Roland Kays

Havmoller, L. W., Loftus, J. C., Havmoller, R. W., Alavi, S. E., Caillaud, D., Grote, M. N., … Crofoot, M. C. (2021, September 19). Arboreal monkeys facilitate foraging of terrestrial frugivores. BIOTROPICA, Vol. 9. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13017

Schuttler, S., Ramcharan, S., Boone, H., Stone, S., Brian J. O'Shea, Gajapersad, K., & Kays, R. (2021). Can mammals thrive near urban areas in the Neotropics? Characterizing the community of a reclaimed tropical forest. TROPICAL ECOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42965-020-00134-1

Lasky, M., Parsons, A., Schuttler, S., Mash, A., Larson, L., Norton, B., … Kays, R. (2021). Candid Critters: Challenges and Solutions in a Large-Scale Citizen Science Camera Trap Project. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.343

Lasky, M., Parsons, A. W., Schuttler, S. G., Hess, G., Sutherland, R., Kalies, L., … Kays, R. (2021, June 1). Carolina critters: a collection of camera-trap data from wildlife surveys across North Carolina. ECOLOGY, Vol. 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3372

Suraci, J. P., Gaynor, K. M., Allen, M. L., Alexander, P., Brashares, J. S., Cendejas-Zarelli, S., … Wilmers, C. C. (2021, May 20). Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15650

Kays, R., Hody, A., Jachowski, D. S., & Parsons, A. W. (2021). Empirical evaluation of the spatial scale and detection process of camera trap surveys. MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-021-00277-3

Noonan, M. J., Martinez-Garcia, R., Davis, G. H., Crofoot, M. C., Kays, R., Hirsch, B. T., … Calabrese, J. M. (2021, May 14). Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data. METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol. 5, pp. 1158–1173. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13597

Snider, M. H., Athreya, V. R., Balme, G. A., Bidner, L. R., Farhadinia, M. S., Fattebert, J., … Kays, R. (2021). Home range variation in leopards living across the human density gradient. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, 8. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab068

Davidson, S., Bohrer, G., Kölzsch, A., Vinciguerra, C., & Kays, R. (2021). Mobilizing Animal Movement Data: API use and the Movebank platform. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.74312

Fleming, C. H., Deznabi, I., Alavi, S., Crofoot, M. C., Hirsch, B. T., Medici, E. P., … Calabrese, J. M. (2021, July 6). Population-level inference for home-range areas (Vol. 7). Vol. 7. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.05.451204

Cove, M. V., Kays, R., Bontrager, H., Bresnan, C., Lasky, M., Frerichs, T., … McShea, A. J. (2021, June). SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. ECOLOGY, Vol. 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3353

Jachowski, D., Kays, R., Butler, A., Hoylman, A. M., & Gompper, M. E. (2021). Tracking the decline of weasels in North America. PLOS ONE, 7. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254387

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

Mallon, J. M., Tucker, M. A., Beard, A., Bierregaard, R. O., Jr., Bildstein, K. L., Bohning-Gaese, K., … Fagan, W. F. (2020). Diurnal timing of nonmigratory movement by birds: the importance of foraging spatial scales. JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY, 51(12). https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02612

Hansen, C. P., Parsons, A. W., Kays, R., & Millspaugh, J. J. (2020). Does Use of Backyard Resources Explain the Abundance of Urban Wildlife? FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.570771

Davidson, S. C., Bohrer, G., Gurarie, E., LaPoint, S., Mahoney, P. J., Boelman, N. T., … Hebblewhite, M. (2020). Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic. SCIENCE, 370(6517), 712-+. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb7080

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, Vol. 34, pp. 1017–1028. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13495

Noonan, M. J., Martinez-Garcia, R., Davis, G. H., Crofoot, M. C., Kays, R., Hirsch, B. T., … Calabrese, J. M. (2020, August 25). Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data (Vol. 8). Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.24.261628

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), 200274. 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, 108410. 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(5), 516–523. 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., Herre, E. A., 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

Ahumada, J. A., Fegraus, E., Birch, T., Flores, N., Kays, R., O’Brien, T. G., … Dancer, A. (2019). 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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892919000298

Canis latrans: Kays, R. [Data set]. (2018). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T3745A103893556.en

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(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

Powell, R. A., Ellwood, S., Kays, R., & Maran, T. (2018). 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). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0008

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

Costello, R., McShea, W. J., Forrester, T. D., Parsons, A. W., Schuttler, S., Baker-Whatton, M. C., & Kays, R. (2017). Citizen science and biophilic cities: the great experiment. Biophilic Cities, 1(1), 22–27.

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

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

Brooks, M., & Kays, R. (2017). 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.

