Dr. Kristine O. Evans

Dr. Kristine O. Evans

Title

  • Associate Professor

Contact Information

kao12@msstate.edu
Office: 662-325-3167
Thompson Hall, Rm 211

Overview

Education

  • Mississippi State University, Doctor of Philosophy (PHD), Forest Resources
  • Mississippi State University, Master of Science (MS), Wildlife and Fisheries Science
  • Ohio University, Bachelor of Science (BS), Wildlife Biology

Research Interests

Conservation Biology

Websites

Publications

Year Publications
2023

Enwright, N. M., Cheney, W. C., Evans, K., Thurman, H. R., Woodrey, M. S., Fournier, A. M., Gesch, D. B., Pitchford, J. L., Stoker, J. M., Medeiros, S. 2023. Elevation-based probabilistic mapping of irregularly flooded wetlands along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast. Remote Sensing of Environment 287(113451).

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2023

Ramirez-Reyes, C., Vilella, F. J., Evans, K., Street, G. M., Pacheco, C., Monzon, O., Morales, A. 2023. Geographic distribution of the Puerto Rican Harlequin butterfly (Atlantea tulita): An ensemble modeling approach. Caribbean Journal of Science 53(1):37-44.

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2023

Enwright, N. M., Cheney, W. Y., Evans, K., Thurman, H. R., Woodrey, M. S., Fournier, A. M., Moon, J. A., Levy, H., Cox, J., Kappes, P., Nymon, A. J., Pitchford, J. L. 2023. Mapping high marsh and salt pannes/flats along the northern Gulf of Mexico. Geocarta International 38(1):2285354.

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2023

Sklarczyk, C., Evans, K., Greene, D. U., Morin, D. J., Iglay, R. B. 2023. Effects of spatial patterning within working pine forests on priority avian species in Mississippi. Landscape Ecology 38:2019-2034.

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2023

Dunn, C., Schumann, D., Colvin, M., Jones-Farrand, T., Evans, K., Wagner, M., McRae, S., Rivenbark, E. 2023. Using resiliency, redundancy, and representation in a Bayesian belief network to assess extinction risk of riverine fish. Ecological Applications

2023

Todaro, H., Rush, S. A., McConnell, M. D., Evans, K. 2023. Home range establishment and microhabitat selection of Bachman’s sparrows in southern open pine forests. Journal of Wildlife Management 87(e22422).

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2023

Lappin, O., Evans, K., Iglay, R. B., McConnell, M. D. 2023. Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) breeding season roost site selection in a agricultural landscape in Clay County, Mississippi. Journal of Field Ornithology 64(4):4.

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2023

Jones, L. R., Elmore, J. A., Krishnan, B. S., Samiappan, S., Evans, K. O., Pfeiffer, M. B., Blackwell, B. F., Iglay, R. B. 2023. Controllable factors affecting accuracy and precision of human identification of animals from drone imagery. Ecosphere 14(9):e4657.

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2023

Krishnan, S. B., Jones, L. R., Elmore, J. A., Samiappan, S., Evans, K., Pfeiffer, M., Blackwell, B. F., Iglay, R. B. 2023. Fusion of visible and thermal drone images for improving automated wildlife classification. Scientific Reports 13:10385.

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2023

Elmore, J. A., Schultz, E. A., Jones, L. R., Evans, K. O., Samiappan, S., Pfeiffer, M. B., Blackwell, B. F., Iglay, R. B. 2023. Evidence on the efficacy of small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) as a survey tool for North American terrestrial, vertebrate animals: a systematic map. Environmental Evidence 12:3.

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2022

Coronado-Franco, K. V., Tedesco, P. A., Kolmann, M., Bornstein, S., Evans, K., Correa, S. 2022. Feeding habits influence species habitat associations at the landscape scale in a diverse clade of Neotropical fishes. Journal of Biogeography 49(12):2181-2192.

