Roland Kays

Lennox, R. J., Harcourt, R., Bennett, J. R., Davies, A., Ford, A. T., Frey, R. M., … Cooke, S. J. (2020). A Novel Framework to Protect Animal Data in a World of Ecosurveillance. BIOSCIENCE, 70(6), 468–476. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa035

Kays, R., Arbogast, B. S., Baker‐Whatton, M., Beirne, C., Boone, H. M., Bowler, M., … Spironello, W. R. (2020). An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when? Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(6), 700–713. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13370

Ahmed, A., Yousif, H., Kays, R., & He, Z. (2020). Animal species classification using deep neural networks with noise labels. Ecological Informatics, 57, 101063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101063

Kays, R., McShea, W. J., & Wikelski, M. (2020). Born‐digital biodiversity data: Millions and billions. Diversity and Distributions, 26(5), 644–648. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12993

Rutz, C., Loretto, M.-C., Bates, A. E., Davidson, S. C., Duarte, C. M., Jetz, W., … Cagnacci, F. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1237-z

Brooks, J., Kays, R., & Hare, B. (2020). Coyotes living near cities are bolder: implications for dog evolution and human-wildlife conflict. BEHAVIOUR, 157(3-4), 289–313. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10002

Kays, R., Dunn, R. R., Parsons, A., Mcdonald, B., Perkins, T., Powers, S., & Shell, L. (2020). Data from: The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats [United States]. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.bg0v5531

Noonan, M. J., Fleming, C. H., Tucker, M. A., Kays, R., Harrison, A.-L., Crofoot, M. C., … Calabrese, J. M. (2020). Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13495

Calderon-Capote, M. C., Dechmann, D. K. N., Fahr, J., Wikelski, M., Kays, R., & O'Mara, M. T. (2020). Foraging movements are density-independent among straw-coloured fruit bats. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 7(5). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200274

McDonald, B. W., Perkins, T., Dunn, R. R., McDonald, J., Cole, H., Feranec, R. S., & Kays, R. (2020). High variability within pet foods prevents the identification of native species in pet cats’ diets using isotopic evaluation. PeerJ, 8, e8337. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8337

Thornton, D., Reyna, R., Perera-Romero, L., Radachowsky, J., Hidalgo-Mihart, M. G., Garcia, R., … Polisar, J. (2020). Precipitous decline of white-lipped peccary populations in Mesoamerica. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108410

Kays, R., Dunn, R. R., Parsons, A. W., Mcdonald, B., Perkins, T., Powers, S. A., … Roetman, P. (2020). The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats. Animal Conservation, 3. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12563

Miller, A. B., Kays, R., & Leung, Y.-F. (2020). Wildlife response to recreational trail building: An experimental method and Appalachian case study. JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION, 56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125815

Yousif, H., Yuan, J., Kays, R., & He, Z. (2019). Animal Scanner: Software for classifying humans, animals, and empty frames in camera trap images. Ecology and Evolution, 9(4), 1578–1589. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4747

Hody, A. W., Moreno, R., Meyer, N. F. V., Pacifici, K., & Kays, R. (2019). 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz158

Schuttler, S. G., Stevenson, K., Kays, R., & Dunn, R. R. (2019). Children’s attitudes towards animals are similar across suburban, exurban, and rural areas. PeerJ, 7, e7328. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7328

Bogan, D. A., & Kays, R. W. (2019). Data from: Eastern coyote home range, habitat selection and survival in the Albany pine bush landscape. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.56pf8220

Bragina, E. V., Kays, R., Hody, A., Moorman, C. E., Deperno, C. S., & Mills, L. S. (2019). Effects on white‐tailed deer following eastern coyote colonization. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(4), 916–924. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21651

Tucker, M. A., Alexandrou, O., Bierregaard, R. O., Jr., Bildstein, K. L., Böhning‐Gaese, K., Bracis, C., … Mueller, T. (2019). Large birds travel farther in homogeneous environments. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(5), 576–587. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12875

Esser, H. J., Allen Herre, E., Kays, R., Liefting, Y., & Jansen, P. A. (2019). Local host-tick coextinction in neotropical forest fragments. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY, 49(3-4), 225–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.08.008

