Publications

* Student or post-doc

2023

*Boone, W.W., Moorman, C.E., Terando, A.J., Moscicki*, D.J., Collier, B.A., Chamberlain, M.J., and Pacifici, K. 2023. Minimal shift of eastern wild turkey nesting phenology associated with projected climate change. Climate Change Ecology 6 e100075.

*Casola, W.R., Peterson, M.N., Pacifici, K., Sills, E.O., and Moorman, C.E. 2023. Conservation motivations and willingness to pay for wildlife management areas among recreational user groups. Land Use Policy 132 e106801.

vanVuuren, M., vanVuuren, R., Silverberg, L.M., Manning*, J., Pacifici, K., Dorgeloh, W., and Campbell, J. 2023. Ungulate responses and habituation to unmanned aerial vehicles in Africa’s savanna. PLoS ONE 18(7): e0288975.

Hostetter, N.J., A.F. Evans, Q. Payton, D.D. Roby, D.E. Lyons, and K. Collis. 2023. A review of factors affecting the susceptibility of juvenile Salmonids to avian predation. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 43:244–256.

*Torres-Molinari, A., Engman*, A.C., Pacifici, K., Dolloff, C.A., Myers*, B.J.E., and Kwak, T.J. 2023. Patterns in longitudinal distribution of American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) population characteristics in rivers in Puerto Rico. Fisheries Management and Ecology.

*Sanders, C.W., Stewart, D.L., Pacifici, K., Hess, G.R., Olfenbuttel, C., and DePerno, C.S. 2023. Variations in reproduction and age structure in the North American river otter in North Carolina, USA. The Journal of Wildlife Management 87 (3) e22361.

Kreh, C., Pease*, B.S., and Pacifici, K. 2023. Efficacy of autonomous recording units to evaluate wild turkey gobbling chronology in North Carolina, USA. Wildlife Society Bulletin e1433.

2022

*Casola, W.R., Peterson, M.N., Wu, Y., Sills, E.O., Pease*, B.S. and Pacifici, K., 2022. Measuring the value of public hunting land using a hedonic approach. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 27(4) pp.343-359.

*Casola, W.R., Peterson, M.N., Sills, E.O., Pacifici, K., and Moorman, C.E. 2022. Economic contributions of wildlife management areas in North Carolina. Forest Policy and Economics 140:102747.

Gardner B, B.T. McClintock, S.J. Converse, and N.J. Hostetter. 2022. Integrated animal movement and spatial capture-recapture models: simulation, implementation, and inference. Ecology. 103:e3771.

McClintock, B.T., B. Abrahms, R.B. Chandler, P.B. Conn, S.J. Converse, R.L. Emmet, B. Gardner, N.J. Hostetter, and D.S. Johnson. 2022. An integrated path for spatial capture–recapture and animal movement modeling. Ecology 103:e3473.

Hostetter N.J., Q. Payton, D.D. Roby, K. Collis, and A.F. Evans. 2022. Functional responses across species, space, and time: How piscivorous waterbirds respond to pulses in fish abundance. Ecosphere. ecs2.4220.

*Patton, P.T., Pacifici, K., and Collazo, J.A. 2022. Modeling and estimating co-occurrence between the invasive Shiny Cowbird and its Puerto Rican hosts. Biological Invasions pp. 1-10.

*Parsons, A.W., Dawrs, S.N, Nelson, S.T., Norton, G.J., Virdi, R., Hasan, N.A., Epperson, L.E., Holst, B., Chan, E.D., Leos-Barajas*, V., Reich, B.J., Crooks, J.L., Strong, M., Pacifici¹, K., and Honda¹, J.R. 2022. Soil properties and moisture synergistically influence Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Prevalence in Natural Environments of Hawai’i. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(9), e00018-22.

¹K. Pacifici and J.R. Honda share senior authorship.

*Pease, B.S., Pacifici, K., and Kays, R. 2022. Exploring spatial nonstationarity for four mammal species reveals regional variation in environmental relationships. Ecosphere 13(8).

*Pease, B.S., Pacifici, K., Kays, R., and Reich, B. 2022. What drives spatially varying ecological relationships in a wide-ranging species? Diversity and Distributions 28 (9) pp 1752-1768.

2021

Amburgey S.M., A.A. Yackel Adams, B. Gardner, N.J. Hostetter, S.R. Siers, B.T. McClintock, and S.J. Converse. 2021. Validation of camera trap-based abundance estimators for unmarked populations. Ecological Applications 31: e02410.