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

Kays, R., & Monzón, J. D. (2017). Northeastern coyotes cannot be a distinct species without isolation: a response to Way and Lynn. Canid Biology & Conservation, 20(2), 5–6. Retrieved from http://www.canids.org/CBC/20/northeastern_coyote_not_a_species.pdf

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

Obringer, R., Bohrer, G., Weinzierl, R., Dodge, S., Deppe, J., Ward, M., … Wikelski, M. (2017). Track Annotation: Determining the Environmental Context of Movement Through the Air. In Aeroecology (pp. 71–86). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68576-2_4

Kays, B. R., Forrester, T., & Mcshea, W. (2016). A community effort to document wildlife: eMammal project expands the impact of citizen scientists. The Wildlife Professional, 38–41.

Kays, R. (2016). 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. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501714

Rota, C. T., Ferreira, M. A. R., Kays, R. W., 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

vonHoldt, B. M., Kays, R., Pollinger, J. P., & Wayne, R. K. (2016). Admixture mapping identifies introgressed genomic regions in North American canids. Molecular Ecology, 25(11), 2443–2453. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13667

Forrester, T., O'Brien, T., Fegraus, E., Jansen, P., Palmer, J., Kays, R., … McShea, W. (2016). An Open Standard for Camera Trap Data. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4, e10197. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e10197

Kays, R. (2016). Candid Creatures :
how camera traps reveal the mysteries of nature. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.72115

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

Kays, R., Parsons, A. W., Baker, M. C., Kalies, E. L., Forrester, T., Costello, R., … McShea, W. J. (2016). 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

Chandler, M., See, L., Buesching, C. D., Cousins, J. A., Gillies, C., Kays, R. W., … Tiago, P. (2016). Involving Citizen Scientists in Biodiversity Observation. In The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks (pp. 211–237). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27288-7_9

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

Steenweg, R., Hebblewhite, M., Kays, R., Ahumada, J., Fisher, J. T., Burton, C., … Rich, L. N. (2016). Scaling-up camera traps: monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15(1), 26–34. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1448

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

Rowcliffe, J. M., Jansen, P. A., Kays, R., Kranstauber, B., & Carbone, C. (2016). Wildlife speed cameras: measuring animal travel speed and day range using camera traps. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2(2), 84–94. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.17

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

Lozano, C. C., Sweanor, L. L., Wilson-Henjum, G., Kays, R. W., Moreno, R., VandeWoude, S., & Troyer, R. M. (2015). 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. https://doi.org/10.7589/2015-01-027

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

McShea, W. J., Forrester, T., Costello, R., He, Z., & Kays, R. (2015). 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

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

Rowcliffe, J. M., Carbone, C., Kays, R., Kranstauber, B., & Jansen, P. A. (2014). 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.

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 (
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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

Monzón, J., Kays, R., & Dykhuizen, D. E. (2013). Assessment of coyote-wolf-dog admixture using ancestry-informative diagnostic SNPs. Molecular Ecology, 23(1), 182–197. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12570

Li, Z., Ding, B., Wu, F., Lei, T. K. H., Kays, R., & Crofoot, M. C. (2013). Attraction and avoidance detection from movements. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 7(3), 157–168. https://doi.org/10.14778/2732232.2732235

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

Safi, K., Kranstauber, B., Weinzierl, R., Griffin, L., Rees, E. C., Cabot, D., … Bohrer, G. (2013). Flying with the wind: scale dependency of speed and direction measurements in modelling wind support in avian flight. Movement Ecology, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-3933-1-4

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

Esser, H. J., Liefting, Y., Kays, R., & Jansen, P. (2012). A record of Striped Hog-nosed Skunk Conepatus semistriatus in central Panama, between two known sub-ranges. Small Carnivore Conservation, 47, 62–64.

Hirsch, B. T., Kays, R., & Jansen, P. A. (2012). A telemetric thread tag for tracking seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents. Plant Ecology, 213(6), 933–943. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-012-0054-0

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.

Kays, R., Rodríguez, M. E., Valencia, L. M., Horan, R., Adam, R., & Ziegler, C. (2012). Animal Visitation and Pollination of Flowering Balsa Trees (Ochroma pyramidale) in Panama. Mesoamericana, 16(3), 56–70.

Rowcliffe, J. M., Carbone, C., Kays, R., Kranstauber, B., & Jansen, P. A. (2012). Bias in estimating animal travel distance: the effect of sampling frequency. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(4), 653–662. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00197.x

Jansen, P. A., Hirsch, B. T., Emsens, W.-J., Zamora-Gutierrez, V., Wikelski, M., & Kays, R. W. (2012). Data from: Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.9t0m888q

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

Douglas, D. C., Weinzierl, R., C. Davidson, S., Kays, R., Wikelski, M., & Bohrer, G. (2012). Moderating Argos location errors in animal tracking data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(6), 999–1007. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00245.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.