Noonan, M. J., Fleming, C. H., Akre, T. S., Drescher-Lehman, J., Gurarie, E., Harrison, A.-L., … Calabrese, J. M. (2019). Scale-insensitive estimation of speed and distance traveled from animal tracking data. MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-019-0177-1

Ahmed, A., Yousif, H., Kays, R., & He, Z. (2019). Semantic region of interest and species classification in the deep neural network feature domain. Ecological Informatics, 52, 57–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2019.05.006

Lowerre-Barbieri, S. K., Kays, R., Thorson, J. T., & Wikelski, M. (2019). The ocean’s movescape: fisheries management in the bio-logging decade (2018–2028). ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76(2), 477–488. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsy211

Parsons, A. W., Rota, C. T., Forrester, T., Baker‐Whatton, M. C., McShea, W. J., Schuttler, S. G., … Kays, R. (2019). Urbanization focuses carnivore activity in remaining natural habitats, increasing species interactions. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(8), 1894–1904. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13385

Bragina, E. V., Kays, R., Hody, A., Moorman, C. E., DePerno, C. S., & Mills, L. S. (2019). White‐tailed deer and coyote colonization: a response to Kilgo et al. (2019). The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(8), 1641–1643. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21766

Schuttler, S. G., Sears, R. S., Orendain, I., Khot, R., Rubenstein, D., Rubenstein, N., … Kays, R. (2018). Citizen Science in Schools: Students Collect Valuable Mammal Data for Science, Conservation, and Community Engagement. BioScience, 69(1), 69–79. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy141

Nye, P., Hewitt, G., Swenson, T., & Kays, R. (2018). Data from: New York State bald eagle report 2010. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.s65q50j0

Heppenheimer, E., Brzeski, K. E., Hinton, J. W., Patterson, B. R., Rutledge, L. Y., DeCandia, A. L., … vonHoldt, B. M. (2018). 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4688

Kays, R. (2018). 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.

Kays, R., Sheppard, J., Mclean, K., Welch, C., Paunescu, C., Wang, V., … Crofoot, M. (2018). Hot monkey, cold reality: surveying rainforest canopy mammals using drone-mounted thermal infrared sensors. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(2), 407–419. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1523580

Waples, R. S., Kays, R., Fredrickson, R. J., Pacifici, K., & Mills, L. S. (2018). Is the Red Wolf a Listable Unit Under the US Endangered Species Act? Journal of Heredity, 109(5), 585–597. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esy020

Schliep, E. M., Gelfand, A. E., Clark, J. S., & Kays, R. (2018). 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-018-0327-8

Parsons, A. W., Forrester, T., Baker-Whatton, M. C., McShea, W. J., Rota, C. T., Schuttler, S. G., … Kays, R. (2018). Mammal communities are larger and more diverse in moderately developed areas. ELife, 7. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.38012

Hody, J. W., & Kays, R. (2018). Mapping the expansion of coyotes (Canis latrans) across North and Central America. ZooKeys, (759), 81–97. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.759.15149

Tucker, M. A., Böhning-Gaese, K., Fagan, W. F., Fryxell, J. M., Van Moorter, B., Alberts, S. C., … Mueller, T. (2018). Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements. Science, 359(6374), 466–469. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam9712

Yousif, H., Yuan, J., Kays, R., & He, Z. (2018). Object detection from dynamic scene using joint background modeling and fast deep learning classification. JOURNAL OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE REPRESENTATION, 55, 802–815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2018.08.013

Heppenheimer, E., Harrigan, R. J., Rutledge, L. Y., Koepfli, K.-P., DeCandia, A. L., Brzeski, K. E., … von Holdt, B. M. (2018). Population Genomic Analysis of North American Eastern Wolves (Canis lycaon) Supports Their Conservation Priority Status. Genes, 9(12), 606. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9120606

Gerstner, B. E., Kass, J. M., Kays, R., Helgen, K. M., & Anderson, R. P. (2018). Revised distributional estimates for the recently discovered olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), with comments on natural and taxonomic history. Journal of Mammalogy, 99(2), 321–332. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy012

Parsons, A. W., Goforth, C., Costello, R., & Kays, R. (2018). The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals. PeerJ, 6, e4536. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4536

Miller, A. B., Leung, Y.-F., & Kays, R. (2017). Coupling visitor and wildlife monitoring in protected areas using camera traps. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 17, 44–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2016.09.007

