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Overview

Roland Kays is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States and has a primary focus on Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Small Animals, and Social Psychology. The scientist's work covers a wide array of topics, notably Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Among recent publications by Roland Kays are:

  • "An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when?", 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "The Movebank system for studying global animal movement and demography", 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Other significant recent papers related to Kays's network and research domain include:

  • "COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife", 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation", 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans", 2021, Global Change Biology

Roland Kays frequently collaborates with several scientists, with notable repeated coauthors being Martin Wikelski, Arielle W. Parsons, Margaret C. Crofoot, Michael V. Cove, and Jerrold L. Belant.

The scientist's body of work has been published extensively in certain venues, which include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Ecosphere, Movebank, and Ecology. These venues reflect the areas of wildlife ecology, ecological methods, animal movement tracking, and broader ecological research.

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

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  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Mammals of North America

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  • Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation

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  • Technology on the Move: Recent and Forthcoming Innovations for Tracking Migratory Birds

    Eli S. Bridge;Kasper Thorup;Melissa S. Bowlin;Phillip B. Chilson

  • COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife.

    Christian Rutz;Christian Rutz;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Amanda E. Bates;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson

  • A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement.

    Bart Kranstauber;Roland Kays;Scott D. LaPoint;Martin Wikelski

  • Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

    Danielle D Brown;Roland Kays;Roland Kays;Roland Kays;Martin Wikelski;Martin Wikelski;Martin Wikelski;Rory Wilson

  • Quantifying levels of animal activity using camera trap data

    J. Marcus Rowcliffe;Roland Kays;Roland Kays;Bart Kranstauber;Bart Kranstauber;Chris Carbone

  • A comparison of noninvasive techniques to survey carnivore communities in northeastern North America

    Matthew E. Gompper;Roland W. Kays;Justina C. Ray;Scott D. Lapoint

  • Livestock predation by lions (Panthera leo) and other carnivores on ranches neighboring Tsavo National ParkS, Kenya

    Bruce D Patterson;Samuel M Kasiki;Edwin Selempo;Roland W Kays

  • Scaling-up camera traps: monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors

    Robin Steenweg;Mark Hebblewhite;Roland Kays;Jorge Ahumada

  • Swarm: mining relaxed temporal moving object clusters

    Zhenhui Li;Bolin Ding;Jiawei Han;Roland Kays

  • Going wild: what a global small-animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists

    Martin C. Wikelski;Roland W. Kays;N. Jeremy Kasdin;Kasper Thorup

  • Recommended guiding principles for reporting on camera trapping research

    P. D. Meek;G. Ballard;A. Claridge;A. Claridge;R. Kays;R. Kays

  • A genome-wide perspective on the evolutionary history of enigmatic wolf-like canids

    Bridgett M. vonHoldt;John P. Pollinger;Dent A. Earl;James C. Knowles

  • Does the resource dispersion hypothesis explain group living

    Dominic D.P. Johnson;Roland Kays;Paul G. Blackwell;David W. Macdonald

  • Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity.

    Stuart L. Pimm;Sky Alibhai;Richard Bergl;Alex Dehgan

  • The environmental-data automated track annotation ( Env - DATA ) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data

    Somayeh Dodge;Gil Bohrer;Rolf Weinzierl;Sarah C. Davidson

  • Mining periodic behaviors for moving objects

    Zhenhui Li;Bolin Ding;Jiawei Han;Roland Kays

  • Moderating Argos location errors in animal tracking data

    David C. Douglas;Rolf Weinzierl;Sarah C. Davidson;Roland Kays;Roland Kays

  • Quantifying the sensitivity of camera traps: an adapted distance sampling approach

    J. Marcus Rowcliffe;Chris Carbone;Patrick A. Jansen;Patrick A. Jansen;Roland Kays

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Patrick A. Jansen
Patrick A. Jansen Wageningen University & Research
William J. McShea
William J. McShea Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Justin M. Calabrese
Justin M. Calabrese University of Maryland, College Park
Joshua J. Millspaugh
Joshua J. Millspaugh University of Montana
Don E. Wilson
Don E. Wilson National Museum of Natural History
Zhihai He
Zhihai He University of Missouri
Chris Carbone
Chris Carbone Zoological Society of London
William F. Fagan
William F. Fagan University of Maryland, College Park
Gil Bohrer
Gil Bohrer The Ohio State University

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