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Special Issues
  • ​Editors: Gotanda, K. M., Hendry, A. P., Svensson, E. I. (2017). Special Theme Issue: Human influences on evolution and the ecological and societal consequences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – B 372(1712) 
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Peer-reviewed​

I have edited one special issue, and I have published 36 peer reviewed manuscripts for twelve of which I am first or co-first author and four of which I am senior or co-senior author, two of which are natural history notes, one of which is a methods paper, and two of which are responses to comments.

*Authors contributed equally to this work; Graduate student co-author​; Undergraduate co-author
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Total citations: Google Scholar – 2008; Web of Science – 1369; retrieved October 29, 2023
  1. Beausoleil, M., Camacho, C., Rabadán-González, J., Lalla, K., Richard, R., Carrion-Avilés, P., Podos, J., Raeymaekers, J. A. M., Knutie, S. A., De León, L. F., Chaves, J. A., Clayton, D. H., Koop, J. A. H., Sharpe, D. M. T., Gotanda, K. M., Huber, S. K., Barrett, R. D. H., Hendry, A. P. (accepted) The fitness landscape of a community of Darwin’s finches. Evolution. MS: EVO-23-0138
  2. ​Sanderson, S., Bolnick, D. I., Kinnison, M. T., O’Dea, R. E., Gorné, L. D., Hendry, A. P., Gotanda, K. M. (2023) Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation and the potential consequences for eco-evolutionary dynamics. Ecology Letters 26(Suppl. 1): S127-S139
  3. Thurman, T.J., Palmer, T.M., Kolbe, J.J., Askary, A., Gotanda, K.M., Lapiedra, O., Kartzinel, T.R., Man in’t Veld, N.A., Revell, L.J., Wegener, J., Schoener, T.W., Spiller, D.A., Losos, J.B., Pringle, R.M.P., Barrett, R.D.H. (2023) The difficulty of predicting evolutionary change in response to novel ecological interactions: a field experiment with Anolis lizards. The American Naturalist 201(4): 537-556 
  4. Verrelli, B. C., Alberti, M., Des Roches, S., Harris, N. C., Hendry, A. P., Johnson, M. T. J., Savage, A. M., Charmantier, A.*, Gotanda, K. M.*, Govaert, L.*, Miles, L. S.*, Rivkin, L. R.*, Winchell, K. M. *, Brans, K. I., Correa, C., Diamond, S. E., Fitzhugh, B., Grimm, N. B., Hughes, S., Marzluff, J. M., Munshi-South, J., Rojas, C., Santangelo, J. S., Schell, C. J., Schweitzer, J. A., Szulkin, M., Urban, M. C., Zhou, Y., Ziter, C. (2022) A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37(11): 1006-1019 doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.07.012 *Theme leader (led development, writing, and editing of themes)
  5. Sanderson, S., Beausoleil, M., O’Dea, R. E., Wood, Z. T., Correa, C., Frankel, V., Gorné, L. D., Haines, G. E., Kinnison, M. T., Oke, K. B., Pelletier, F., Pérez-Jvostev, F., Reyes-Corral, W. D., Ritchot, Y., Sorbara, F., Gotanda, K. M.*§, Hendry, A. P.* (2022) The pace of modern life, revisited. Molecular Ecology​ 31(4): 1028-1043 doi.org/10.1111/mec.16299 §Corresponding author
  6. Lever, D., Rush, L. V., Thorogood, R., Gotanda, K.M. (2022) Darwin’s small and medium ground finches might have taste preferences, but not for human foods. Royal Society Open Science 9(1): 21198 doi.org/10.1098/rsos.21119
  7. ​Heckley, A. M., Pearce, A. E., Gotanda, K. M., Hendry, A. P.,  Oke, K. B. (2022) Compiling forty years of guppy research to investigate the factors contributing to (non)parallel evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(11): 1414-1431 doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14086
  8. Winchell, K. M., Aviles-Rodriguez, K. J., Carlen, E. J., Miles, L. S., Charmantier, A., De León, L. F., Gotanda, K. M., Rivkin, L. R., Szulkin, M., Verrelli, B. C. (2022) Moving past the challenges and misconceptions in urban adaptation research. Ecology and Evolution 12(11): e9552 doi/10.1002/ece3.9552
