Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

  1. Rosenberg EJ^, Bradley D, Gaines SD, Caughman AM. 2025. Marine fish trait interactions create specific contexts where different ontogenetic movement combinations arise. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 755:137-152 ^undergraduate
  2. Feitosa LM^, Caughman AM^, D’Costa N, Orofino S, Burns ES, Schiller L, Worm B, Bradley D. 2025. Retention prohibitions are likely insufficient to recover overfished shark populations. Fish and Fisheries. 26:473–487 ^co-first authors
  3. Cabral RB, Millage KD, Mayorga J, Kordell T, Kelkar M, Caughman AM, Favoretto F, Schuhbauer A, Aburto-Oropeza O, Sala E, Bradley D. 2025. A global network of marine protected areas for dive tourism. Sci Rep. 15:1923
  4. Bradley D^, Caughman AM^, Fogg S, Cabral RB, Mayorga J, Goodell W, Millage KD, White TD. 2024. Marine Fish Movement: home range sizes for commercially relevant species. Sci Data 11, 865 *co-first authors ^co-first authors
  5. Caughman AM, Gaines SD, Bradley D. 2024. Climate change reduces population benefits from marine protected areas through selective pressures on species movement. Global Change Biology. 30(3), e17240.
  6. Caughman AM, Weigel EG. 2022. Biology students’ math and computer science task values are closely linked. CBE – Life Sciences Education. 21(3):ar43.
  7. Caughman AM^, Pratte ZA^, Patin NV, Stewart FJ. 2021. Coral microbiome changes over the day-night cycle. Coral Reefs. 40(3)921-935. ^co-first authors
  8. Pratte ZA, Patin NV, McWhirt ME, Caughman AM, Parris DJ, Stewart FJ. 2018. Association with a sea anemone alters the skin microbiome of clownfish. Coral Reefs. 37(4):1119-1125.

In Review

  1. Martin K, …Caughman AM, … et al. New Perspectives on Addressing Systemic Biases in Movement Ecology. In Review at Proceedings of the Royal Academy B

In Prep

  1. Kelkar M, Caughman AM, Kindinger T, Gaines S, Bradley D. Effect of MPA design on coral reef ecosystem resilience to heat shock near U.S. Pacific Islands. For Submission to Global Change Biology
  2. Caughman AM, Caselle JE, Gaines SD, Bradley D. Connectivity in fish is driven by movement across multiple life stages. For Submission to Ecology Letters
  3. Caughman AM, Yanco S, Easterday K, Gao S, Hiroyasu E, Rutz C, Oliver RY. Supporting biodiversity and human use of California’s protected area. For Submission to Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Other Publications and Creative Products

  1. Bradley D^, Caughman A^, Fogg S, Cabral RB, Mayorga J, Goodell W, Millage KD, White TD. 2024. Marine Fish Movement [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.25349/D96C9M ^co-first authors
  2. Caughman, A., Alexander, K., Munster, K. 2022. Visualizing Commercially Relevant Fish Home Range Sizes. https://emlab-ucsb.shinyapps.io/fish_homeranges/
  3. Caughman A., Weigel EG. 2021. Investigating human impacts on Southeastern US stream ecology using R. QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/P995-7G91
  4. Caughman AM. 2020. Variation in Coral Microbiome Composition and Transcriptional Activity of Three Corals over Diel Cycles [bachelor’s thesis]. Georgia Institute of Technology