2025
Smith, B., Luzuriaga Neira, A., Alvarez Ponce, D., Provost, K., Thom, G., Joseph, L. 2025. Introgressed variants obscure phylogenetic relationships but evade positive selection in Australasian long-tailed parrots. Systematic Biology, syaf066.
Manogaran, H.B., Maruf, M., [...] Provost, K., [...], Karpatne, A. 2025. What Do You See in Common? Learning Hierarchical Prototypes over Tree-of-Life to Discover Evolutionary Traits. ICLR 2025 Conference.
Johnson, R. R., Haight, L. T., Klass, R., Provost, K. 2025. Canyon Towhee (Melozone fusca), version 2.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Pool and F. B. Gill, Eds). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.cantow.02
Morrison, E.S., Pandolfi, G.P., Aguillon, S.M., [...] Provost, K., [...] Shultz, A.J. 2025. AvianLexiconAtlas: A database of descriptive categories of English-language bird names around the world. PLOS ONE 20(5):e0325890.
Decker, S., Provost, K., Carstens, B. 2025. Bats of a feather: Range characteristics and wing morphology predict phylogeographic breaks in volant vertebrates. Frontiers of Biogeography, 18, e139911.
2024
Paul, D., Chowdhury, A., [...] Provost, K., [...], Chao, W-L. 2024. A Simple Interpretable Transformer for Fine-Grained Image Classification and Analysis. International Conference on Learning Representations 2024. Preprint available: arXiv, arXiv:2311.04157.
Yang, J., Carstens, B., Provost, K. 2024. Machine learning reveals that climate, geography, and cultural drift all predict bird song variation in coastal Zonotrichia leucophrys. Ornithology, ukad062.
2023
Smith, B., Merwin, J., Provost, K., Thom, G., Brumfield, R., Ferreira, M., Mauck, W., Moyle, R., Wright, T., Joseph, L. 2023. Phylogenomic analysis of the parrots of the world distinguishes artifactual from biological sources of gene tree discordance. Systematic Biology, syac055.
2022
Provost, K., Yang, J., Carstens, B. 2022. The impacts of transfer learning, phylogenetic distance, and sample size on big-data bioacoustics. PLOS ONE, 17(12), e0278522.
Provost, K., Shue, S.Y., Forcellati, M., Smith, B. 2022. The genomic landscapes of desert birds are structured by contemporary features. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(10), msac200.
Tobias, J., Sheard, C., Pigot, A., Neate-Clegg, M., [...] Provost, K., [...] Schleuning, M. 2022. AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters, 25(3), 581-597. Press: UMich, All About Birds,.
2021
Ingala, M., Simmons, N., Wiltsch, C., Krampis, K., Provost, K., Perkins, S. 2021. Molecular diet analysis of neotropical bats based on fecal DNA metabarcoding. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 7474-7491.
Provost, K., Myers, E., Smith, B. 2021. Community phylogeographic patterns reveal how a barrier filters and structures taxa in North American warm deserts. Journal of Biogeography, 48(6), 1267-1283.
2018
Provost, K., Mauck, W., Smith, B. 2018. Genomic divergence in allopatric Northern Cardinals of the North American warm deserts is linked to behavioral differentiation. Ecology and Evolution, 8(24), 12456-12478. Press: AMNH,, Audubon,, Gizmodo.
Provost, K., Smith, B., Joseph, L. 2018. Resolving a phylogenetic hypothesis for parrots: implications from systematics to conservation. Emu – Austral Ornithology, 118(1), 7-21. DOI.10.1080/01584197.2017.1387030.
2015
Provost, K. 2015. Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Link.