhoun, K. L., Wilkinson, Christine., Elan, A… &, Vitale-Penniman, N. (2024). Queer

Black Voices in Conservation. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14385.

Goldstein., B.R., Furnas, B., Calhoun, K. L., Larsen, A.E., Karp, D.S., De Valpine, P. (2024). Drought

influences habitat associations and abundances of birds in California's Central Valley. Diversity and Distributions, e13827. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13827

Calhoun, K. L., Goldstein, B. R., Gaynor, K. M., McInturff, A., Solorio, L., & Brashares, J. S. (2023). Mammalian resilience to megafire in western US woodland savannas. Ecosphere, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4613

Calhoun, K. L., Chapman, M., Tubbesing, C., McInturff, A., Gaynor, K. M., Van Scoyoc, A., ... & Brashares, J.

(2021). Spatial overlap of wildfire and biodiversity in California highlights gap in non-conifer fire research and management. Diversity and Distributions, 28(3), 529-541. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13394

Kreling, S. E., Gaynor, K. M., McInturff, A., Calhoun, K. L., Brashares, J. S. (2021). Site fidelity and behavioral plasticity regulate an ungulate’s response to extreme disturbance. Ecology and evolution, 11(22), 15683-15694. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8221

Wilkinson C, McInturff A, Miller J, Yovoich V, Gaynor K, Calhoun K, Karandikar H, Martin J V,

Parker-Shames P, Shawler A, Van Scoyoc A, Brashares J S. 2019. An ecological framework for contextualizing carnivore-livestock conflict. Conservation Biology Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13469.

Taig-Johnston M, Strom M, Calhoun K, Nowak K, Ebensperger L, Hayes L. 2017. The ecological

impact of long-term studies of birds and mammals in Central America, South America and Antarctica. Revista Chilena de Historias Natural. https://revchilhistnat.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40693-017-0070-5

Des Roches S, Sollmann R, Calhoun K, Rosenblum EB. 2016. Survival by genotype: patterns at Mc1r

are not black and white at the White Sands ecotone. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13894.

Bell KC, Calhoun K, Hoberg EP, Demboski JR, Cook JA. 2015. Disparate drivers of genetic diversity:

deep host association and shallow geographic differentiation in a widespread pinworm, Rauschtineria eutamii. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12833.

Non-Peer Reviewed Writing

Calhoun, K.L., Brashares, J. California wildland fires burning mostly non-forests. January 2022. California Fire Consortium. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/545a90ede4b026480c02c5c7/t/61f20089315ea1010c6424fb/1643249802520/Calhoun_CFSC_RB_F.pdf

Kim S, Calhoun K. 2019. How to Start Adapting to California’s “Precipitation Whiplash”. Bay Nature. https://baynature.org/2019/11/08/how-to-start-adapting-to-californias-precipitation-whiplash/

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