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2022

Sesser, A. L., Westlake, S. M., Schafer, C., Roberts, J., Samiappan, S., Allen, Y., Linhoss, A. C., Hopkins, T. E., Liu, J., Shamaskin, A., Tirpak, J., Smith, R. N., Evans, K. 2022. Co-producing decision support tools for strategic conservation of Gulf Coast landscapes. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 4:100156.

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2022

Samiappan, S., Shamaskin, A., Liu, J., Liang, Y., Roberts, J., Sesser, A. L., Westlake, S. M., Linhoss, A. C., Evans, K., Tirpak, J., Hopkins, T. E., Ashby, S. L., Burger, L. W. 2022. Evidence-based land conservation framework using multi-criteria acceptability analysis: A geospatial tool for strategic land conservation in the Gulf coast of the United States. Environmental Modelling & Software 156(105493).

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2022

Parsons, I. L., Boudreau, M., Karisch, B. B., Stone, A. E., Norman, D., Webb, S. L., Evans, K., Street, G. M. 2022. Aiming for the optimum: examining complex relationships between sampling regime, sampling density and landscape complexity to accurately model resource availability. Landscape Ecology 37:2743-2756.

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2022

Evans, K., Davis, J. B., Wang, G. 2022. Assessing long-term dynamics of non-breeding brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) populations using Christmas Bird Count data. IBIS 165(1):55-68.

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2022

Shamaskin, A. C., Correa, S. B., Street, G. M., Linhoss, A. C., Evans, K. 2022. Considering the influence of land-use/land cover on estuarine biotic richness with Bayesian hierarchical models. Ecological Applications 32:e2675.

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2021

Evans, K., Smith, A. D., Richardson, D. 2021. Statistical power of mobile acoustic monitoring to detect population change in eastern U.S. bat species. Ecological Indicators 125(107524).

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2021

Weitzel, S. L., Feura, J. M., Iglay, R. B., Evans, K. O., Rush, S. A., Woodrey, M. S. 2021. Distribution, abundance, and vegetation associations of birds in Mississippi tidal marshes during the non-breeding season. Journal of Field Ornithology 92(3):231-245.

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2021

Zhou, M., Elmore, J. A., Samiappan, S., Evans, K., Pfeiffer, M. B., Blackwell, B. F., Iglay, R. B. 2021. Improving wildlife monitoring using small, unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) and deep learning networks. Sensors 21(17):5697.

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2021

Evans, K., Larsen-Gray, ., Miller, D. A., Loehle, C. 2021. Systematic review of bird response to management of private working forests in the southeastern U.S. Forests 12:442.

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2021

Elmore, J. A., Curran, M. F., Evans, K. O., Samiappan, S., Zhou, M., Pfeiffer, M. B., Blackwell, B. F., Iglay, R. B. 2021. Evidence on the effectiveness of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) as a survey tool for North American terrestrial, vertebrate animals: a systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence 10:15.

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2021

Ramirez-Reyes, C., Nazeri, M., Street, G. M., Jones-Farrand, D. T., Vilella, F. J., Evans, K. 2021. Embracing ensemble species distribution models to inform at-risk species status assessments. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 12(1):98-111.

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2021

Barela, I. A., Burger, L. M., Wang, G., Evans, K., Meng, Q., Taylor, J. 2021. Spatial transferability of expert opinion models for American beaver habitat. Ecological Informatics 61:101211.

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2021

Ramirez-Reyes, C., Street, G. M., Vilella, F. J., Jones-Farrand, D. T., Wiggers, M. S., Evans, K. 2021. Ensemble species distribution model identifies survey opportunities for at-risk bearded beaksedge (Rhynchospora crinipes) in the southeastern United States. Natural Areas Journal 41(1):55-63.

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2020

Spurgeon, J., Rhodes, M., Neal, J. W., Evans, K. 2020. Aquatic habitat changes within the channelized and impounded Arkansas River, Arkansas, USA. River Research and Applications 37(3):462-474.

