Publications & Conference PResentations

Projects & Involvement
Research Articles
  • Cao, L. N., Gray, R. J., Pham, T. V., & Trinh, M. T. Nguyen TV 2022. Confirmed evidence of marbled cat in Pu Mat National Park, Vietnam. Cat News 75, 25–28.
  • Feijó, A., Karlsson, C. M., Gray, R., Yang, Q., & Hughes, A. C. (2022). Extreme-sized anurans are more prone to climate-driven extinctions. Climate Change Ecology, 100062.
  • Mulero-Pázmány, M., Martínez-de Dios, J. R., Popa-Lisseanu, A. G., Gray, R. J., Alarcón, F., Sánchez-Bedoya, C. A., ... & Marrón, P. J. (2022). Development of a Fixed-Wing Drone System for Aerial Insect Sampling. Drones, 6(8), 189.
  • Gray, R. J., Le, D., Nguyen, H. T. T., Cao, L. N., Nguyen, T., Pham, T., ... & Nguyen, T. (2022). Home ranges and activity patterns of Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) in Vietnam. (Pre-print in review)
  • Van Pham, T., Trinh, M. T., Gray, R. J., Cao, L. N., Van Nguyen, T., Van Nguyen, M., ... & Van Nguyen, T. (2022). Southern Extension of Raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae) range in Vietnam with comments on its conservation status in the country. (Pre-print in review)
  • Thi, M. T., Gray, R., Pham, T., Thuy, H. T. T., Le Kim, L., Nhat, L. C., & Nguyen, T. (2022). Commercial civet farming practices and conservation impacts on wild civet populations in central Vietnam. (Pre-print in review)
  • Gray, R. J. (2022). Settling the score: notes on the 60-year literature debate of Porthidium yucatanicum (Smith, 1941) distribution. Herpetology Notes, 15, 387-389.
  • Gray, R., Nguyen, T., Cao, L. N., Trinh, M. T., Pham, T., Nguyen, H. T. T., ... & Van Nguyen, T. (2022). Status, threats, and overlap of globally important pangolins and threatened small carnivores in a disturbed wetland mosaic of southern Vietnam. (Pre-print in review)
  • Hansen, M.F., Ang, A., Trinh, T., Sy, E., Paramasiwam, S., Ahmed, T., Dimalibot, J., Jones-Engel, L., Ruppert, N., Griffioen, C., Lwin, N., Phiapalath, P., Gray, R., Kite, S., Doak, N., Nijman, V., Fuentes, A. & Gumert, M.D. 2022. Macaca fascicularis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T12551A199563077. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T12551A199563077.en. Accessed on 27 August 2022.
  • Gray, R., & Karlsson, C. (2022). 101 years of biofluorescent animal studies: trends in literature, novel hypotheses, and best practices moving forward.
  • Lê, N., Hoang, T., Tran, T., Tran, T., Van Nguyen, T., Van Hoang, T., & Gray, R. J. (2022). Renal morphophysiology is not a significant correlate of observable body condition in Masked Palm Civets (Paguma larvata). (Pre-print)
  • Trịnh, T. M., Pham, T. T., Phạm, V. T., Cao, N. L., Trần Ngọc, M. H., Tăng Thị, K. H., ... & Gray, R. J. (2021). The effectiveness of policies for addressing Covid-19 impacts on wildlife conservation in Vietnam. CIFOR Working Paper.
  • Durso, A. M., de Castañeda, R. R., Montalcini, C., Mondardini, M. R., Fernandez-Marques, J. L., Grey, F., ... Gray, R. J., & Bolon, I. (2021). Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite. Toxicon: X, 100071.
  • Tozetti, A. M., Morato, S. A. A., Bérnils, R. S., Loebmann, D., Toledo, L. F., Gray, R., & Entiauspe-Neto, O. M. (2021). Evolutionary dynamics shape two passive defensive mechanisms in Neotropical snake radiations. Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 20(1), 3-13.
  • H. F. M. Oliveira, S. L. Peters, R. J. Gray, R. L. M. Novaes (2021). First report of intraspecific variation in wing translucency for a Neotropical bat species. Journal of Bat Research and Conservation
  • Gray, R. J., & Dresser, T. W. (2021). Male combat in the striped kukri snake Oligodon teniatus. Herpetological Bullefin, 155, 30-31.