Forrester, T. D., Baker, M., Costello, R., Kays, R., Parsons, A. W., & McShea, W. J. (2017). Creating advocates for mammal conservation through citizen science. Biological Conservation, 208, 98–105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.06.025

Hendricks, S. A., Koblmüller, S., Harrigan, R. J., Leonard, J. A., Schweizer, R. M., Vonholdt, B. M., … Wayne, R. K. (2017). 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21336

Parsons, A. W., Forrester, T., McShea, W. J., Baker-Whatton, M. C., Millspaugh, J. J., & Kays, R. (2017). Do occupancy or detection rates from camera traps reflect deer density? Journal of Mammalogy, 98(6), 1547–1557. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx128

Kays, R., Parsons, A. W., Baker, M. C., Kalies, E. L., Forrester, T., Costello, R., … McShea, W. J. (2017). Does hunting or hiking affect wildlife communities in protected areas? Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(1), 242–252. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12700

Yousif, H., Yuan, J. H., Kays, R., & He, Z. H. (2017). 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). https://doi.org/10.1109/iscas.2017.8050762

Cove, M. V., Gardner, B., Simons, T. R., Kays, R., & O’Connell, A. F. (2017). Free-ranging domestic cats (Felis catus) on public lands: estimating density, activity, and diet in the Florida Keys. Biological Invasions, 20(2), 333–344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1534-x

Rodrigues, T. F., Kays, R., Parsons, A., Versiani, N. F., Paolino, R. M., Pasqualotto, N., … Chiarello, A. G. (2017). Managed forest as habitat for gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira) in agricultural landscapes of southeastern Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy, 98(5), 1301–1309. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx099

Yousif, H., He, Z., & Kays, R. (2017). Object segmentation in the deep neural network feature domain from highly cluttered natural scenes. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 3095–3099. https://doi.org/10.1109/icip.2017.8296852

Steenweg, R., Hebblewhite, M., Kays, R., Ahumada, J., Fisher, J. T., Burton, C., … Rich, L. N. (2017). Scaling-up camera traps: Monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Vol. 15, pp. 26–34. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1448

Rota, C. T., Ferreira, M. A. R., Kays, R., Forrester, T. D., Kalies, E. L., McShea, W. J., … Millspaugh, J. J. (2016). A multispecies occupancy model for two or more interacting species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7(10), 1164–1173. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12587

Rota, C. T., Wikle, C. K., Kays, R. W., Forrester, T. D., McShea, W. J., Parsons, A. W., & Millspaugh, J. J. (2016). A two-species occupancy model accommodating simultaneous spatial and interspecific dependence. Ecology, 97(1), 48–53. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-1193.1

Schuttler, S. G., Parsons, A. W., Forrester, T. D., Baker, M. C., McShea, W. J., Costello, R., & Kays, R. (2016). Deer on the lookout: how hunting, hiking and coyotes affect white-tailed deer vigilance. Journal of Zoology, 301(4), 320–327. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12416

Gompper, M. E., Lesmeister, D. B., Ray, J. C., Malcolm, J. R., & Kays, R. (2016). Differential Habitat Use or Intraguild Interactions: What Structures a Carnivore Community? PLOS ONE, 11(1), e0146055. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146055

Hawley, J. E., Rego, P. W., Wydeven, A. P., Schwartz, M. K., Viner, T. C., Kays, R., … Jenks, J. A. (2016). Long-distance dispersal of a subadult male cougar from South Dakota to Connecticut documented with DNA evidence. Journal of Mammalogy, 97(5), 1435–1440. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw088

Parsons, A. W., Bland, C., Forrester, T., Baker-Whatton, M. C., Schuttler, S. G., McShea, W. J., … Kays, R. (2016). The ecological impact of humans and dogs on wildlife in protected areas in eastern North America. Biological Conservation, 203, 75–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.001

He, Z., Kays, R., Zhang, Z., Ning, G., Huang, C., Han, T. X., … McShea, W. (2016). Visual Informatics Tools for Supporting Large-Scale Collaborative Wildlife Monitoring with Citizen Scientists. IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 16(1), 73–86. https://doi.org/10.1109/mcas.2015.2510200

