Katrina Joan Davis

From Recovery to Risk: Intensifying ENSO Events Drive Extirpation Risk in a Marine Predator

This study assesses how intensifying ENSO events increase extirpation risk for Peruvian sea lions using Bayesian population modeling and climate scenarios.

Life-history traits explain variation in the larval dispersal potential of corals

This study investigates how life-history traits influence larval dispersal in corals, finding that reproductive mode and colony morphology significantly affect larval settlement times.

Wildlife depredation stabilizes ecological-economic systems and can lead to improved economic outcomes

The paper develops a model showing that depredation by predators can stabilize ecological-economic systems and improve economic outcomes by altering population dynamics and feedback loops.

Why are fishers retaining manta and devil ray bycatch?

This study identifies financial and non-financial motivations for retaining manta and devil ray bycatch in Indian fisheries and provides context-specific conservation recommendations.

The emerging medium-scale: Prioritising fisheries management for elasmobranch conservation.

The paper assesses medium-capacity fishing vessels' impact on mobulid bycatch and recommends reclassifying fisheries to improve elasmobranch conservation.

No single measure is enough: Recovery of the Critically Endangered Mobula mobular requires integrated maximum bycatch mitigation and nursery area protection.

This paper assesses the risk of functional extinction for the spinetail devil ray and shows that integrated bycatch mitigation and nursery area protection are needed for population recovery.

Diseases and invasive species have synergistic effects with other anthropogenic threats on the functional and phylogenetic diversity in Testudines and Crocodilia

The paper examines how interactions between six anthropogenic threats affect functional and phylogenetic diversity in Testudines and Crocodilia, finding synergistic effects when diseases or invasive species interact with other threats.

Support for the social buffering hypothesis, especially under unpredictable precipitation regimes

The paper tests the social buffering hypothesis across 66 animal species, finding social species have lower demographic sensitivity to environmental variability, especially in unpredictable climates.

Poaching exacerbates the effects of climate change on the long-term viability of an endemic South African succulent plant species

This study uses a stochastic model to show that climate change and harvesting both threaten the viability of a South African succulent, with harvesting being more impactful, especially when combined with climate change.