  • Entiauspe-Neto, O. M., Koch, C., Gray, R. J., Tiutenko, A., Loebmann, D., & Guedes, T. B. (2021). Taxonomic status of Apostolepis tertulianobeui Lema, 2004 based on an integrative revision of Apostolepis assimilis (Reinhardt, 1861) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 291, 123-138.
  • Gray, R. J., & Dresser, T. W. (2021). Male combat in the striped kukri snake Oligodon teniatus. Herpetological Bullefin, 155, 30-31.
  • Wilson, G., Gray, R.J., Radinal, R. et al. (2021) Between a rock and a hard place: rugged terrain features and human disturbance affect behaviour and habitat use of Sumatran elephants in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Biodiversity Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02105-3
  • Saeed, M., Rais, M., Gray, R. J., Ahmed, W., Akram, A., Gill, S., & Fareed, G. (2020). Rise in temperature causes decreased fitness and higher extinction risks in endemic frogs at high altitude forested wetlands in northern Pakistan. Journal of Thermal Biology, 102809.
  • Wilson, G., Gray, R. J., & Sofyan, H. (2020). Identifying the variation in utilization density estimators and home ranges of elephant clans in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 66(6), 1-20.
  • Gray, R.J. (2020) Sorry, we’re open: Golden open-access and inequality in non-human biological sciences. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03540-3
  • Gray, R. J. (2020). Exotic Hobos: Release, escape, and potential secondary dispersal of African red-headed agamas (Agama picticauda PETERS, 1877) through the Florida railway systems. BioRxiv.
  • Gray, R. J. (2020). First report of reproduction in the wild for Acanthosaura cardamomensis Wood et al., 2010 in Thailand. Herpetology Notes, 13, 185-186.
  • Gray, R. J. (2019). Biofluorescent lateral patterning on the Mossy Bushfrog (Philautus macroscelis): The first report of biofluorescence in a rhacophorid frog. Herpetology Notes, 12, 363-364.
  • Hofmann, E. P., Gray, R. J., Wilson, L. D., & Townsend, J. H. (2017). Discovery of the first male specimen of Tantilla hendersoni Stafford, 2004 (Squamata: Colubridae), from a new locality in central Belize. Herpetology Notes, 10, 53-57.
  • Gray, R., & Strine, C. T. (2017). Herpetofaunal assemblages of a lowland broadleaf forest, an overgrown orchard forest and a lime orchard in Stann Creek, Belize. ZooKeys, (707), 131.
  • Gray, R. J. & Hofmann, E.P. (2017). Two new herpetofaunal records for Stann Creek District, Belize. Mesoamerican Herpetology
Books
  • (Book) Gray, R. (2018). Fungi of Belize. Global Explorer Press
IUCN Redlist 
  • Hansen, M.F., Ang, A., Trinh, T., Sy, E., Paramasiwam, S., Ahmed, T., Dimalibot, J., Jones-Engel, L., Ruppert, N., Griffioen, C., Lwin, N., Phiapalath, P., Gray, R., Kite, S., Doak, N., Nijman, V., Fuentes, A. & Gumert, M.D. 2022. Macaca fascicularis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T12551A199563077. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T12551A199563077.en. Accessed on 25 September 2022.
  • (Contributor) IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2021. Tylototriton uyenoi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T73736481A73736489. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T73736481A73736489.en. Accessed on 25 September 2022.​
Technical Reports
  • (Report) Gray, R. (2014) Ecological Communities and Biodiversity in the Mixed Dipterocarpaceae forest of Bantak Petrified Forest Park, Tak Province, Thailand. Report 2014 Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University, Thailand
  • (Report) Nareerat Boonchai, Wilailuck Naksri, Russell J. Gray & Pratueng Jintasakul (2016)Petrified Forest, Tak Province, sustainable conservation and economic development from community-based natural resources management. Proceedings of The 3rd National Meeting on Biodiversity Management in Thailand
Article Acknowledgements
  • (Acknowledgement) Boonchai, N., Philippe, M., Carling, A., Meshkova, L. A Preliminary Investigation of Fossil Wood from the Lower Mekong Basin of Southeast Asia (2014) 
  • (Acknowledgement) Kyriazi, E, Zacharias, N. (2015). Φυσικοχημικές Μελέτες και Έρευνα Συντήρησης Απολιθωμένου Ξύλου. Conference: 10ο Πανελλήνιο Επιστημονικό Συνέδριο Χημικής Μηχανικής. At: Πάτρα
  • (Acknowledgement) Gazagne, E., José‐Domínguez, J. M., Huynen, M. C., Hambuckers, A., Poncin, P., Savini, T., & Brotcorne, F. (2020). Northern pigtailed macaques rely on old growth plantations to offset low fruit availability in a degraded forest fragment. American Journal of Primatology, e23117.
