2025

30. Suriyamongkol, T., Pease, B. S., Zaczek, J. J., Schoonover, J. E., Nielsen, C. K., & Groninger, J. W. (2025). Influences of Landscape and Vegetation Structures on Herpetofauna Communities in Canebrakes and Associated Floodplain Forests. Wetlands, 45(7), 1-15. [PDF]

29. Whipkey, D., Narr, C., Pease, B. S., & Bastille‐Rousseau, G. (2025). Terrestrial and aquatic drivers of occupancy in four semiaquatic mammals. Ecosphere, 16(9), e70386. [PDF]

28. Pease, B. S., & Gilbert, N. A. (2025). Light pollution prolongs avian activity. Science, 389(6762), 818-821. [PDF] [CODE]

*Top 5% of all research scored on Altmetric

Press Coverage: NPR, Washington Post, Science News, Gizmodo

27. Larreur, M. R., Remmers, J. J., Audia, E. M., Suriyamongkol, T., Buckman, K. M., Pershyn, N. A., Pease, B.S., Bastille-Rousseau, G., & Nielsen, C. K. (2025). Drivers of nine-banded armadillo occupancy and expansion near the edge of their northern range. Journal of Mammalogy, 106(3), 658-670. [PDF]

26. Grilo, C., Neves, T., Bates, J., Le Roux, A., Medrano-Vizcaíno, P., Quaranta, M., ... & Wang, Y. (2025). Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles. Scientific data, 12(1), 505. [100+ coauthors and data contributors] [PDF]

25. Cove, M. V., Crandall, K. A., Redinger, J., Lord, I., Sanjar, A., Sayers, S., ... & Pease, B. S. (2025). Ordinary Boldness or Parasitic Mind Control? A Case of Crocodile Nest-Raiding Raccoons in the Florida Keys. [PDF]

24. Suriyamongkol, T., Bosch, K., Berkman, L. K., Timm, S., Groninger, J. W., Nielsen, C. K., & Pease, B. S. (2025). Return of the Swamp Rabbit: Sylvilagus aquaticus Occupancy Increased and Expanded Along the Northern Extent of Its Distribution Range. Wildlife Letters. [PDF]

2024

23. Ducay, R. L., & Pease, B. S. (2024). High-pass filters do not consistently strengthen associations between acoustic indices and avian species richness. Ecological Indicators, 169, 112922. [PDF]

22. Crandall, K. A., Pease, B. S., Dixon, J., & Cove, M. V. (2024). Human-derived food shrinks home ranges and alters resource selection of mammals at the urban-wild interface. Food Webs, 41, e00363. [PDF]

21. Metz, E., Pease, B. S., Benson, T. J., Beveroth, T. A., Esker, T., Sierzega, K., & Ward, M. P. (2024). Long-term occurrence of Chuck-will’s-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis) beyond contemporary IUCN range. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 136(3), 364-369. [PDF]

20. Pease, B. S. (2024). Ecological scales of effect vary across space and time. Ecography, 2024(8), e07163. [PDF]

19. Metz, E. M., & Pease, B. S. (2024). Environmental relationships, decadal changes, and regional decline of Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus) and Chuck-will’s-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis). Avian Conservation and Ecology, 19(1). [PDF]

18. Shamon, H., Maor, R., Cove, M. V., Kays, R., Adley, J., Alexander, P. D., ... & McShea, W. J. (2024). SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the U nited S tates. Ecology, 105(6), e4318. [100+ coauthors and data contributors] [PDF]

17. Ducay, R. L., & Pease, B. S. (2024). The impact of vehicular noise on acoustic indices within simulated bird assemblage soundscapes. Bioacoustics, 33(2), 203-220. [PDF]

2023

16. Pease, B. S., Gilbert, N. A., Casola, W. R., & Akamani, K. (2023). The Steller's Sea‐Eagle in North America: An economic assessment of birdwatchers travelling to see a vagrant raptor. People and Nature, 5(6), 1937-1947. [PDF]

Press Coverage: Hakai Magazine, Smithsonian, The Wildlife Society,

15. Crandall, K. A., Pease, B. S., Simmons, A. L., Adamovicz, L. A., & Cove, M. V. (2023). Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) Undetected in Endangered Key Largo Woodrat (Neotoma floridana smalli) Endemic Range. The Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 59(3), 536-538. [PDF]

14. Kreh, C. D., Pease, B. S., & Pacifici, K. (2023). Efficacy of autonomous recording units to evaluate wild turkey gobbling chronology in North Carolina, USA. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 47(2), e1433. [PDF]

2022

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

12. Pease, B. S., Pacifici, K., & Kays, R. (2022). Exploring spatial nonstationarity for four mammal species reveals regional variation in environmental relationships. Ecosphere, 13(8), e4166. [PDF]

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

2021

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

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

08. Cove, M. V., & Pease, B. S. (2021). Is it an omnivore's world? A comment on dietary traits in multispecies hierarchical models. Biological Conservation, 261, 109299. [PDF]

07. Gilbert, N. A., Pease, B. S., Anhalt-Depies, C. M., Clare, J. D., Stenglein, J. L., Townsend, P. A., ... & Zuckerberg, B. (2021). Integrating harvest and camera trap data in species distribution models. Biological Conservation, 258, 109147. [PDF]

06. Lasky, M., Parsons, A., Schuttler, S., Mash, A., Larson, L., Pease, B.S., ... & Kays, R. (2021). Candid critters: challenges and solutions in a large-scale citizen science camera trap project. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6(1). [PDF]

2020

05. Kays, R., Arbogast, B. S., Baker‐Whatton, M., Beirne, C., Boone, H. M., Bowler, M., ... & Spironello, W. R. (2020). An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when?. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(6), 700-713.[100+ coauthors and data contributors] [PDF]

2019

04. Pease, B. S., Holzmueller, E. J., & Nielsen, C. K. (2019). Influence of forest structure and composition on summer habitat use of wildlife in an upland hardwood forest. Diversity, 11(9), 160. [PDF]

03. Larue, M. A., Nielsen, C. K., & Pease, B. S. (2019). Increases in Midwestern cougars despite harvest in a source population. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(6), 1306-1313. [PDF]

02. Pacifici, K., Reich, B. J., Miller, D. A., & Pease, B. S. (2019). Resolving misaligned spatial data with integrated species distribution models. Ecology, 100(6), e02709. [PDF]

2016

01. Pease, B. S., Nielsen, C. K., & Holzmueller, E. J. (2016). Single-camera trap survey designs miss detections: impacts on estimates of occupancy and community metrics. PLoS One, 11(11), e0166689. [PDF]