Millspaugh, J. J., Kesler, D. C., Kays, R. W., Gitzen, R. A., Schulz, J. H., Belant, J. L., … Bodinof, C. M. (2012). Wildlife radiotracking. In K. Sivakumar & B. Habib (Eds.), ENVIS Bulletin on Telemetry in Wildlife Science (Vol. 13, pp. 20–30).

Moreno, R. S., Kays, R., Giacalone-Willis, J., Aliaga-Rossel, E., Mares, R., & Bustamante, A. (2012). Ámbito de Hogar y Actividad Circadiana del Ocelote (Leopardus pardalis) en la Isla de Barro Colorado, Panamá. Mesoamericana, 16(3), 30–39.

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

Wikelski, M., Moxley, J., Eaton-Mordas, A., López-Uribe, M. M., Holland, R., Moskowitz, D., … Kays, R. (2010). Large-Range Movements of Neotropical Orchid Bees Observed via Radio Telemetry. PLoS ONE, 5(5), e10738. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010738

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., Ji, M., Lee, J.-G., Tang, L.-A., Yu, Y., Han, J., & Kays, R. (2010). MoveMine: mining moving object databases. Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '10. Presented at the the 2010 international conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/1807167.1807319

Kays, R., Curtis, A., & Kirchman, J. (2010). Reply to Wheeldon
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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

Voirin, J. B., Kays, R., Lowman, M. D., & Wikelski, M. (2009). Evidence for Three-Toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) Predation by Spectacled Owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata). Edentata, 8-10, 15–20. https://doi.org/10.1896/020.010.0113

Kays, R. (2009). 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.

Kays, R. W., & Daniels, R. A. (2009). 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.

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

Lambert, T. D., Kays, R. W., Jansen, P. A., Aliaga-Rossel, E., & Wikelski, M. (2009). 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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467408005804

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

Helgen, K. M., Kays, R., Helgen, L. E., Tsuchiya-Jerep, M. T. N., Pinto, C. M., Koepfli, K. P., … Maldonado, J. E. (2009). Taxonomic boundaries and geographic distributions revealed by an integrative systematic overview of the mountain coatis, Nasuella (Carnivora: Procyonidae). Small Carnivore Conservation, 41, 65–74.

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

Mares, R., Moreno, R. S., Kays, R. W., & Wikelski, M. (2008). Predispersal home range shift of an ocelot Leopardus pardalis (Carnivora: Felidae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Revista De Biología Tropical, 56(2). https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v56i2.5623

Kays, R. (2008). 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.

Kays, R. W., & Slauson, K. M. (2008). 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.

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

Aliaga-Rossel, E., Moreno, R. S., Kays, R. W., & Giacalone, J. (2006). Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) Predation on Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata). Biotropica, 38(5), 691–694. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00192.x

Kays, R. W., Daniels, R. A., Mitchell, R. S., Molloy, D. P., & Siegfried, C. A. (2005). Exotic Species. In P. Eisenstadt & L. E. Moss (Eds.), Encylopedia of New York (pp. 538–539). Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.

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

LaPoint, S. C., Kays, R. W., & Ray, J. C. (2003). Animals crossing the Northway: Are existing culverts useful? Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies, 10(1), 11–17.

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. (2002). [Review of 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]. Animal Conservation, 5(3), 259–259. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1367943002212317

Kays, R. W. (2002). Lion: Panthera leo. In Encylopedia Britannica. Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopedia Britannica.

Kays, R. W., & Wilson, D. E. (2002). Mammals of North America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

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

Pickering, J., Kays, R., Meier, A., Andrew, S., & Yatskievych, K. (2002). 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.

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. (2001). The social organization of the kinkajou Potos flavus (Procyonidae). Journal of Zoology, 253(4), 491–504. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952836901000450

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. (1999). A hoistable arboreal mammal trap. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 27(2), 298–300.

Kays, R. W. (1999). Food Preferences of Kinkajous (Potos flaws): A Frugivorous Carnivore. Journal of Mammalogy, 80(2), 589–599. https://doi.org/10.2307/1383303

Kays, R. W. (1999). The solitary group life of a frugivorous carnivore: ecology, behavior, and genetics of kinkajous (Potos flavus (Dissertation). University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Brooks, T., Anderson, C. G., & Kays, R. W. (1998). An observation of a White-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) exhibiting partial albinism. The Migrant, 69(3), 130–131.

Skelton, C., & Kays, R. W. (1997). Kirtland's warbler in Tennessee. The Migrant, 68(2), 42–43.

Kays, R. W. (1996). Comments on the behaviour of a Grison (Galictis vittata) hunting an Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata). Small Carnivore Conservation, 15, 5.

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