*Casola, W.R., Peterson, M.N., Pacifici, K. and Moorman, C.E., 2021. Public support and visitation impacts of Sunday hunting on public hunting lands. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 26(1), pp.94-97.

*Cope, W.R., Kwak, T.J., Black, T.R., Pacifici, K., Harris, S.C., Miller, C.M., Raley, M.E. and Hallerman, E.M., 2021. Genetic Structure and Diversity of the Endemic Carolina Madtom and Conservation Implications. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

*Foley, H.J., Pacifici, K., Baird, R.W., Webster, D.L., Swaim, Z.T. and Read, A.J., 2021. Residency and movement patterns of Cuvier’s beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 660, pp.203-216.

Hostetter N.J., N.J. Lunn, E.S. Richardson, E.V. Regehr, and S.J. Converse. 2021. Age-structured Jolly-Seber model expands inference and improves parameter estimation from capture-recapture data. PLOS One 16:e0252748.

Kays, R., Lasky, M., Parsons*, A.W., Pease*, B.S., and Pacifici, K., 2021. Evaluation of the spatial biases and sample size of a statewide citizen science project. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 6(1).

Regehr E.V., M.C. Runge, A. Von Duyke, R.R. Wilson, L. Polasek, K.D. Rode, N.J. Hostetter, and S.J. Converse. 2021. Demographic risk assessment for a harvested species threatened by climate change: polar bears in the Chukchi Sea. Ecological Applications e02461.

2020

Payton Q., A.F. Evans, N.J. Hostetter, D.D. Roby, B.M. Cramer, and K. Collis. 2020. Measuring the additive effects of predation on prey survival across multiple spatial scales. Ecological Applications. 30:e02193.

*Rivera-Burgos, A.C., Collazo, J.A., Terando, A.J. and Pacifici, K., 2021. Linking demographic rates to local environmental conditions: Empirical data to support climate adaptation strategies for Eleutherodactylus frogs. Global Ecology and Conservation, 28, p.e01624.

*Pease, B.S., Pacifici, K. and Collazo, J.A., 2021. Survey design optimization for monitoring wildlife communities in areas managed for federally endangered species. Animal Conservation 24(5), pp.756-769.

*Rosche, S.B., Moorman, C.E., Kroeger*, A.J., Pacifici, K., Jones, J.G. and Deperno, C.S., 2021. Effects of Prescribed Fire on Northern Bobwhite Nesting Ecology. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 45(2), pp.249-257.

*Battle, K.E., Pacifici, K., Collazo, J.A., and Reich, B.J. 2020. Using biodiversity metrics to guide conservation planning in altered tropical landscapes. Caribbean Naturalist 77, pp.1-17.

Hostetter N.J.,D. Ryan, D. Grosshuesch, T. Catton, S. Malick-Wahls, T.A. Smith, and B. Gardner. 2020. Quantifying spatiotemporal occupancy dynamics and multi-year core-use areas at a species range boundary. Diversity and Distributions. 26:795–805.

Hostetter N.J., and J.A. Royle. 2020. Movement-assisted localization from acoustic telemetry data. Movement Ecology. 8:15–26.

Kazyak D.C., A.M. Flowers, N.J. Hostetter, J.A. Madsen, M. Breece, A. Higgs, L.M. Brown, J.A. Royle, D.A. Fox. 2020. Integrating side-scan sonar and acoustic telemetry to estimate the annual spawning run size of Atlantic sturgeon in the Hudson River. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 77:1038–1048.

*Sanders, C.W., Olfenbuttel, C., Pacifici, K., Hess, G.R., Livingston, R.S. and DePerno, C.S., 2020. Leptospira, parvovirus, and toxoplasma in the North American river otter (lontra canadensis) in North Carolina, USA. Journal of wildlife diseases, 56(4), pp.791-802.

*Grantham, N.S., Reich, B.J., Laber, E.B., Pacifici, K., Dunn, R.R., Fierer, N., Gebert, M., Allwood, J.S. and Faith, S.A., 2020. Global forensic geolocation with deep neural networks. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 69(4), pp.909-929.

*Huberman, D.B., Reich, B.J., Pacifici, K. and Collazo, J.A., 2020. Estimating the drivers of species distributions with opportunistic data using mediation analysis. Ecosphere, 11(6), p.e03165.

Kays, R., et al., 2020. An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when? Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(6), pp.700-713.

