Works (263)
2025 journal article
SNAPSHOT USA 2019–2023: The First Five Years of Data From a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United States
Global Ecology and Biogeography.
2024 journal article
Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States
Diversity and Distributions.
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).

2024 journal article
Geographic barriers but not life history traits shape the phylogeography of North American mammals
Global Ecology and Biogeography, 6.
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.

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.
2024 journal article
Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(5), 924–935.

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.
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.

2024 article
People or predators? Comparing habitat-dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore
Moll, R. J., Green, A. M., Allen, M. L., & Kays, R. (2024, November 5). ECOGRAPHY, Vol. 11.

2024 journal article
Recreational trail use alters mammal diel and space use during and after COVID-19 restrictions in a US national park
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, 57.
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.
2024 journal article
Sex and size matter: Intricate dominance relationships in an East African large carnivore guild
ECOSPHERE, 15(6).

2024 journal article
Shifting mammal communities and declining species richness along an elevational gradient on Mount Kenya
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 14(4).

2024 journal article
Smarter foragers do not forage smarter: a test of the diet hypothesis for brain expansion

2024 journal article
Urbanization and primary productivity mediate the predator-prey relationship between deer and coyotes
ECOSPHERE, 15(6).

2024 article
[1]¿p#1 Investigating the movement of free-ranging rural dogs (Canis familiaris) in an area of the Cerrado hotspot, brazil
Fujioka, B. M. Z., Cândido, F., Panzani, M., Heine, G., Wikelski, M., Olifiers, N., … Bianchi, R. (2024, December 6).
2023 journal article
A multi-species evaluation of digital wildlife monitoring using the Sigfox IoT network
ANIMAL BIOTELEMETRY, 11(1).

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.

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).

2023 journal article
Camera trapping expands the view into global biodiversity and its change

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.

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.

2023 article
Ecological effects of a declining red wolf population
Murray, A., Sutherland, R., & Kays, R. (2023, November 20). ANIMAL CONSERVATION, Vol. 11.

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

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).

2023 journal article
Multi-scale movement syndromes for comparative analyses of animal movement patterns
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 11(1).

2023 journal article
Olingos do eat insects: Records of nocturnal mammals preying on arthropods in arboreal live-capture traps
FOOD WEBS, 36.

2023 review
The Internet of Animals: what it is, what it could be
[Review of ]. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 38(9), 859–869.

2023 journal article
Using decoys and camera traps to estimate depredation rates and neonate survival
PLOS ONE, 18(10), e0293328.
Ed(s): P. Corti

2022 journal article
A Quantitative Framework for Identifying Patterns of Route-Use in Animal Movement Data
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 9.

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.

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.

2022 journal article
Documenting Wild Turkey Breeding Patterns in North Carolina with Camera Traps
SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST, 21(3), 220–234.

2022 journal article
Exploring spatial nonstationarity for four mammal species reveals regional variation in environmental relationships
ECOSPHERE, 13(8).

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.

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.

2022 article
How is Ecology Helping Us Understand COVID-19?
Kays, R. (2022, June 22).

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.

2022 journal article
Intensive hunting changes human-wildlife relationships
PEERJ, 10.

2022 journal article
Life in 2.5D: Animal Movement in the Trees
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 10.

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.

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).
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.

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.
2022 journal article
MoveApps: a serverless no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 10(1).

2022 journal article
Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 13(1).

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.

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.

2022 article
Saving Wildlife on a Changing Planet
Kays, R. (2022, January 15). (Vol. 1). Vol. 1.
2022 journal article
The effect of urbanization on spatiotemporal interactions between gray foxes and coyotes
ECOSPHERE, 13(3).

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.

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

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.
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.

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.

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.

2021 journal article
Candid Critters: Challenges and Solutions in a Large-Scale Citizen Science Camera Trap Project
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6(1).
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.

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.

2021 journal article
Empirical evaluation of the spatial scale and detection process of camera trap surveys
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 9(1).

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.

2021 journal article
Home range variation in leopards living across the human density gradient
JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 102(4), 1138–1148.

2021 journal article
Mobilizing Animal Movement Data: API use and the Movebank platform
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards.
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.
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.

