Roland Kays

Can mammals thrive near urban areas in the Neotropics? Characterizing the community of a reclaimed tropical forest

TROPICAL ECOLOGY.

Candid Critters: Challenges and Solutions in a Large-Scale Citizen Science Camera Trap Project

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6(1).

Carolina critters: a collection of camera-trap data from wildlife surveys across North Carolina

Lasky, M., Parsons, A. W., Schuttler, S. G., Hess, G., Sutherland, R., Kalies, L., … Kays, R. (2021, June 1). ECOLOGY, Vol. 6.

Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans

Suraci, J. P., Gaynor, K. M., Allen, M. L., Alexander, P., Brashares, J. S., Cendejas-Zarelli, S., … Wilmers, C. C. (2021, May 20). GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, Vol. 5.

Empirical evaluation of the spatial scale and detection process of camera trap surveys

MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 9(1).

Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data

Noonan, M. J., Martinez-Garcia, R., Davis, G. H., Crofoot, M. C., Kays, R., Hirsch, B. T., … Calabrese, J. M. (2021, May 14). METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 5, pp. 1158–1173.

Home range variation in leopards living across the human density gradient

JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 8.

Mobilizing Animal Movement Data: API use and the Movebank platform

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards.

Population-level inference for home-range areas

Fleming, C. H., Deznabi, I., Alavi, S., Crofoot, M. C., Hirsch, B. T., Medici, E. P., … Calabrese, J. M. (2021, July 6). (Vol. 7). Vol. 7.

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. 6.

Tracking the decline of weasels in North America

PLOS ONE, 7.

A Novel Framework to Protect Animal Data in a World of Ecosurveillance

BioScience, 70(6), 468–476.

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

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

Animal species classification using deep neural networks with noise labels

Ecological Informatics, 57, 101063.

Born‐digital biodiversity data: Millions and billions

Diversity and Distributions, 26(5), 644–648.

COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife

NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION.

Coyotes living near cities are bolder: implications for dog evolution and human-wildlife conflict

BEHAVIOUR, 157(3-4), 289–313.

Data from: The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats [United States]

Diurnal timing of nonmigratory movement by birds: the importance of foraging spatial scales

JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY, 51(12).

Does Use of Backyard Resources Explain the Abundance of Urban Wildlife?

FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 8.

Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

SCIENCE, 370(6517), 712-+.

Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol. 34, pp. 1017–1028.

Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data

Noonan, M. J., Martinez-Garcia, R., Davis, G. H., Crofoot, M. C., Kays, R., Hirsch, B. T., … Calabrese, J. M. (2020, August 25). (Vol. 8). Vol. 8.

Foraging movements are density-independent among straw-coloured fruit bats

ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 7(5), 200274.

High variability within pet foods prevents the identification of native species in pet cats’ diets using isotopic evaluation

PeerJ, 8, e8337.

Precipitous decline of white-lipped peccary populations in Mesoamerica

Biological Conservation, 242, 108410.

The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats

Animal Conservation, 3(5), 516–523.

Wildlife response to recreational trail building: An experimental method and Appalachian case study

JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION, 56.

Animal Scanner: Software for classifying humans, animals, and empty frames in camera trap images

Ecology and Evolution, 9(4), 1578–1589.

Canid collision-expanding populations of coyotes (Canis latrans) and crab-eating foxes (Cerdocyon thous) meet up in Panama

JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 100(6), 1819–1830.

Children’s attitudes towards animals are similar across suburban, exurban, and rural areas

PeerJ, 7, e7328.

Data from: Eastern coyote home range, habitat selection and survival in the Albany pine bush landscape

Effects on white‐tailed deer following eastern coyote colonization

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(4), 916–924.

Large birds travel farther in homogeneous environments

Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(5), 576–587.

Local host-tick coextinction in neotropical forest fragments

International Journal for Parasitology, 49(3-4), 225–233.

Scale-insensitive estimation of speed and distance traveled from animal tracking data

MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 7(1).

Semantic region of interest and species classification in the deep neural network feature domain

Ecological Informatics, 52, 57–68.

The ocean’s movescape: fisheries management in the bio-logging decade (2018–2028)

ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76(2), 477–488.

Urbanization focuses carnivore activity in remaining natural habitats, increasing species interactions

Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(8), 1894–1904.

White‐tailed deer and coyote colonization: a response to Kilgo et al. (2019)

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(8), 1641–1643.

Wildlife Insights: A Platform to Maximize the Potential of Camera Trap and Other Passive Sensor Wildlife Data for the Planet

Environmental Conservation, 47(1), 1–6.

Canis latrans: Kays, R.