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2020

Lazaro-Lobo, A., Evans, K., Ervin, G. N. 2020. Evaluating landscape characteristics of predicted hotspots for plant invasions. Invasive Plant Science and Management 13(3):163-175.

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2020

Barela, I., Burger, L. M., Taylor, J., Evans, K., Ogawa, R., McClintic, L., Wang, G. 2020. Relationships between survival and habitat suitability of semi-aquatic mammals. Ecology and Evolution 10:4867-4875.

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2019

Greene, R. E., Iglay, R. B., Evans, K. 2019. Providing open forest structural characteristics for high conservation priority wildlife species in southeastern U.S. pine plantations. Forest Ecology and Management 453.

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2019

Shamaskin, A., Samiappan, S., Liu, J., Roberts, J., Linhoss, A. C., Evans, K. 2019. Multi-attribute ecological and socioeconomic geospatial data layer for the Gulf of Mexico coastal region of the United States. Data 5(3).

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2019

Greene, R. E., Evans, K., Gray, T., Jones-Farrand, D. T., Wathen, W. G. 2019. Using a co-production approach to map future forest retention likelihood in the southeastern U.S. Journal of Forestry

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2019

Burger, L. W., Evans, K. A., McConnell, M. D., Burger, L. M. 2019. Private lands conservation: A vision for the future. Wildlife Society Bulletin 43(3):398-407.

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2019

Bonnot, T. W., Jones-Farrand, T., Thompson, III, F. R., Millspaugh, J. J., Fitzgerald, J. A., Muenks, N., Hanberry, P., Stroh, E., Heggemann, L., Fowler, A., Howery, M., Hammond, S., Evans, K. 2019. Developing a decision-support process for landscape conservation design. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report NRS-190

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2019

Samiappan, S., Shamaskin, A., Liu, J., Roberts, J., Linhoss, A. C., Evans, K. 2019. Land Conservation in the Gulf of Mexico Region: A Comprehensive Review of Plans, Priorities, and Efforts. Land 8(5):84.

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2019

Greene, R. E., Iglay, R. B., Evans, K., Wigley, T. B., Miller, D. A. 2019. Estimating capacity of managed pine forests in the southeastern U.S. to provide open pine woodland condition and gopher tortoise habitat. Forest Ecology and Management 432:200-208.

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2017

Marshall, C., Riffell, S. K., Miller, D., Hill, J., Evans, K., Rush, S. A. 2017. Bird response to intercropping switchgrass within loblolly pine plantations. Wildlife Society Bulletin 41(4):659-665.

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2017

Marshall, C., Riffell, S. K., Rush, S. A., Hill, J., Evans, K. 2017. Switchgrass cultivation within loblolly pine plantations influences invertebrate community composition and resource use. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143(2):189-197.

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2016

Pitchford, J. L., Pulis, E., Evans, K., Shelley, J. K., Serafin, B. J., Solangi, M. 2016. Seasonal bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) density estimates in the Mississippi Sound from 2011-2013. Southeastern Naturalist. 15(2):188-206.

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2016

Greene, R. E., Iglay, R. B., Evans, K., Miller, D. A., Wigley, T. B., Riffell, S. K. 2016. A meta-analysis of biodiversity to management of southeastern pine forests-opportunities for open pine conservation. Forest Ecology and Management 360:30-39.

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2016

Oedekoven, C. S., Buckland, S. T., Mackenzie, M. L., King, R., Evans, K., Burger, L. W. 2016. Using hierarchical centering to facilitate a reversible jump MCMC algorithm for random effects models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 98:79-90.

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2015

Riffell, S. K., Monroe, A. P., Martin, J. A., Evans, K., Burger, L. W., Smith, M. D. 2015. Response of non-grassland avian guilds to adjacent herbaceous field buffers: testing the configuration of targeted conservation practices in agricultural landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology 52(2):303–309.

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2014

Evans, K., Burger, L. W., Riffell, S. K., Smith, M. D. 2014. Assessing multiregion avian benefits from strategically targeted buffers. Conservation Biology 28(4):892 - 901.

