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
- Coupling visitor and wildlife monitoring in protected areas using camera traps (2017)
- Deer on the lookout: How hunting, hiking and coyotes affect white-tailed deer vigilance (2017)
- Creating advocates for mammal conservation through citizen science (2017)
- Scaling-up camera traps: Monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors (2017)
- Does hunting or hiking affect wildlife communities in protected areas? (2017)
- The ecological impact of humans and dogs on wildlife in protected areas in eastern North America (2016)
- A multispecies occupancy model for two or more interacting species (2016)
- Visual informatics tools for supporting large-scale collaborative wildlife monitoring with citizen scientists (2016)
- Differential habitat use or intraguild interactions: What structures a carnivore community? (2016)
- Volunteer-run cameras as distributed sensors for macrosystem mammal research (2016)