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Citizen Science in Schools: Students Collect Valuable Mammal Data for Science, Conservation, and Community Engagement

BioScience, 69(1), 69–79.

Data from: New York State bald eagle report 2010

High genomic diversity and candidate genes under selection associated with range expansion in eastern coyote (Canis latrans ) populations

Ecology and Evolution, 8(24), 12641–12655.

Historically native to open country in the West, this canid now lives in all habitats across the continent

Natural History Magazine, 126(7), 22–27.

Hot monkey, cold reality: surveying rainforest canopy mammals using drone-mounted thermal infrared sensors

International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(2), 407–419.

Is the Red Wolf a Listable Unit Under the US Endangered Species Act?

Journal of Heredity, 109(5), 585–597.

Joint Temporal Point Pattern Models for Proximate Species Occurrence in a Fixed Area Using Camera Trap Data

Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 23(3), 334–357.

Mammal communities are larger and more diverse in moderately developed areas

ELife, 7.

Mapping the expansion of coyotes (Canis latrans) across North and Central America

ZooKeys, 759(759), 81–97.

Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

Science, 359(6374), 466–469.

Object detection from dynamic scene using joint background modeling and fast deep learning classification

JOURNAL OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE REPRESENTATION, 55, 802–815.

Population Genomic Analysis of North American Eastern Wolves (Canis lycaon) Supports Their Conservation Priority Status

Genes, 9(12), 606.

Revised distributional estimates for the recently discovered olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), with comments on natural and taxonomic history

Journal of Mammalogy, 99(2), 321–332.

Stink or swim: techniques to meet the challenges for the study and conservation of small critters that hide, swim, or climb, and may otherwise make themselves unpleasant

In D. Macdonald, L. Harrington, & C. Newman (Eds.), Biology and Conservation of Musteloids (pp. 216–230).

The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals

PeerJ, 6, e4536.

Citizen science and biophilic cities: the great experiment

Biophilic Cities, 1(1), 22–27.

Coupling visitor and wildlife monitoring in protected areas using camera traps

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 17, 44–53.

Creating advocates for mammal conservation through citizen science

Biological Conservation, 208, 98–105.

Defense of an expanded historical range for the Mexican wolf: A comment on Heffelfinger et al.

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 81(8), 1331–1333.

Do occupancy or detection rates from camera traps reflect deer density?

Journal of Mammalogy, 98(6), 1547–1557.

Fast human-animal detection from highly cluttered camera-trap images using joint background modeling and deep learning classification

2017 ieee international symposium on circuits and systems (iscas).

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

Biological Invasions, 20(2), 333–344.

Kinkajou: the tree top specialist

In D. Macdonald, C. Newman, & L. A. Harrington (Eds.), Biology and Conservation of Musteloids (pp. 493–501). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Managed forest as habitat for gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira) in agricultural landscapes of southeastern Brazil

Journal of Mammalogy, 98(5), 1301–1309.

Northeastern coyotes cannot be a distinct species without isolation: a response to Way and Lynn

Canid Biology & Conservation, 20(2), 5–6. Retrieved from http://www.canids.org/CBC/20/northeastern_coyote_not_a_species.pdf

Object segmentation in the deep neural network feature domain from highly cluttered natural scenes

2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 3095–3099.

Track Annotation: Determining the Environmental Context of Movement Through the Air

In Aeroecology (pp. 71–86).

A community effort to document wildlife: eMammal project expands the impact of citizen scientists

The Wildlife Professional, 38–41.

A hypothesis for the disagreement between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of North American Canis: an eletter response to Whole-genome sequence analysis shows that two endemic species of North American wolf are admixtures of the coyote and gray wolf

Science Advances, 2(7), e1501714.

A multispecies occupancy model for two or more interacting species

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7(10), 1164–1173.

A two-species occupancy model accommodating simultaneous spatial and interspecific dependence

Ecology, 97(1), 48–53.

Admixture mapping identifies introgressed genomic regions in North American canids

Molecular Ecology, 25(11), 2443–2453.

An Open Standard for Camera Trap Data

Biodiversity Data Journal, 4, e10197.

Candid Creatures : how camera traps reveal the mysteries of nature

Deer on the lookout: how hunting, hiking and coyotes affect white-tailed deer vigilance

Journal of Zoology, 301(4), 320–327.

Differential Habitat Use or Intraguild Interactions: What Structures a Carnivore Community?

PLOS ONE, 11(1), e0146055.

Does hunting or hiking affect wildlife communities in protected areas?

Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(1), 242–252.

Involving Citizen Scientists in Biodiversity Observation

In The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks (pp. 211–237).

