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Letter Winged Kite - Elanus scriptus

Letter Winged Kite - Elanus scriptus

Fish Hook Ant - Polyrhachis ypsilon

Fish Hook Ant - Polyrhachis ypsilon

Lichen

Lichen

Letter Winged Kite - Elanus scriptus

Letter Winged Kite - Elanus scriptus

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Movement Ecologist

John F. McEvoy

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PUBLICATIONS

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

Recent Publications

Pike K.N., Forrest, S.W., McEvoy, J.F., Perry, J., Vanderduys, E., Arnould, J.P.y, Hoskins, A.J., 2026, Beggars Can’t be Choosers: Feral Buffalo Show More Constrained Movement and Resource Selection During the Dry Season in the Northern Territory, Landscape Ecology (in Press)

Franke B et al. 2026, Local and landscape-level environmental conditions drive habitat selection across terrestrial mammal species. Global Ecology and Biogeography (in Press)

Wilson, J.P., Amano, T., Bregnballe, T., Corregidor-Castro, A., Francis, R., Gallego-García, D., Hodgson, J.C., Jones, L.R., Luque-Fernández, C.R., Marchowski, D., McEvoy, J., McKellar, A.E., Oosthuizen, W.C., Pfeifer, C., Renner, M., Sarasola, J.H., Sokač, M., Valle, R., Zbyryt, A. and Fuller, R.A., 2026, Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level, Remote Sens Ecol Conserv. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70059

Aharon-Rotman, Y., McEvoy, J.F., Beckmann, C., Geiser, F., 2023. Pronounced daily heterothermy in the White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea. Journal of Ornithology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-023-02092-6

McEvoy, J.F., Connette, G.M., Huang, Q., Soe, P., Pyone, K.H.H., Htun, Y.L., Lin, A.N., Thant, A.L., Htun, W.Y., Paing, K.H., Swe, K.K., Aung, M., Songer, M., Leimgruber, P., 2022. Joining the dots in an era of uncertainty – Reviewing Myanmar’s Illegal wildlife trade and looking to the future. Global Ecology and Conservation 37, e02179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02179

Gore, M.L., Schwartz, L.R., Amponsah-Mensah, K., Barbee, E., Canney, S., Carbo-Penche, M., Cronin, D., Hilend, R., Laituri, M., Luna, D., Maina, F., Mey, C., Mumford, K., Mugo, R., Nduguta, R., Nyce, C., McEvoy, J., McShea, W., Mandimbihasina, A., Salafsky, N., Smetana, D., Tait, A., Wittig, T., Wright, D., Naess, L.W., 2022. Voluntary consensus based geospatial data standards for the global illegal trade in wild fauna and flora. Scientific Data 9, 267, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01371-w

Aharon-Rotman Y, McEvoy, J, Kiat, Y, Raz, T, Perlman, G. 2022. “Time to move on: The role of greenness in Africa and temperatures at a Mediterranean stopover site in migration decision of long-distance migratory passerines”. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10:834074

Chan, A. N., Wittemyer, G., McEvoy, J.F., Williams, A.C., Cox, N., Soe, P., Grindley, M., Shwe, N. M. , Chit, A. M., Oo, Z. M., Leimgruber, P., 2022. Landscape characteristics influence ranging behavior of Asian elephants at the human-wildlands interface in Myanmar, Movement Ecology 10(1): 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-022-00304-x

Aharon-Rotman, Y., McEvoy, J.F., Beckmann, C., Geiser, F., 2021. Heterothermy in a Small Passerine: Eastern Yellow Robins Use Nocturnal Torpor in Winter, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.759726

McEvoy, J.F., Kishbaugh, J.C., Valitutto, M.T., Aung, O., Tun, K.Y.N., Win, Y.T., Maw, M.T., Thein, W.Z., Win, H.H., Chit, A.M., Vodzak, M.E., Murray, S., 2021, Movements of Indian Flying Fox in Myanmar as a Guide to Human-Bat Interface Sites, EcoHealth, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-021-01544-w