*Sanders, C.W., Pacifici, K., Hess, G.R., Olfenbuttel, C. and DePerno, C.S., 2020. Metal contamination of river otters in North Carolina. Environmental monitoring and assessment, 192(2), pp.1-17.

*Boggs, A.D., Moorman, C.E., Hazel, D.W., Greenberg, C.H. and Pacifici, K., 2020. Relationships between white-footed mice and logging residue: Informing the sustainability of potential wood bioenergy harvests. Forest Ecology and Management, 457, p.117706.

2019

*Hody, A.W., Moreno, R., Meyer, N.F., Pacifici, K. and Kays, R., 2019. Canid collision—expanding populations of coyotes (Canis latrans) and crab-eating foxes (Cerdocyon thous) meet up in Panama. Journal of Mammalogy, 100(6), pp.1819-1830.

*Burke, C.R., Peterson, M.N., Sawyer, D.T., Moorman, C.E., Serenari, C. and Pacifici, K., 2019. A method for mapping hunting occurrence using publicly available, geographic variables. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 43(3), pp.537-545.

*Cope, W.R., Kwak, T.J., Black, T.R. and Pacifici, K., 2019. Evaluation of artificial cover units as a sampling technique and habitat enhancement for madtoms in rivers. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 39(4), pp.778-787.

Evans A.F., Q. Payton, B.M. Cramer, K. Collis, N.J. Hostetter, D.D. Roby, and C. Dotson. 2019. Cumulative effects of avian predation on upper Columbia River steelhead. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 148:896–913.

Hostetter N.J., B. Gardner, T.S Sillett, K.H. Pollock, and T.R. Simons. 2019. An integrated model decomposing the components of detection probability and abundance in unmarked populations. Ecosphere. 10:e02586.

Lloyd N.A., N.J. Hostetter, C.L. Jackson, S.J. Converse, and A. Moehrenschlager. 2019. Optimizing release strategies: a stepping-stone approach to reintroduction. Animal Conservation 22:105–115.

Lloyd N.A., N.J. Hostetter, C.L. Jackson, S.J. Converse, and A. Moehrenschlager. 2019. Future directions to escalate benefits of the stepping-stone approach for conservation translocations. Animal Conservation 22:122–123.

Miller, D.A., Pacifici, K., Sanderlin, J.S. and Reich, B.J., 2019. The recent past and promising future for data integration methods to estimate species’ distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(1), pp.22-37.

Pacifici, K., Reich, B.J., Miller, D.A. and Pease*, B.S., 2019. Resolving misaligned spatial data with integrated species distribution models. Ecology, 100(6), p.e02709.

Payton Q., N.J. Hostetter, and A.F. Evans. 2019. Jointly estimating survival and mortality: integrating recapture and recovery data from complex multiple predator systems. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 26:107–125.

*Rosche, S.B., Moorman, C.E., Pacifici, K., Jones, J.G. and DePerno, C.S., 2019. Northern bobwhite breeding season habitat selection in fire‐maintained pine woodland. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(5), pp.1226-1236.

*Taillie, P.J., Moorman, C.E., Smart*, L.S. and Pacifici, K., 2019. Bird community shifts associated with saltwater exposure in coastal forests at the leading edge of rising sea level. PloS one, 14(5), p.e0216540.

2018

Hostetter N.J., B. Gardner, A.F. Evans, B.M. Cramer, Q. Payton, K. Collis, and D.D. Roby. 2018. Wanted dead or alive: a state-space mark-recapture-recovery model incorporating multiple recovery types and state uncertainty. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75:1117–1127.

*Irizarry, A.D., Collazo, J.A., Pacifici, K., Reich, B.J. and Battle*, K.E., 2018. Avian response to shade‐layer restoration in coffee plantations in Puerto Rico. Restoration Ecology, 26(6), pp.1212-1220.

Laber, E.B., Meyer*, N.J., Reich, B.J., Pacifici, K., Collazo, J.A. and Drake, J.M., 2018. Optimal treatment allocations in space and time for on‐line control of an emerging infectious disease. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 67(4), pp.743-789.

Link W.A., S.J. Converse, A.A. Yackel Adams, and N.J. Hostetter. 2018. Analysis of population change and movement using removal data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. 23:463–477.

Regehr E.V., N.J. Hostetter, R.R. Wilson, K.D. Rode, M. St. Martin, and S.J. Converse. 2018. Integrated population modeling provides the first empirical estimates of vital rates and abundance for polar bears in the Chukchi Sea. Scientific Reports. 8:16780.

