Roland Kays
RK
Research Professor and Director, Biodiversity & Earth Observation Lab, Nature Research Center, NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Research Professor
919-707-8250 roland_kays@ncsu.edu WebsiteBio
Education
Ph.D. Zoology, University of Tennessee (1999)
B.S. Biology, Cornell University (1993)
Research Interests
Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of Mammals
Courses
ZO 544 – Mammalogy
Favorite Links
www.movebank.org
www.emammal.org
http://agoutienterprise.wordpress.com
Area(s) of Expertise
Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of Mammals
Publications
- Apex predator loss drives trophic downgrading in China's protected areas , CURRENT BIOLOGY (2025)
- Jaguar Space Use in the Working Landscape of Darien, Panama , TROPICAL CONSERVATION SCIENCE (2025)
- Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2025)
- MoveTraits – A database for integrating animal behaviour into trait-based ecology , (2025)
- Optimal timing to estimate moose Alces alces demographic parameters using remote cameras , SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2025)
- SNAPSHOT USA 2019-2023: The First Five Years of Data From a Coordinated Camera Trap Survey of the United States , GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY (2025)
- Snapshot Japan 2023: the first camera trap dataset under a globally standardised protocol in Japan , BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL (2025)
- Climate, food and humans predict communities of mammals in the United States , Diversity and Distributions (2024)
- From past habitats to present threats: tracing North American weasel distributions through a century of climate and land use change , LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY (2024)
- Geographic barriers but not life history traits shape the phylogeography of North American mammals , Global Ecology and Biogeography (2024)