Roland Kays
Research Associate Professor and Director, Biodiversity & Earth Observation Lab, Nature Research Center, NC Museum of Natural Sciences
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
- Can mammals thrive near urban areas in the Neotropics? Characterizing the community of a reclaimed tropical forest , TROPICAL ECOLOGY (2021)
- Candid Critters: Challenges and Solutions in a Large-Scale Citizen Science Camera Trap Project , Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (2021)
- Carolina critters: a collection of camera-trap data from wildlife surveys across North Carolina , ECOLOGY (2021)
- Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2021)
- Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data , METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2021)
- Population-level inference for home-range areas , (2021)
- SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States , ECOLOGY (2021)
- A Novel Framework to Protect Animal Data in a World of Ecosurveillance , BioScience (2020)
- An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when? , Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2020)
- Animal species classification using deep neural networks with noise labels , Ecological Informatics (2020)