Reich, B.J., Pacifici, K. and Stallings, J.W., 2018. Integrating auxiliary data in optimal spatial design for species distribution modelling. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9(6), pp.1626-1637.

Waples, R.S., Kays, R., Fredrickson, R.J., Pacifici, K. and Mills, L.S., 2018. Is the red wolf a listable unit under the US Endangered Species Act? Journal of Heredity, 109(5), pp.585-597.

2007–2017

Felton S.K., N.J. Hostetter, K.H. Pollock, and T.R. Simons. 2017. Managing American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) population growth by targeting nesting season vital rates. Waterbirds 40(sp1): 44–54.

*Irizarry, A.D., J.A. Collazo, K. Pacifici, B.J. Reich, and K.E. Battle*.  2017.  Avian Response to shade-layer restoration in coffee plantations in Puerto Rico: implications for conservation.  Restoration Ecology.

*Morris, S.A., Reich, B.J., Pacifici, K., and Lei, Y.  2017.  A spatial model for rare binary events.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics 24:485-504.

*Monroe, K.D., J.A. Collazo, K. Pacifici, B.J. Reich, A.R. Puente-Rolon and A.J. Terando.  2017.  Occupancy and abundance of Eleutherodactylus Frogs in coffee plantations in Puerto Rico.  Herpetologica 73:297-306.

Pacifici, K., B.J. Reich, D.A.W. Miller, B.A. Gardner, G. Stauffer, S. Singh*, A. McKerrow, and J.A. Collazo.  2017.  Integrating multiple data sources in species distribution models: a framework for data fusion.  Ecology 98:840-850.

*Pandolfo, T.J., T.J. Kwak, W.G. Cope, R.J. Heise, R.B. Nichols, and K. Pacifici.  2017.  Declining occurrence and low colonization probability in freshwater mussel assemblages: a dynamic occurrence modeling approach.  Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation 20:13-19.

*Morris, S.A., B.J. Reich, K. Pacifici, and Y. Lei.  2017.  A spatial model for rare binary events.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics 24:485-504.

Terando, A.J., B.J. Reich, K. Pacifici, J. Costanza, A. McKerrow, and J.A. Collazo.  2016.  Uncertainty quantification and propagation for projections of extreme fires under climate change. AGU Geophysical Monograph Series.

*Pandolfo, T.J., T.J. Kwak, W.G. Cope*, R.J. Heise, R.B. Nichols, and K. Pacifici.  2016.  Species traits and catchment-scale habitat factors influence the occurrence of a freshwater mussel assemblage.  Freshwater Biology doi:10.1111/fwb.12807.

Pacifici, K., B.J. Reich, R.M. Dorazio, and M.J. Conroy.  2016.  Occupancy estimation for rare species using a spatially-adaptive sampling design.  Methods in Ecology and Evolution.  doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12499

A. Barberan, R.R. Dunn, B.J. Reich, K. Pacifici, E.B. Laber, H. Menninger, J. Morton, J. Henley, J. Leff, S. Miller, and N. Fierer.  2015.  The ecology of microscopic life in household dust.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282(1814). 

*Grantham, N.S., B.J. Reich, K. Pacifici, E.B. Laber, H.L. Menninger, J.B. Henley, A. Barberán, J.W. Leff, N. Fierer, and R.R. Dunn.  2015.  Fungi identify the geographic origin of dust samples. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122605. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122605.

Hostetter N.J., B. Gardner, S.H. Schweitzer, R. Boettcher, A.L. Wilke, L. Addison, W.R. Swilling, K.H. Pollock, and T.R. Simons. 2015. Repeated count surveys help standardize multi-agency estimates of American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) abundance. The Condor 117:354–363.

Hostetter N.J., A.F. Evans, B.M. Cramer, K. Collis, D.E. Lyons, and D.D. Roby. 2015. Quantifying avian predation on fish populations: integrating predator-specific deposition probabilities in tag recovery studies. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 144:410–422.

Hostetter N.J., A.F. Evans, F.J. Loge, R.R. O’Connor, B.M. Cramer, D. Fryer, and K. Collis. 2015. The influence of individual fish characteristics on survival and detection: similarities across two salmonid species. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 35:1034–1045.

Adkins J.Y., D.E. Lyons, P.J. Loschl, D.D. Roby, K. Collis, A.F. Evans, and N.J. Hostetter. 2014. Demographics of piscivorous colonial waterbirds and management implications for ESA-listed salmonids on the Columbia Plateau. Northwest Science 88:344–359.