  9. Carrión, P. L., Raeymaekers, J. A. M., De León, L. F., Chaves, J. A., Sharpe, D. M. T., Huber, S. K., Herrel, A., Vanhooydonck, B., Gotanda, K. M., Koop, J. A. H., Knutie, S. A., Clayton, D. H., Podos, J., Hendry, A. P. (2022) The terroir of the finch: how spatial and temporal variation shapes phenotypic traits in Darwin’s finches. Ecology and Evolution 12(10): e9399 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.939
  10. McNew, S., Yepez, J., Loyola, C., Andreadis, C., Gotanda, K. M., Saulsberry, A., Fessl, B. (2022) Transcriptomic effects of Galápagos finches to avian pox virus infection. Molecular Ecology 31(21): 5552-5567 doi.org/10.1111/mec.16690​
  11. Santangelo, J., Ness, R.; Cohan, B.; Fitzpatrick, C.; Innes, S.; Koch, S.; Miles, L.; Munim, S.; Peres-Neto, P.; Prashad, C.; Tong, A.; Gotanda, K. M.; Johnson, M. T. J. + 275 co-authors (2022) Global urban environmental changes drives adaptation in white clover. Science 375(6586): 1275-1281 doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0989
  12. Kamath, A., Herrmann, N. C., Gotanda, K. M., Shim, K., LaFond, J., Cottone, G., Falkner, H., Campbell, T. S., Stuart, Y. E. (2021) Character displacement in the midst of background evolution in island populations of Anolis lizards: a spatiotemporal perspective. Evolution 74(10): 2250-2264 doi: 10.1111/evo.14079
  13. ​​​​​​Gotanda, K. M. (2020) Human influences on antipredator behaviour in Darwin’s finches. Journal of Animal Ecology​ 89(2): 614-622 doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13127 
  14. ​Montiglio, P. O.*, Gotanda, K. M.,* Kratochwil, C.F.*, Laskowski, K. L.*, Nadell, C. D.*, Farine, D. R.* (2020) Hierarchically-embedded interaction networks represent a missing link in the study of behavioural and community ecology. Behavioural Ecology 31(2): 279-286 doi: 10.1093/beheco/arz168 
  15. ​​Carvajal-Endara, S., Hendry, A. P., Emery, N. C., Neu, C. P., Carmona, D., Gotanda, K. M., Davies, T. J., Chaves, J., Johnson, M. T. J. (2020) The ecology and evolution of seed predation by Darwin's finches on Tribulus cistoides in the Galápagos Islands. Ecological Monographs 90(1): e01392 doi: 10.1002/ecm.1392
  16. Gotanda, K. M., Pack, A., Leblond, C., and Hendry, A. P. (2019) Do replicates of independent guppy lineages evolve similarly in a predator-free laboratory environment? Ecology and Evolution​ 9: 36–51 doi: 10.1002/ece3.4585
  17. Pringle. R. M., Kartzinel, T. R., Palmer, T. M., Thurman, T. J., Fox-Dobbs, K., Xu, C. C. Y., Hutchinson, M. C., Coverdale, T. C., Daskin, J. H., Evangelista, D. A., Gotanda, K. M., Man in ‘t Veld, N., Wegener, J. E., Kolbe, J. J., Schoener, T. W., Spiller, D. A., Losos, J. B., Barrett, R. D. H. (2019) Predator-induced collapse of niche structure and species coexistence. Nature 570: 58-74 doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1264-6 
  18. ​Knutie, S. A., Chaves, J.A., Gotanda, K. M. (2019) Human disturbances can influence the body mass and gut microbiota of Darwin’s finches. Molecular Ecology 28(9): 2441-2450 doi: 10.1111/mec.15088 
  19. ​Berger-Tal, O., Greggor, A. L., Macura, B., Adams, C., Blumenthal, A., Bouskila, A., Candolin, U., Doran, C., Gotanda, K. M., Price, C., Putnam, B., Segoli, M., Snijders, L., Wong, B. B. M., Blumstein, D. T. (2019) Making the case for systematic evidence syntheses as a tool for applying animal behaviour to management and policy. Behavioral Ecology 30(1): 1-8 doi: 10.1093/beheco/ary130
  20. ​​De León, L. F., Sharpe, D. M. T., Gotanda, K. M., Raeymaekers, J. A. M., Chaves J. A., Hendry, A. P., Podos, J. (2018) Urbanization erode niche segregation in Darwin’s finches. Evolutionary Applications 12: 1329-1343 doi: 10.1111/eva.12721 PDF
  21. ​​Knutie, S. A.* and Gotanda, K. M.* (2018) A non-destructive method to collect fecal samples from wild birds for microbiome studies. Microbial Ecology 76(4): 851–855 doi: 10.1007/s00248-018-1182-4 PDF