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2014

Oedekoven, C. S., Buckland, S. T., Mackenzie, M. L., King, R., Evans, K., Burger, L. W. 2014. Bayesian methods for hierarchical distance sampling models. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 19(2):219-239.

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2014

Evans, K., Burger, L. W., Riffell, S. K., Smith, M. D., Twedt, D. J., Wilson, R. R., Vorisek, S., Rideout, C., Heyden, K. 2014. Avian response to conservation buffers in agricultural landscapes during winter. Wildlife Society Bulletin 38(2):257-264.

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2013

Oedekoven, C. S., Buckland, S. T., Mackenzie, M. L., Evans, K., Burger, L. W., Devictor, V. 2013. Improving distance sampling: accounting for covariates and non-independency between sampled sites. Journal of Applied Ecology 50(3):786 - 793.

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2013

Evans, K., Burger, L. W., Oedekoven, C. S., Smith, M. D., Riffell, S. K., Martin, J. A., Buckland, S. T. 2013. Multi-region response to conservation buffers targeted for northern bobwhite. Journal of Wildlife Management 77(4):716-725.

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2010

Evans, K., Burger, L. W., Riffell, S. K., Smith, M. D. 2010. Bobwhite and Upland Songbird Response to CCRP Practice CP33 Habitat Buffers for Upland Birds. NRCS Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) Insight

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2010

Evans, K., Burger, L. W., Riffell, S. K. 2010. National CP33 Bird Monitoring Executive Summary 3-year Report. Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Research Note

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2009

Evans, K., Burger, L. W., Faircloth, B. C., Palmer, W. E., Carroll, J. P. 2009. Effects of tissue collection methods on morphometrics and survival of captive neonatal Northern Bobwhite. The Journal of Wildlife Management 73(7):1241.

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Extension Publications

Year Publications

Graduate Students

  • Daniel Egerson
  • Craig Sklarczyk

Awards & Honors

  • Regina and Glenn Doran Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Collaborative Practice
    Mississippi State University - Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture
  • Regional Director’s Honor Award for Conservation Partnership
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region
  • 2022 National Project Award
    National Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit
  • Mississippi State University Faculty Leadership Development Institute
    Mississippi State University
  • 2022 Foil-Wyatt Outstanding New Faculty Advisor Award
    Mississippi State University
  • Partners in Flight Leadership Award (western hemisphere)
    Partners in Flight
  • Outstanding Paper in Invasive Plant Science and Management Award
    Weed Society of America
  • Outstanding peer-reviewed publication
    Mississippi Chapter of The Wildlife Society
  • Early Career Achievement Award
    College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University
  • Student Poster Award
    The Wildlife Society - Mississippi State Chapter
  • Peer-reviewed Publication Award
    The Wildlife Society - Mississippi State Chapter
  • Graduate Student Research Award
    College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University
  • Ernest A. Gluesing Memorial Award - Outstanding Graduate Student, Doctoral Level
    Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture, College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University
  • Outstanding Technical Publication
    The Wildlife Society Mississippi State Chapter
  • Best Oral Presentation, 1st Place
    2nd Southeastern Natural Resources Graduate Student Symposium
  • Best Oral Presentation, 2nd Place
    Mississippi State University Graduate Student Association 6th Annual Research Symposium
  • Best Oral Presentation, 2nd Place
    Inaugural Southeastern Natural Resources Graduate Student Symposium
  • U.S. Coast Guard Meritorious Team Commendation
    U.S. Coast Guard

Society Memberships

  • Gulf of Mexico Alliance
  • Gulf of Mexico Alliance
  • Mississippi Chapter of The Wildlife Society
  • Mississippi Chapter – The Wildlife Society
  • Mississippi State University Women in Natural Resources
  • Society for Conservation Biology
  • Southeast Section of The Wildlife Society
  • Southeast Section of The Wildlife Society
  • The Wildlife Society
  • The Wildlife Society