Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member

Krishna Pacifici

PhD

Research Publications Publication Date
Terando, A.J., B. Reich, K. Pacifici, J. Costanza, A. McKerrow, and J. Collazo. 2017. Uncertainty quantification and propagation for projections of extremes in monthly area burned under climate change: A case study in the coastal plain of Georgia, USA. Natural Hazard Uncertainty Assessment: Modeling and Decision Support, Geophysical Monograph 223, First Edition. Edited by Karin Riley, Peter Webley, and Matthew Thompson. © 2017 American Geophysical Union. Published 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-119-02786-7. January 2017
Rivera-Burgos, A. C., J. A. Collazo, A. J. Terando, and K. Pacifici. 2021. Linking demographic rates to local environmental conditions in support of Climate Adaptation Strategies for Eleutherodactylus frogs. Global Ecology and Conservation 28 (2021) e01624. | Abstract May 2021
Pease, B., K. Pacifici, and J. A. Collazo. 2021. Survey design optimization for monitoring wildlife communities in areas managed for federally endangered species. Animal Conservation 24:756–769. March 2021
Patton, P. T., K. Pacifici, and Jaime A. Collazo. 2022. Modeling and Estimating Co-occurrence between generalist brood parasites and host communities. Biological Invasions. March 2022
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. The Auk 125:600-607. August 2008
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. Submitted to Ecology and Evolution. January 2014
Pacifici, K., B. J. Reich, D. A.W. Miller, B. Gardner, G. Stauffer, S. Singh, A. McKerrow, and J. A. Collazo. 2017. INTEGRATING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES IN SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELING: A FRAMEWORK FOR DATA FUSION. Ecology 98:840-850. doi: 10.1002/ecy.1710. January 2017
Pacifici, J. K., L. S. Mills, and J. A. Collazo. 2018. Interactions of Human-Caused Mortality, Genetic Introgression, and Management among Wild Red Wolves: Developing Scientific Consensus. Final Report Submitted to USFWS, Atlanta GA. 65pp. January 2018
Monroe, K. E., J. A. Collazo, K. Pacifici, B. J. Reich, A. R. Puente-Rolón, and A. J. Terando. 2017. Occupancy and index of abundance of Eleutherodactylus wightmanae and E. brittoni along elevational gradients in west-central Puerto Rico. Caribbean Naturalist 40:1-18. ( ISSN 2326-7119 [online]). April 2017
Monroe, K. E, J. A. Collazo, K. Pacifici, B. J. Reich, A. R. Puente-Rolón, and A. J. Terando. 2017. Occupancy and abundance of Eleutherodactylus Frogs in Coffee Plantations in Puerto Rico. Herpetologica 73:297-306. https://doi.org/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-16-00089. December 2017
Kathryn E. Battle, Krishna Pacifici, Jaime Collazo, and Brian Reich. 2020. Using biodiversity metrics to guide conservation planning in altered tropical landscapes. Caribbean Naturalist 77:1-17. ISSN 2326-7119. | Abstract July 2020
Huberman, D. B, B. J. Reich, K. Pacifici, and J. A. Collazo. 2020. Estimating The Drivers Of Species Distributions With Opportunistic Data Using Mediation Analysis. Ecosphere 11(16):e03165. 10.1002/ecs2.3165. June 2020
Collazo, J. A., P. F. Fackler, K. Pacifici, T. H. White, and I. Llerandi-Roman. 2013. Optimal allocation of captive-reared Puerto Rican Parrots: decisions when divergent dynamics characterize managed populations. The Journal of Wildlife Management 77:1124-1134. March 2013
Alldredge, M. W., Pacifici, K., T. R. Simons, and K. H. Pollock. 2008. A field evaluation of the effectiveness of distance sampling and double independent observers to estimate detection probability in aural avian point counts. Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 1349-1356. August 2008
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 for Aural Avian Point Counts. Avian Ecology and Conservation 2(2):13. November 2007
Irizarry, A. D., J. A. Collazo, K. Pacifici, B. J. Reich, and K. E. Battle. 2018. Avian Response to Shade-Layer Restoration in Coffee Plantations in Puerto Rico. Restoration Ecology. Restoration Ecology 24:1212-1220. DOI.org/10.1111/rec.12697 April 2018
Project Completion Date
Conservation status and management of Henslow's sparrows at the VOA Game Land and eastern North Carolina. June 2023
