A5071584061- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Noise Effects and Management
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Satellite Image Processing and Photogrammetry
University of Florida
2023
Colorado State University
2022-2023
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
2021
North Carolina State University
2020-2021
Abstract With the accelerating pace of global change, it is imperative that we obtain rapid inventories status and distribution wildlife for ecological inferences conservation planning. To address this challenge, launched SNAPSHOT USA project, a collaborative survey terrestrial populations using camera traps across United States. For our first annual survey, compiled data all 50 states during 14‐week period (17 August–24 November 2019). We sampled at 1,509 trap sites from 110 arrays covering...
Abstract While museum voucher specimens continue to be the standard for species identifications, biodiversity data are increasingly represented by photographic records from camera traps and amateur naturalists. Some easily recognized in these pictures, others impossible distinguish. Here we quantify extent which 335 terrestrial nonvolant North American mammals can identified typical photographs, with without considering range maps. We evaluated all pairwise comparisons of judged, based on...
Citizen science projects that use sensors (such as camera traps) to collect data can large-scale without compromising information quality. However, project management challenges are increased when collection is scaled up. Here, we provide an overview of our efforts conduct a citizen using traps—North Carolina's Candid Critters. We worked with 63 public libraries distribute traps volunteers in all 100 counties North Carolina, USA. Critters engaged 580 deploy cameras at 4,295 locations across...
Abstract While recent work has assessed how environmental and managerial changes influence elephant welfare across multiple zoos, few studies have addressed the effects of management within a single institution. In this paper, we examine related to social structure diet affect behavior group zoo elephants over 23‐month period while also considering underlying factors, such as time day, hormonal cycle, individual differences. We recorded behaviors using 2‐min scan samples during 60‐min...
Although quality control for accuracy is increasingly common in citizen science projects, there still a risk that spatial biases of opportunistic data could affect results, especially if sample size low. Here we evaluate how well the sampling locations North Carolina's Candid Critters camera trapping project represented available land cover types state and whether (4,295 sites) was sufficient to estimate ecological parameters (i.e., species occupancy) with low bias error. most opportunistic,...
Abstract Camera trap surveys are useful to understand animal species population trends, distribution, habitat preference, behavior, community dynamics, periods of activity, and associations with environmental conditions. This information is ecologically important, because many play important roles in local ecosystems as predators, herbivores, seed dispersers, disease vectors. Additionally, the larger wildlife detected by camera traps economically through hunting, trapping, or ecotourism....
Abstract Understanding how systemic biases influence local ecological communities is essential for developing just and equitable environmental practices that center both human wildlife wellbeing. With over 270 million United States residents inhabiting urban areas, understanding the socio-ecological consequences of racially-targeted zoning, such as redlining, will prove critical planning. There a growing body literature documenting relationships between redlining inequitable distribution...
While many species are fearful of human presence, others may habituate after prolonged, non-lethal exposure. Highly persecuted carnivores often take longer to than herbivores, which can lead prey associating with humans ‘shield’ themselves from predators. We conducted an experiment in a hyper-diverse African reserve examine how apex predator (spotted hyena) and two primary partition spatiotemporal activity response 1) threatening voice playbacks 2) long-term, less-threatening tourism...
Photo 1. A female American black bear (Ursus americanus) and her three cubs walking along an access road in Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge Dare County, North Carolina, USA. captured on a trail camera used for surveying endangered red wolves. credit: Wildlands Red Wolf Survey. 2. large natural area Hyde Photograph taken by set wildlife biologist the Carolina's Candid Critters trapping project. Critters. 3. gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) inspecting primary school students with...