Works (260)
Updated: November 16th, 2024 01:20
2024 journal article
Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States
Diversity and Distributions.
open access via doi.org (publisher)
Source: ORCID
Added: July 1, 2024
2024 journal article
From past habitats to present threats: tracing North American weasel distributions through a century of climate and land use change
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 39(5).
author keywords: Least weasel; Long-tailed weasel; American ermine; Mustela; Neogale; Environmental Niche Modelling (ENM)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 8, 2024
2024 journal article
Geographic barriers but not life history traits shape the phylogeography of North American mammals
Global Ecology and Biogeography, 6.
author keywords: biogeography; climate change; connectivity; dispersal; glacial refugia; lineage; Pleistocene; subspecies
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: June 8, 2024
2024 article
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.
author keywords: autocorrelation; bias; camera trap; occupancy
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 1, 2024
2024 article
Introducing a unique animal ID and digital life history museum for wildlife metadata
Wikelski, M., Quetting, M., Bates, J., Berger-Wolf, T., Bohrer, G., Boerger, L., … Kays, R. (2024, September 12). METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 9.
author keywords: animal passport; biologging; community science; life history; lifetime tracking
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 23, 2024
2024 journal article
Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(5), 924–935.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: April 15, 2024
2024 journal article
New surveys reveal a population stronghold for the Hoary-throated Spinetail <i>Synallaxis kollari</i> and Rio Branco Antbird <i>Cercomacra carbonaria</i> along the Guyana-Brazil border
BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL, 34.
author keywords: conservation; gallery forest; Thamnophilidae; Furnariidae; Guiana Shield
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 21, 2024
2024 article
Non-invasive methods for monitoring weasels: emerging technologies and priorities for future research
Jachowski, D. S., Bergeson, S. M., Cotey, S. R., Croose, E., Hofmeester, T. R., Macpherson, J., … Zub, K. (2024, January 19). MAMMAL REVIEW, Vol. 1.
author keywords: camera trap; Mustela; Neogale; non-invasive monitoring
TL;DR:
A literature review and the first ever International Weasel Monitoring Symposium were conducted to synthesise information on historical and current non‐invasive monitoring techniques for weasels, finding that the most promising non‐invasive monitoring techniques available include use of citizen scientist reporting, detection dogs, detecting tracks, non‐invasive genetic surveys, and enclosed or unenclosed camera trap systems.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 12, 2024
2024 journal article
People or predators? Comparing habitat‐dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore
Ecography.
Source: ORCID
Added: November 5, 2024
2024 article
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.
author keywords: biodiversity; biogeography; camera traps; Carnivora; Cetartiodactyla; Cingulata; Didelphimorphia; Lagomorpha; mammals; Rodentia
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 8, 2024
2024 journal article
Sex and size matter: Intricate dominance relationships in an East African large carnivore guild
ECOSPHERE, 15(6).
author keywords: Crocuta crocuta; Eastern Arc Mountains; leopard; multispecies occupancy; Panthera pardus; spatiotemporal; species interactions; spotted hyena; Tanzania; Udzungwa
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 22, 2024
2024 journal article
Shifting mammal communities and declining species richness along an elevational gradient on Mount Kenya
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 14(4).
author keywords: beta-diversity; energy richness hypothesis; habitat specialization; mid-domain effect; relative abundance; species richness
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: April 15, 2024
2024 journal article
Smarter foragers do not forage smarter: a test of the diet hypothesis for brain expansion
author keywords: evolution; intelligence; brain size; foraging; mammal
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
(OpenAlex)
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 17, 2024
2024 journal article
Urbanization and primary productivity mediate the predator-prey relationship between deer and coyotes
ECOSPHERE, 15(6).
author keywords: coyote; harvest data; integrated population model; net primary productivity; predator-prey interaction; urbanization; white-tailed deer
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 22, 2024
2023 journal article
A multi-species evaluation of digital wildlife monitoring using the Sigfox IoT network
ANIMAL BIOTELEMETRY, 11(1).
author keywords: Animal tracking; Movement ecology; Telemetry; Biologging; LPWAN; LoRa; Wireless sensors; Embedded systems; Onboard processing; Sigfox
TL;DR:
The Sigfox IoT network is evaluated for the potential as a real-time multi-sensor data retrieval and tag commanding system for studying fauna across a diversity of species and ecosystems and for the performance of Sigfox Atlas Native, a low-power method for positional estimates based on radio signal strengths.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: April 17, 2023
2023 article
A vision for incorporating human mobility in the study of human-wildlife interactions
Ellis-Soto, D., Oliver, R. Y., Brum-Bastos, V., Demsar, U., Jesmer, B., Long, J. A., … Jetz, W. (2023, August 7). NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, Vol. 8.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science)
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 28, 2023
2023 journal article
An automated approach for counting groups of flying animals applied to one of the world's largest bat colonies
ECOSPHERE, 14(6).
author keywords: bats; computer vision; convolutional neural network; flight dynamics; image analysis; migration; population estimate
TL;DR:
A deep learning-based system using consumer cameras that not only counts but also records behavioral information for large numbers of flying animals in a range of lighting conditions including near darkness is developed.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 30, 2023
2023 journal article
Camera trapping expands the view into global biodiversity and its change
author keywords: camera trap; biodiversity; data gaps; convention on biological diversity
MeSH headings : Animals; Biodiversity; Animals, Wild; Mammals; Birds; Knowledge
TL;DR:
Comparing CT records of terrestrial mammals and birds from the recently released Wildlife Insights platform to publicly available occurrences from many observation types in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility shows that the continued collection and mobilization of CT data has the potential to offer a critical lens into biodiversity.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 19, 2023
2023 article
Camtrap DP: an open standard for the FAIR exchange and archiving of camera trap data
Bubnicki, J., Norton, B., Baskauf, S., Bruce, T., Cagnacci, F., Casaer, J., … Desmet, P. (2023, December 9). REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, Vol. 12.
author keywords: Biodiversity data; camera traps; data exchange; data sharing; information standards
TL;DR:
A new data exchange format, the Camera Trap Data Package (Camtrap DP), designed to allow users to easily exchange, harmonize and archive camera trap data at local to global scales, and achieves interoperability by building upon existing standards, Frictionless Data Package in particular.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 2, 2024
2023 article
Combining camera trap surveys and IUCN range maps to improve knowledge of species distributions
Chen, C., Granados, A., Brodie, J. F., Kays, R., Davies, T. J., Liu, R., … Burton, A. C. (2024, March 3). CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol. 3.
author keywords: camera trap; IUCN; mammal distribution; mammal occurrence; range map; species distributions
TL;DR:
It is suggested that combining range maps with accumulating data from ground-based biodiversity sensors, such as camera traps, provides a richer knowledge base for conservation mapping and planning, and overrepresent ranges by including areas where a species may be absent, particularly at range edges.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2024
2023 article
Ecological effects of a declining red wolf population
Murray, A., Sutherland, R., & Kays, R. (2023, November 20). ANIMAL CONSERVATION, Vol. 11.
author keywords: red wolf; endangered species; North Carolina; relative abundance; camera traps; carnivore reintroductions
TL;DR:
The results lend correlational support to the hypothesis that red wolves had a strong effect on their ecosystems by suppressing prey and competitor populations when they were at their peak, with the caveat that these impacts can decline rapidly if the predators dwindle back to critically low numbers.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 18, 2023
2023 article
From backyard to backcountry: changes in mammal communities across an urbanization gradient
Hansen, C. P., Kays, R., & Millspaugh, J. J. (2023, November 28). (J. Goheen, Ed.). JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, Vol. 11.
Ed(s): J. Goheen
author keywords: activity time; diel activity; housing density; mammal; occupancy; relative abundance; species richness; urbanization
TL;DR:
This study confirms that some mammals can live and thrive in developed areas, it emphasizes the importance of maintaining wild areas for those species that cannot, and was the strongest driver of mammal distribution.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 18, 2023
2023 journal article
Maximum temperatures determine the habitat affiliations of North American mammals
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 120(50).
author keywords: biodiversity conservation; habitat loss; occupancy; climate change; mammal community
TL;DR:
Choices about enhancing the conservation value of anthropogenic landscapes versus protecting natural areas should consider how species’ habitat affiliations are likely to shift under a changing climate, as climatic conditions dictate species’ capacities to persist in anthropogenic landscapes.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2024
2023 journal article
Multi-scale movement syndromes for comparative analyses of animal movement patterns
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 11(1).
TL;DR:
A new multi-scale movement syndrome framework is introduced for describing and comparing animal movements and used to explore the behavior of four sympatric mammals, finding differences in feeding ecology were a better predictor of movement patterns than a species’ locomotory or sensory adaptations.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: October 16, 2023
2023 journal article
Olingos do eat insects: Records of nocturnal mammals preying on arthropods in arboreal live-capture traps
FOOD WEBS, 36.
author keywords: Bassaricyon; Canopy; Arboreal traps; Caluromys; Marmosa; Insect predation
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 7, 2023
2023 review
The Internet of Animals: what it is, what it could be
[Review of ]. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 38(9), 859–869.
TL;DR:
By linking data sets, integrating live data, and automating workflows, the IoA has the potential to enable discoveries and predictions relevant to human societies and the conservation of animals.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 31, 2023
2023 journal article
Using decoys and camera traps to estimate depredation rates and neonate survival
PLOS ONE, 18(10), e0293328.
Ed(s): P. Corti
TL;DR:
It is concluded that the camera-decoy approach is a cost-effective method to estimate a neonate survival probability index based on depredation probability and identify which predators are most important.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(OpenAlex)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: December 18, 2023
2022 journal article
A Quantitative Framework for Identifying Patterns of Route-Use in Animal Movement Data
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 9.
author keywords: travel routes; spatial cognition; animal movement; navigation; corridors; unsupervised clustering; routine movement; animal cognition
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 7, 2022
2022 article
A Two-Species Occupancy Model with a Continuous-Time Detection Process Reveals Spatial and Temporal Interactions
Kellner, K. F., Parsons, A. W., Kays, R., Millspaugh, J. J., & Rota, C. T. (2022, January 7). JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS, Vol. 1.
author keywords: Activity patterns; Camera traps; Occupancy; Point process; Temporal interactions
TL;DR:
The proposed two-species occupancy model broadens the set of questions ecologists can ask regarding both spatial and temporal interactions between species, as well as fine-scale temporal covariates (e.g., weather).
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 18, 2022
2022 article
Biological Earth observation with animal sensors
Jetz, W., Tertitski, G., Kays, R., Mueller, U., & Wikelski, M. (2022, April). TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, Vol. 37, pp. 293–298.
MeSH headings : Animals; Conservation of Natural Resources; Earth, Planet; Ecosystem; Movement
TL;DR:
Space-based tracking technology using low-cost miniature tags is now delivering data on fine-scale animal movement at near-global scale that offers a biological lens on habitat integrity and connectivity for conservation and human health; a global network of animal sentinels of environmental change.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 28, 2022
2022 journal article
Documenting Wild Turkey Breeding Patterns in North Carolina with Camera Traps
SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST, 21(3), 220–234.
TL;DR:
Analyzing the timing of turkey reproduction across North Carolina by examining camera-trap images collected from 527 sites over 3 years found a peak of male strutting behavior at Julian week 13 and the peak of egg hatching at week 22, but not across the 3 ecoregions of the state.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 31, 2022
2022 journal article
Exploring spatial nonstationarity for four mammal species reveals regional variation in environmental relationships
ECOSPHERE, 13(8).
author keywords: spatial nonstationarity; species distributions; species-environment relationships
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 4, 2022
2022 article
Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity
Chen, C., Brodie, J. F., Kays, R., Davies, T. J., Liu, R., Fisher, J. T., … Burton, A. C. (2022, January 26). CONSERVATION LETTERS, Vol. 1.
author keywords: camera trap; functional diversity; human accessibility; human footprint; mammal diversity; protected area; species richness; taxonomic diversity
TL;DR:
There is a strong positive correlation between mammal taxonomic diversity and the proportion of a surveyed area covered by PAs at a global scale and a need to better understand the functional response of mammal communities to protection.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 27, 2022
2022 article
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients
Journe, V., Andrus, R., Aravena, M.-C., Ascoli, D., Berretti, R., Berveiller, D., … Clark, J. S. (2022, April 23). ECOLOGY LETTERS, Vol. 4.
author keywords: climate; competition; forest regeneration; seed consumption; species interactions; tree fecundity
MeSH headings : Biodiversity; Climate; Fertility; Forests; Seeds; Trees
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 2, 2022
2022 article
How is Ecology Helping Us Understand COVID-19?
