Kendall Calhoun

PUBLICATIONS
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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/