Long-distance dispersal of a subadult male cougar from South Dakota to Connecticut documented with DNA evidence

Journal of Mammalogy, 97(5), 1435–1440.

Scaling-up camera traps: monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15(1), 26–34.

The ecological impact of humans and dogs on wildlife in protected areas in eastern North America

Biological Conservation, 203, 75–88.

Visual Informatics Tools for Supporting Large-Scale Collaborative Wildlife Monitoring with Citizen Scientists

IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 16(1), 73–86.

Wildlife speed cameras: measuring animal travel speed and day range using camera traps

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2(2), 84–94.

Carnivore coexistence: America's recovery

Science, Vol. 347, pp. 381–382.

Cats are rare where coyotes roam

Journal of Mammalogy, 96(5), 981–987.

Data from: Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons

Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 30(11), 685–696.

Identification of Novel Gammaherpesviruses in Ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) and Bobcats (Lynx rufus) in Panama and Colorado, USA

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 51(4), 911–915.

Prescribed fire affects female white-tailed deer habitat use during summer lactation

Forest Ecology and Management, 348, 220–225.

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

Science, 348(6240), aaa2478–aaa2478.

Volunteer-run cameras as distributed sensors for macrosystem mammal research

Landscape Ecology, 31(1), 55–66.

Deep convolutional neural network based species recognition for wild animal monitoring

2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Presented at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).

Density estimation using camera trap surveys: the random encounter model

In P. Meek & P. Fleming (Eds.), Camera Trapping: Wildlife Management and Research (pp. 317–323). CSIRO Publishing.

Environmental drivers of variability in the movement ecology of turkey vultures ( Cathartes aura ) in North and South America

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369(1643), 20130195.

Food acquisition and predator avoidance in a Neotropical rodent

Animal Behaviour, 88, 41–48.

How long is enough to detect terrestrial animals? Estimating the minimum trapping effort on camera traps

PeerJ, 2, e374.

Mammals in and around suburban yards, and the attraction of chicken coops

Urban Ecosystems, 17(3), 691–705.

Mesopredator release facilitates range expansion in fisher

Animal Conservation, 18(1), 50–61.

Patterns of Mortality in a Wild Population of White-Footed Mice

Northeastern Naturalist, 21(2), 323–336.

Quantifying levels of animal activity using camera trap data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5(11), 1170–1179.

Recommended guiding principles for reporting on camera trapping research

Biodiversity and Conservation, 23(9), 2321–2343.

Selection and spatial arrangement of rest sites within northern tamandua home ranges

Journal of Zoology, 293(3), 160–170.

Animal behavior, cost-based corridor models, and real corridors

Landscape Ecology, 28(8), 1615–1630.

Assessment of coyote-wolf-dog admixture using ancestry-informative diagnostic SNPs

Molecular Ecology, 23(1), 182–197.

Attraction and avoidance detection from movements

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 7(3), 157–168.

Automated identification of animal species in camera trap images

Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing.

Clarifying assumptions behind the estimation of animal density from camera trap rates

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 77(5), 876–876.

Evidence for cache surveillance by a scatter-hoarding rodent

Animal Behaviour, 85(6), 1511–1516.

Flying with the wind: scale dependency of speed and direction measurements in modelling wind support in avian flight

Movement Ecology, 1(1).

Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

Animal Biotelemetry, 1(1), 20.

Prey refuges as predator hotspots: ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) attraction to agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) dens

Acta Theriologica, 59(2), 257–262.

Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito

ZooKeys, 324(324), 1–83.

The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data

Movement Ecology, 1(1).

Why Do Sloths Poop on the Ground?

In Treetops at Risk (pp. 195–199).

A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement

Journal of Animal Ecology, 81(4), 738–746.

A record of Striped Hog-nosed Skunk Conepatus semistriatus in central Panama, between two known sub-ranges

Small Carnivore Conservation, 47, 62–64.

A telemetric thread tag for tracking seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents

Plant Ecology, 213(6), 933–943.

Accelerometer-informed GPS telemetry: Reducing the trade-off between resolution and longevity

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 36(1), 139–146.

Analysis of radiotelemetry data

In The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Volume 1 Research (pp. 480–501). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Animal Visitation and Pollination of Flowering Balsa Trees (Ochroma pyramidale) in Panama

Mesoamericana, 16(3), 56–70.

Bias in estimating animal travel distance: the effect of sampling frequency

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(4), 653–662.

Data from: Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds

Directed seed dispersal towards areas with low conspecific tree density by a scatter-hoarding rodent

Ecology Letters, 15(12), 1423–1429.