Kays, R. (2022, June 22).
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: August 17, 2022
2022 article
Integrating data types to estimate spatial patterns of avian migration across the Western Hemisphere
Meehan, T. D., Saunders, S. P., DeLuca, W. V., Michel, N. L., Grand, J., Deppe, J. L., … Wilsey, C. B. (2022, July 6). ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS, Vol. 7.
author keywords: annual cycle; band re-encounter; data integration; eBird; least-cost path; migratory connectivity; tracking
MeSH headings : Animal Migration; Animals; Birds; Seasons; South America
TL;DR:
This methodology of combining individual‐based seasonal movement data with temporally dynamic species distribution models provides a comprehensive approach to integrating multiple data types to describe broad‐scale spatial patterns of animal movement.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 18, 2022
2022 journal article
Intensive hunting changes human-wildlife relationships
PEERJ, 10.
author keywords: Antipredator behavior; Ecological impacts; Europe; Hunting pressure; Landscape of fear; North America; Relative abundance; Risk allocation
MeSH headings : Animals; Humans; Animals, Wild; Hunting; Deer; Ecosystem; Forests
TL;DR:
The results suggest that the duration and intensity of managed hunting can have strong and predictable effects on animal abundance and behavior, with the potential for corresponding changes in the ecological impacts of wildlife.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 1, 2023
2022 journal article
Life in 2.5D: Animal Movement in the Trees
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 10.
author keywords: arboreal mammals; foraging; decision-making; navigation; forest
TL;DR:
This synthesis will shed light on fundamental aspects of arboreal animals’ cognition and ecology, including how they navigate landscapes of risk and reward and weigh energetic trade-offs, as well as how their environment shapes their spatial cognition and their social dynamics.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 27, 2022
2022 article
Mitigating pseudoreplication and bias in resource selection functions with autocorrelation-informed weighting
Alston, J. M., Fleming, C. H., Kays, R., Streicher, J. P., Downs, C. T., Ramesh, T., … Calabrese, J. M. (2022, November 20). METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 11.
author keywords: continuous-time movement models; habitat selection; home range; Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process; space use; spatial point process; stochastic process model; utilization distribution
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 21, 2022
2022 article
Mitigating pseudoreplication and bias in resource selection functions with autocorrelation-informed weighting
Alston, J. M., Fleming, C. H., Kays, R., Streicher, J. P., Downs, C. T., Ramesh, T., & Calabrese, J. M. (2022, April 22).
TL;DR:
This study introduces a method for likelihood weighting of animal locations to mitigate the negative consequences of autocorrelation on resource selection functions, and demonstrates that this method weights each observed location in an animal’s movement track according to its level of non-independence, expanding confidence intervals and reducing bias that can arise when there are missing data in the movement track.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: May 20, 2022
2022 article
Monitoring small mammal abundance using NEON data: are calibrated indices useful?
Parsons, A. W., Clark, J. S., & Kays, R. (2022, November 25). JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, Vol. 11.
author keywords: abundance; abundance indices; Bayesian; capture; recapture; NEON; small mammal
TL;DR:
It is found that neither raw abundance indices nor index calibrations were reliable approximations of absolute abundance, with raw indices less correlated with absolute abundance than index calibratedations, and none of the indices should be used for comparing different species due to high variation in capture probabilities.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2022
2022 article
MoveApps - a serverless no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data
Kölzsch, A., Davidson, S. C., Gauggel, D., Hahn, C., Hirt, J., Kays, R., … Safi, K. (2022, February 19). (Vol. 2). Vol. 2.
Source: ORCID
Added: February 20, 2022
2022 journal article
MoveApps: a serverless no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 10(1).
author keywords: Animal movement; Movement ecology; Bio-logging; Method sharing; Community empowerment; Analysis code publication; Reproducibility; Cloud infrastructure; Serverless computing
TL;DR:
The MoveApps platform is meant to empower the community to supply, exchange and use analysis code in an intuitive environment that allows fast and traceable results and feedback and is intended to increase the pace of knowledge generation and integration to match the huge growth rate in bio-logging data acquisition.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 26, 2022
2022 journal article
Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 13(1).
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Wild; Automation; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecology; Ecosystem; Knowledge; Machine Learning; Models, Theoretical
TL;DR:
It is argued that animal ecologists can capitalize on large datasets generated by modern sensors by combining machine learning approaches with domain knowledge by incorporating machine learning into ecological workflows.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 7, 2022
2022 article
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. (2022, March 11). METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 2.
author keywords: animal movement; autocorrelation; home range; population ecology
TL;DR:
The approach allows researchers to more accurately compare different populations with different movement behaviours or sampling schedules while retaining statistical precision and power when individual home‐range uncertainties vary, and emphasizes the estimation of effect sizes when comparing populations.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 4, 2022
2022 article
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.
author keywords: biodiversity; biogeography; camera traps; Carnivora; Cetartiodactyla; Didelphimorphia; Lagomorpha; mammals; occupancy modeling; species distribution modeling
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Wild; Birds; COVID-19 / epidemiology; Humans; Mammals; Pandemics; United States
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 6, 2022
2022 article
Saving Wildlife on a Changing Planet
Kays, R. (2022, January 15). (Vol. 1). Vol. 1.
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2022
2022 journal article
The effect of urbanization on spatiotemporal interactions between gray foxes and coyotes
ECOSPHERE, 13(3).
author keywords: camera traps; carnivore; occupancy; spatiotemporal; species interactions
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 31, 2022
2022 article
What drives spatially varying ecological relationships in a wide-ranging species?
Pease, B. S., Pacifici, K., Kays, R., & Reich, B. (2022, July 4). DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, Vol. 7.
author keywords: American black bear; niche conservatism; spatial non-stationarity; species-environment relationships; Ursus americanus
TL;DR:
This work has suggested that niche traits that are conserved should reflect the evolutionary history of a species whereas more flexible ecological traits could vary at finer scales, reflecting local adaptation.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 5, 2022
2022 journal article
Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs?
Journal of Mammalogy, 103(4), 767–775.
Ed(s): R. Moratelli
author keywords: artificial intelligence; biodiversity; camera trap; citizen science; curation; identification; iNaturalist; photograph; range map; voucher
TL;DR:
The extent to which 335 terrestrial nonvolant North American mammals can be identified in typical photographs, with and without considering species range maps is quantified.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: April 14, 2022
2022 article
Wildlife Insights: How Camera Trap Data Can Foster Global Biodiversity Conservation
Iannarilli, F., Oliver, R., Birch, T., Beery, S., Fegraus, E., Flores, N., … Jetz, W. (2022, January 31). (Vol. 1). Vol. 1.
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2022
2021 article
A pilot study on the home range and movement patterns of the Andean Fox Lycalopex culpaeus (Molina, 1782) in Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador
Castellanos, A., Castellanos, F. X., Kays, R., & Brito, J. (2021, August 17). MAMMALIA, Vol. 8.
author keywords: Andean fox habits; continuous-time movement model; mammal tracking; non-parametric methods; straight-line displacement
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 18, 2022
2021 article
Arboreal monkeys facilitate foraging of terrestrial frugivores
Havmoller, L. W., Loftus, J. C., Havmoller, R. W., Alavi, S. E., Caillaud, D., Grote, M. N., … Crofoot, M. C. (2021, September 19). BIOTROPICA, Vol. 9.
author keywords: attraction; camera trapping; eavesdropping; GPS tracking; interspecific associations; Panama; tropical forest
TL;DR:
The results demonstrate that terrestrial frugivores are attracted to arboreal primates, likely because they increase local resource availability and suggest that their loss may have unanticipated consequences for thefrugivore community.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 4, 2021
2021 journal article
Can mammals thrive near urban areas in the Neotropics? Characterizing the community of a reclaimed tropical forest
TROPICAL ECOLOGY, 62(2), 174–185.
author keywords: Camera traps; Neotropical forest; Occupancy modelling; Secondary forest; Suriname; Urbanization
TL;DR:
Despite fewer species being detected than in large protected areas, the presence of some species in Peperpot Nature Park shows promise for small urban tropical forests to support robust mammal communities, provided they maintain some connectivity to larger source habitats.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 15, 2021
2021 journal article
Candid Critters: Challenges and Solutions in a Large-Scale Citizen Science Camera Trap Project
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6(1).
TL;DR:
An overview of the efforts to conduct a large-scale citizen science project using camera traps—North Carolina’s Candid Critters and eight key suggestions for overcoming challenges in study design, volunteer recruitment and management, equipment distribution, outreach, training, and data management.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 19, 2021
2021 article
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.
author keywords: biodiversity; camera trap; citizen science; database; ecology; mammal; species distribution
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Wild; Biodiversity; Ecosystem; Mammals; North Carolina
TL;DR:
This large data set of camera trap surveys from 6,043 locations across all 100 counties of North Carolina from 2009 to 2019 increases the geographical distribution data for 39 mammal and bird species by >500% over what is available for North Carolina in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 10, 2021
2021 article
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.
author keywords: anthropogenic disturbance; carnivore; conservation; environmental filter; human footprint index; human‐ wildlife coexistence; occupancy; traits; ungulate; wildlife
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Wild; Ecosystem; Human Activities; Humans; Life History Traits; Mammals; North America
TL;DR:
This approach provides insights into the complex mechanisms through which human activities shape mammal communities globally, revealing the drivers of the loss of larger predators in human‐modified landscapes.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 10, 2021
2021 journal article
Empirical evaluation of the spatial scale and detection process of camera trap surveys
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 9(1).
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 15, 2021
2021 article
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.
author keywords: animal movement; Cebus capucinus; contact; home range; interactions; Tiliqua rugosa
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: June 10, 2021
2021 journal article
Home range variation in leopards living across the human density gradient
JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 102(4), 1138–1148.
author keywords: habitat use; human carnivore interaction; human density; large carnivore; leopard; movement ecology; Panthera pardus
TL;DR:
Leopards in open habitats had a predicted negative correlation in home range size with human population density, but leopard in closed habitats used larger home ranges in areas with more people and males used larger areas than females.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 7, 2021
2021 journal article
Mobilizing Animal Movement Data: API use and the Movebank platform
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards.
TL;DR:
There are needs to coordinate API development across animal tracking and biodiversity databases, and to develop a shared system for unique organism identifiers to recognize data for the same individuals across platforms, retain provenance and attribution information, and ensure beneficial and biologically meaningful data use.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: September 14, 2021
2021 article
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.
