The Agouti Enterprise

Peer Review Pubs

Emsens, W. J., Suselbeek, L., Winkelhagen, A., Hirsch, B., Kays, R., & Jansen, P. A. (2012). Effects of food availability on space and refuge use by the Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata). Biotropica, DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00888.x

Kranstauber, B., LaPoint, S., Kays, R., & Safi, K. (2012). A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.01955.x

Millspaugh, J. J., Gitzen, R. A., Belant, J. L., Kays, R. W., Keller, B. J., Kesler, D. C., Rota, C. T., et al. (2012). Analysis of Radiotelemetry Data. The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Volume 1 Research (pp. 480-501). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Millspaugh, J. J., Kesler, D. C., Gitzen, R. A., Kays, R. W., Schulz, J. H., Rota, C. T., Bodinof, C. M., et al. (2012). Wildlife radiotelemetry and remote monitoring. In N. J. Silvy (Ed.), The Wildlife Techniques Manual: Volume 1 Research (7th ed., pp. 258-283). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Rowcliffe, J., Carbone, C., Kays, R., Kranstauber, B., & Jansen, P. (2012). Bias in estimating animal day range: the effect of sampling frequency. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi:doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00197.x

Hirsch, B.T., Visser, M.D., Kays, R. and Jansen, P.A.  2011. Quantifying seed dispersal kernels from truncated seed-tracking data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00183.x

Jansen, P.A., Muller-Landau, H.C., Wright, S.J., 2010. Bushmeat hunting and climate: an indirect link. Science 327:30.

Jansen, P.A., Elschot, K., Verkerk, P.J., Wright, S.J., 2010. Seed predation and defleshing in the agouti-dispersed palm Astrocaryum standleyanum. Journal of Tropical Ecology 26:473-480.

Kays, R., Kranstauber, B., Jansen, P.A., Carbone, C., Rowcliffe, M., Fountain, T., Tilak, S., 2009. Camera traps as sensor networks for monitoring animal communities. IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 34:811-818.

Galvez, D., Kranstauber, G., Kays, R., Jansen, P.A., 2009. Scatter hoarding by the Central-American agouti: a test of optimal cache spacing theory. Animal Behaviour.

Lambert, T.D., Kays, R.W., Jansen, P.A., Aliaga-Rossel, E., and Wikelski, M. 2009. Nocturnal activity by the primarily diurnal Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) in relation to environmental conditions, resource abundance and predation risk. Journal of Tropical Ecology  25: 211–215.

Jansen, P.A., Bohlman, S.A., Garzon-Lopez, C.X., Muller-Landau, H., Wright, S.J., 2008. Large-scale spatial variation in palm fruit abundance across a tropical moist forest estimated from high-resolution aerial photographs. Ecography 31:33-42.

Aliaga-Rossel, E., Moreno, R.S., and Kays, R.W. 2008. Home-range use by the Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 367-374.

Aliaga-Rossel, E., Moreno, R.S., Kays, R.W., and Giacalone, J. 2006. Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) predation on agouti (Dasyprocta punctata). Biotropica 36: 691-694.

Moreno, R.S., Kays, R.W., and Samudio, R.Jr. 2006. Competitive release in diets of ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and puma (Puma concolor) after jaguar (Panthera onca) decline. Journal of Mammalogy 87: 808-816.

Popular Publications featuring our work

Tangley 2009 Rain Forest Reconnaissance. National Wildlife MagazineKays, R.W. 2007.

An appointment with death. BBC Wildlife 25: 50-55.

Kays, R.W. 2006. My kingdom for a crown. Natural History May: 72.

Carrol, C. 2005.  Stealth Hunter. National Geographic

Films

A film by Untamed Science on animal tracking features our work for a chapter of Miller and Levine biology textbook used by millions of high school students.

Theses

Bakker, L. 2011. Comparative effectiveness of three scatter-hoarding rodents as
seed dispersers of a Neotropical palm. Wageningen University.

Zamora-Gutierrez, V. 2010. Effects of food availability on seed dispersal by the Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata). Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Veldhuis, M. 2010. Seed cache fate in scatterhoarding animals: The role of memory, food availability and animal death. University of Groningen.

Maas, V. 2010. Competition and resource partitioning in a Neotropical frugivorous mammal community. Wageningen University .

Liefting, Y., 2010. Internship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

Esser, H.J. 2010. Community ecology of ticks and their hosts in tropical moist forest fragments. Wageningen University.

Emses, W.-J. 2010. Space and refuge use in the Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) in relation to food availability and predation risk. Wageningen University.

Winkelhagen, A.J.S. 2009.   Effects of fruiting seasonality on space use by a Neotropical scatter-hoarding rodent, and consequences for seed dispersal . Wageningen University .

Suselbeek, L. 2009. Mammal density estimation from camera trapping data using Gas models; a test with the paca (Agouti paca). University of Groningen, University of Groningen.

Suselbeek, L. 2009. Resource availability and activity patterns in the Central American agouti Dasyprocta punctata. Wageningen University.

van Koten, J. 2008. Effects of baited traps on animal behavior:  a test with the Central-American agouti  (Dasyprocta punctata). Wageningen University.

Kranstauber, B. 2008. Mammal community responses to resource abundance in a Neotropical moist forest. University of Groningen.

Galvez, D. 2008. Scatter-hoarding by the Central American agouti: a test of optimal cache spacing. Groningen University.

deVos, W. 2008. Seed selection by granivorous rodents in a Neotropical moist forest. Wageningen University.