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Kurz, D.J., Z. Czerwinksi, A. McInturff, M. Pinheiro, N. Rouse, E. St-Louis, and R. J. Moll. 2026. A 2.5 km movement by a potentially ill white-tailed deer along Nantasket Beach in suburban Massachusetts, USA. Ecology and Evolution 16:e73545. [link] [pdf]

Kurz, D.J.,A.D. Middleton, M. Chapman, B.R. Huber, A. McInturff, J. Sorgen, K.S. Van Houtan, C.E. Wilkinson, L.S. Withey, and J.S. Brashares. 2023. Including Rural America in academic conservation science. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4:1227227. [link] [pdf]

Kurz, D.J., T. Connor, J. Brodie, E. L. Baking, S.H. Szeto, A. Hearn, P.C. Gardner, O. Wearn, M. Deith, N.J. Deere, A. Ampeng, J. Beatrix, H. Bernard, A. Granados, O. Helmy, H.-Y. Lim, M.S. Luskin, D. Macdonald, J. Ross, B. Simpson, M. Struebig, J. Mohd-Azlan, M.D. Potts, B. Goossens, and J.S. Brashares. 2023. Socio-ecological factors shape the distribution of a cultural keystone species in Malaysian Borneo. npj Biodiversity 2, 4. [link] [pdf]

Kurz, D.J., P. Malim, and B. Goossens. 2022. Bearded pigs (Sus barbatus). In: Wildlife Atlas of Sabah: maps and conservation. Ed: G. Davies. Kota Kinabalu: WWF-Malaysia. Postprint available here

Calhoun, K.L., M. Chapman, C. Tubbesing, A. McInturff, K.M. Gaynor, A. Van Scoyoc, C.E. Wilkinson, P. Parker-Shames, D. Kurz, and J. Brashares. 2022. Spatial overlap of wildfire and biodiversity in California highlights gap in non-conifer fire research and management. Diversity and Distributions 28, 529-541. [link]

Kurz, D.J., F.H. Saikim, V.T. Justine, J. Bloem, M. Libassi, M. Luskin, L.S. Withey, B. Goossens, J.S. Brashares, and M.D. Potts. 2021. Transformation and endurance of Indigenous hunting: Kadazandusun-Murut bearded pig hunting practices amidst oil palm expansion and urbanization in Sabah, Malaysia. People and Nature 3, 1078-1092. [link]

Gaynor, K.M., J.S. Brashares, G.H. Gregory, D.J. Kurz, K.L. Seto, L.S. Withey, and K.J. Fiorella. 2020. Anticipating the complex impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on wildlife. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18, 542-543. [link]

Luke, S.H., A.D. Advento, A.A.K. Aryawan, D.N. Adhy, A. Ashton-Butt, H. Barclay…D.J. Kurz… E.C. Turner. 2020. Managing oil palm plantations more sustainably: large-scale experiments within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2, 1-20. [link]

Pie, J., L. Wang, W. Xu, D.J. Kurz, J. Geng, H. Fang, X. Guo, Z. Niu. 2019. Recovered Tibetan antelope at risk again. Science (Letter) 366, 194. [link]

Love, K., D.J. Kurz, I.P. Vaughan, A. Ke, L.J. Evans, and B. Goossens. 2018. Bearded pig (Sus barbatus) utilization of a fragmented forest-oil palm landscape in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Wildlife Research 44, 603-612. [link]

Nowakowski, A.J., J.I. Watling, M.E. Thompson, G.A. Brusch IV, A. Catenazzi,S.M. Whitfield, D.J. Kurz, Á. Suárez-Mayorga, A. Aponte-Gutiérrez, M.A. Donnelly, and B.D. Todd. 2018. Thermal biology mediates responses of amphibians and reptiles to habitat modification. Ecology Letters 21, 345-355. [link]

Hudson, L.N., T. Newbold, S. Contu, S.L.L. Hill, I. Lysenko, A. De Palma…D.J. Kurz…A. Purvis. The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. 2017. Ecology and Evolution 7, 145-188.  [link]

Nowakowski, A.J., J.I. Watling, S.M. Whitfield, B.D. Todd, D.J. Kurz, and M.A. Donnelly. 2017. Tropical amphibians in shifting thermal landscapes under land use and climate change. Conservation Biology 31, 96-105. [link]

Gaynor, K.M., K.J. Fiorella, G.H. Gregory, D.J. Kurz, K.L. Seto, L.S. Withey, and J.S. Brashares. 2016. War and wildlife: pathways through which armed conflict affects fauna. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14, 533-542. [link]

Kurz, D.J., E.C. Turner, A.A. Aryawan, H.C. Barkley, J.-P. Caliman, O. Konopik, S. Ps., and W.A. Foster. 2016. Replanting reduces frog diversity in oil palm. Biotropica 48, 483-490. [link]

Nowakowski, A.J., M. Veiman-Cheverría, D.J. Kurz, and M.A. Donnelly. 2015. Evaluating connectivity for tropical amphibians using empirically derived resistance surfaces. Ecological Applications 25, 928-942. [link]

Foster, W.A., J.L. Snaddon, A.D. Advento, H. Barclay, J-P. Caliman, C. Kurniawan, D.J. Kurz, D.J. Mann, M. Naim, D.P. Pujianto, T. Dzulfikar, E.M. Slade, S. Soeprapto, S. Suhardi, P.S. Suhardto, S.T. Ribka, W. Resti, H.W. Rudi, and E.C. Turner. 2014. The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Project. The Planter 90, 581-591. [link]

Kurz, D.J., A.J. Nowakowski, M.W. Tingley, M.A. Donnelly, and D.S. Wilcove. 2014. Forest-land use complementarity modifies community structure of a tropical herpetofauna. Biological Conservation 170, 246-255. [link]

Kurz, D.J., N.A. McGinty, S.A. Stankavich, A.J. Nowakowski, and G.A. Smith. 2013. Restored wetlands can support mammalian assemblages comparable to those in non-mitigated, reference wetlands. American Midland Naturalist 170, 260-273. [link]

Kurz, D.J., K.M. Straley, and B.A. DeGregorio. 2012. Out-foxing the red fox: how best to protect the nests of the Endangered loggerhead marine turtle Caretta caretta from mammalian predation? Oryx 46, 223-228. [link]

DeGregorio, B.A., T.E. Hancock, D.J. Kurz, and S. Yue. 2011. How quickly are road-killed snakes scavenged? Implications for underestimates of road mortality. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science 127, 184-188.[link]