McShea, W. J., Forrester, T., Costello, R., He, Z. H., & Kays, R. (2016). Volunteer-run cameras as distributed sensors for macrosystem mammal research. Landscape Ecology, 31(1), 55–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-015-0262-9

Gompper, M. E., Belant, J. L., & Kays, R. (2015). Carnivore coexistence: America's recovery. Science, Vol. 347, pp. 381–382. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.347.6220.382-b

Kays, R., Costello, R., Forrester, T., Baker, M. C., Parsons, A. W., Kalies, E. L., … McShea, W. (2015). Cats are rare where coyotes roam. Journal of Mammalogy, 96(5), 981–987. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyv100

Crofoot, M. C., Kays, R. W., & Wikelski, M. (2015). Data from: Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.kn0816jn

Pimm, S. L., Alibhai, S., Bergl, R., Dehgan, A., Giri, C., Jewell, Z., … Loarie, S. (2015). Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 30(11), 685–696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.008

Lashley, M. A., Chitwood, M. C., Kays, R., Harper, C. A., DePerno, C. S., & Moorman, C. E. (2015). Prescribed fire affects female white-tailed deer habitat use during summer lactation. Forest Ecology and Management, 348, 220–225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.03.041

Kays, R., Crofoot, M. C., Jetz, W., & Wikelski, M. (2015). Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet. Science, 348(6240), aaa2478–aaa2478. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa2478

Monzon, J., Kays, R., & Dykhuizen, D. E. (2014). Assessment of coyote-wolf-dog admixture using ancestry-informative diagnostic SNPs. Molecular Ecology, 23(1), 182–197. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12570

Chen, G., Han, T. X., He, Z., Kays, R., & Forrester, T. (2014). 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). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025172

Dodge, S., Bohrer, G., Bildstein, K., Davidson, S. C., Weinzierl, R., Bechard, M. J., … Wikelski, M. (2014). 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. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0195

Suselbeek, L., Emsens, W.-J., Hirsch, B. T., Kays, R., Rowcliffe, J. M., Zamora-Gutierrez, V., & Jansen, P. A. (2014). Food acquisition and predator avoidance in a Neotropical rodent. Animal Behaviour, 88, 41–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.11.012

Si, X., Kays, R., & Ding, P. (2014). How long is enough to detect terrestrial animals? Estimating the minimum trapping effort on camera traps. PeerJ, 2, e374. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.374

Kays, R., & Parsons, A. W. (2014). Mammals in and around suburban yards, and the attraction of chicken coops. Urban Ecosystems, 17(3), 691–705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-014-0347-2

LaPoint, S. D., Belant, J. L., & Kays, R. W. (2014). Mesopredator release facilitates range expansion in fisher. Animal Conservation, 18(1), 50–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12138

Collins, C. R., & Kays, R. W. (2014). Patterns of Mortality in a Wild Population of White-Footed Mice. Northeastern Naturalist, 21(2), 323–336. https://doi.org/10.1656/045.021.0213

Rowcliffe, J. M., Kays, R., Kranstauber, B., Carbone, C., & Jansen, P. A. (2014). Quantifying levels of animal activity using camera trap data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5(11), 1170–1179. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12278

Meek, P. D., Ballard, G., Claridge, A., Kays, R., Moseby, K., O’Brien, T., … Townsend, S. (2014). Recommended guiding principles for reporting on camera trapping research. Biodiversity and Conservation, 23(9), 2321–2343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0712-8

Brown, D. D., Montgomery, R. A., Millspaugh, J. J., Jansen, P. A., Garzon-Lopez, C. X., & Kays, R. (2014). Selection and spatial arrangement of rest sites within northern tamandua home ranges. Journal of Zoology, 293(3), 160–170. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12131

LaPoint, S., Gallery, P., Wikelski, M., & Kays, R. (2013). Animal behavior, cost-based corridor models, and real corridors. Landscape Ecology, 28(8), 1615–1630. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-013-9910-0

Yu, X. Y., Wang, J. P., Kays, R., Jansen, P. A., Wang, T. J., & Huang, T. (2013). Automated identification of animal species in camera trap images. Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing. https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-5281-2013-52

Rowcliffe, J. M., Kays, R., Carbone, C., & Jansen, P. A. (2013). Clarifying assumptions behind the estimation of animal density from camera trap rates. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 77(5), 876–876. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.533

