N. C. Harris

Key unprotected areas for carnivore conservation in Mexico

The paper evaluates conservation potential for 29 Mexican carnivores by analyzing unprotected areas and land management types, identifying key gaps and emphasizing the role of Indigenous Territories.

Patch characteristics and domestic dogs differentially affect carnivore space use in fragmented landscapes in Southern Chile

The paper evaluates how domestic dogs and habitat fragmentation affect space use of native carnivores in Southern Chile using camera trap surveys and occupancy modeling.

Downtown Diet: a global meta-analysis of urbanization on consumption patterns of vertebrate predators

This study analyzes how urbanization affects predator diets globally, finding that dietary diversity and nitrogen ratios remain similar, but carbon consumption increases, with no significant effect from human footprint intensity.

Living in the concrete jungle: carnivore spatial ecology in urban parks

The paper tests how humans affect urban carnivores using camera surveys in Detroit, finding no significant impact on individual occupancy but increased co-occurrence between coyotes and skunks with human activity.

Vigilance response of a key prey species to anthropogenic and natural threats in Detroit

This study examines how cottontail rabbits in Detroit adjust their vigilance behavior in response to different threats, finding increased vigilance with coyote activity and domestic dogs but not human presence.

Fear not: avoidance behavior missing in species sympatric with the critically endangered West African lion

The paper finds no evidence of avoidance behavior in species coexisting with critically endangered West African lions, suggesting potential functional extinction in their range.

Humans induce differential access to prey for large African carnivores

The paper shows human presence alters the diel activity of prey species, increasing access to prey for lions and hyenas while leaving leopards unaffected.

Michigan ZoomIN: validating crowd-sourcing to identify mammals from camera surveys

The paper validates the accuracy of crowd-sourced classifications of camera trap images for mammals in Michigan, showing user accuracy comparable to experts when using a hierarchical consensus workflow.

Gastrointestinal parasite community in the critically endangered West African lion

The paper identifies gastrointestinal parasites in West African lions and finds lower species richness compared to lions in other African regions.

Temporal refuges differ between anthropogenic and natural top down pressures in a subordinate carnivore

The paper compares how anthropogenic and apex predator pressures affect temporal activity patterns of mesocarnivores, finding raccoons shift activity in response to coyotes under high human pressure but not under apex predators.

Massively parallel fitness profiling reveals multiple novel enzymes in Pseudomonas putida lysine metabolism

This paper uses RB-TnSeq to identify novel enzymes in Pseudomonas putida lysine metabolism, revealing new biochemical pathways and functions for DUF1338 proteins.

Isonitrile Formation by a Non-heme Iron(II)-dependent Oxidase/Decarboxylase

This study identifies a new non-heme iron(II)-dependent enzyme mechanism for isonitrile formation, expanding known biosynthetic pathways.

Biosynthesis of Isonitrile Lipopeptides by Conserved Non-ribosomal Peptide Synthetase Gene Clusters in Actinobacteria

The paper identifies a conserved gene cluster in Actinobacteria that synthesizes isonitrile lipopeptides (INLPs) via a unique thio-template mechanism and links it to metal transport in Mycobacterium marinum.