Evans A.F., N.J. Hostetter, K. Collis, D.D. Roby, and F.J. Loge. 2014. Relationship between juvenile fish condition and survival to adulthood in steelhead. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143:899–909.

Fackler, P.L. and K. Pacifici.  2014.  Addressing structural and observational uncertainty in resource management.  Journal of Environmental Management 133:27-36.

Fackler, P.L., K. Pacifici, J. Martin, and C. McIntyre.  2014.  Efficient use of information in adaptive management with an application to managing recreation near Golden Eagle nesting sites.  PLoS one 9(8).

Nichols, J.M., P.L. Fackler, K. Pacifici, K.D. Murphy, and J.D. Nichols.  2014.  Reducing fatigue damage for ships in transit through structured decision making.  Marine Structures 38:18-43.

Farrae, D.J., S.E. Albeke, K. Pacifici, N.P. Nibbelink, and D. Peterson.  2014.  Assessing the influence of habitat quality on movements of the endangered Shortnose sturgeon.  Environmental Biology of Fishes 97:691-699.

Pacifici, K., E.F. Zipkin, J.A. Collazo, J.I. Irizarry, and A. DeWan.  2014.  Guidelines for a priori grouping of species in hierarchical community models.  Ecology and Evolution 4:877-888.

Collazo, J. A., P. L. Fackler, K. Pacifici, T. H. White Jr., I. Llerandi-Roman, and S. J. Dinsmore.  2013.  Optimal allocation of captive-reared birds in endangered species conservation: decisions when divergent dynamics characterize managed populations. Journal of Wildlife Management 77:1124–1134.

Hostetter N.J., A.F. Evans, D.D. Roby, and K. Collis. 2012. Susceptibility of juvenile steelhead to avian predation: the influence of individual fish characteristics and river conditions. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 141: 1586-1599.

Evans A.F., N.J. Hostetter, D.D. Roby, K. Collis, D.E. Lyons, B.P. Sandford, R.D. Ledgerwood, and S. Sebring. 2012. System-wide evaluation of avian predation on juvenile salmonids from the Columbia River based on recoveries of passive integrated transponder tags. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 141: 975-989.

Connon R.E., L.S. D’Abronzo, N.J. Hostetter, A. Javidmehr, D.D. Roby, A.F. Evans, F.J. Loge, and I Werner. 2012. Transcription profiling in environmental diagnostics: health assessments in Columbia River basin steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Environmental Science and Technology 46: 6081-6087

Collis K., D.D. Roby, K.W. Larson, L.J. Adrean, S.K. Nelson, A.F. Evans, N.J. Hostetter, D.S. Battaglia, D.E. Lyons, T.K. Marcella, and A. Patterson. 2012. Trends in Caspian tern nesting and diet in San Francisco Bay: conservation implications for terns and salmonids. Waterbirds 35: 25-34.

Pacifici, K., R.M. Dorazio, and M.J. Conroy.  2012.  A two-phase sampling design for increasing detections of rare species in occupancy surveys.  Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3:721-730.

Hostetter N.J., A.F. Evans, D.D. Roby, K. Collis, M. Hawbecker, B.P. Sandford, D.E. Thompson, and F.J. Loge. 2011. Relationship of external fish condition to pathogen prevalence and out-migration survival in juvenile steelhead. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140:1158-117.

Simons, T.R., K.H. Pollock, J.M. Wettroth, M.W. Alldredge, K. Pacifici, and J.P. Brewster.  2009.  Sources of measurement error, misclassification error, and bias in auditory avian point count data in Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations.  Thompson, D.L., E.G. Cooch, and M.J. Conroy (editors).  Springer, New York, NY.

Pacifici, K., T.R. Simons, and K.H. Pollock.  2008.  Effects of vegetation and background noise on the detection process in auditory avian point count surveys.  Auk 125: 600-607.

Alldredge, M.W., K. Pacifici, T.R. Simons, and K.H. Pollock.  2008.  A novel field evaluation of the effectiveness of distance and independent observer sampling to estimate aural avian detection probabilities.  Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 1349-1356.

Alldredge, M. W., T. R. Simons, K. H. Pollock, and K. Pacifici. 2007. A field evaluation of the time-of detection method to estimate population size and density for aural avian point counts. Avian Conservation and Ecology – Écologie et conservation des oiseaux 2(2): 13. [online] URL: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol2/iss2/art13/