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
- Is the red wolf a listable unit under the US Endangered Species Act? (2018)
- Historically native to open country in the West, this canid now lives in all habitats across the continent (2018)
- Mapping the expansion of coyotes (Canis latrans) across North and Central America (2018)
- The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals (2018)
- Revised distributional estimates for the recently discovered olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), with comments on natural and taxonomic history (2018)
- The value of citizen science for ecological monitoring of mammals (2018)
- Free-ranging domestic cats (Felis catus) on public lands: Estimating density, activity, and diet in the Florida Keys (2018)
- Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements (2018)
- Object segmentation in the deep neural network feature domain from highly cluttered natural scenes (2017)
- Fast human-animal detection from highly cluttered camera-trap images using joint background modeling and deep learning classification (2017)