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Overview

Darryl I. MacKenzie is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with notable contributions in ecology and ecological modeling. They have a substantial publication record in wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, as well as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

The scientist has published 55 works in environmental science, with 25 specifically addressing ecology, 12 in ecological modeling, and 9 in nature and landscape conservation. Additional subfields include global and planetary change and management, monitoring, policy, and law. Their main research topics include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies

Their recent academic outputs include papers such as:

  • "Co-occurrence of bobcats, coyotes, and ocelots in Texas" (2020) published in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Mapping the ghost: Estimating probabilistic snow leopard distribution across Mongolia" (2021) published in Diversity and Distributions
  • "Animal welfare outcomes of professional vehicle-based shooting of peri-urban rusa deer in Australia" (2022) published in Wildlife Research
  • "Acoustic monitoring and occupancy analysis: cost-effective tools in reintroduction programmes for roroa-great spotted kiwi" (2021) published in New Zealand Journal of Ecology
  • "An integrated assessment of niche partitioning reveals mechanisms of coexistence between mesocarnivores" (2024) published in Global Ecology and Conservation

Darryl I. MacKenzie frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Ana Luísa Barros, Margarida Santos-Reis, Sandra Alcobia, Koustubh Sharma, and Justine Shanti Alexander. This network reflects a collaborative approach across various ecological and conservation research topics.

Notable venues where they have frequently published include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ecology and Evolution, New Zealand Journal of Ecology, Notornis, and Diversity and Distributions. Their publication venues indicate a focus on diverse ecological and conservation contexts, supporting broad dissemination of their research findings.

Best Publications

  • ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY RATES WHEN DETECTION PROBABILITIES ARE LESS THAN ONE

    Darryl I. MacKenzie;James D. Nichols;Gideon B. Lachman;Sam Droege

  • Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence

    Darryl I. MacKenzie

  • ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY, COLONIZATION, AND LOCAL EXTINCTION WHEN A SPECIES IS DETECTED IMPERFECTLY

    Darryl I. MacKenzie;James D. Nichols;James E. Hines;Melinda G. Knutson

  • Designing occupancy studies: general advice and allocating survey effort

    Darryl I. Mackenzie;J. Andrew Royle

  • Assessing the fit of site-occupancy models

    Darryl I. MacKenzie;Larissa L. Bailey;Larissa L. Bailey

  • Investigating species co-occurrence patterns when species are detected imperfectly

    Darryl I. MacKenzie;Larissa L. Bailey;James. D. Nichols

  • IMPROVING INFERENCES IN POPULATION STUDIES OF RARE SPECIES THAT ARE DETECTED IMPERFECTLY

    Darryl I. MacKenzie;James. D. Nichols;Nicole Sutton;Kae Kawanishi

  • WHAT ARE THE ISSUES WITH PRESENCE–ABSENCE DATA FOR WILDLIFE MANAGERS?

    Darryl I. MacKENZIE

  • Modeling the probability of resource use: the effect of, and dealing with, detecting a species imperfectly

    Darryl I. Mackenzie

  • Modelling skewed data with many zeros: A simple approach combining ordinary and logistic regression

    David Fletcher;Darryl MacKenzie;Eduardo Villouta

  • HOW SHOULD DETECTION PROBABILITY BE INCORPORATED INTO ESTIMATES OF RELATIVE ABUNDANCE

    Darryl I. MacKenzie;William L. Kendall

  • Occupancy as a surrogate for abundance estimation

    Darryl I. MacKenzie;James D. Nichols

  • Modeling species occurrence dynamics with multiple states and imperfect detection

    Darryl I. MacKenzie;James D. Nichols;Mark E. Seamans;Mark E. Seamans;R. J. Gutiérrez

  • SAMPLING DESIGN TRADE‐OFFS IN OCCUPANCY STUDIES WITH IMPERFECT DETECTION: EXAMPLES AND SOFTWARE

    Larissa L. Bailey;James E. Hines;James D. Nichols;Darryl I. MacKenzie

  • Monitoring carnivore populations at the landscape scale: occupancy modelling of tigers from sign surveys.

    Kota Ullas Karanth;Arjun M. Gopalaswamy;Arjun M. Gopalaswamy;Narayanarao Samba Kumar;Srinivas Vaidyanathan

  • Tigers on trails: occupancy modeling for cluster sampling.

    J. E. Hines;J. D. Nichols;J. A. Royle;D. I. MacKenzie

  • Advances and applications of occupancy models

    Larissa L. Bailey;Darryl I. MacKenzie;James D. Nichols

  • OCCUPANCY ESTIMATION AND MODELING WITH MULTIPLE STATES AND STATE UNCERTAINTY

    James D. Nichols;James E. Hines;Darryl I. Mackenzie;Mark E. Seamans

  • Seeking a second opinion: uncertainty in disease ecology

    Brett T. McClintock;James D. Nichols;Larissa L. Bailey;Darryl I. MacKenzie

  • The use of photographic rates to estimate densities of tigers and other cryptic mammals: a comment on misleading conclusions

    Christopher S. Jennelle;Michael C. Runge;Darryl I. MacKenzie

Frequent Co-Authors

Larissa L. Bailey
Larissa L. Bailey Colorado State University
James D. Nichols
James D. Nichols United States Geological Survey
Kenneth H. Pollock
Kenneth H. Pollock North Carolina State University
James E. Hines
James E. Hines United States Geological Survey
David M. Forsyth
David M. Forsyth New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
J. Andrew Royle
J. Andrew Royle United States Geological Survey
Robert B. Allen
Robert B. Allen Landcare Research
Ralph J. Gutierrez
Ralph J. Gutierrez University of Minnesota
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita
Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita University of Melbourne

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