Kendall Calhoun

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/