  22. Theodosopoulos, A. N. and Gotanda, K. M. (2018) Death of a Darwin’s Finch: a consequence of anthropogenic debris? The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 130(4): 1023-1028 doi: 10.1676/17-00050.1 PDF
  23. Michel, A. J., Ward, L. M., Goffredi, S. K., Dawson, K., Baldassarre, D. T., Brenner, A., Gotanda, K. M., McCormack, J. E., Mullin, S., O’Neill, A., Tender, G., Uy, J. A. C., Yu, K., Orphan, V. J., Chaves, J. A. (2018) The gut of the finch: uniqueness of the gut microbiome of the Galápagos vampire finch. Microbiome 6: 167 doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0555-8  PDF
  24. De Lira, J. J. P. R., Peréz-Jvostov, F., Gotanda, K. M., Kou-Giesbrecht, S., Pease, S., Jackson, M., Jersch, S., Aikins, C. M., Hendry, A. P. (2018) Testing for whole-organism trade-off between natural and sexual selection: are the male guppies preferred by females more likely to be consumed by predators? Evolutionary Ecology Research​ 19: 441-453 PDF
  25. ​Siepielski, A., Morrissey, M. B., Buoro, M., Carlson, S. M., Caruso, C. M., Clegg, S. M., Coulson, T., DiBattista, J., Gotanda, K. M., Francis, C. D., Hereford, J., Kingsolver, J. G., Augustine, K. E., Kruuk, L. E. B., Martin, R. A., Sheldon, B. C., Sletvold, N., Svensson, E. I., Wade, M. J., MacColl, A. D. C. (2017). Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science 355(6328): 959–962 doi: 10.1126/science.aag2773 PDF SUPP
  26. Alberti, M., Correa, C. Marzluff, J. Hendry, A. P., Palkovacs, E. P., Gotanda, K. M., Hunt, V. Apgar, T. M., Zhou, Y. (2017). Global urban signatures of phenotypic change in animal and plant populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(34) 8951–8956 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1606034114 PDF
  27. Hendry, A. P., Gotanda, K. M., Svensson, E. I. (2017). Human influences on evolution, and the ecological and societal consequences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – B 372(1712): 20160028 doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0028 PDF
  28. Gotanda, K. M., Correa, C., Turcotte, M. M., Hendry, A. P. (2015) Linking macro-trends and micro-rates: re-evaluating micro-evolutionary support for Cope’s Rule. Evolution 69(5): 1345-1354 doi: 10.1111/evo.12653 PDF SUPP
  29. Gotanda, K. M., Sharpe, D. M. T., De Léon, L. F. (2015). Galápagos Mockingbird preys on an invasive mammal. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 127(1): 138-141 doi: 10.1676/14-055.1 PDF
  30. Gotanda, K. M. and Hendry, A. P. (2014). Using adaptive traits to consider potential consequences of temporal variation in selection: male guppy colour through time and space. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 112(1): 108-122 doi: 10.1111/bij.12261 PDF SUPP
  31. Siepielski, A. M.*, Gotanda, K. M.*, Morrissey, M. B., Diamond, S. E., DiBattista, J. D., Carlson, S. M. (2013) The spatial dynamics of phenotypic selection. Ecology Letters 16(11): 1382-1392 **F1000 Prime recommended doi: 10.1111/ele.12174 PDF SUPP       
  32. Gotanda, K. M., Delaire, L. C., Raeymaekers, J. A. M., Pérez-Jvostov, F., Dargent, F., Bentzen, P., Scott, M. E., Fussmann, G. F., Hendry, A. P. (2013). Adding parasites to the guppy-predation story: insights from field surveys. Oecologia 172(1): 155-166 doi: 10.1007/s00442-012-2485-7 PDF SUPP Pop. Parasite Data
  33. Gotanda, K. M., Reardon, E. E., Murphy, S. M. C. and Chapman, L. J., (2012). Critical swim speed and fast-start response in an African Cichlid: convergent performance in divergent oxygen regimes. Canadian Journal of Zoology 90: 545-554 doi: 10.1139/z2012-019 PDF
  34. Haller, B. C., De Léon, L. F., Rolshausen, G., Gotanda, K. M., Hendry, A. P. (2012) Magic traits: distinguishing the important from the trivial. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27(1): 5-6 doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.09.005 PDF
