Peer-reviewed
- Kass, J. M., Yoshimura, M., Ogasawara, M., Suwabe, M., Hita Garcia, F., Fischer, G., Dudley, K. L., Donohue, I., & Economo, E. P. (2023). Breakdown in seasonal dynamics of ant communities with land-cover change. Accepted. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. BioRxiv Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.17.523860
- Suárez-Atilano, M., Pacheco-Sierra, G., Vázquez-Domínguez, E., Kass, J. M., Paz, A., Pérez-Alquicira, J. Genomic and environmental insights and conservation challenges for two hybridizing iconic crocodile species across Mexico: Crocodylus acutus and C. moreletii. Animal Conservation. Online Early. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12907
- French, C. M., Bertola, L. D., Carnaval, A. C., Economo, E. P., Kass, J. M., Lohman, D. J., Marske, K. A., Meier, R., Overcast, I., Rominger, A. J., Staniczenko, P., & Hickerson, M. J. (2023). Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity. Nature Communications. Online Early. https://rdcu.be/dkHjx
- Merow, C., Boyle, B., Enquist, B. J., Feng, X., Kass, J. M., Maitner, B. S., McGill, B., Owens, H., Park, D. S., Paz, A., Pinilla-Buitrago, G. E., Urban, M. C., Varela, S., & Wilson, A. M. (2023). Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02008-w
- Kass, J. M., Pinilla-Buitrago, G. E., Paz, A., Johnson, B. A., Grisales-Betancur, V., Meenan, S. I., Attali, D., Broennimann, O., Galante, P. J., Maitner, B. S., Owens, H. L., Varela, S., Aiello‐Lammens, M. E., Merow, C., Blair, M. E., & Anderson, R. P. (2023). wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions. Ecography, e06547. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06547
- Wang, R., Kass, J. M., Galkowski, C., Garcia, F., Hamer, M. T., Radchenko, A., Salata, S., Schifani, E., Yusupov, Z. M., Economo, E. P., & Guénard, B. (2023). Geographic and climatic constraints on bioregionalization of European ants. Journal of Biogegraphy, 503-514. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14546
- Goodman, A. M., Kass, J. M., & Ware, J. (2023). Dynamic distribution modeling of the Swamp Tigertail dragonfly Synthemis eustalacta (Odonata: Anisoptera: Synthemistidae) over a 20-year bushfire regime. Ecological Entomology, Early View. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13216
- Galante, P. J., Chang, S., Paz, A., Aiello-Lammens, M. E., Gerstner, B. E., Johnson, B. A., Kass, J. M., Merow, C., Noguera-Urbano, E. A., Pinilla-Buitrago, G. E., & Blair, M. E. (2023). changeRangeR: an R package for reproducible biodiversity change metrics from species distribution estimates. Conservation Science and Practice, 5: e12863. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12863
- Warren, D. L., Kass, J. M., Casadei-Ferreira, A., & Economo, E. P. (2022). Incorporating sampling bias into permutation tests for niche and distribution models. BioRxiv, 2022.08.08.503252. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.08.503252
- Warren, D. L., Kass, J. M., & Economo, E. P. (2022). Randomization analyses in niche and distribution modeling. EcoEvoXiv, 2022-09-01 12:50. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/ckspq
- Kass, J. M., Guénard, B., Dudley, K. L., Jenkins, C. N., Azuma, F., Fisher, B. L., Parr, C. L., Gibb, H., Longino, J. T., Ward, P. S., Chao, A., Lubertazzi, D., Weiser, M., Jetz, W., Guralnick, R., Blatrix, R., Lauriers, J. D., Donoso, D. A., Georgiadis, C., Gomez, K., Hawkes, P. G., Johnson, R. A., Lattke, J. E., MacGown, J. A., MacKay, W., Robson, S., Sanders, N. J., Dunn, R. R., & Economo, E. P. (2022). The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity. Science Advances, 8: eabp9908. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abp9908
- Andrade-Silva, J., Baccaro, F. B., Prado, L. P., Guénard, B., Warren, D. L., Kass, J. M., Economo, E. P., & Silva, R. R. (2022). A large-scale assessment of ant diversity across the Brazilian Amazon Basin: integrating geographic, ecological and morphological drivers of sampling bias. Ecography, 9: e06295. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06295
- Morente-López, J., Kass, J. M., Lara-Romero, C., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Soto-Correa, J. C., Anderson, R. P., & Iriondo, J. M. (2022). Linking ecological niche models and common garden experiments to predict phenotypic differentiation in stressful environments: Assessing the adaptive value of marginal populations in an alpine plant. Global Change Biology, 28: 4143 - 4162. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16181
