Michael Vincent Cove

Harnessing Natural History Collections for Collaborative Pandemic Preparedness

Paul, D., Thompson, C., Arroyo, L., Castro-Arellano, I., Colella, J., Cook, J., … Soltis, P. (2025, March 9).

SNAPSHOT USA 2019-2023: The First Five Years of Data From a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United States

Rooney, B., Kays, R., Cove, M. V., Jensen, A., Goldstein, B. R., Pate, C., … McShea, W. J. (2025, January). GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, Vol. 34.

Wildlife of Florida Fact Sheet: Key Largo Woodrat

EDIS, 2025(2).

Camera traps strengthen inference about endangered beach mouse activity

Mammal Research, 5.

Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States

Diversity and Distributions.

Endangered beach mouse resistance to a Category 5 hurricane is mediated by elevation and dune habitat

Integrative Conservation.

Geographic barriers but not life history traits shape the phylogeography of North American mammals

Global Ecology and Biogeography, 6.

Guidelines for estimating occupancy from autocorrelated camera trap detections

Goldstein, B. R., Jensen, A. J., Kays, R., Cove, M. V., Mcshea, W. J., Rooney, B., … Pacifici, K. (2024, May 31). METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 5.

Guidelines to Reduce Invasive Fire Ant Interference of Small Mammal Trapping

Wildlife Letters.

Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(5), 924–935.

SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States

Shamon, H., Maor, R., Cove, M. V., Kays, R., Adley, J., Alexander, P. D., … McShea, W. J. (2024, June). ECOLOGY, Vol. 105.

Using global remote camera data of a solitary species complex to evaluate the drivers of group formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(12).

Biodiversity benefits of an ecosystem engineer are negated by an invasive predator

Food Webs, 35, e00286.

Counting the Capital's cats: Estimating drivers of abundance of free‐roaming cats with a novel hierarchical model

Ecological Applications.

Mammal declines correspond with increasing prevalence of Burmese pythons at their southern invasion front in the Florida Keys

Biological Invasions, 26(3), 889–903.

Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) Undetected in Endangered Key Largo Woodrat (Neotoma floridana smalli) Endemic Range

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 59(3).

Scavenger and herbivore functional role impairment modulates changes in plant communities following mass mortality events

Functional Ecology, 37(8), 2207–2216.

Simulated extreme climate event alters a plant-frugivore mutualism

Forest Ecology and Management, 545, 121294.

Survey optimization for invasive Burmese pythons informed by camera traps

Wildlife Letters, 1(3), 143–148.

Telescoping prey selection in invasive Burmese pythons spells trouble for endangered rodents

Food Webs, 37, e00307.

The animal welfare, environmental impact, pest control functions, and disease effects of free‐ranging cats can be generalized and all are grounds for humanely reducing their numbers

Conservation Science and Practice, 5(10).

Estimates of Domestic Cats in Urban Areas Using Interdisciplinary Science: The Washington D.C. Cat Count

Society & Animals, 30(7), 703–720.

Global Review of the Effects of Small Carnivores on Threatened Species

Human presence drives bobcat interactions among the U.S. carnivore guild

Biodiversity and Conservation, 31(11), 2607–2624.

Long-term monitoring reveals the value of continuous trapping to curtail the effects of free-roaming cats in protected island habitats

Global Ecology and Conservation, 40, e02334.

Mass mortality events and declining obligate scavengers in the Anthropocene: Social feeders may be critical

Biological Conservation, 269, 109527.

Opossums: an adaptive radiation of new world marsupials. Robert S.Voss and Sharon A.Jansa. 2021. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA. 313 pp. $59.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9781421439785

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 86(3).

Prey selection and predation behavior of free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) in an urban ecosystem: Implications for urban cat management

Biological Conservation, 268, 109503.

SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kays, R., Cove, M. V., Diaz, J., Todd, K., Bresnan, C., Snider, M., … McShea, W. J. (2022, July 24). ECOLOGY, Vol. 6.

Spatial and temporal overlap of domestic cats (Felis catus) and native urban wildlife

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10.

