Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

  1. 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. 0:1–15 ^co-first authors
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. Caughman AM, Weigel EG. 2022. Biology students’ math and computer science task values are closely linked. CBE – Life Sciences Education. 21(3):ar43.
  6. 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
  7. 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. Rosenberg EJ^, Bradley D, Gaines SD, Caughman AM. Marine fish trait interactions create specific contexts where different ontogenetic movement combinations arise. In review at Marine Ecology Progress Series ^undergraduate

In Prep

  1. Caughman AM, Caselle JE, Gaines SD, Bradley D. Adult movement drives connectivity patterns and population sizes more than larval dispersal in marine protected areas. For Submission to PNAS
  2. 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
  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