TL;DR:
This work introduces a statistically and computationally efficient framework for the population-level analysis of home-range areas, based on autocorrelated kernel density estimation (AKDE), that can account for variable temporalAutocorrelation and estimation uncertainty.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: July 19, 2021
2021 article
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.
author keywords: biodiversity; biogeography; camera traps; carnivora; Cetartiodactyla; Cingulata; Didelphimorphia; Lagomorpha; mammals; occupancy modeling; Rodentia; species distribution modeling
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Wild; Birds; Mammals; Population Dynamics; United States
TL;DR:
The SNAPSHOT USA project, a collaborative survey of terrestrial wildlife populations using camera traps across the United States, compiled data across all 50 states during a 14-week period in 2019, representing a timely and standardized camera trap survey of the USA.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: June 28, 2021
2021 journal article
Seasonal Patterns in Daily Flight Distance and Space Use by Great Egrets (Ardea alba)
WATERBIRDS, 44(3), 343–355.
author keywords: Ardea alba; central place; daily flight distances; GPS telemetry; Great Egret; home range; wading bird; wetlands; utilization distribution
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 2, 2022
2021 article
The Movebank system for studying global animal movement and demography
Kays, R., Davidson, S. C., Berger, M., Bohrer, G., Fiedler, W., Flack, A., … Wikelski, M. (2021, December 12). METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 12.
author keywords: animal behaviour; animal tracking; bio-logging; cyberinfrastructure; FAIR data; GPS; live data; movement
TL;DR:
A case study demonstrating the use of Movebank to assess life‐history events and demography, and engage with citizen scientists to identify mortalities and causes of death for a migratory bird are presented.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 13, 2021
2021 journal article
Tracking the decline of weasels in North America
PLOS ONE, 16(7).
MeSH headings : Animals; Canada; Mustelidae / physiology; Population Dynamics; United States
TL;DR:
The hypothesis that weasel populations have declined in North America is supported and the need for improved methods for detecting and monitoring weasels is highlighted, by identifying population declines for small carnivores that were formerly abundant across North America.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 30, 2021
2020 journal article
A Novel Framework to Protect Animal Data in a World of Ecosurveillance
BioScience, 70(6), 468–476.
author keywords: Ecology; biotelemetry; biologging; species at risk; data security; poaching; data privacy
TL;DR:
It is suggested that when designing animal tracking studies it is incumbent on scientists to consider the vulnerability of their study animals to risks arising from the implementation of the proposed program, and to take preventative measures.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: July 13, 2020
2020 journal article
An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when?
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(6), 700–713.
Ed(s): D. Fisher
author keywords: camera traps; community ecology; detectability; mammals; relative abundance; species richness; study design; wildlife surveys
TL;DR:
It was found that 25–35 camera sites were needed for precise estimates of species richness, depending on scale of the study, and the precision of species‐level estimates of occupancy was highly sensitive to occupancy level.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref, ORCID
Added: April 20, 2020
2020 journal article
Animal species classification using deep neural networks with noise labels
Ecological Informatics, 57, 101063.
author keywords: Noisy labels; Deep neural networks; Clean network; K-means clustering
TL;DR:
The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed robust learning method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods from the literature and achieved improved accuracy on animal species classification from camera-trap images with high levels of label noise.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: May 8, 2020
2020 journal article
Born‐digital biodiversity data: Millions and billions
Diversity and Distributions, 26(5), 644–648.
Ed(s): D. Zurell
author keywords: animal tracking; big data; biodiversity; camera trapping; conservation; ecological modelling; specimens
TL;DR:
This work urges institutions to recognize the future of born‐digital records and invest in proper curation and standards so they can make the most of these records to inform management, inspire conservation action and tell natural history stories about life on the planet.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref, ORCID
Added: April 20, 2020
2020 article
COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife
Rutz, C., Loretto, M.-C., Bates, A. E., Davidson, S. C., Duarte, C. M., Jetz, W., … Cagnacci, F. (2020, September). NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, Vol. 4, pp. 1156–1159.
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Wild; Betacoronavirus; COVID-19; Coronavirus Infections; Ecosystem; Human Activities; Humans; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; SARS-CoV-2
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 20, 2020
2020 journal article
Coyotes living near cities are bolder: implications for dog evolution and human-wildlife conflict
BEHAVIOUR, 157(3-4), 289–313.
author keywords: self-domestication; urban evolution; coyote wildlife management; urban coyotes; coyote boldness; human-wildlife conflict
TL;DR:
Analysis of the reactions of coyotes to novel human artefacts at 575 sites across the state of North Carolina suggests that urban coyotes are experiencing selection for boldness and becoming more attracted tohuman artefacts.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 8, 2020
2020 dataset
Data from: The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats [United States]
Contributors: U. Konstanz
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2020 journal article
Diurnal timing of nonmigratory movement by birds: the importance of foraging spatial scales
JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY, 51(12).
author keywords: flight mode; foraging; movement ecology; multispecies; nonmigratory; temporal
TL;DR:
Assessment of signals of eicher of chese scracegies are dececcable in the timing of activiry of daily, local movements by birds finds broad-scale foraging habicac explained less of ehe clustering paccerns, and the similarities of timing of movement activiry among species are compared.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 19, 2021
2020 journal article
Does Use of Backyard Resources Explain the Abundance of Urban Wildlife?
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 8.
author keywords: camera trap; mammal; relative abundance; species richness; supplemental feeding
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 24, 2020
2020 journal article
Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic
SCIENCE, 370(6517), 712-+.
MeSH headings : Acclimatization; Animal Migration; Animals; Archives; Arctic Regions; Ecological Parameter Monitoring; Population
TL;DR:
The new Arctic Animal Movement Archive (AAMA) is presented, a growing collection of more than 200 standardized terrestrial and marine animal tracking studies from 1991 to the present that illuminates the effects of climate change on multiple charismatic animal and bird species.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 14, 2020
2020 journal article
Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements
Conservation Biology, 34(4), 1017–1028.
author keywords: allometry; animal movement; area-based conservation; autocorrelation; home range; kernel density estimation; reserve design; scaling
MeSH headings : Animals; Body Size; Conservation of Natural Resources; Endangered Species; Homing Behavior; Humans; Mammals
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID, Crossref
Added: July 6, 2020
2020 article
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).
TL;DR:
This work introduces a new theoretical concept describing the long-term encounter location probabilities for movement within home ranges, termed the conditional distribution of encounters (CDE), and derives this distribution, as well as confidence intervals, and implements its statistical estimator into open source software.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: July 19, 2021
2020 journal article
Foraging movements are density-independent among straw-coloured fruit bats
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 7(5).
author keywords: central place foraging; colony size; Old World fruit bats; resources; movement; migration
TL;DR:
The relatively consistent foraging patterns across seasons and colonies indicate that these bats seek out roosts close to highly productive landscapes, which may help to explain why long-distance migration, otherwise rare in bats, evolved in this highly gregarious species.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: June 22, 2020
2020 journal article
High variability within pet foods prevents the identification of native species in pet cats’ diets using isotopic evaluation
PeerJ, 8, e8337.
author keywords: Felis catus; Carbon; Stable isotopes; Predation; Pet food; Nitrogen
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: February 10, 2020
2020 journal article
Precipitous decline of white-lipped peccary populations in Mesoamerica
Biological Conservation, 242, 108410.
author keywords: Distribution modelling; Large herbivores; Population decline; Neotropics; Range decline; White-lipped peccaries
TL;DR:
To conserve white-lipped peccaries in Mesoamerica, transboundary efforts will be needed that focus on both forest conservation and hunting management, increased cross-border coordination, and reconsideration of country and regional conservation priorities.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: April 20, 2020
2020 journal article
The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats
Animal Conservation, 23(5), 516–523.
author keywords: citizen science; domestic cats; GPS tracking; predation; urban ecology; home rage; carnivores; Felis catus
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries, Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: September 14, 2020
2020 journal article
Wildlife response to recreational trail building: An experimental method and Appalachian case study
JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION, 56.
Contributors: A. Miller n, n & Y. Leung n
author keywords: Before-after control-impact; Camera trap; Experiment; Occupancy; Recreation impact; Trails
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: August 24, 2020
2019 journal article
Animal Scanner: Software for classifying humans, animals, and empty frames in camera trap images
Ecology and Evolution, 9(4), 1578–1589.
author keywords: background subtraction; camera trap images; deep convolutional neural networks; human-animal detection; wildlife monitoring
TL;DR:
This work develops computer vision algorithms to detect and classify moving objects to aid the first step of camera trap image filtering—separating the animal detections from the empty frames and pictures of humans, thus improving the ability to monitor wildlife across large scales with camera traps.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: April 2, 2019
2019 journal article
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.
author keywords: camera traps; coyote; crab-eating fox; data fusion; Great American Biotic Interchange; invasive species
TL;DR:
If deforestation continues in the region, these two invasive canids could represent the first of a new, Not-So-Great American Biotic Interchange, where generalist species adapted to human disturbance cross continents and threaten native biota.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 10, 2020
2019 journal article
Children’s attitudes towards animals are similar across suburban, exurban, and rural areas
PeerJ, 7, e7328.
author keywords: Children; Attitudes; Biodiversity; Animals; Urbanization; Native
TL;DR:
Despite different levels of urbanization, children had either an unfamiliarity with and/or low preference for local animals, suggesting that a disconnect between children and local biodiversity is already well-established, even in more rural areas where many wildlife species can be found.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: July 23, 2019
2019 dataset
Data from: Eastern coyote home range, habitat selection and survival in the Albany pine bush landscape
Contributors: U. Konstanz
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2019 journal article
Effects on white‐tailed deer following eastern coyote colonization
The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(4), 916–924.
author keywords: eastern coyote; novel predator; population growth rate; predator-prey dynamics; spatial compensation
TL;DR:
The hypothesis that coyotes, as a novel predator, would affect deer population dynamics across large spatial scales, and the strongest effects would occur after a time lag following initial coyote colonization, is tested.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(OpenAlex)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: April 20, 2020
2019 journal article
Large birds travel farther in homogeneous environments
Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(5), 576–587.
Ed(s): V. Boucher-Lalonde
author keywords: enhanced vegetation index; landscape complementation; movement ecology; productivity; spatial behaviour; terrestrial birds; waterbirds
TL;DR:
It is suggested that longer movements in homogeneous environments might reflect the need for different habitat types associated with foraging and reproduction as habitat homogenization increases, it might force birds to travel increasingly longer distances to meet their diverse needs.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: June 17, 2019
2019 journal article
Local host-tick coextinction in neotropical forest fragments
International Journal for Parasitology, 49(3-4), 225–233.
author keywords: Biodiversity loss; Host-parasite interactions; Forest fragmentation; Defaunation; Extinction cascade; Host specificity; Panama
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Wild / growth & development; Biodiversity; Extinction, Biological; Forests; Panama; Ticks / growth & development; Tropical Climate; Vertebrates / growth & development
TL;DR:
These findings support the host-parasite coextinction hypothesis, and indicate that loss of wildlife can indeed have cascading effects on tick communities, and imply that opportunities for pathogen transmission via generalist ticks may be higher in habitats with degraded tick communities.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: May 13, 2019
2019 journal article
Scale-insensitive estimation of speed and distance traveled from animal tracking data
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 7(1).
author keywords: Continuous-time; correlated velocity; ctmm; GPS; movement models; step length; telemetry; travel distance
TL;DR:
It was found that SLD estimates varied substantially with sampling frequency, whereas CTSD provided relatively consistent estimates, with often dramatic improvements over SLD, when applied to empirical GPS data.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: December 9, 2019
2019 journal article
Semantic region of interest and species classification in the deep neural network feature domain
Ecological Informatics, 52, 57–68.
author keywords: Animal species classification; Deep neural networks; Semantic regions; Graph cut
TL;DR:
This paper uses a deep neural network model training for animal- background image classification to analyze the input camera-trap images to generate a multi-level visual representation of the input image, and detects semantic regions of interest for animals from this representation using k-mean clustering and graph cut in the DNN feature domain.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: July 15, 2019
2019 journal article
Urbanization focuses carnivore activity in remaining natural habitats, increasing species interactions
Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(8), 1894–1904.
Ed(s): H. Wheeler
author keywords: camera traps; carnivore; citizen science; distribution; green space; occupancy; species interactions; urbanization
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 19, 2019
2019 journal article
White‐tailed deer and coyote colonization: a response to Kilgo et al. (2019)
The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(8), 1641–1643.