Hirsch, B. T., Kays, R., & Jansen, P. A. (2013). Evidence for cache surveillance by a scatter-hoarding rodent. Animal Behaviour, 85(6), 1511–1516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.04.005

Brown, D. D., Kays, R., Wikelski, M., Wilson, R., & Klimley, A. (2013). Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior. Animal Biotelemetry, 1(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-3385-1-20

Emsens, W.-J., Hirsch, B. T., Kays, R., & Jansen, P. A. (2013). Prey refuges as predator hotspots: ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) attraction to agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) dens. Acta Theriologica, 59(2), 257–262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-013-0159-4

Helgen, K. M., Pinto, M., Kays, R., Helgen, L., Tsuchiya, M., Quinn, A., … Maldonado, J. (2013). Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito. ZooKeys, 324(324), 1–83. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.324.5827

Dodge, S., Bohrer, G., Weinzierl, R., Davidson, S. C., Kays, R., Douglas, D., … Wikelski, M. (2013). The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data. Movement Ecology, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-3933-1-3

Voirin, B., Kays, R., Wikelski, M., & Lowman, M. (2013). Why Do Sloths Poop on the Ground? In Treetops at Risk (pp. 195–199). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7161-5_19

Kranstauber, B., Kays, R., LaPoint, S. D., Wikelski, M., & Safi, K. (2012). A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement. Journal of Animal Ecology, 81(4), 738–746. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.01955.x

Brown, D. D., LaPoint, S., Kays, R., Heidrich, W., Kümmeth, F., & Wikelski, M. (2012). Accelerometer-informed GPS telemetry: Reducing the trade-off between resolution and longevity. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 36(1), 139–146. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.111

Millspaugh, J. J., Gitzen, R. A., Belant, J. L., Kays, R. W., Keller, B. J., Kesler, D. C., … Bodinof, C. M. (2012). Analysis of radiotelemetry data. In The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Volume 1 Research (pp. 480–501). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hirsch, B. T., Kays, R., Pereira, V. E., & Jansen, P. A. (2012). Directed seed dispersal towards areas with low conspecific tree density by a scatter-hoarding rodent. Ecology Letters, 15(12), 1423–1429. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12000

Emsens, W.-J., Suselbeek, L., Hirsch, B. T., Kays, R., Winkelhagen, A. J. S., & Jansen, P. A. (2012). Effects of Food Availability on Space and Refuge Use by a Neotropical Scatterhoarding Rodent. Biotropica, 45(1), 88–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00888.x

Jansen, P. A., Hirsch, B. T., Emsens, W. J., Zamora-Gutierrez, V., Wikelski, M., & Kays, R. (2012). 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. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205184109

Millspaugh, J. J., Kesler, D. C., Gitzen, R. A., Kays, R. W., Schulz, J. H., Rota, C. T., … Keller, B. J. (2012). Wildlife radiotelemetry and remote monitoring. In The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Volume 1 Research (pp. 258–283). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

A genome-wide perspective on the evolutionary history of enigmatic wolf-like canids. (2011). Genome Research, 21, 1294–1305. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.116301.110

Collins, C., & Kays, R. (2011). Causes of mortality in North American populations of large and medium-sized mammals. Animal Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2011.00458.x

Holland, R. A., Meyer, C. F. J., Kalko, E. K. V., Kays, R., & Wikelski, M. (2011). 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. https://doi.org/10.3161/150811011X624875

Kays, R. (2011). Flower power. BBC Wildlife Magazine, May.

Kays, R. W., & Wilson, D. E. (2011). Mammals of North America.

Li, Z., Han, J., Ding, B., & Kays, R. (2011). Mining periodic behaviors of object movements for animal and biological sustainability studies. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 24(2), 355–386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-011-0227-9

Kays, R., Tilak, S., Kranstauber, B., Jansen, P. A., Carbone, C., Rowcliffe, M., … He, Z. (2011). Monitoring wild animal communities with arrays of motion sensitive camera traps. International Journal of Research and Reviews in Wireless Sensor Networks, 1, 19–29.