- Merow, C.; Galante, P. J; Kass, J. M; Aiello-Lammens, M. E; Babich Morrow, C.; Gerstner, B. E, Grisales-Betancur, V., Moore, A. C., Noguera-Urbano, E. A., Buitrago-Pinilla, G. E., Velásquez-Tibatá, Anderson, R. P., & Blair, M. E. (2022). Operationalizing expert knowledge in species' range estimates using diverse data types. Frontiers of Biogeography. 14.2: e53589. http://dx.doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG53589
- Peterson, A. T., Aiello-Lammens, M. E., Amatulli, G., Anderson, R. P., Cobos, M. E., Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., Escobar, L. E., Feng, X., Franklin, J., Gadelha Jr., L. M. R., Georges, D., Guéguen, M., Gueta, T., Ingenloff, K., Jarvie, S., Jiménez, L., Karger, D. N., Kass, J. M., Kearney, M. R., Loyola, R., Machado-Stredel, F., Martínez-Meyer, E., Merow, C., Mondelli, M. L., Mortara, S. B., Muscarella, R., Myers, C. E., Naimi, B., Noesgaard, D., Ondo, I., Osorio-Olvera, L., Owens, H. L., Pearson, R., Pinilla-Buitrago, G. E., Sánchez-Tapia, A., Saupe, E. E., Thuiller, W., Varela, S., Warren, D. L., Wieczorek, J., Yates, K., Zhu, G., Zuquim, G., & Zurell, D. (2022). ENM2020: A free online course and set of resources on modeling species niches and distributions. Biodiversity Informatics, 17: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v17i.15016
- Kass, J. M., Takashina, N., Friedman, N. R., Kusumoto, B., & Blair, M. E. (2022). Idea paper: Improving forecasts of community composition with lightweight biodiversity monitoring across ecological and anthropogenic disturbance gradients. Ecological Research, 37: 466 - 470. https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12294; open-access preprint: https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/mxg6q
- Owens, H. L., Merow, C., Maitner, B., Kass, J. M., Barve, V., & Guralnick, R. (2021). occCite: Tools for querying and managing large biodiversity occurrence datasets. Ecography, 44: 1228 – 1235. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05618
- Hu, Z. M., Zhang, Q. S., Zhang, J., Kass, J. M., Mammola, S., Fresia, P., Draisma, S. G. A., Assis, J., Jueterbock, A., Yokota, M., & Zhang, Z. (2021). Intraspecific genetic variation matters when predicting seagrass distribution under climate change. Molecular Ecology, 30: 3840 – 3855. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15996
- Kass, J. M., Muscarella, R., Galante, P. J., Bohl, C., Pinilla-Buitrago, G. E., Boria, R. A., Soley‐Guardia, M., & Anderson, R. P. (2021). ENMeval 2.0: redesigned for customizable and reproducible modeling of species’ niches and distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12: 1602 – 1608. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13628
- Gavrutenko, M., Gerstner, B. E., Kass. J. M., Goodman, S., & Anderson, R. P. (2021). Temporal matching of occurrence localities and forest cover data helps improve range estimates and predict climate change vulnerabilities. Global Ecology and Conservation, 27: e01569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01569
- Zhang, Z., Kass, J. M., Mammola, S., Koizumi, I., Li, X., Tanaka, K., Ikeda, K., Suzuki, T., Yokota, M., & Usio, N. (2021). Lineage‐level distribution models lead to more realistic climate change predictions for a threatened crayfish. Diversity and Distributions, 27: 684 – 695. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13225
- Kass, J. M., Meenan, S. I., Tinoco, N., Burneo, S. F., & Anderson, R. P. (2021). Improving area of occupancy estimates for parapatric species using distribution models and support vector machines. Ecological Applications, 31: e02228. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2228
- Ryo, M., Angelov, B., Mammola, S., Kass, J. M., Benito, B. M., & Hartig, F. (2021). Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black‐box species distribution models. Ecography, 44: 199-205. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05360
- Kass, J. M., Tingley, M. W., Tetsuya, T., & Koike, F. (2020). Co-occurrence of invasive and native carnivorans affects occupancy patterns across environmental gradients. Biological Invasions, 22: 2251 – 2266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02254-0
- Kass, J. M., Anderson, R. P., Espinosa‐Lucas, A., Juárez‐Jaimes, V., Martínez‐Salas, E., Botello, F., Taverna, G., Flores-Martínez, J. J., & Sánchez‐Cordero, V. (2020). Biotic predictors with phenological information improve range estimates for migrating monarch butterflies in Mexico. Ecography, 43(3), 341-352. Editor's Choice. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04886
- Merow, C., Maitner, B. S., Owens, H. L., Kass, J. M., Enquist, B. J., Jetz, W., & Guralnick, R. (2019). Species' range model metadata standards: RMMS. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(12), 1912-1924. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12993