TL;DR:
The finding that coyotes have not had large‐scale effects on white‐tailed deer population growth in eastern North America is reaffirmed and the finding that predator‐prey dynamic is variable over space or time is elaborated on.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: October 28, 2019
2019 journal article
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.
author keywords: artificial intelligence; camera traps; data analysis; data sharing; protected areas; technology platform; wildlife
TL;DR:
This work identifies four barriers that are hindering the widespread use of camera trap data for conservation and proposes specific solutions to remove these barriers integrated in a modern technology platform called Wildlife Insights.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 24, 2020
2018 dataset
Canis latrans: Kays, R.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 24, 2020
2018 journal article
Citizen Science in Schools: Students Collect Valuable Mammal Data for Science, Conservation, and Community Engagement
BioScience, 69(1), 69–79.
author keywords: citizen science; camera traps; mammals; education; community conservation
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: April 15, 2019
2018 dataset
Data from: New York State bald eagle report 2010
Contributors: U. Konstanz
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2018 journal article
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.
author keywords: colonization; dispersal behavior; outlier SNPs; RADseq; range expansion
TL;DR:
This study identifies genes associated with dispersal capabilities in coyotes on the two eastern expansion fronts of a highly mobile carnivore, the coyote, to investigate patterns of genomic diversity and identify variants that may have been under selection during range expansion.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: January 14, 2019
2018 journal article
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.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2018 journal article
Hot monkey, cold reality: surveying rainforest canopy mammals using drone-mounted thermal infrared sensors
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(2), 407–419.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: February 18, 2019
2018 journal article
Is the Red Wolf a Listable Unit Under the US Endangered Species Act?
Journal of Heredity, 109(5), 585–597.
author keywords: de-listing; distinct population segment; hybrid policy; hybridization; listing criteria; taxonomy
MeSH headings : Animals; Behavior, Animal; Ecosystem; Endangered Species; Hybridization, Genetic; United States; Wolves / genetics; Wolves / physiology
TL;DR:
A case study of the red wolf from the southeastern United States concludes that under any proposed evolutionary scenario red wolves meet both criteria to be considered a DPS: they are Discrete compared with other conspecific populations, and they are Significant to the taxon to which they belong.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2018 journal article
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.
author keywords: Circular time; Fourier series representation; Hierarchical model; Linear time; Multivariate log-Gaussian Cox process; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process
TL;DR:
It is shown that a multivariate log-Gaussian Cox process incorporating both circular and linear time provides a preferred choice for modeling occurrence of forest mammals based on daily activity rhythms and rich inference is obtained under a hierarchical Bayesian framework with an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithm.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: October 19, 2018
2018 journal article
Mammal communities are larger and more diverse in moderately developed areas
ELife, 7.
MeSH headings : Animals; Biodiversity; Cities; Conservation of Natural Resources / methods; Conservation of Natural Resources / statistics & numerical data; Ecosystem; Forests; Humans; Mammals / classification; Mammals / growth & development; Rural Population / statistics & numerical data; Suburban Population / statistics & numerical data; Urban Population / statistics & numerical data; Urban Renewal / statistics & numerical data
TL;DR:
It is shown that developed areas actually had significantly higher or statistically similar mammalian occupancy, relative abundance, richness and diversity compared to wild areas.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: October 16, 2018
2018 journal article
Mapping the expansion of coyotes (Canis latrans) across North and Central America
ZooKeys, 759(759), 81–97.
author keywords: coyote; Canis latrans; range expansion; museum records; FAUNMAP; VertNet; historical ecology; Holocene
TL;DR:
A detailed account of the original range of coyotes and their subsequent expansion provides the core description of a large scale ecological experiment that can help to better understand the predator-prey interactions, as well as evolution through hybridization.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2018 journal article
Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements
Science, 359(6374), 466–469.
MeSH headings : Animal Migration; Animals; Geographic Information Systems; Human Activities; Humans; Mammals
TL;DR:
Using a unique GPS-tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, it is found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one-half to one-third the extent of their movements in area with a low human footprint.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2018 journal article
Object detection from dynamic scene using joint background modeling and fast deep learning classification
JOURNAL OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE REPRESENTATION, 55, 802–815.
author keywords: Human-animal detection; Camera-trap images; Background subtraction; Deep convolutional neural networks; Wildlife monitoring
TL;DR:
This paper introduces a new block-wise background model, named as Minimum Feature Difference (MFD), to model the variation of the background of the camera-trap sequences and generate the foreground object proposals, and develops a region proposals verification to reduce the number of false alarms.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 16, 2018
2018 journal article
Population Genomic Analysis of North American Eastern Wolves (Canis lycaon) Supports Their Conservation Priority Status
Genes, 9(12), 606.
author keywords: canine; geographic isolation; spatial structure; restriction-site associated DNA; conservation genomics
TL;DR:
A population genomics approach is used to uncover spatial patterns of variation in 281 canids in central Ontario and the Great Lakes region, which represents the first genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) dataset with substantial sample sizes of representative populations.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: January 21, 2019
2018 journal article
Revised distributional estimates for the recently discovered olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), with comments on natural and taxonomic history
JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 99(2), 321–332.
author keywords: Andes; citizen science; conservation; distribution; ecological niche modeling; ecotourism; Neotropical; olinguito; Procyonidae
TL;DR:
This study improves knowledge of the olinguito's range, increases the understanding of this species' natural and taxonomic history, and provides an example of modeling the distributions of poorly known species with small sample sizes.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2018 chapter
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).
Ed(s): D. Macdonald, L. Harrington & C. Newman
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 4, 2020
2018 journal article
The ocean’s movescape: fisheries management in the bio-logging decade (2018–2028)
ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76(2), 477–488.
Ed(s): H. Browman
author keywords: bio-logging; fisheries; ICARUS; movement ecology; telemetry; tracking
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: May 13, 2019
2018 journal article
The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals
PeerJ, 6, e4536.
author keywords: Wildlife monitoring; Seasonal patterns; Citizen science; Wildlife management; Camera traps
TL;DR:
Two studies that worked with volunteers to set camera traps for ecological surveys show how, with the right tools, training and survey design protocols, citizen science can be used to answer a variety of applied management questions while connecting participants with their secretive mammal neighbors.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Citizen science and biophilic cities: the great experiment
Biophilic Cities, 1(1), 22–27.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 30, 2020
2017 journal article
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.
TL;DR:
It is asserted that reintroductions and wildlife management plans should develop definitive expectations based on evolutionary hypotheses, and use genetic data to test them, and for the primacy of genetic data is argued.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2017 journal article
Do occupancy or detection rates from camera traps reflect deer density?
Journal of Mammalogy, 98(6), 1547–1557.
author keywords: abundance index; camera trap; citizen science; density; detection rate; occupancy; Odocoileus virginianus; protected area management; white-tailed deer
TL;DR:
Estimating density, occupancy, and detection rate of male white-tailed deer using camera-trap data collected from 1,199 cameras across 20 study sites suggested different ecological relationships associated with the metrics.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 conference paper
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).
TL;DR:
This paper develops an effective background modeling and subtraction scheme to generate region proposals for the foreground objects and performs complexity-accuracy analysis of deep convolutional neural networks to develop a fast deep learning classification scheme.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Free-ranging domestic cats (Felis catus) on public lands: estimating density, activity, and diet in the Florida Keys
Biological Invasions, 20(2), 333–344.
author keywords: Felis catus; Free-ranging domestic cats; Predators; Spatial capture-recapture; Stable isotopes; Trap-neuter-release
TL;DR:
Evidence is provided that cat groups within a population move different distances, exhibit different activity patterns, and that individuals consume wildlife at different rates, which all have implications for managing this invasive predator.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 chapter
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.
Ed(s): D. Macdonald, C. Newman & L. Harrington
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 30, 2020
2017 journal article
Managed forest as habitat for gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira) in agricultural landscapes of southeastern Brazil
Journal of Mammalogy, 98(5), 1301–1309.
author keywords: camera trapping; Cerrado; herbivores; land use; occupancy
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 journal article
Northeastern coyotes cannot be a distinct species without isolation: a response to Way and Lynn
Canid Biology & Conservation, 20(2), 5–6. http://www.canids.org/CBC/20/northeastern_coyote_not_a_species.pdf
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 30, 2020
2017 conference paper
Object segmentation in the deep neural network feature domain from highly cluttered natural scenes
2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 3095–3099.
Event: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
TL;DR:
A fast and efficient design of the DCNN is explored which finds a good trade-off between complexity and the classification-segmentation performance, and outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on the camera-trap dataset with highly cluttered natural scenes.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2017 chapter
Track Annotation: Determining the Environmental Context of Movement Through the Air
In Aeroecology (pp. 71–86).
TL;DR:
This chapter will provide several examples for empirical movement models that explain the movement characteristic as driven by the environmental conditions during flight, despite the highly dynamic, complex, and scale-dependent structures of both the flight path and atmospheric variables.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 24, 2020
2016 journal article
A community effort to document wildlife: eMammal project expands the impact of citizen scientists
The Wildlife Professional, 38–41.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 30, 2021
2016 journal article
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.
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2016 journal article
A multispecies occupancy model for two or more interacting species
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7(10), 1164–1173.
Ed(s): D. Warton
author keywords: community; competition; eMammal; interspecific interactions; multinomial logit; multinomial probit; multivariate Bernoulli; occupancymodelling; predation
TL;DR:
The proposed method improves the ability to draw inference from such communities by permitting modelling of detection/non‐detection data from an arbitrary number of species, without assuming asymmetric interactions, and permits modelling the probability two or more species occur together as a function of environmental variables.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Admixture mapping identifies introgressed genomic regions in North American canids
Molecular Ecology, 25(11), 2443–2453.
author keywords: admixture; ancestry; canids; introgression
MeSH headings : Alleles; Animals; Chromosome Mapping; Coyotes / genetics; Gene Flow; Genetics, Population; Genomics; Hybridization, Genetic; North America; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Wolves / genetics
TL;DR:
It is shown that grey wolf and coyote admixture has far‐reaching effects and, in addition to phenotypically transforming admixed populations, allows for the differential movement of alleles from different parental species to be tested in new genomic backgrounds.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 24, 2021
2016 journal article
An Open Standard for Camera Trap Data
Biodiversity Data Journal, 4, e10197.
author keywords: big data; biodiversity; camera trap; data repository; data schema
TL;DR:
The Camera Trap Metadata Standard is presented as an open data standard for storing and sharing camera trap data, developed by experts from a variety of organizations to help researchers standardize data terms, align past data to new repositories, and provide a framework for utilizing data across repositories and research projects to advance animal ecology and conservation.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 21, 2021
2016 book
Candid Creatures : how camera traps reveal the mysteries of nature
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2016 journal article
Coupling visitor and wildlife monitoring in protected areas using camera traps
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 17, 44–53.
Contributors: A. Miller *, Y. Leung n & n
author keywords: Monitoring; Camera trap; Protected area management; Recreation; Trail
TL;DR:
It is concluded that camera traps can accurately quantify human trail-based activity while being set to wildlife science standards, reducing the cost of collecting visitor use data and producing high-resolution human-wildlife interaction data.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Creating advocates for mammal conservation through citizen science
Biological Conservation, 208, 98–105.
author keywords: Camera trap; Conservation attitudes; Informal education; Social network; Wildlife
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Deer on the lookout: how hunting, hiking and coyotes affect white-tailed deer vigilance
Journal of Zoology, 301(4), 320–327.
author keywords: vigilance; white-tailed deer; apex predators; coyote; hunting; recreation; camera traps; predation risk
TL;DR:
The results show that variation in coyote and human activity does not significantly impact the vigilance behavior of white-tailed deer year-round, suggesting that deer rely on other risk-avoidance behaviors or neither are functioning as apex predators in the region.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Differential Habitat Use or Intraguild Interactions: What Structures a Carnivore Community?
PLOS ONE, 11(1), e0146055.