  35. Gotanda. K. M., Reardon, E. E., Chapman, L. J. (2011). Hypoxia and behaviour in a male African cichlid. Journal of Fish Biology 78(7): 2085-2092 doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.02996.x PDF
  36. Gotanda, K. M., Turgeon, K., and Kramer, D. L. (2009). Body size and reserve protection affect flight initiation distance in parrotfish. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63(11): 1563-1572 doi: 10.1007/s00265-009-0750-5  PDF

Response to Comments
  1. Siepielski, A. M., Morrissey, M. B., Buoro, M., Carlson, S. M., Caruso, C. M., Clegg, S. M., Coulson, T., DiBattista, J., Gotanda, K. M., Francis, C. D., Hereford, J., Kingsolver, J. G., Augustine, K. E., Kruuk, L. E. B., Martin, R. A., Sheldon, B. C., Sletvold, N., Svensson, E. I., Wade, M. J., MacColl, A. D. C. (2018). Response to comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection". Science 359(6374): eaan5760. doi: 0.1126/science.aan5760​ 
  2. Berger-Tal, O., Greggor, A. L., Macura, B., Adams, C., Blumenthal, A., Bouskila, A., Candolin, U., Doran, C., Gotanda, K. M., Price, C., Putman, B., Segoli, M., Snijders, L., Wong, B. B. M., Blumstein, D. T. (2018) Systematic evidence synthesis as part of a larger process: a response to comments on Berger-Tal et al. Behavioral Ecology 30(1): 14-15 doi: /10.1093/beheco/ary163

In Review/Revision/Pre-print (full manuscript available upon request) 
  • Savage, A. M., Willmott, M. J., Garcia, P. M., Jagiello, Z, Li, D, Malesis, A., Miles, L. S., Román-Palacios, C., Salazar-Valenzuela, D., Verrelli, B. C., Winchell, K. M., Alberti, M., Bonilla-Bedoya. S., Carlen, E. J., Falvey, C., Johnson, L., Martin, E., Kuzyo, H., Marzluff, J., Munshi-South, J., Phifer-Rixey, M., Stadnicki, I., Szulkin, M., Zhou, Y., Gotanda, K. M. (in review) Online toolkits for collaborative and inclusive global research in urban evolutionary ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Special Theme Issue: Shaping the Future: Urban Resilience and Socio-Ecological Systems Through Time. MS: 1225797
  • Urban, M. C., Alberti, M., De Meester, L., Zhou, Y., Verrelli, B. C., Szulkin, M., Schmidt, C., Roberts, P., Rivkin, L. R., Palkovacs, E. P., Munshi-South, J., Harris, N. C., Garroway, C. J., Diamond, S. E., Des Roches, S., Gotanda, K. M., Charmantier, A., Brans, K. I. (in review) Interactions between climate change and urbanization. Nature Climate Change. MS: NCLIM-23030509
  • Carlen, E. J., Caizergues, A. E., Jagiełło, Z., Kuzyo, H., Munshi-South, J., Alberti, M., Bonilla, S., Booth, W., Charmantier, A., Cook, E. M., Gosler, A., Gotanda, K. M., Govaert, L., Grimm, N. B., Johnson, L. E., Li, D., Malesis, A. N., Martin, E., Marzluff, J., Mazurek, M., Miles, L. S., Phifer-Rixey, M., Salazar-Valenzuela, D., Savage, A., Schmidt, C., Snyder, R., Stadnicki, I., Vergeles, Y., Verrelli, B. C., Villar, D., Willmott, M., Winchell, K. M., Yates, S., Zhou, Y., Garroway, C. J., Szulkin, M. (in review) What’s Past is Present, What’s Present is Future: Exploring the historical, cultural, religious, and sociopolitical drivers of evolution in cities. Nature Cities. MS: NATCITIES-23080260
  • Vlahiotis, K., Hogg, C. J., Moehrenschlager, A., Shapiro, B., Steeves, T. E., Vilà, C., van Heezik, Y., Gotanda, K. M. (pre-print) Do conservation translocations involve or result in hybridization and what are the consequences of hybridization for conservation? A systematic review protocol. Open Science Framework doi: 10.31219/osf.io/rg59a 
  • ​Gotanda, K.M.*, Farine, D.R.*, Kratochwil, C.F.*, Laskowski, K.L.*, Montiglio, P.O.* (in revision) Animal behaviour facilitates eco-evolutionary dynamics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution MS: TREE-D-19-00365 arXiv
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Invited Seminars
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2023
  • Brock University, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Canada