Li, Z., Han, J., Ji, M., Tang, L.-A., Yu, Y., Ding, B., … Kays, R. (2011). MoveMine. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2(4), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1145/1989734.1989741

Hirsch, B. T., Visser, M. D., Kays, R., & Jansen, P. A. (2011). Quantifying seed dispersal kernels from truncated seed-tracking data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(3), 595–602. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00183.x

Quantifying the sensitivity of camera traps using an adapted distance sampling approach. (2011). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00094.x

Bridge, E. S., Thorup, K., Bowlin, M. S., Chilson, P. B., Diehl, R. H., Fléron, R. W., … Wikelski, M. (2011). Technology on the Move: Recent and Forthcoming Innovations for Tracking Migratory Birds. BioScience, 61(9), 689–698. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.9.7

Kranstauber, B., Cameron, A., Weinzerl, R., Fountain, T., Tilak, S., Wikelski, M., & Kays, R. (2011). The Movebank data model for animal tracking. Environmental Modelling & Software, 26(6), 834–835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.12.005

Kays, R., Jansen, P. A., Knecht, E. M. H., Vohwinkel, R., & Wikelski, M. (2011). The effect of feeding time on dispersal of Virola seeds by toucans determined from GPS tracking and accelerometers. Acta Oecologica, 37(6), 625–631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2011.06.007

Kays, R., Tilak, S., Crofoot, M., Fountain, T., Obando, D., Ortega, A., … Wikelski, M. (2011). Tracking animal location and activity with an Automated Radio Telemetry System in a Tropical Rainforest. The Computer Journal, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxr072

Kays, R., & Feranec, R. S. (2011). Using stable carbon isotopes to distinguish wild from captive wolves. Northeast Naturalist, 18, 253–264. https://doi.org/10.1656/045.018.0301

Crofoot, M. C., Lambert, T. D., Kays, R., & Wikelski, M. C. (2010). Does watching a monkey change its behaviour? Quantifying observer effects in habituated wild primates using automated radiotelemetry. Animal Behaviour, 80(3), 475–480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.06.006

Li, Z., Ding, B., Han, J., Kays, R., & Nye, P. (2010). 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. https://doi.org/10.1145/1835804.1835942

Li, Z., Ding, B., Han, J., & Kays, R. (2010). Swarm. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 3(1-2), 723–734. https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920934

Kays, R., Kranstauber, B., Jansen, P., Carbone, C., Rowcliffe, M., Fountain, T., & Tilak, S. (2009). 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). https://doi.org/10.1109/lcn.2009.5355046

Kays, R. W., & Wilson, D. E. (2009). Mammals of North America. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400833504

Kays, R., Curtis, A., & Kirchman, J. J. (2009). Rapid adaptive evolution of northeastern coyotes via hybridization with wolves. Biology Letters, 6(1), 89–93. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0575

Gálvez, D., Kranstauber, B., Kays, R. W., & Jansen, P. A. (2009). Scatter hoarding by the Central American agouti: a test of optimal cache spacing theory. Animal Behaviour, 78(6), 1327–1333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.08.015

Aliaga-Rossel, E., Kays, R. W., & Fragoso, J. M. V. (2008). Home-range use by the Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 24(4), 367–374. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467408005129

Crofoot, M. C., Gilby, I. C., Wikelski, M. C., & Kays, R. W. (2008). 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. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0707749105

Kays, R. W., Gompper, M. E., & Ray, J. C. (2008). LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF EASTERN COYOTES BASED ON LARGE-SCALE ESTIMATES OF ABUNDANCE. Ecological Applications, 18(4), 1014–1027. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-0298.1

Franklin, S. P., Kays, R. W., Moreno, R., TerWee, J. A., Troyer, J. L., & VandeWoude, S. (2008). 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. https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-44.3.760

Rattenborg, N. C., Voirin, B., Vyssotski, A. L., Kays, R. W., Spoelstra, K., Kuemmeth, F., … Wikelski, M. (2008). Sleeping outside the box: electroencephalographic measures of sleep in sloths inhabiting a rainforest. Biology Letters, 4(4), 402–405. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0203

Wikelski, M., Kays, R. W., Kasdin, N. J., Thorup, K., Smith, J. A., & Swenson, G. W. (2007). Going wild: what a global small-animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists. Journal of Experimental Biology, 210(2), 181–186. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.02629