2021 journal article
Seasonal Patterns in Daily Flight Distance and Space Use by Great Egrets (Ardea alba)
WATERBIRDS, 44(3), 343–355.

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.

2021 journal article
Tracking the decline of weasels in North America
PLOS ONE, 16(7).

2020 journal article
A Novel Framework to Protect Animal Data in a World of Ecosurveillance
BioScience, 70(6), 468–476.

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

2020 journal article
Animal species classification using deep neural networks with noise labels
Ecological Informatics, 57, 101063.

2020 journal article
Born‐digital biodiversity data: Millions and billions
Diversity and Distributions, 26(5), 644–648.
Ed(s): D. Zurell

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.

2020 journal article
Coyotes living near cities are bolder: implications for dog evolution and human-wildlife conflict
BEHAVIOUR, 157(3-4), 289–313.

2020 dataset
Data from: The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats [United States]
Contributors: U. Konstanz
2020 journal article
Diurnal timing of nonmigratory movement by birds: the importance of foraging spatial scales
JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY, 51(12).

2020 journal article
Does Use of Backyard Resources Explain the Abundance of Urban Wildlife?
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 8.

2020 journal article
Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic
SCIENCE, 370(6517), 712-+.

2020 journal article
Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements
Conservation Biology, 34(4), 1017–1028.

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).

2020 journal article
Foraging movements are density-independent among straw-coloured fruit bats
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 7(5).

2020 journal article
High variability within pet foods prevents the identification of native species in pet cats’ diets using isotopic evaluation
PeerJ, 8, e8337.

2020 journal article
Precipitous decline of white-lipped peccary populations in Mesoamerica
Biological Conservation, 242, 108410.

2020 journal article
The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats
Animal Conservation, 23(5), 516–523.

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

2019 journal article
Animal Scanner: Software for classifying humans, animals, and empty frames in camera trap images
Ecology and Evolution, 9(4), 1578–1589.

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.

2019 journal article
Children’s attitudes towards animals are similar across suburban, exurban, and rural areas
PeerJ, 7, e7328.

2019 dataset
Data from: Eastern coyote home range, habitat selection and survival in the Albany pine bush landscape
Contributors: U. Konstanz
2019 journal article
Effects on white‐tailed deer following eastern coyote colonization
The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(4), 916–924.

2019 journal article
Large birds travel farther in homogeneous environments
Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(5), 576–587.
Ed(s): V. Boucher-Lalonde

2019 journal article
Local host-tick coextinction in neotropical forest fragments
International Journal for Parasitology, 49(3-4), 225–233.

2019 journal article
Scale-insensitive estimation of speed and distance traveled from animal tracking data
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 7(1).

2019 journal article
Semantic region of interest and species classification in the deep neural network feature domain
Ecological Informatics, 52, 57–68.

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

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.

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.

2018 dataset
Canis latrans: Kays, R.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

2018 journal article
Citizen Science in Schools: Students Collect Valuable Mammal Data for Science, Conservation, and Community Engagement
BioScience, 69(1), 69–79.

2018 dataset
Data from: New York State bald eagle report 2010
Contributors: U. Konstanz
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.

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.
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.

2018 journal article
Is the Red Wolf a Listable Unit Under the US Endangered Species Act?
Journal of Heredity, 109(5), 585–597.

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.

2018 journal article
Mammal communities are larger and more diverse in moderately developed areas
ELife, 7.

2018 journal article
Mapping the expansion of coyotes (Canis latrans) across North and Central America
ZooKeys, 759(759), 81–97.

2018 journal article
Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements
Science, 359(6374), 466–469.

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.

2018 journal article
Population Genomic Analysis of North American Eastern Wolves (Canis lycaon) Supports Their Conservation Priority Status
Genes, 9(12), 606.

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.

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
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

2018 journal article
The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals
PeerJ, 6, e4536.

2017 journal article
Citizen science and biophilic cities: the great experiment
Biophilic Cities, 1(1), 22–27.
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.

2017 journal article
Do occupancy or detection rates from camera traps reflect deer density?
Journal of Mammalogy, 98(6), 1547–1557.

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).
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.

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
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.

2017 journal article