  • University of Guelph, Department of Integrative Biology, Canada
  • Adelphi University, Biology-College of Arts and Science, United States
  • Hólar University, Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Iceland
  • California State University Los Angeles, Dept. Biol. Sci., United States
  • Ontario Biology Day (Invited Plenary), Brock University, Canada
  • University of Cincinnati, Department of Biology, United States
2022
  • Florida State University, Graduate Student Invited Speaker in Department of Biological Sciences, United States
  • Penn State University, Department of Biology, United States
  • University of Toronto, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Canada
2021
  • ​Wake Forest University, Graduate Student Invited Speaker in Department of Biology, United States
  • University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus, Darwin Week Invited Early Career Researcher, England
  • George Washington University, Graduate Student Invited Speaker in Department of Biology, United States
  • Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting Invited Keynote Speaker, Netherlands
  • University of Alberta, Faculty of Science - Biological Sciences, Canada
  • ​University of Colorado, Denver, Department of Integrative Biology, United States
  • McMaster University, Department of Biology, Canada
  • Kennesaw State University, Dept. of Ecol., Evol., and Org. Bio., United States
  • University of Guelph, Department of Integrative Biology, Canada
2020
  • Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution Early Career Award
  • University of Glasgow, Darwin Day Graduate Student Invited Speaker, Scotland
  • Vanier College, Vanier Celebrates Women in Science, Canada
  • University of Wyoming, Department of Zoology & Physiology, United States
  • Université de Sherbrooke, Département de Biologie, Canada
  • California State University, Fresno, Department of Biology, United States
  • Emporia State University, Department of Biological Sciences, United States
  • Brock University, Department of Biological Sciences, Canada
  • Lakehead University, Department of Biology, Canada
  • Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals, CREAF talks, Spain
  • Durham University, Department of Biosciences, England
  • University of Missouri – St. Louis, Department of Biology, United States
2019
  • George Mason University, Department of Biology, United States
  • ​Christ’s College Charles Darwin and Galapagos Islands Funds 10th Anniversary, London, England
  • McGill University, Redpath Museum, Canada
  • ​Swansea University, Department of Biosciences, Wales
  • Université de Montréal, Département de Sciences Biologiques, Canada
​2018
  • Nord University, Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Norway
  • Concordia University, Department of Biological Sciences, Canada
  • Anglia Ruskin University, Department of Biology, United Kingdom
2017
  • Imperial College London, Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series, England
  • University of Bristol,Workshops in Ecology and Behaviour,  England
  • University of Jyväskylä, Departmental Research Seminar Series, Finland
  • Newnham College, University of Cambridge, Gibbs Fellowship Annual Lecture, England
  • Erasmus Mundus International Master in Applied Ecology, Galápagos, Ecuador
  • Universidad San Francisco de Quito, San Cristobal, Galápagos, Ecuador
2016
  • Corpus Christi College, Postdocs of Cambridge Society Leckhampton Dinner, England
  • University of Cambridge, Zoology Postdoc Summer Seminar Series, England
2015
  • Vanier College, Vanier Celebrates Women in Science, Canada
  • University of Cambridge, Behavioural Ecology Group, United Kingdom
2014
  • Queen’s University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour Seminar Series, Canada
2013
  • McGill University, Biology Organismal Seminar Series, Canada