Herzog, C. J., Kays, R. W., Ray, J. C., Gompper, M. E., Zielinski, W. J., Higgins, R., & Tymeson, M. (2007). Using Patterns in Track-Plate Footprints to Identify Individual Fishers. Journal of Wildlife Management, 71(3), 955–963. https://doi.org/10.2193/2006-408

Franklin, S. P., Troyer, J. L., TerWee, J. A., Lyren, L. M., Kays, R. W., Riley, S. P. D., … Vandewoude, S. (2007). 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. https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-43.4.700

Gompper, M. E., Kays, R. W., Ray, J. C., Lapoint, S. D., Bogan, D. A., & Cryan, J. R. (2006). A Comparison of Noninvasive Techniques to Survey Carnivore Communities in Northeastern North America. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 34(4), 1142–1151. https://doi.org/10.2193/0091-7648(2006)34[1142:acontt]2.0.co;2

Moreno, R. S., Kays, R. W., & Samudio, R., Jr. (2006). COMPETITIVE RELEASE IN DIETS OF OCELOT (LEOPARDUS PARDALIS) AND PUMA (PUMA CONCOLOR) AFTER JAGUAR (PANTHERA ONCA) DECLINE. Journal of Mammalogy, 87(4), 808–816. https://doi.org/10.1644/05-MAMM-A-360R2.1

Patterson, B. D., Kays, R. W., Kasiki, S. M., & Sebestyen, V. M. (2006). DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON THE LION'S MANE (PANTHERA LEO). Journal of Mammalogy, 87(2), 193–200. https://doi.org/10.1644/05-MAMM-A-226R2.1

Dubach, J., Patterson, B. D., Briggs, M. B., Venzke, K., Flamand, J., Stander, P., … Kays, R. W. (2005). Molecular genetic variation across the southern and eastern geographic ranges of the African lion, Panthera leo. Conservation Genetics, 6(1), 15–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-004-7729-6

Kays, R. W., & DeWan, A. A. (2004). Ecological impact of inside/outside house cats around a suburban nature preserve. Animal Conservation, 7(3), 273–283. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1367943004001489

Patterson, B. D., Kasiki, S. M., Selempo, E., & Kays, R. W. (2004). Livestock predation by lions (Panthera leo) and other carnivores on ranches neighboring Tsavo National ParkS, Kenya. Biological Conservation, 119(4), 507–516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2004.01.013

Gompper, M. E., Goodman, R. M., Kays, R. W., Ray, J. C., Fiorello, C. V., & Wade, S. E. (2003). A Survey of the Parasites of Coyotes (Canis latrans) in New York based on Fecal Analysis. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 39(3), 712–717. https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-39.3.712

Johnson, D., Macdonald, D., Kays, R., & Blackwell, P. G. (2003). Response to Revilla, and Buckley and Ruxton: the resource dispersion hypothesis. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 18(8), 381–382. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5347(03)00155-1

Kays, R. (2003). Social polyandry and promiscuous mating in a primate-like carnivore: the kinkajou (Potos flavus). In Monogamy (pp. 125–137). https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139087247.008

Johnson, D. D. P., Kays, R., Blackwell, P. G., & Macdonald, D. W. (2002). Does the resource dispersion hypothesis explain group living? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 17(12), 563–570. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5347(02)02619-8

Kays, R. W., & Patterson, B. D. (2002). Mane variation in African lions and its social correlates. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 80(3), 471–478. https://doi.org/10.1139/z02-024

Kays, R., & Allison, A. (2001). Plant Ecology, 153(1/2), 109–120. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1017585622940

Kays, R., & Allison, A. (2001). Arboreal tropical forest vertebrates: current knowledge and research trends. In Tropical Forest Canopies: Ecology and Management (pp. 109–120). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3606-0_9

Kays, R. W., Gittleman, J. L., & Wayne, R. K. (2000). Microsatellite analysis of kinkajou social organization. Molecular Ecology, 9(6), 743–751. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294X.2000.00921.x

Kays, R. W. (2000). The behavior and ecology of olingos (Bassaricyon gabbii) and their competition with kinkajous (Potos flavus) in central Panama. Mammalia, 64(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.2000.64.1.1

Kays, R. W., & Gittleman, J. L. (1995). Home Range Size and Social Behavior of Kinkajous (Potos flavus) in the Republic of Panama. Biotropica, 27(4), 530. https://doi.org/10.2307/2388969