Ed(s): A. Reed
MeSH headings : Animal Distribution; Animals; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecosystem; Forests; Models, Biological; Mustelidae / physiology; New York; Population Density; Raccoons / physiology; Ursidae / physiology
TL;DR:
Assessing this carnivore community in New York's Adirondack landscape concludes that differential habitat use is more important than species interactions in maintaining the distribution and structure ofThis carnivore guild.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Does hunting or hiking affect wildlife communities in protected areas?
Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(1), 242–252.
Ed(s): J. du Toit
author keywords: camera trap; citizen science; hiking; hunting; mammals; park; protected area; protected forest; recreation; wildlife communities
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 chapter
Involving Citizen Scientists in Biodiversity Observation
In The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks (pp. 211–237).
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 27, 2020
2016 journal article
Long-distance dispersal of a subadult male cougar from South Dakota to Connecticut documented with DNA evidence
Journal of Mammalogy, 97(5), 1435–1440.
author keywords: Black Hills; Connecticut; eastern cougar; long-distance dispersal; Minnesota; mountain lion; Puma concolor; South Dakota; Wisconsin
TL;DR:
Evidence collected for this one animal, and complete absence of verifiable data from most anecdotal reports of cougars in the east, further confirms the lack of a breeding population in the region.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2016 journal article
Scaling-up camera traps: monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15(1), 26–34.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
The ecological impact of humans and dogs on wildlife in protected areas in eastern North America
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 203, 75–88.
author keywords: Camera traps; Coyote; Hikers; Domestic dog; Protected areas; Risk-disturbance
TL;DR:
Investigating how humans, dogs and coyotes used protected areas and behavioral responses by three prey species indicated that humans are perceived as a greater risk than coyotes, and this increases when dogs accompany their owners.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Visual Informatics Tools for Supporting Large-Scale Collaborative Wildlife Monitoring with Citizen Scientists
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 16(1), 73–86.
TL;DR:
Various aspects of the design of integrated camera-sensor networking systems, including image processing and computer vision algorithms for animal detection, segmentation, tracking, species classification, and biometric feature extraction, and applications to wildlife and ecological research are covered.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2016 journal article
Wildlife speed cameras: measuring animal travel speed and day range using camera traps
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2(2), 84–94.
Ed(s): N. Pettorelli
author keywords: Animal tracking; image analysis; length-biased distributions; movement ecology; travel distance; video capture
TL;DR:
This work describes and validate an entirely new alternative approach, using camera traps recording passing animals to measure movement paths at very fine scale, and concludes that these methods are accurate and ready to use for estimating travel speed and day range in wildlife.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 24, 2021
2015 journal article
A two-species occupancy model accommodating simultaneous spatial and interspecific dependence
Ecology, 97(1), 48–53.
author keywords: coyote (Canis latrans); data augmentation; detection probability; eMammal; geostatistical model; hierarchical models; interacting species; point-referenced model; red fox (Vulpes vulpes); spatial statistics
MeSH headings : Animal Distribution / physiology; Animals; Coyotes / physiology; Foxes / physiology; Models, Biological; Models, Statistical; Species Specificity
TL;DR:
A two-species occupancy model that accommodates both interspecific and spatial dependence is proposed and a point-referenced multivariate hierarchical spatial model is used to account for both spatial and interspecific dependence.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2015 personal communication
Carnivore coexistence: America's recovery
Gompper, M. E., Belant, J. L., & Kays, R. (2015, January 23).
MeSH headings : Animals; Conservation of Natural Resources; Humans; Lynx; Mustelidae; Ursidae; Wolves
TL;DR:
In their Report “Recovery of large carnivores in Europe's modern human-dominated landscapes” (19 December 2014), G. Chapron et al. attribute the return of predators in Europe to a “coexistence” model for conservation, in which carnivores and humans inhabit shared landscapes.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
Cats are rare where coyotes roam
Journal of Mammalogy, 96(5), 981–987.
author keywords: camera trap; Canis latrans; citizen science; Felis catus; invasive species; protected areas
TL;DR:
It is suggested that the ecological impact of free-ranging cats in the region is concentrated in urban areas or other sites, such as islands, with few coyotes, and that coyotes and cats overlap the most in small urban forests.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 dataset
Data from: Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons
Contributors: U. Konstanz
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2015 report
Data from: 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.
[Dataset].
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 13, 2022
2015 journal article
Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 30(11), 685–696.
MeSH headings : Animals; Biodiversity; Conservation of Natural Resources / methods; Ecology / methods; Ecosystem; Plants; Remote Sensing Technology; Statistics as Topic
TL;DR:
Challenges include assembling a wider public to crowdsource data, managing the massive quantities of data generated, and developing solutions to rapidly emerging threats.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
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.
author keywords: Bobcat; gammaherpesvirus; herpesvirus; Leopardus pardalis; Lynx rufus; ocelot; virus
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Wild; Colorado / epidemiology; Felidae; Gammaherpesvirinae / genetics; Gammaherpesvirinae / isolation & purification; Herpesviridae Infections / epidemiology; Herpesviridae Infections / veterinary; Herpesviridae Infections / virology; Panama / epidemiology; Phylogeny
TL;DR:
A novel GHV glycoprotein B sequence in two ocelots and a second novel sequence in a bobcat is identified, which is distinct from the previously characterized bobcat GHV (Lynx rufus GHV 1), suggesting that a cluster of felid GHVs exists within the Percavirus genus.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 24, 2021
2015 journal article
Prescribed fire affects female white-tailed deer habitat use during summer lactation
Forest Ecology and Management, 348, 220–225.
author keywords: Fire-return interval; Longleaf pine; Pinus palustris; Compositional analysis; Cover; Odocoileus virginianus
TL;DR:
Female deer increased selection of burned areas as years-since-fire increased, likely because there was a temporary loss of cover immediately following fire with plants slowly regenerating the subsequent growing seasons and to avoid areas depleted of cover.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet
Science, 348(6240), aaa2478–aaa2478.
MeSH headings : Animal Migration; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Environmental Monitoring / methods; Geographic Information Systems; Movement; Spatio-Temporal Analysis
TL;DR:
It is suggested that a golden age of animal tracking science has begun and that the upcoming years will be a time of unprecedented exciting discoveries.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2015 journal article
Volunteer-run cameras as distributed sensors for macrosystem mammal research
Landscape Ecology, 31(1), 55–66.
author keywords: Camera traps; Cyberinfrastructure; Standard metadata; Citizen science; eMammal; Macrosystem
TL;DR:
The eMammal program demonstrates that volunteer-based camera trapping can meet landscape scale spatial data needs, while also engaging the public in nature and science, and asserts that camera surveys can be effectively scaled to a macrosystem level through citizen science, but only after solving challenges of data and volunteer management.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 conference paper
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).
Event: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
TL;DR:
This is the first attempt to the fully automatic computer vision based species recognition on the real camera-trap images, and it is clear that the proposed deep convolutional neural networkbased species recognition achieves superior performance.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2014 chapter
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.
Ed(s): P. Meek & P. Fleming
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 7, 2021
2014 journal article
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.
author keywords: avian scavengers; vultures; movement ecology; migration; geographical variability; remote-sensing observations
MeSH headings : Adaptation, Physiological / physiology; Animal Migration / physiology; Animals; Birds / physiology; Ecosystem; Logistic Models; North America; Satellite Imagery / methods; Seasons; South America
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2014 journal article
How long is enough to detect terrestrial animals? Estimating the minimum trapping effort on camera traps
PeerJ, 2, e374.
author keywords: Animal inventory; Species richness; Gutianshan; Wildlife monitoring; Species accumulation curves; Sampling effort; Camera day
TL;DR:
A two-year camera trapping dataset from a small study plot in Gutianshan National Nature Reserve, eastern China is taken advantage of to estimate the minimum trapping effort actually needed to sample the wildlife community and the relative value of adding new camera sites or running cameras for a longer period at one site.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2014 journal article
Mammals in and around suburban yards, and the attraction of chicken coops
Urban Ecosystems, 17(3), 691–705.
author keywords: Chicken coops; Camera traps; Predators; Suburban wildlife
TL;DR:
An encouraging sign of how humans can coexist with wildlife, even in urban areas, is shown and some strategies to minimize conflict regarding backyard chicken coops and dogs are suggested.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 journal article
Mesopredator release facilitates range expansion in fisher
Animal Conservation, 18(1), 50–61.
author keywords: fisher; mesocarnivore; mesopredator release hypothesis; intraguild predation; predator communities; meta-analysis; range contraction; range expansion
TL;DR:
Data support the hypothesis that a reduced predator community is contributing to the geographic variation in modern fishers' range expansion, and measurements of museum specimens suggest that individuals within released populations have evolved a larger body size since the time of their most contracted range, which may help them hunt larger prey species that are expected to be more available in the absence of larger carnivores.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 journal article
Patterns of Mortality in a Wild Population of White-Footed Mice
Northeastern Naturalist, 21(2), 323–336.
TL;DR:
The results suggest that, to the extent that predation risk is dependent on heritable phenotypes, predationrisk is the most important evolutionary force acting on mortality in the population of Peromyscus leucopus that was studied.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2014 journal article
Quantifying levels of animal activity using camera trap data
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5(11), 1170–1179.
Ed(s): D. Fisher
author keywords: activity level; activity time; circular kernel; proportion active; remote sensors; Von Mises distribution; weighted kernel
TL;DR:
A new method to estimate activity level with time‐of‐detection data from camera traps, fitting a flexible circular distribution to these data to describe the underlying activity schedule, and calculating overall proportion of time active from this is presented.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 journal article
Recommended guiding principles for reporting on camera trapping research
Biodiversity and Conservation, 23(9), 2321–2343.
author keywords: Remote cameras; Trail cameras; Camera trap guidelines; Ecological monitoring; Camera trap methodology
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 journal article
Selection and spatial arrangement of rest sites within northern tamandua home ranges
Journal of Zoology, 293(3), 160–170.
author keywords: tamandua; selection; telemetry; accelerometry; Panama; rest site; sleep
TL;DR:
The models identified considerable individual variation in rest site selection, which suggests that the practice of pooling individuals and fitting models at an aggregate level may be inappropriate for certain types of habitat selection research.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Animal behavior, cost-based corridor models, and real corridors
Landscape Ecology, 28(8), 1615–1630.
author keywords: Animal movement; Carnivore; Circuit theory; Connectivity; Conservation; Fisher; Least-cost path; Martes pennanti
TL;DR:
It is suggested that fishers use corridors to connect disjunct habitat fragments, animal movement data can be used to identify corridors at local scales, camera traps are useful tools for testing corridor model predictions, and that corridor models can be improved by incorporating animal behavior data.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Assessment of coyote-wolf-dog admixture using ancestry-informative diagnostic SNPs
Molecular Ecology, 23(1), 182–197.
author keywords: admixture; Canis; diagnostic markers; hybridization; single-nucleotide polymorphism
MeSH headings : Animals; Bayes Theorem; Coyotes / genetics; Dogs / genetics; Female; Genetic Variation; Genetics, Population; Genotype; Hybridization, Genetic; Male; Ohio; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Wolves / genetics
TL;DR:
This study is the most comprehensive genetic survey of admixture in eastern coyotes and demonstrates that the frequency and scope of hybridization can be quantified with relatively few ancestry‐informative markers.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Attraction and avoidance detection from movements
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 7(3), 157–168.
TL;DR:
A novel method to measure the significance value of relationship between any two objects by examining the background model of their movements via permutation test is proposed and two effective pruning strategies are developed to reduce the computation time.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 24, 2021
2013 journal article
Automated identification of animal species in camera trap images
EURASIP JOURNAL ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING.
author keywords: Species identification; SIFT; cLBP; Feature learning; Max pooling; Weighted sparse coding
TL;DR:
An automated species identification method for wildlife pictures captured by remote camera traps that uses improved sparse coding spatial pyramid matching (ScSPM), which extracts dense SIFT descriptor and cell-structured LBP as the local features and generates global feature via weighted sparse coding and max pooling using multi-scale pyramid kernel.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Clarifying assumptions behind the estimation of animal density from camera trap rates
The Journal of Wildlife Management, 77(5), 876–876.
