Roland Kays
Research Professor and Director, Biodiversity & Earth Observation Lab, Nature Research Center, NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Research Professor
Bio
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
- 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)
- Recreational trail use alters mammal diel and space use during and after COVID-19 restrictions in a US national park , GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION (2024)
- 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)
- Combining camera trap surveys and IUCN range maps to improve knowledge of species distributions , CONSERVATION BIOLOGY (2023)
- 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)