Calhoun Lab

PUBLICATIONS
2025
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.
Xu, W., Calhoun, K. L., Serota, M. W., Blanco, A., Demers, N., & Onorato, D. P. The Impact of Fire on Den Site Selection of Florida Panthers. (2025). The Southwestern Naturalist, 69(4), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-69.4.15
Connor, T., Montealegre‐Mora, F., Saxon, B. J., Camarena, J., Sarna‐Wojcicki, D., de Bruyn, M., ...Calhoun K.L. … & Tripp, E. Indigenous Knowledge and Community‐Derived Counts Produce Robust Wildlife Population Estimates: Roosevelt Elk in Karuk Aboriginal Territory. (2025). Ecology and Evolution, 15(10), e72355. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72355
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.
2024
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
Van Scoyoc, A., Calhoun, K. L., & Brashares, J. S. Using multiple scales of movement
to highlight risk–reward strategies of coyotes (Canis latrans) in mixed‐use landscapes. (2024) Ecosphere, 15(8), e4977. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4977
Goldstein, B. R., Keller, A. G., Calhoun, K. L., Barker, K. J., Montealegre-Mora, F., Serota, M. W., ... & de Valpine, P. How do ecologists estimate occupancy in practice? (2024). Ecography, e07402. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07402
2023
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
2021
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
2019
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.
2017
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.
2016
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.
2015
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/