List of works - Roland Kays

A Survey of the Parasites of Coyotes (Canis latrans) in New York based on Fecal Analysis ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

A Two-Species Occupancy Model with a Continuous-Time Detection Process Reveals Spatial and Temporal Interactions

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 20 February 2012

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2012

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

article published in 2012

Admixture mapping identifies introgressed genomic regions in North American canids

scientific article

An Open Standard for Camera Trap Data

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 2 April 2020

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

scholarly article by Hayder Yousif et al published February 2019 in Ecology and Evolution

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

article

Artificial Intelligence's Role in Global Camera Trap Data Management and Analytics via Wildlife Insights

scientific article published in 2019

Automated identification of animal species in camera trap images

article

Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns

scientific article published on 9 June 2023

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

article

Biological Earth observation with animal sensors

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

Camera trapping expands the view into global biodiversity and its change

scientific article published on 29 May 2023

Camera traps as sensor networks for monitoring animal communities

Camtrap DP: an open standard for the FAIR exchange and archiving of camera trap data

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Carnivore coexistence: America's recovery

scientific article published in January 2015

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

scientific article

Cats are rare where coyotes roam

article

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

scientific article published in 2019

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

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

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

scientific article published in 2013

Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States

scientific article published on 27 June 2024

Coupling visitor and wildlife monitoring in protected areas using camera traps

Creating advocates for mammal conservation through citizen science

article

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

scientific article published in 2017

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

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

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

scientific article published on 7 September 2012

Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published in 2020

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

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

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

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Does hunting or hiking affect wildlife communities in protected areas?

article

Does the resource dispersion hypothesis explain group living?

scientific article published on 09 January 2003

ECOLOGY. Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

scientific article published on June 2015

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

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

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

Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements

scientific article published on 03 May 2020

Effects on white‐tailed deer following eastern coyote colonization

scholarly article

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

Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

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

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data

scientific article published in 2021

Evaluation of the Spatial Biases and Sample Size of a Statewide Citizen Science Project

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published in 2009

Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities

scientific article published on 27 March 2022

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

scientific article

Food acquisition and predator avoidance in a Neotropical rodent

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

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

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

scientific article published on 05 August 2017

From backyard to backcountry: changes in mammal communities across an urbanization gradient

scientific article published on 28 November 2023

Geographic barriers but not life history traits shape the phylogeography of North American mammals

scientific article published on 6 June 2024

Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity

scientific article published on 26 January 2022

Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients

scientific article published on 23 April 2022

Guidelines for estimating occupancy from autocorrelated camera trap detections

scientific article published on 31 May 2024

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

article

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

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

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

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

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

scientific article

Integrating data types to estimate spatial patterns of avian migration across the Western Hemisphere

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in June 2018

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

scientific article published in 2018

Large-range movements of neotropical orchid bees observed via radio telemetry

scientific article

Life in 2.5D: Animal Movement in the Trees

scientific article published on 03 June 2022

Livestock predation by lions (Panthera leo) and other carnivores on ranches neighboring Tsavo National ParkS, Kenya

scholarly article by Bruce D. Patterson et al published October 2004 in Biological Conservation

Local host-tick coextinction in neotropical forest fragments

scientific article published on 08 February 2019

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

scientific article published in 2016

Mammal communities are larger and more diverse in moderately developed areas

article

Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape

scientific article published on 18 March 2024

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

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

article

Mane variation in African lions and its social correlates

scientific article published in 2002

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

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Mitigating pseudoreplication and bias in resource selection functions with autocorrelation‐informed weighting

scientific article published in 2022

Mobilizing Animal Movement Data: API use and the Movebank platform

scientific article published in 2021

Moderating Argos location errors in animal tracking data

article

MoveApps: a serverless no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data

scientific article published in 2022

Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements.

scientific article published in January 2018

Non‐invasive methods for monitoring weasels: emerging technologies and priorities for future research

scientific article published on 19 January 2024

Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

article by Danielle D Brown et al published 2013 in Animal biotelemetry

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

article

Precipitous decline of white-lipped peccary populations in Mesoamerica

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

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

article

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

scholarly article by Willem-Jan Emsens et al published 3 August 2013 in Acta Theriologica

Quantifying levels of animal activity using camera trap data

article by Marcus Rowcliffe et al published 7 October 2014 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Quantifying seed dispersal kernels from truncated seed-tracking data

scientific article published in 2011

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

scientific article published in 2011

Rapid adaptive evolution of northeastern coyotes via hybridization with wolves

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

Response to Revilla, and Buckley and Ruxton: the resource dispersion hypothesis

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

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

article

SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States

scientific article published in June 2021

SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID ‐19 pandemic

scientific article published on 24 July 2022

SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the U nited S tates

scientific article published in May 2024

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

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

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

scientific article published in 2016

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

scientific article published in 2019

Shifting mammal communities and declining species richness along an elevational gradient on Mount Kenya

scientific article published in April 2024

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

research article

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

scientific article published in September 2011

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

article

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

scientific article published in 2011

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

scientific article

The search behavior of terrestrial mammals

The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals.

scientific article published on 29 March 2018

Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds

scientific article (publication date: 31 July 2012)

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

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

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

article

Volunteer-run cameras as distributed sensors for macrosystem mammal research

article

What drives spatially varying ecological relationships in a wide‐ranging species?

scientific article published in 2022

Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs?

scientific article published on 10 February 2022

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

scholarly article

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

scholarly article

List of works by Roland Kays

A Survey of the Parasites of Coyotes (Canis latrans) in New York based on Fecal Analysis ⬇️

A Two-Species Occupancy Model with a Continuous-Time Detection Process Reveals Spatial and Temporal Interactions

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

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

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

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

Admixture mapping identifies introgressed genomic regions in North American canids

An Open Standard for Camera Trap Data

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence's Role in Global Camera Trap Data Management and Analytics via Wildlife Insights

Automated identification of animal species in camera trap images

Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns

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

Biological Earth observation with animal sensors

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

Camera trapping expands the view into global biodiversity and its change

Camera traps as sensor networks for monitoring animal communities

Camtrap DP: an open standard for the FAIR exchange and archiving of camera trap data

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

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

Carnivore coexistence: America's recovery

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

Cats are rare where coyotes roam

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

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

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

Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States

Coupling visitor and wildlife monitoring in protected areas using camera traps

Creating advocates for mammal conservation through citizen science

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

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

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

Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans

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

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

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

Does hunting or hiking affect wildlife communities in protected areas?

Does the resource dispersion hypothesis explain group living?

ECOLOGY. Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

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

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

Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements

Effects on white‐tailed deer following eastern coyote colonization

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

Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity

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

Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data

Evaluation of the Spatial Biases and Sample Size of a Statewide Citizen Science Project

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

Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities

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

Food acquisition and predator avoidance in a Neotropical rodent

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

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

From backyard to backcountry: changes in mammal communities across an urbanization gradient

Geographic barriers but not life history traits shape the phylogeography of North American mammals

Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity

Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients

Guidelines for estimating occupancy from autocorrelated camera trap detections

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

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

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

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

Integrating data types to estimate spatial patterns of avian migration across the Western Hemisphere

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

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

Large-range movements of neotropical orchid bees observed via radio telemetry

Life in 2.5D: Animal Movement in the Trees

Livestock predation by lions (Panthera leo) and other carnivores on ranches neighboring Tsavo National ParkS, Kenya

Local host-tick coextinction in neotropical forest fragments

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

Mammal communities are larger and more diverse in moderately developed areas

Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape

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

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

Mane variation in African lions and its social correlates

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