Effects of Food Availability on Space and Refuge Use by a Neotropical Scatterhoarding Rodent

Biotropica, 45(1), 88–93.

Moderating Argos location errors in animal tracking data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(6), 999–1007.

Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(31), 12610–12615.

Wildlife radiotelemetry and remote monitoring

In The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Volume 1 Research (pp. 258–283). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Wildlife radiotracking

In K. Sivakumar & B. Habib (Eds.), ENVIS Bulletin on Telemetry in Wildlife Science (Vol. 13, pp. 20–30).

Ámbito de Hogar y Actividad Circadiana del Ocelote (Leopardus pardalis) en la Isla de Barro Colorado, Panamá

Mesoamericana, 16(3), 30–39.

A genome-wide perspective on the evolutionary history of enigmatic wolf-like canids

Genome Research, 21, 1294–1305.

Causes of mortality in North American populations of large and medium-sized mammals

Animal Conservation.

Emergence Time and Foraging Activity in Pallas' Mastiff Bat,Molossus molossus(Chiroptera: Molossidae) in Relation to Sunset/Sunrise and Phase of the Moon

Acta Chiropterologica, 13(2), 399–404.

Flower power

BBC Wildlife Magazine, May.

Mammals of North America

Mining periodic behaviors of object movements for animal and biological sustainability studies

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 24(2), 355–386.

Monitoring wild animal communities with arrays of motion sensitive camera traps

International Journal of Research and Reviews in Wireless Sensor Networks, 1, 19–29.

MoveMine

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2(4), 1–32.

Quantifying seed dispersal kernels from truncated seed-tracking data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(3), 595–602.

Quantifying the sensitivity of camera traps using an adapted distance sampling approach

Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Technology on the Move: Recent and Forthcoming Innovations for Tracking Migratory Birds

BioScience, 61(9), 689–698.

The Movebank data model for animal tracking

Environmental Modelling & Software, 26(6), 834–835.

The effect of feeding time on dispersal of Virola seeds by toucans determined from GPS tracking and accelerometers

Acta Oecologica, 37(6), 625–631.

Tracking animal location and activity with an Automated Radio Telemetry System in a Tropical Rainforest

The Computer Journal, 1–18.

Using stable carbon isotopes to distinguish wild from captive wolves

Northeast Naturalist, 18, 253–264.

Does watching a monkey change its behaviour? Quantifying observer effects in habituated wild primates using automated radiotelemetry

Animal Behaviour, 80(3), 475–480.

Large-Range Movements of Neotropical Orchid Bees Observed via Radio Telemetry

PLoS ONE, 5(5), e10738.

Mining periodic behaviors for moving objects

Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining - KDD '10. Presented at the the 16th ACM SIGKDD international conference.

MoveMine: mining moving object databases

Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '10. Presented at the the 2010 international conference.

Reply to Wheeldon et al. ‘Colonization history and ancestry of northeastern coyotes’

Reply to Wheeldon et al. ‘Colonization history and ancestry of northeastern coyotes.’ Biology Letters, 6(2), 248–249.

Swarm

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 3(1-2), 723–734.

Camera traps as sensor networks for monitoring animal communities

2009 IEEE 34th Conference on Local Computer Networks. Presented at the 2009 IEEE 34th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009).

Evidence for Three-Toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) Predation by Spectacled Owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata)

Edentata, 8-10, 15–20.

Family Procyonidae (Raccoons)

In D. Wilson, R. Mittermeier, & T. E. Lacher (Eds.), Handbook of Mammals of the World (Lynx Editions, Vol. 1, pp. 498–530). Barcelona: Conservation International.

Fish and wildlife communities of the Adirondacks

In W. Porter, J. Erickson, & R. Whaley (Eds.), The Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices From the Adirondack Park (pp. 71–86). Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.

Mammals of North America

Nocturnal activity by the primarily diurnal Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) in relation to environmental conditions, resource abundance and predation risk

Journal of Tropical Ecology, 25(2), 211–215.

Rapid adaptive evolution of northeastern coyotes via hybridization with wolves

Biology Letters, 6(1), 89–93.

Scatter hoarding by the Central American agouti: a test of optimal cache spacing theory

Animal Behaviour, 78(6), 1327–1333.

Taxonomic boundaries and geographic distributions revealed by an integrative systematic overview of the mountain coatis, Nasuella (Carnivora: Procyonidae)

Small Carnivore Conservation, 41, 65–74.

Home-range use by the Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Journal of Tropical Ecology, 24(4), 367–374.

Interaction location outweighs the competitive advantage of numerical superiority in Cebus capucinus intergroup contests

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(2), 577–581.