Esmaeili, S., Jesmer, B.R., Albeke, S.E., Aikens, E.O., Schoenecker, K.A., King, S.R.B., Abrahms, B., Buuveibaatar, B., Beck, J.L., Boone, R.B., Cagnacci, F., Chamaillé-Jammes, S., Chimeddorj, B., Cross, P.C., Dejid, N., Enkhbyar, J., Fischhoff, I.R., Ford, A.T., Jenks, K., Hemami, M.-R., Hennig, J.D., Ito, T.Y., Kaczensky, P., Kauffman, M.J., Linnell, J.D.C., Lkhagvasuren, B., McEvoy, J.F., Melzheimer, J., Merkle, J.A., Mueller, T., Muntifering, J., Mysterud, A., Olson, K.A., Panzacchi, M., Payne, J.C., Pedrotti, L., Rauset, G.R., Rubenstein, D.I., Sawyer, H., Scasta, J.D., Signer, J., Songer, M., Stabach, J.A., Stapleton, S., Strand, O., Sundaresan, S.R., Usukhjargal, D., Uuganbayar, G., Fryxell, J.M., Goheen, J.R., 2021, Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross-taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis, Ecology Letters, 00, 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13848

Stojanovic, D., McEvoy, J.F., Alves, F., Rayner, L., Heinsohn, R., Saunders, D. and Webb, M., 2021, Parental care does not compensate for the effects of bad years on reproductive success of a vagile bird. J Zool. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12888

Lopes B., McEvoy J.F, Morato R, Luz H.R., Costa F.B., Benatti H.R., da Costa Dias T., Rocha V.J., do Nascimento V.R., Piovezan U, Monticelli P.F., Nievas A.M., Pacheco R.C., Gaglianone Moro M.E., Brasil J., Leimgruber P., Labruna M.B., de Barros Ferraz K.M., 2021, Human-modified landscapes alter home range and movement patterns of capybaras, Journal of Mammalogy, 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa144

McEvoy, J.F., Connette, G., Huang, Q., Soe, P., Pyone, K.H.H., Valitutto, M., Htun, Y.L., Lin, A.N., Thant, A.L., Htun, W.Y., Paing, K.H., Swe, K.K., Aung, M., Min, S., Songer, M., and Leimgruber, P., 2019, Two sides of the same coin – Wildmeat consumption and illegal wildlife trade at the crossroads of Asia, Biological Conservation 238, 108197

McEvoy, J.F., Hall, G.P., McDonald, P.G., 2019, Movements of Australian Wood Ducks (Chenonetta jubata) in an agricultural landscape, Emu - Austral Ornithology 119(2), 147-156.

Sampson, C., Leimgruber, P., Rodriguez, S., McEvoy, J. F. , Sotherden, E., Tonkyn, D., 2019, Perceptions of human-elephant conflict and conservation attitudes of affected communities in Myanmar , Tropical Conservation Science, 10.1177/1940082919831242, 12

Sampson, C., McEvoy, J. F. , Oo, Z.M., Chit, A.M., Chan, A.N., Tonkyn, D., Soe, P., Songer, M., Williams, C.A., Reisinger, K., Wittemeyer G., Leimgruber,P., 2018, New elephant crisis in Asia—Early warning signs from Myanmar , PLOS One, 13(3): e0194113

McEvoy, J. F., Ribot, R. F. H., Wingfield, J. C., Bennett, A. T. D., 2017, Heavy rainfall triggers increased nocturnal flight in desert populations of the Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa), Scientific Reports, 7(1): 17557

Aharon-Rotman, Y., McEvoy, J.F., Zhaoju, Z., Yu, H., Wang, X., Yali, S., Xu, Z., Yuan, Z., Jeong, W., Cao, L., Fox, A.D., 2017, Water level affects availability of optimal feeding habitats for threatened migratory waterbirds, Ecology and Evolution, 7:21

McEvoy, J.F., Hall,G.P., McDonald, P.G, 2016, Evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicle shape, flight path and camera type for waterfowl surveys: disturbance effects and species recognition, PeerJ, 4:e1831. 10.7717/peerj.1831

McEvoy, J. F., Ribot, F.H., Roshier, D.A., Bennett, A.T.D, 2015, Proximate cues to phases of movement in a highly dispersive waterfowl, Anas superciliosa, Movement Ecology, 3: 21

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