TL;DR:
A useful review of density estimation from camera trap data, concluding with an important call for increased rigor and transparency in study design and critique of a recent effort to estimate density of species that cannot be recognized individually, the random encounter model.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Evidence for cache surveillance by a scatter-hoarding rodent
ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 85(6), 1511–1516.
author keywords: Astrocaryum; BCI; Dasyprocta; long-term memory; reinforcement; secondary dispersal; seed dispersal
TL;DR:
It is concluded that agoutis remember the location of cached seeds, are aware of their ownership and actively survey their caches, and this behaviour could have important fitness benefits and may be exhibited by other scatter-hoarding animals.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Flying with the wind: scale dependency of speed and direction measurements in modelling wind support in avian flight
Movement Ecology, 1(1).
author keywords: NOAA; ECMWF; GPS; Aves; Doppler-shift; Scaling; Measurement error; Flight direction; Flight speed
TL;DR:
Wind has strong effects on bird flight, and combining GPS technology with path annotation of weather variables allows us to quantify these effects for understanding flight behaviour, and the potentially strong influence of scaling effects must be considered and implemented in developing sampling regimes and data analysis.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
(OpenAlex)
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 24, 2021
2013 journal article
Food acquisition and predator avoidance in a Neotropical rodent
Animal Behaviour, 88, 41–48.
author keywords: camera trapping; daily activity patterns; Dasyprocta punctata; foraging-predation trade-off; Leopardus pardalis; optimal foraging; predation pressure; predator-prey interactions; radiotelemetry; risk allocation hypothesis
TL;DR:
This study provides quantitative empirical evidence of prey animals concentrating their activity at times of relatively low predation risk by using automated telemetry, manual radiotelemetry and camera trapping to test whether activity at high risk times declined with food availability as predicted in a Neotropical forest rodent, the Central American agouti, Dasyprocta punctata.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior
Animal Biotelemetry, 1(1), 20.
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2013 journal article
Prey refuges as predator hotspots: ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) attraction to agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) dens
Acta Theriologica, 59(2), 257–262.
author keywords: Agouti; Behavior; Movement; Ocelot; Predation; Refuge
TL;DR:
The results suggest that predators can be attracted to prey refuges or refuging prey, and that the benefits to prey of staying nearby a refuge would thus be counterbalanced by higher likelihoods of predator encounter.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito
ZooKeys, 324(324), 1–83.
author keywords: Andes; Bassaricyon; biogeography; Neotropics; new species; olingo; Olinguito
TL;DR:
Surprisingly, this Andean endemic species, which the Olinguito has never been previously described, represents a new species in the order Carnivora and is the smallest living member of the family Procyonidae.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data
Movement Ecology, 1(1).
author keywords: Animal movement; Migration; Movebank; Movement ecology; Remote sensing; Track annotation; Weather
TL;DR:
The new Env-DATA system enhances Movebank, an open portal of animal tracking data, by automating access to environmental variables from global remote sensing, weather, and ecosystem products from open web resources.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2013 chapter
Why Do Sloths Poop on the Ground?
In Treetops at Risk (pp. 195–199).
TL;DR:
The bizarre ground-based defecation behavior of two- and three-toed sloths remains one of the most paradoxical and humorous mysteries in canopy biology.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2012 journal article
A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement
Journal of Animal Ecology, 81(4), 738–746.
author keywords: behavioural change; encounter probability; GPS; home range; utilization distribution
MeSH headings : Africa, Eastern; Animal Migration; Animals; Charadriiformes / physiology; Ecology / methods; Ethology / methods; Finland; Likelihood Functions; Models, Biological; Mustelidae / physiology; New York; Stochastic Processes
TL;DR:
This novel extension of the Brownian bridge movement model, outperforms the current BBMM as indicated by simulations and examples of a territorial mammal and a migratory bird and provides a useful one-dimensional measure of behavioural change along animal tracks.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2012 journal article
A record of Striped Hog-nosed Skunk Conepatus semistriatus in central Panama, between two known sub-ranges
Small Carnivore Conservation, 47, 62–64.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 7, 2021
2012 journal article
A telemetric thread tag for tracking seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents
Plant Ecology, 213(6), 933–943.
author keywords: Radio telemetry; Seed tag; Animal dispersed seeds; Astrocaryum; Agouti
TL;DR:
It is concluded that telemetric thread tags can be used to document secondary seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding animals with unprecedented efficacy and precision.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 24, 2021
2012 journal article
Accelerometer-informed GPS telemetry: Reducing the trade-off between resolution and longevity
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 36(1), 139–146.
author keywords: accelerometry; activity; animal movement; anteater; fisher; fix success; Global Positioning System performance; location success; wildlife tracking
TL;DR:
A dynamic GPS schedule that is linked to the activity level of the animal via an accelerometer onboard the tracking tag, and accelerometer-informed GPS tags reduce the trade-off between collecting detailed movement data and recording movement data for a longer period of time.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2012 chapter
Analysis of radiotelemetry data
In The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Volume 1 Research (pp. 480–501). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
Animal Visitation and Pollination of Flowering Balsa Trees (Ochroma pyramidale) in Panama
Mesoamericana, 16(3), 56–70.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 7, 2021
2012 journal article
Bias in estimating animal travel distance: the effect of sampling frequency
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(4), 653–662.
author keywords: Barro Colorado Island; camera traps; daily distance; day range; movement models; radiotracking; random walk; telemetry; travel distance; tropical forest
TL;DR:
Simulation of movement paths parameterized with empirical movement data is used to study how estimates of distance travelled are affected by sampling frequency.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2012 journal article
Data from: Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2012 journal article
Directed seed dispersal towards areas with low conspecific tree density by a scatter-hoarding rodent
Ecology Letters, 15(12), 1423–1429.
Ed(s): M. Rejmanek
author keywords: Astrocaryum; agouti; Barro Colorado Island; directed dispersal; density dependence; Dasyprocta punctata; secondary seed dispersal
MeSH headings : Animals; Ecosystem; Feeding Behavior / physiology; Population Density; Rodentia / physiology; Seed Dispersal / physiology; Trees / physiology
TL;DR:
Agoutis carried seeds towards locations with lower conspecific tree densities, thus facilitating the escape of seeds from natural enemies, and this behaviour may be a widespread mechanism leading to highly effective seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding animals.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
Effects of Food Availability on Space and Refuge Use by a Neotropical Scatterhoarding Rodent
Biotropica, 45(1), 88–93.
author keywords: Astrocaryum standleyanum; Central American agouti; Dasyprocta punctata; food limitation; home range; Panama; predation risk; radio telemetry
TL;DR:
It is found that agoutis living in areas of lower food density had larger home ranges, and that all individuals used multiple refuges, and the number of refugees was not correlated with home range size.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2012 journal article
Moderating Argos location errors in animal tracking data
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(6), 999–1007.
Ed(s): L. Giuggioli
author keywords: accuracy; animal movement; Argos; Douglas Argos-filter; Movebank; satellite telemetry
TL;DR:
Douglas Argos-filter can improve data accuracy by 50–90% and is an effective and flexible tool for preparing Argos data for direct biological interpretation or subsequent modelling.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(Web of Science)
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2012 journal article
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.
author keywords: Pleistocene extinctions; seed predation; cache pilferage; telemetry
MeSH headings : Animals; Central America; Ecosystem; Rodentia / physiology; Seeds; Soil; Trees / physiology
TL;DR:
It is demonstrated that communities of rodents can in fact provide highly effective long-distance seed dispersal, suggesting that thieving scatter-hoarding rodents could substitute for extinct megafaunal seed dispersers of tropical large-seeded trees.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 chapter
Wildlife radiotelemetry and remote monitoring
In The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Volume 1 Research (pp. 258–283). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 chapter
Wildlife radiotracking
In K. Sivakumar & B. Habib (Eds.), ENVIS Bulletin on Telemetry in Wildlife Science (Vol. 13, pp. 20–30).
Ed(s): K. Sivakumar & B. Habib
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 7, 2021
2012 journal article
Ámbito de Hogar y Actividad Circadiana del Ocelote (Leopardus pardalis) en la Isla de Barro Colorado, Panamá
Mesoamericana, 16(3), 30–39.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 7, 2021
2011 journal article
A genome-wide perspective on the evolutionary history of enigmatic wolf-like canids
GENOME RESEARCH, 21(8), 1294–1305.
MeSH headings : Animals; Biological Evolution; Canidae / genetics; Coyotes / genetics; Dogs / genetics; Evolution, Molecular; Genome; Genotype; Haplotypes; Hybridization, Genetic; Phenotype; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Wolves / genetics
TL;DR:
It is found that these enigmatic canids are highly admixed varieties derived from gray wolves and coyotes, respectively, and divergent genomic history suggests that they do not have a shared recent ancestry as proposed by previous researchers.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 review
Causes of mortality in North American populations of large and medium-sized mammals
[Review of ]. ANIMAL CONSERVATION, 14(5), 474–483.
author keywords: cause-specific mortality; human-footprint; anthropogenic; hunting; predation; vehicle collision; mammals
TL;DR:
It is suggested that humans cause most mortalities observed in larger mammals in North America, suggesting that anthropogenic mortalities may represent strong selective forces for animal populations and offer mechanistic support for rapid evolutionary shifts in behavior and morphology in response to human caused changes to the landscape.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
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.
author keywords: Molossus molossus; emergence; foraging; nocturnal; predator pressure; activity
TL;DR:
The velvety free-tailed bat Molossus molossus emerges just after sunset and just before sunrise for very short foraging bouts (average 82.2 min foraging per night) and this data suggests that M. molossus represents an example of an aerial hawking bat whose foraging behaviour is in fact adapted to the compromise between the need to exploit highest prey availability and theneed to avoid predation.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2011 journal article
Flower power
BBC Wildlife Magazine, May.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 dataset
Mammals of North America
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
Mining periodic behaviors of object movements for animal and biological sustainability studies
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 24(2), 355–386.
author keywords: Data mining; Object movements; Periodicity; Pattern analysis; Animal and environmental studies
TL;DR:
A two-stage algorithm, Periodica, is proposed to solve the problem of mining periodic behaviors for moving objects, with the main assumption that the observed movement is generated from multiple interleaved periodic behaviors associated with certain reference locations.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2011 journal article
Monitoring wild animal communities with arrays of motion sensitive camera traps
International Journal of Research and Reviews in Wireless Sensor Networks, 1, 19–29.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
MoveMine
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2(4), 1–32.
author keywords: Algorithms; Experimentation; Moving objects; pattern mining; periodic behavior; swarm pattern; computational sustainability
TL;DR:
A moving object data mining system, MoveMine, which integrates multiple data mining functions, including sophisticated pattern mining and trajectory analysis is introduced, which will benefit scientists and other users to carry out versatile analysis tasks to analyze object movement regularities and anomalies.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2011 journal article
Quantifying seed dispersal kernels from truncated seed-tracking data
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(3), 595–602.
author keywords: censored tail reconstruction; censored tail reconstruction; kernel; long-distance dispersal; seed dispersal; seed tracking; thread tag
TL;DR:
Seed dispersal is a key biological process that remains poorly documented because dispersing seeds are notoriously hard to track, and seed‐tracking studies typically yield incomplete data sets that are biased against long‐distance movements.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2011 journal article
Quantifying the sensitivity of camera traps: an adapted distance sampling approach
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2(5), 464–476.
