Roland Kays
Research Associate Professor and Director, Biodiversity & Earth Observation Lab, Nature Research Center, NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Area(s) of Expertise
Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of Mammals
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
Publications
- Animal Scanner: Software for classifying humans, animals, and empty frames in camera trap images (2019)
- Citizen Science in Schools: Students Collect Valuable Mammal Data for Science, Conservation, and Community Engagement (2019)
- Hot monkey, cold reality: surveying rainforest canopy mammals using drone-mounted thermal infrared sensors (2019)
- Large birds travel farther in homogeneous environments (2019)
- Local host-tick coextinction in neotropical forest fragments (2019)
- Semantic region of interest and species classification in the deep neural network feature domain (2019)
- The ocean's movescape: fisheries management in the bio-logging decade (2018-2028) (2019)
- Free-ranging domestic cats (Felis catus) on public lands: Estimating density, activity, and diet in the Florida Keys (2018)
- High genomic diversity and candidate genes under selection associated with range expansion in eastern coyote (Canis latrans) populations (2018)
- Historically native to open country in the West, this canid now lives in all habitats across the continent (2018)