- Bohl, C. L., Kass, J. M., & Anderson, R. P. (2019). A new null model approach to quantify performance and significance for ecological niche models of species distributions. Journal of Biogeography, 46(6), 1101-1111. Editor's Choice. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13573
- Reid, B. N., Kass, J. M., Wollney, S., Jensen, E. L., Russello, M. A., Viola, E. M., Pantophlet, J., Iverson, J. B., Peery, M. Z., Raxworthy, C. J., & Naro-Maciel, E. (2019). Disentangling the genetic effects of refugial isolation and range expansion in a trans-continentally distributed species. Heredity, 122(4), 441-457. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-018-0135-5
- Kass, J. M., Vilela, B., Aiello‐Lammens, M. E., Muscarella, R., Merow, C., & Anderson, R. P. (2018). Wallace: A flexible platform for reproducible modeling of species niches and distributions built for community expansion. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9(4), 1151-1156. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12945
- Gerstner, B. E., Kass, J. M., Kays, R., Helgen, K. M., & Anderson, R. P. (2018). Revised distributional estimates for the recently discovered olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), with comments on natural and taxonomic history. Journal of Mammalogy, 99(2), 321-332. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy012
- Guevara, L., Gerstner, B. E., Kass, J. M., & Anderson, R. P. (2018). Toward ecologically realistic predictions of species distributions: A cross‐time example from tropical montane cloud forests. Global Change Biology, 24(4), 1511-1522. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13992
- Muscarella, R., Galante, P. J., Soley‐Guardia, M., Boria, R. A., Kass, J. M., Uriarte, M., & Anderson, R. P. (2014). ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity for Maxent ecological niche models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5(11), 1198-1205. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12261
- Klosterhaus, S., McKee, L. J., Yee, D., Kass, J. M., & Wong, A. (2014). Polychlorinated biphenyls in the exterior caulk of San Francisco Bay Area buildings, California, USA. Environment International, 66, 38-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2014.01.008
- Olson, D., DellaSala, D. A., Noss, R. F., Strittholt, J. R., Kass, J., Koopman, M. E., & Allnutt, T. F. (2012). Climate change refugia for biodiversity in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion. Natural Areas Journal, 32(1), 65-74. https://doi.org/10.3375/043.032.0108
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Academic Media and Blogs
Kass, J. M., Guénard, B., Agavekar, G., Krapf, P., Trager, J. (2022, September 21). The first high-resolution global map of ant biodiversity and estimates of where future sampling could yield undiscovered species. Myrmecological News Blog. https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2022/09/21/the-first-high-resolution-global-map-of-ant-biodiversity-and-estimates-of-where-future-sampling-could-yield-undiscovered-species/
Kass, J. M., Meenan, S. I., Tinoco, N., Burneo, S. F., & Anderson, R. P. (2021, January 13). Improving Area of Occupancy Estimates for Parapatric Species Using Distribution Models and Support Vector Machines. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 102:e01813. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1813
Kass, J. M., Juárez-Jaimes, Flores-Martínez, J. J., Sánchez-Cordero, V. (2020, June 30). New range estimates for migrating monarch butterflies in Mexico: implementing and interpreting biotic variables and future conservation applications. Ecography Blog. https://www.ecography.org/blog/new-range-estimates-migrating-monarch-butterflies-mexico-implementing-and-interpreting-biotic
Kass, J. M., Aiello‐Lammens, M. E., Vilela, B., Muscarella, R., Merow, C., & Anderson, R. P. (2018, March 16). Code-Based Methods and the Problem of Accessibility. Methods in Ecology and Evolution Blog. https://methodsblog.com/2018/03/16/code-methods-accessibility/
Professional (non-academic)
Kass, J. M., Walker, J., Cayce, K., Senn, D., Williams, M. (2011). White Paper on Regional Landscape Characterization for Low Impact Development Site Suitability Analysis. Richmond, CA. San Francisco Estuary Institute. Report No.: SFEI-653.
Klosterhaus, S., Yee, D., Kass, J. M., Wong, A., McKee, L. (2011). PCBs in Caulk Project: Estimated Stock in Currently Standing Buildings in a San Francisco Bay Study Area and Releases to Stormwater during Renovation and Demolition. Richmond, CA. San Francisco Estuary Institute. Report No.: SFEI-651.