Stable isotopes point to anthropogenic subsidies in northern raccoons at the urban-wild interface

FOOD WEBS, 31.

Two Invasive Reptile Species Cohabitate in an Active Nest of the Endangered Key Largo Woodrat (Neotoma floridana smalli)

Southeastern Naturalist, 21(2).

Urbanization affects the behavior of a predator-free ungulate in protected lands

Landscape and Urban Planning, 222, 104391.

Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs?

Journal of Mammalogy, 103(4), 767–775.

A shot in the dark: White and infrared LED flash camera traps yield similar detection probabilities for common urban mammal species

Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 32(1), 72–75.

Activity patterns of tayra (<i>Eira barbara</i>) across their distribution

Journal of Mammalogy, 102(3), 772–788.

Beyond species counts for assessing, valuing, and conserving biodiversity: response to Wallach et al. 2019

Meyer, N. F. V., Balkenhol, N., Dutta, T., Hofman, M., Meyer, J.-Y., Ritchie, E. G., … Hayward, M. W. (2021, February). CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol. 35, pp. 369–372.

Fawn Counts and Adult Female Site Use Are Mismatched Indicators of Habitat Quality in an Endangered Deer

DIVERSITY-BASEL, 13(2).

Is it an omnivore's world? A comment on dietary traits in multispecies hierarchical models

Biological Conservation, 261, 109299.

SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States

Cove, M. V., Kays, R., Bontrager, H., Bresnan, C., Lasky, M., Frerichs, T., … McShea, A. J. (2021, June). ECOLOGY, Vol. 102.

Thinking outside the park: recommendations for camera trapping mammal communities in the urban matrix

Journal of Urban Ecology, 7(1).

An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when?

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(6), 700–713.

Bacterial communities in the natural and supplemental nests of an endangered ecosystem engineer

ECOSPHERE, 11(9).

Camera trap serendipity and citizen science point to broader effects of urban heat islands on food webs

Food Webs, 25, e00176.

Comparing density estimates from a short-term camera trap survey with a long-term telemetry study of giant armadillos (Priodontes maximus)

Mastozoología Neotropical, 27(2), 241–246.

Population status, connectivity, and conservation action for the endangered Baird's tapir

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 245.

Precipitous decline of white-lipped peccary populations in Mesoamerica

Biological Conservation, 242, 108410.

Seasonal flow dynamics exacerbate overlap between artisanal fisheries and imperiled Ganges River dolphins

Scientific Reports, 10(1).

A Sensitivity Analysis of the Application of Integrated Species Distribution Models to Mobile Species: A Case Study with the Endangered Baird's Tapir

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, 46(3), 184–192.

Assessing the role of habitat and species interactions in the population decline and detection bias of Neotropical leaf litter frogs in and around La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica

Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 14(2), 143–156.

Heightened nest loss in tropical forest fragments despite higher predator load in core forest

TROPICAL ECOLOGY, 60(2), 281–287.

Home decorating by an endangered ecosystem engineer

Cove, M. V., & Maurer, A. S. (2019, May). FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, Vol. 17, pp. 231–231.

Land management strategies can increase oil palm plantation use by some terrestrial mammals in Colombia

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 9.

Projecting Mammal Distributions in Response to Future Alternative Landscapes in a Rapidly Transitioning Region

Remote Sensing, 11(21), 2482.

Towards recovery of an endangered island endemic: Distributional and behavioral responses of Key Largo woodrats associated with exotic predator removal

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 237, 423–429.

What if trophy hunters didn’t kill their trophies?

Conservation Letters, 12(1), e12598.

Co-occurrence dynamics of endangered Lower Keys marsh rabbits and free-ranging domestic cats: Prey responses to an exotic predator removal program

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 8(8), 4042–4052.

Estimating wildlife activity curves: comparison of methods and sample size

Scientific Reports, 8(1).

Squamates as prey: Predator diversity patterns and predator-prey size relationships

Food Webs, 17, e00103.

Camera traps provide valuable data to assess the occurrence of the Great Curassow Crax rubra in northeastern Costa Rica

Neotropical Biodiversity, 3(1), 182–188.

