Alum
Alum
Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley, 2023
B.A. Ecology, Dartmouth College, 2013
Community ecology, protected area conservation, remote sensing, predator-prey interactions, social-ecological systems, human-wildlife conflict
I am a community ecologist conducting research on how land use and human activity patterns influence predator-prey interactions and animal movement. My research evaluates the landscape-scale consequences of human disturbances on species habitat use, connectivity, and population persistence in order to support conservation decision-makers.
My dissertation research in Mendocino County, California employed a combination of experiments, biomonitoring techniques, and GPS tracking technologies to examine how mammal communities percieve risk by people and predators across multiple spatial and temporal scales in private lands. My research also led me to design remote sensing approaches to consider the broad-scale ecological and social dynamics of changing environments at protected area boundaries. My current work, as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, examines the impact of climate change and extreme drought on the persistence of desert vertebrate communities in California's Mojave desert.
Van Scoyoc, A., Smith, J. A., Gaynor, K. M., Barker, K., & Brashares, J. S. (2023). The influence of human activity on predator-prey spatiotemporal overlap. The Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(6), 1124-1134.
Moravek, J. A., Andrews, L. R., Serota, M. W., Dorcy, J. A., Chapman, M., Wilkinson, C. E., Parker‐Shames, P., Van Scoyoc, A., Verta, G., & Brashares, J. S. (2023). Centering 30× 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 21(4), 199–206.
Van Scoyoc, A. (2023) The influence of development on habitat fragmentation, animal behavior and movement. Doctoral Dissertation. ProQuest.
Barker, K. J., Xu, W., Van Scoyoc, A., Serota, M. W., Moravek, J. A., Shawler, A. L., Ryan, R. E., & Middleton, A. D. (2022). Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations. Conservation Letters, 15(2), e12850.
Calhoun, K. L., Chapman, M., Tubbesing, C., McInturff, A., Gaynor, K. M., Van Scoyoc, A., Wilkinson, C. E., Parker‐Shames, P., Kurz, D., & Brashares, J. (2022). Spatial overlap of wildfire and biodiversity in California highlights gap in non‐conifer fire research and management. Diversity and Distributions, 28(3), 529–541.
Xu, W., Barker, K., Shawler, A., Van Scoyoc, A., Smith, J. A., Mueller, T., Sawyer, H., Andreozzi, C., Bidder, O. R., Karandikar, H., & others. (2021). The plasticity of ungulate migration in a changing world. Ecology, 102(4), e03293.
Wilkinson, C. E., McInturff, A., Miller, J. R. B., Yovovich, V., Gaynor, K. M., Calhoun, K., Karandikar, H., Martin, J. V., Parker-Shames, P., Shawler, A., Van Scoyoc, A., & Brashares, J. S. (2020). An ecological framework for contextualizing carnivore–livestock conflict. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13469
2023 Department Dissertation Research and Writing Fellowship, Environmental Science, Policy, and Mangement
2022 Data Science Fellowship, UC Berkeley Center for Social Science Research
2020 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist, North American Congress for Conservation Biology
2020 Best Student Paper Co-Author, The Wildlife Society
2020 Yang & Kuni Environmental Stewardship Fellowship
2018-2022 Safari Club International Award
2018 Oliver Lyman Wildlife and Fisheries Award
2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
ESPM 157: Data Science for Global Change Ecology (Fall 2022)
University of California, Natural Reserve Ecology Field Course (Summer 2022)
ESPM 114: Wildlife Ecology (Spring 2018)
