Cabacungan, G. N., Waduwara-Kankana, T. N., Azam, A. F., Collins, M. R., Arriata, A. R., Matz, M. V., & Black, K. L. (2025). Cryptic coral community composition across environmental gradients. PLoS ONE 20(2): e0318653. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318653

 

Black, K. L., Bay, L. K., & Matz, M.K. (2024). A genetic variant of delta-9 desaturase is associated with thermal tolerance in a coral from the Great Barrier Reef. Molecular Ecology, e17634. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17634

 

Black, K. L., Liu, K., Graham, J., Wiley, T., Gardiner, J., MacDonald, C., & Matz, M.K. (2024). Evidence for gene flow from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean in bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo). Ecology and Evolution, 14(9): e70334. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70334

 

Rando, H.M., Alexander, E.P., Preckler-Quisquater, S., Quinn, C.B., Stutchman, J.T., Johnson, J.L., Bastounes, E.R., Horecka, B. Black, K. L., Robson, M.P., Shepeleva, D.V., Herbeck, Y.E., Kharlamova, A.V., Trut, L.N., Pauli, J.N., Kukekova, A.V., Sacks, B.N. (2024). Missing history of a modern domesticate: historical demographics and genetic diversity in domesticated red fox populations. Journal of Heredity, esae022. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esae022

 

Sanders, S.W., Spear, S.F., Black, K. L., Olfenbuttel, C., & DePerno, C.S. (2023). Diet of the North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) in North Carolina using two methods. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 47(4): e1502. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1502

 

Macdonald, C., Jerome, J., Pankow, C., Perni, N., Black, K. L., Shiffman, D., & Wester, J. (2021). Identification of a probable nursery area for great hammerhead sharks on the U.S. Atlantic coast. Conservation Science and Practice, e418. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.418

 

Black, K. L., Manlick, P. J., Romanski, M. C., & Pauli, J. N. (2020). Exploring the origins of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) on Isle Royale. American Midland Naturalist, 185(2), 260–266. https://doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-185.2.260

 

Pauli, J. N., Manlick, P. J., Dharampal, P. S., Chikaraishi, Y., Niccolai, L., Grauer, J., Black, K. L., Restrepo, M. G., Perrig, P. L., Wilson, E., Martin, M. E., Curras, M. R., Bougie, T., Thompson, K. L., Smith, M., & Steffan, S. A. (2019). Quantifying niche partitioning and multichannel feeding among tree squirrels. Food Webs, 21, e00124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2019.e00124

 

Black, K. L., Petty, S. K., Radeloff, V. C., & Pauli, J. N. (2018). The great lakes region is a melting pot for vicariant red fox (Vulpes vulpes) populations. Journal of Mammalogy, 99(5), e2205v1. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy096

 


Preprints

Matz, M.K. & Black, K. L. (2024). RDAforest: identifying environmental drivers of polygenic adaptation. In revision. Preprint DOI: bioRxiv, 2024.10. 21.619525

 

Black, K. L., Rippe, J.P., & Matz, M.K. (2023). Environmental drivers of genetic adaptation in Florida corals. In revision. Preprint DOI: 10.22541/au.166997531.17274551/v1


Books/Theses

Black, K. L. (2024). Genomic exploration of coral and shark populations across seascape gradients. Doctoral dissertation. University of Texas at Austin. https://doi.org/10.26153/tsw/58455

 

Black, K. L. (2018). The Great Lakes region is a melting pot for vicariant red fox (Vulpes vulpes) populations through natural expansion and fur-farm translocations. Master’s thesis. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Access here