author keywords: abundance estimation; animal density; camera detection zone; detection probability; passive infrared motion sensor; Random Encounter Model
TL;DR:
The random encounter model (REM) provides a means estimating abundance from camera trap rate but requires camera sensitivity to be quantified.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
Technology on the Move: Recent and Forthcoming Innovations for Tracking Migratory Birds
BioScience, 61(9), 689–698.
author keywords: tracking technology; geolocators; cellular tracking; satellite transmitter; radar ornithology
TL;DR:
Improvements to traditional technologies, along with innovations related to global positioning systems, cellular networks, solar geolocation, radar, and information technology are improving the understanding of when and where birds go during their annual cycles and informing numerous scientific disciplines, including evolutionary biology, population ecology, and global change.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
The Movebank data model for animal tracking
Environmental Modelling & Software, 26(6), 834–835.
author keywords: Animal movement; Data model; GPS; Argos; VHF Telemetry; Tracking
TL;DR:
An animal movement data model is presented that is used within the Movebank web application to describe tracked animals and facilitates data comparisons across a broad range of taxa, study designs, and technologies.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
The effect of feeding time on dispersal of Virola seeds by toucans determined from GPS tracking and accelerometers
Acta Oecologica, 37(6), 625–631.
author keywords: Seed dispersal kernel; Regurgitation time; GPS tracking; Accelerometer; Tropical forests
TL;DR:
This study combined high-resolution GPS/3D-acceleration bird tracking, seed-retention experiments, and field observations to quantify dispersal of V. nobilis by their principal dispersers, Ramphastos toucans, demonstrating how new tracking technology can yield nuanced seed dispersal kernels for animals that cannot be directly observed.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
Tracking Animal Location and Activity with an Automated Radio Telemetry System in a Tropical Rainforest
COMPUTER JOURNAL, 54(12), 1931–1948.
author keywords: sensor networks; animal tracking; environmental observing systems
TL;DR:
An Automated Radio-Telemetry System (ARTS) that is designed and built on Barro Colorado Island, Panama and used to track 374 individual animals from 38 species, including 17 mammal species, 12 birds, 7 reptiles or amphibians, as well as two species of plant seeds is described.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
Using stable carbon isotopes to distinguish wild from captive wolves
Northeast Naturalist, 18, 253–264.
TL;DR:
This new evidence suggests that, while some Wolves are escaping from captivity, at least three animals have apparently dispersed into the area, adding new urgency to the preparation of conservation plans for the potential natural recovery of this endangered species in the region.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2010 journal article
Does watching a monkey change its behaviour? Quantifying observer effects in habituated wild primates using automated radiotelemetry
Animal Behaviour, 80(3), 475–480.
author keywords: Barro Colorado Island, Panama; Cebus capucinus; habituation; telemetry
TL;DR:
Data from an automated radiotelemetry system that remotely monitored the movement and activity of radiocollared animals is used to test whether observers affected the behaviour of seven habituated white-faced capuchins, finding no evidence that observers influenced the ranging behaviour or activity patterns of their study subjects.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2010 journal article
Large-Range Movements of Neotropical Orchid Bees Observed via Radio Telemetry
PLoS ONE, 5(5), e10738.
Ed(s): N. Raine
MeSH headings : Animals; Bees / physiology; Ecosystem; Flight, Animal / physiology; Geography; Male; Movement / physiology; Orchidaceae; Radio; Telemetry / methods; Tropical Climate
TL;DR:
The results indicate that individual male orchid bees habitually use large rainforest areas on a daily basis, and suggest a higher degree of site fidelity than what may be expected in a free living male bee, and has implications for the understanding of biological activity patterns and the evolution of forest pollinators.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2010 conference paper
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.
Event: the 16th ACM SIGKDD international conference
TL;DR:
A two-stage algorithm, Periodica, is proposed to solve the problem of mining periodic behaviors for moving objects, and it is proposed that the observed movement is generated from multiple interleaved periodic behaviors associated with certain reference locations.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2010 conference paper
MoveMine: mining moving object databases
Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '10. Presented at the the 2010 international conference.
Event: the 2010 international conference
TL;DR:
The system, MoveMine, is designed for sophisticated moving object data mining by integrating several attractive functions including moving object pattern mining and trajectory mining and a user-friendly interface is provided to facilitate interactive exploration of mining results and flexible tuning of the underlying methods.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2010 report
Movebank: archive, analysis and sharing of animal movement data. World Wide Web electronic publication
http://www.movebank.org.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2022
2010 journal article
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.
TL;DR:
The history of hybridization and range change of Canis in eastern North America has created an interesting evolutionary story that researchers are still untangling.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2010 journal article
Swarm
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 3(1-2), 723–734.
TL;DR:
In ObjectGrowth, two effective pruning strategies are proposed to greatly reduce the search space and a novel closure checking rule is developed to report closed swarms on-the-fly.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2009 conference paper
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).
Event: 2009 IEEE 34th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009)
TL;DR:
It is suggested that the continued development of these hardware, software, and analytical tools, in concert, offer an exciting sensor-network solution to monitoring of animal populations which could realistically scale over larger areas and time spans.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2009 journal article
Evidence for Three-Toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) Predation by Spectacled Owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata)
Edentata, 8-10, 15–20.
TL;DR:
This is the first record of P. perspicillata killing such a large prey, highlighting the importance of crypsis, and not self-defense, as sloths' anti-predator strategy, and there are high risks for sloths climbing to the ground to defecate, a puzzling behavior with no clear evolutionary advantage discovered yet.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2009 chapter
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.
Ed(s): D. Wilson, R. Mittermeier & T. Lacher
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 9, 2021
2009 chapter
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.
Ed(s): W. Porter, J. Erickson & R. Whaley
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 9, 2021
2009 monograph
Mammals of North America
TL;DR:
This book presents a meta-anatomy of the woolly mammoth and some of the mechanisms that aid in the identification and characterization of these animals.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Source: Crossref
Added: September 15, 2020
2009 journal article
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.
author keywords: activity patterns; BCI; Panama; radio-telemetry; risk behaviour
TL;DR:
An animal's fitness is in part based on its ability to manage the inherent risks with the benefits of activity, and understanding an animal's pattern of activity is key to understanding behavioural and ecological processes.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2009 journal article
Rapid adaptive evolution of northeastern coyotes via hybridization with wolves
Biology Letters, 6(1), 89–93.
author keywords: hybridization; adaptive introgression; range expansion; genetic variation; morphological variation
MeSH headings : Adaptation, Biological / genetics; Analysis of Variance; Animals; Base Sequence; Biological Evolution; Body Weights and Measures; Coyotes / anatomy & histology; Coyotes / genetics; DNA Primers / genetics; DNA, Mitochondrial / genetics; Genetic Variation; Genetics, Population; Haplotypes / genetics; Hybridization, Genetic; Likelihood Functions; Models, Genetic; Molecular Sequence Data; North America; Phylogeny; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Skull / anatomy & histology; Wolves / anatomy & histology; Wolves / genetics
TL;DR:
It is suggested that hybridization with wolves in Canada introduced adaptive variation that contributed to larger size, which in turn allowed eastern coyotes to better hunt deer, allowing a more rapid colonization of new areas than coyotes without introgressed wolf genes.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2009 journal article
Scatter hoarding by the Central American agouti: a test of optimal cache spacing theory
Animal Behaviour, 78(6), 1327–1333.
author keywords: cache pilferage; camera trapping; Central American agouti; Dasyprocta punctata; food availability; optimal cache spacing; scatter hoarding; seed dispersal; tropical forest
TL;DR:
This work quantified cache pilferage and cache spacing by the Central American agouti in the tropical forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, across 10 1 ha plots and concluded that the optimal cache density depends not only on the nutritional value of food but also on the economic value, which may vary in space as well as time.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
2. Zero Hunger
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2009 journal article
Taxonomic boundaries and geographic distributions revealed by an integrative systematic overview of the mountain coatis, Nasuella (Carnivora: Procyonidae)
Small Carnivore Conservation, 41, 65–74.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 9, 2021
2008 journal article
Home-range use by the Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama
Journal of Tropical Ecology, 24(4), 367–374.
author keywords: agouti; Dasyprocta punctata; habitat use; home range; mammal density; predation risk; space use
TL;DR:
These movement data help to understand the potential impacts of agoutis as seed dispersers, predicting that D. punctata will encounter and hoard fallen fruit within 10–200 m (i.e. radius of home range) of its source, and move seeds towards refuges such as ground holes and dense vegetation around recent tree falls.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2008 journal article
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.
author keywords: between-group competition; intergroup dominance; payoff asymmetries; resource holding potential
MeSH headings : Aggression; Animals; Automation; Behavior, Animal; Cebus / physiology; Cebus / psychology; Competitive Behavior; Game Theory; Models, Theoretical; Panama; Radio Waves; Social Behavior; Social Dominance; Telemetry; Territoriality
TL;DR:
It is demonstrated that contest outcome depends on an interaction between group size and location, such that small groups can defeat much larger groups near the center of their home range.
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Added: September 15, 2020
2008 journal article
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF EASTERN COYOTES BASED ON LARGE-SCALE ESTIMATES OF ABUNDANCE
Ecological Applications, 18(4), 1014–1027.
author keywords: abundance; Adirondack State Park; New York; Canis latrans; eastern coyote; fecal DNA; landscape ecology; noninvasive survey
MeSH headings : Animals; Coyotes; Ecosystem; Models, Biological; New York; Population Density
TL;DR:
Habitat models predicting coyote abundance using multi-scale vegetation and landscape data and an information-theoretic model selection approach reject the hypothesis that eastern forests are unsuitable habitat for coyotes and support the need for a nuanced view of how eastern coyotes use forested habitats.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2008 journal article
Ocelots on Barro Colorado Island Are Infected with Feline Immunodeficiency Virus but Not Other Common Feline and Canine Viruses
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 44(3), 760–765.
author keywords: Barro Colorado Island; FIV; Leopardus; ocelot; serology
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Domestic / virology; Animals, Wild / virology; Antibodies, Viral / blood; Conservation of Natural Resources; Felidae / virology; Female; Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline / immunology; Lentivirus Infections / epidemiology; Lentivirus Infections / transmission; Lentivirus Infections / veterinary; Male; Panama / epidemiology; Seroepidemiologic Studies; Species Specificity
TL;DR:
It is hypothesized that isolation of this population has prevented introduction of pathogens typically attributed to contact with domestic animals, and the high density of ocelots on Barro Colorado Island may contribute to a high prevalence of FIV infection, as would be expected with increased contact rates among conspecifics in a geographically restricted population.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2008 chapter
Remote Cameras as a Tool for Broadscale Wildlife Surveys
In G. Marshall (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2007 Animal-Borne Imaging Symposium (pp. 179–182). Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.
Ed(s): G. Marshall
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 9, 2021
2008 chapter
Remote cameras
In R. A. Long, P. MacKay, J. C. Ray, & W. J. Zielinski (Eds.), Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores (pp. 110–140). Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Ed(s): R. Long, P. MacKay, J. Ray & W. Zielinski
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 9, 2021
2008 journal article
Sleeping outside the box: electroencephalographic measures of sleep in sloths inhabiting a rainforest
Biology Letters, 4(4), 402–405.
author keywords: non-rapid eye movement sleep; rapid eye movement sleep; sloth; electroencephalogram; captivity
MeSH headings : Animals; Behavior, Animal / physiology; Electroencephalography; Female; Panama; Sleep / physiology; Sleep, REM / physiology; Sloths / physiology; Tropical Climate
TL;DR:
The first electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings of sleep on unrestricted animals in the wild using a recently developed miniaturized EEG recorder are performed, and it is found that brown-throated three-toed sloths inhabiting the canopy of a tropical rainforest only sleep 9.63 h d−1, over 6 H less than previously reported in captivity.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2007 journal article
Going wild: what a global small-animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists
Journal of Experimental Biology, 210(2), 181–186.
author keywords: small animal; ICARUS initiative; migration pattern; migratory bird orientation; satellite; field experiments; tracking technology; telemetry; songbird; bat; insect
MeSH headings : Animal Migration; Animals; Geographic Information Systems; Research Design; Spacecraft; Telemetry
TL;DR:
It is suggested that the relatively modest investment into a global small-animal tracking system will pay off by providing unprecedented insights into both basic and applied nature, and to contribute to an emerging groundswell of scientific support to make such a new technological system happen.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2007 journal article
Predispersal home range shift of an ocelot Leopardus pardalis (Carnivora: Felidae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama
Revista De Biología Tropical, 56(2).