Camera traps reveal an apparent mutualism between a common mesocarnivore and an endangered ungulate

Mammalian Biology, 87, 143–145.

Free-ranging domestic cats (Felis catus) on public lands: estimating density, activity, and diet in the Florida Keys

Biological Invasions, 20(2), 333–344.

Micrurus Alleni (Allen's Coral Snake). Predation and Scavenging

Herpetological Review, 48(2), 453–454.

Toucans descend to the forest floor to consume the eggs of ground-nesting birds

Food Webs, 10, 2–4.

Using a novel model approach to assess the distribution and conservation status of the endangered Baird's tapir

Diversity and Distributions.

Using a novel model approach to assess the distribution and conservation status of the endangered Baird's tapir

Diversity and Distributions, 23(12), 1459–1471.

Anolis sagrei (Brown Anole) avian predation

Herpetological Review, 47(3), 460.

Assessing species traits and landscape relationships of the mammalian carnivore community in a neotropical biological corridor

BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION, 25(4), 739–752.

Do coyotes Canis latrans influence occupancy of prey in suburban forest fragments?

CURRENT ZOOLOGY, 62(1), 1–6.

Evaluating nest supplementation as a recovery strategy for the endangered rodents of the Florida Keys

Restoration Ecology, 25(2), 253–260.

On the recovery of the endangered small mammals of the Florida Keys: Evaluating exotic predator management and habitat restoration

(PhD.). North Carolina State University.

A primer on the history of food web ecology: Fundamental contributions of fourteen researchers

Food Webs, 4, 14–24.

Integrating current range-wide occurrence data with species distribution models to map the potential distribution of Baird’s Tapir

Tapir Conservation, 24(33), 15–25.

The Endangered Ganges River dolphin Platanista gangetica gangetica in Nepal: abundance, habitat and conservation threats

ENDANGERED SPECIES RESEARCH, 29(1), 59–68.

The Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus 1758) (Testudines: Chelydridae), in the Florida Keys

Reptiles & Amphibians, 22(1), 38–39.

Camera trapping ocelots: An evaluation of felid attractants

Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 25(2), 113–116.

Factors influencing the occurrence of the Endangered Baird's tapir Tapirus bairdii: potential flagship species for a Costa Rican biological corridor

ORYX, 48(3), 402–409.

Mammal camera trapping success in a fragmented suburban landscape

Notes on plumage patterns and activity of the Great Curassow (Crax rubra) in northeastern Costa Rica

Cracid News: Bulletin of the Cracid Group in the IUCN/SSC-WPA Galliformes Specialist Group, 36, 17–19.

Pairing Noninvasive Surveys with Capture-Recapture Analysis to Estimate Demographic Parameters for Dendrobates auratus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from an Altered Habitat in Costa Rica

Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 12(2), 107.

The role of fragmentation and landscape changes in the ecological release of common nest predators in the Neotropics

PEERJ, 2.

Integrating occupancy modeling and camera-trap data to estimate medium and large mammal detection and richness in a Central American biological corridor

TROPICAL CONSERVATION SCIENCE, 6(6), 781–795.

Coyote Canis latrans (Carnivora: Canidae) range extension in northeastern Costa Rica: possible explanations and consequences

Latin American Journal of Conservation, 2-3(2-1), 82–86.

Use of Camera Traps to Examine the Mesopredator Release Hypothesis in a Fragmented Midwestern Landscape

The American Midland Naturalist, 168(2), 456–465.

Use of Probability of Detection When Conducting Analyses of Surveys of Mesopredators: a Case Study from the Ozark Highlands of Missouri

The Southwestern Naturalist, 57(3), 257–261.

Differences in detection probability between camera trap types for surveying bobcats in a fragmented suburban landscape

Wild Felid Monitor, 4(2), 24.

Mountain lions in the Midwestern United States

Wild Felid Monitor, 4(2), 18.

Occupancy modeling of medium and large mammal diversity in a Central American Biological Corridor

(Master of Science). Department of Biology and Earth Science University of Central Missouri.