Applying downscaled climate projections to inform decisions June 2019
Advancing Use and Application of Diverse Data Sources and Species Distribution Models. September 2018
Optimal Sampling of Animal Communities. September 2019
Development of Long-term acoustic monitoring program and projected species distribution under future scenarios in the US Caribbean. September 2021
Presentations Presentation Date
Patton, P. T., K. Pacifici, and J.A. Collazo. MODELING AND ESTIMATING CO-OCCURRENCE BETWEEN GENERALIST BROOD PARASITES AND HOST COMMUNITIES. July 2017
Patton, P. T., K. Pacifici, and J. A. Collazo. 2016. Joint host–brood parasite occurrence models can improve predictions and reveal ecological traps. International Statistical Ecology Conference. June 2016
Patton, P. T., K. Pacifici, and J. A. Collazo. 2016. Incorporating multiple sources of error in hierarchical models of community occupancy. Contributed Presentation on the 23rd Annual Conference, Wildlife Society, Raleigh. October 2016
Pandolfo, T.J., T.J. Kwak, W.G. Cope, R.J. Heise, R.B. Nichols, and K. Pacifici. 2015. Biotic and abiotic influences on the occurrence and detection of freshwater mussels at multiple scales. Biennial Symposium of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society. March 22-27, St. Charles, Missouri. March 2015
Page, J. H., J. A. Collazo, A. J. McKerrow, and K. Pacifici. 2019. Using remotely-sensed data to assess landscape occupancy dynamics of forest dwelling passerines along the Gulf of Mexico. April 2019
Pacifici, K., E. Zipkin, J. Collazo and J. Irizarry. Guidelines for a priori grouping of species in hierarchical community models. April 2013
Pacifici, K., B. J. Reich, D. A.W. Miller, B. Gardner, G. Stauffer, S. Singh, A. McKerrow, and J. Collazo. 2016. Integrating multiple data sources in species distribution modeling: A framework for data fusion. International Statistical Ecology Conference, Seattle, WA. June 2016
Pacifici, K*, M.J. Conroy, R.J. Cooper, and J.T. Peterson. 2008. Occupancy estimation within an adaptive sampling design: Evaluation of an integrated estimator for rare or elusive species. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference. Miami, Florida. November 8-12. November 2008
Nastase, E.A., N.J. Hostetter, K. Pacifici, A.J. McKerrow, and J.A. Collazo. 2024<b>. </b>Multi-scale assessment of Henslow’s Sparrow (<i>Centronyx henslowii</i>) habitat use in a fire-managed grassland. 2024 AOS Annual Meeting, YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado. 1–5 October 2024. October 2024
Kathryn Battle, K. Pacifici, and Jaime A. Collazo. Local- and Landscape-Level Drivers of Avian Community Assemblages in Subtropical Forested and Agricultural Habitats. July 2015
Irizarry, A., J. A. Collazo, K. Pacifici. 2016. Avian response to shade layer restoration in coffee plantations in Puerto Rico. North American Ornithological Conference, Washington, DC. August 2016
Cooper, R. J., R. S. Mordecai, B. G. Mattsson, M. J. Conroy, K. Pacifici, J. T. Peterson, and C. T. Moore. 2008. Design for a region-wide adaptive search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker with the objective of estimating occupancy and related parameters. Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference, 13-16 February 2008, McAllen, TX. February 2008
Collazo, J. A., K. Pacifici, B. J. Reich. Ecological constructs underlying landscape conservation: the fundamental role of coffee shade restoration in west-central Puerto Rico. August 2020
Collazo, J. A. Collazo, K. Pacifici, and B. Reich. Conservation design: habitat restoration for avian conservation. To be presented at the AOS/BC conference in session entitled Puerto Rico Day: Bird diversity and conservation in the “island of enchantment." San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 2022
Battle, K.E., K. Pacifici, J.A. Collazo. 2016. Perception is Reality: Does the Biodiversity Metric of Choice Determine the Biodiversity Drivers? Contributed Paper to be presented at the 23rd Annual Conference, Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC. October 2016
Technical Publications Publication Date
Conroy, M. J., J. T. Peterson, R. J. Cooper, C. T. Moore, B. J. Mattsson, R. S. Mordecai, and K. Pacifici. 2008. An adaptive sample survey design for the ivory billed woodpecker. Final Report to USGS/CRU. March 2008