MeSH headings : Animal Migration / physiology; Animals; Felidae / classification; Felidae / physiology; Female; Male; Panama; Sexual Behavior, Animal / physiology; Sexual Maturation / physiology; Social Behavior; Telemetry
TL;DR:
The timing of the shift, along with the subadult's increase in weight into the weight range of adult ocelots four months after establishing the new territory, suggests that predispersal home range shifts could act as a low risk and opportunistic strategy for reaching adult size, while minimizing competition with parents and siblings, in preparation for an eventual dispersal into a new breeding territory.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2007 journal article
Using Patterns in Track-Plate Footprints to Identify Individual Fishers
Journal of Wildlife Management, 71(3), 955–963.
author keywords: census; fingerprint; fisher; footprint; identification; Martes pennanti; track plate
TL;DR:
Data from traditional track-plate deployments over small time periods cannot be used as a measure of abundance, but new study designs using print matching could obtain robust noninvasive, mark–recapture density estimates.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2007 journal article
Variability in assays used for detection of lentiviral infection in bobcats (Lynx rufus), pumas (Puma concolor), and ocelots (Leopardus pardalis)
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 43(4), 700–710.
author keywords: bobcat; ELISA; FIV; immunoblot; lentivirus; ocelot; PCR; puma
MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Wild / virology; Diagnosis, Differential; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / methods; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / veterinary; Felidae / virology; Female; Immunoblotting / methods; Immunoblotting / veterinary; Lentivirus / immunology; Lentivirus / isolation & purification; Lentivirus Infections / diagnosis; Lentivirus Infections / veterinary; Lynx / virology; Male; Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods; Polymerase Chain Reaction / veterinary; Puma / virology; Species Specificity
TL;DR:
The results from this study and previous investigations suggest that the PLV immunoblot has the greatest ability to detect reactive samples when screening wild felids of North America and is unlikely to produce false positive results.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2006 journal article
A Comparison of Noninvasive Techniques to Survey Carnivore Communities in Northeastern North America
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 34(4), 1142–1151.
author keywords: camera traps; camivores; fecal DNA; latency to detection; New York; noninvasive survey; probability of detection; snowtracking; track-plates
TL;DR:
It is recommended that survey efforts targeting multiple members of the carnivore community use multiple independent techniques and incorporate mechanisms to truth their relative value, as well as investigating differences in the value of techniques in detecting different species.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2006 journal article
COMPETITIVE RELEASE IN DIETS OF OCELOT (LEOPARDUS PARDALIS) AND PUMA (PUMA CONCOLOR) AFTER JAGUAR (PANTHERA ONCA) DECLINE
Journal of Mammalogy, 87(4), 808–816.
author keywords: Barro Colorado Island; Carnivora; competitive release; diet; felid; predation
TL;DR:
Both populations of ocelots in the study ate larger prey than elsewhere in their range, suggesting that their fundamental niche includes more medium-sized prey than their realized niche in other sites.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2006 journal article
DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON THE LION'S MANE (PANTHERA LEO)
Journal of Mammalogy, 87(2), 193–200.
author keywords: developmental effects; lion; mane; Panthera leo; phenotypic plasticity; sexual selection; temperature
TL;DR:
Study of captive lions housed comparably across 12 degrees of latitude in North America correlated mane variation with climatic, life-history, and husbandry variables and found mane length and density were inversely correlated with temperature; color variation was unrelated.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2006 journal article
Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) Predation on Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)
Biotropica, 38(5), 691–694.
author keywords: agouti; Dasyprocta punctata; Leopardus pardalis; Neotropics; ocelot; Panama; predation
TL;DR:
PPredation by ocelots can be a significant cause of mortality for agoutis at Barro Colorado Island (BCI).
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2005 chapter
Exotic Species
In P. Eisenstadt & L. E. Moss (Eds.), Encylopedia of New York (pp. 538–539). Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.
Ed(s): P. Eisenstadt & L. Moss
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 20, 2021
2005 journal article
Molecular genetic variation across the southern and eastern geographic ranges of the African lion, Panthera leo
Conservation Genetics, 6(1), 15–24.
author keywords: African lion; cytochrome b; mitochondrial variation; NADH dehydrogenase; Panthera leo; phylogeography
TL;DR:
The modest genetic variation documented here argues against taxonomic distinctions among living African lions.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2004 journal article
Ecological impact of inside/outside house cats around a suburban nature preserve
Animal Conservation, 7(3), 273–283.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2004 journal article
Livestock predation by lions (Panthera leo) and other carnivores on ranches neighboring Tsavo National ParkS, Kenya
Biological Conservation, 119(4), 507–516.
author keywords: lion; predator; conflict; cattle; Kenya; seasonality
TL;DR:
Intensified predation in the wet season differs from patterns of lion predation elsewhere but reinforces the pattern that large carnivores take more livestock when native prey are most difficult to find and kill.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2003 journal article
A Survey of the Parasites of Coyotes (Canis latrans) in New York based on Fecal Analysis
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 39(3), 712–717.
author keywords: Canis latrans; coyotes; parasites; New York; survey
MeSH headings : Animals; Carnivora / parasitology; Cestode Infections / epidemiology; Cestode Infections / veterinary; Feces / parasitology; Female; Helminthiasis, Animal / epidemiology; Male; Nematode Infections / epidemiology; Nematode Infections / veterinary; New York / epidemiology; Population Density; Population Dynamics; Protozoan Infections, Animal / epidemiology
TL;DR:
Parasite component community diversity was higher than in middle and northern sites and infracommunity species richness was greater in southern New York than at the other sites, which may reflect the variable diets of coyotes, as well as recent colonization of the region and the mixing of component communities from expanding coyote populations.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2003 journal article
Animals crossing the Northway: Are existing culverts useful?
Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies, 10(1), 11–17.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 20, 2021
2003 journal article
Response to Revilla, and Buckley and Ruxton: the resource dispersion hypothesis
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 18(8), 381–382.
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2003 chapter
Social polyandry and promiscuous mating in a primate-like carnivore: the kinkajou (Potos flavus)
In Monogamy (pp. 125–137).
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2002 journal article
Does the resource dispersion hypothesis explain group living?
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 17(12), 563–570.
TL;DR:
The empirical support of the resource dispersion hypothesis is reviewed, the predictions of the RDH are clarified and it is argued that they can be used to provide better tests.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2002 book review
Kenward, R. 2001. A manual for wildlife radio tagging,2nd edition. New York: Academic Press. 350 pp. ISBN:0 124 04242 2 and Millspaugh, J. and Marzluff, J.2001. Radio tracking and animal populations, New York:Harcourt Publishers. 400 pp. ISBN: 0 124 97781 2 (hacovers). DOI:10.1017/S1367943002212317
[Review of ]. Animal Conservation, 5(3), 259–259.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2002 chapter
Lion: Panthera leo
In Encylopedia Britannica. Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopedia Britannica.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 20, 2021
2002 book
Mammals of North America
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 20, 2021
2002 journal article
Mane variation in African lions and its social correlates
Canadian Journal of Zoology, 80(3), 471–478.
TL;DR:
A popula- tion of lions in Tsavo National Park, Kenya, that is largely maneless is document and aspects of their social organization are described and refuting the "group size - mane size" hypothesis is refuted.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
2002 chapter
The Appalacians
In R. A. Mittermeier, C. G. Mittermeier, P. R. Gil, G. Fonseca, T. Brooks, & W. R. Konstant (Eds.), Wilderness: Earth's last wild place (pp. 458–467). Mexico City, Mexico: Conservation International.
Ed(s): R. Mittermeier, C. Mittermeier, P. Gil, G. Fonseca, T. Brooks & W. Konstant
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 20, 2021
2001 journal article
Plant Ecology, 153(1/2), 109–120.
author keywords: amphibians; birds; canopy; mammals; primates; reptiles
TL;DR:
The ecology and specialized methods required for studying arboreal mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians are reviewed, and faunal checklists from 12 tropical wet forest sites and an analysis of all articles published during the past ten years in 14 major journals are used to assess current knowledge and general research trends.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Source: Crossref
Added: September 14, 2020
2001 chapter
Arboreal tropical forest vertebrates: current knowledge and research trends
In Tropical Forest Canopies: Ecology and Management (pp. 109–120).
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2001 journal article
The social organization of the kinkajou Potos flavus (Procyonidae)
Journal of Zoology, 253(4), 491–504.
author keywords: behaviour; carnivores; kinkajou; Potos flavus; primate evolution; social organization
TL;DR:
Although the composition of social groups was polyandrous, males also copulated with non-group females which suggests a promiscuous mating system, and female-biased dispersal and patterns of male association seem to be patrilineal and based on resource defence.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: January 29, 2021
2000 journal article
Microsatellite analysis of kinkajou social organization
Molecular Ecology, 9(6), 743–751.
author keywords: Carnivora; dispersal; paternity; patrilineal; Potos; relatedness
MeSH headings : Age Factors; Animals; Behavior, Animal / physiology; Female; Genetics, Population; Heterozygote; Likelihood Functions; Lorisidae / physiology; Male; Microsatellite Repeats
TL;DR:
Copulation asymmetry in kinkajou social groups does not necessarily reflect cooperation due to kinship ties between the two adult males within a group as one of two adult male pairs sampled was unrelated.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
2000 journal article
The behavior and ecology of olingos (Bassaricyon gabbii) and their competition with kinkajous (Potos flavus) in central Panama
Mammalia, 64(1), 1–10.
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 14, 2020
1999 journal article
A hoistable arboreal mammal trap
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 27(2), 298–300.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 27, 2021
1999 journal article
Food Preferences of Kinkajous (Potos flaws): A Frugivorous Carnivore
Journal of Mammalogy, 80(2), 589–599.
author keywords: Potos flavus; kinkajou; frugivore; fruit; arboreal; canopy; diet; Ficus; Panama
TL;DR:
Compared with other large mammalian frugivores in central Panama the diet of kinkajous is most similar to the spider monkey ( Ateles geoffroyi ).
(via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: January 29, 2021
1999 thesis
The solitary group life of a frugivorous carnivore: ecology, behavior, and genetics of kinkajous (Potos flavus
(Dissertation). University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 27, 2021
1998 journal article
An observation of a White-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) exhibiting partial albinism
The Migrant, 69(3), 130–131.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 27, 2021
1997 journal article
Kirtland's warbler in Tennessee
The Migrant, 68(2), 42–43.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 27, 2021
1996 journal article
Comments on the behavior a grison (Galictis vittata) hunting an agouti (Dasyprocta punctata
Small Carnivore Conservation Newsletter, 15(5).
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2022
1996 journal article
Comments on the behaviour of a Grison (Galictis vittata) hunting an Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)
Small Carnivore Conservation, 15, 5.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: February 27, 2021
1995 journal article
Home Range Size and Social Behavior of Kinkajous (Potos flavus) in the Republic of Panama
Biotropica, 27(4), 530.
author keywords: home range; Panama; Potos flavus; social behavior
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 15, 2020
Employment
Updated: January 31st, 2019 05:28
2012 - present
North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Forestry and Environmental Research
2012 - present
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Raleigh, NC, US
Education
Updated: January 28th, 2021 09:28
1994 - 1999
University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN, US
PhD
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
1989 - 1993
Cornell University Ithaca, NY, US
BS
Biology
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