  • ​(Acknowledgement) Gazagne, E., Savini, T., Ngoprasert, D., Poncin, P., Huynen, M. C., & Brotcorne, F. (2020). When Northern Pigtailed Macaques (Macaca leonina) Cannot Select for Ideal Sleeping Sites in a Degraded Habitat. International Journal of Primatology, 41(4), 614-633.
  • (Acknowledgement) Eva Gazagne, Alain Hambuckers, Tommaso Savini, Pascal Poncin, Marie-Claude Huynen & Fany Brotcorne
    (2020). Toward a better understanding of habituation process to human observer: A statistical approach in Macaca leonina (Primates: Cercopithecidea) Conservation & Ecology. Pp. 735–749.
  • (Acknowledgement) Ward-Smith, H., Arbuckle, K., Naude, A., & Wüster, W. (2020). Fangs for the memories? A survey of pain in snakebite patients does not support a strong role for defense in the evolution of snake venom composition. Toxins, 12(3), 201.
  • (Acknowledgement) Zafar-ul Islam, M., Volmer, R., al Boug, A., Shehri, A. A., & Gavashelishvili, A. (2020). Modelling the effect of competition for prey and poaching on the population of the Arabian Leopard, Panthera pardus nimr, in Saudi Arabia (Mammalia: Felidae). Zoology in the Middle East, 1-12.
  • (Acknowledgement) Entiauspe-Neto, O. M., de Sena, A., Tiutenko, A., & Loebmann, D. (2019). Taxonomic status of Apostolepisbarrioi Lema, 1978, with comments on the taxonomic instability of Apostolepis Cope, 1862 (Serpentes, Dipsadidae). ZooKeys, 841, 71.
  • (Acknowledgement) ΚKyriazi, E.; Zacharias, N.; Palamara, E. and Boonchai, N., 2020. Preliminary SEM-EDS observations on microorganisms present on petrified wood samples from the possibly world's longest fossil tree. In: N. Zacharias and E. Palamara, eds. 4th ARCH_RNT Archaeological Research and New Technologies Proceedings. Kalamata, Greece: Publi. Laboratory of Archaeometry, Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management, School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of the Peloponnese. ISBN: 978-618-80277-3-2, pp. 92-105.
  • (acknowledgement) Gazagne, E.; Pitance, J.-L.; Savini, T.; Huynen, M.-C.; Poncin, P.; Brotcorne, F.; Hambuckers, A. Seed Shadows of Northern Pigtailed Macaques within a Degraded Forest Fragment, Thailand. Forests 2020, 11, 1184.
  • (acknowledgement) Rais M, Ahmed W, Sajjad A, Akram A, Saeed M, Hamid HN, Abid A (2021) Amphibian fauna of Pakistan with notes on future prospects of research and conservation. ZooKeys 1062: 157-175. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1062.66913
  • (acknowledgement) Siddique, Z., Shad, N., Shah, G. M., Naeem, A., Yali, L., Hasnain, M., ... & Khan, I. (2021). Exploration of ethnomedicinal plants and their practices in human and livestock healthcare in Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, 17(1), 1-22.
Conference Presentations
  • (Presentation) Boonchai, N., Gray, R. J., Naksri, W., Boonlumpoo, S., Tenpaksi, K., Khunwong, N., Kyriazi, E., Strine, C. (2015). Protecting and Conserving the Petrified Forest Park, Tak Province, Thailand. Conference: International Intensive Course on Geoconservation 2015 ‘Geoconservation: Methodologies for the Protection, Conservation, Promotion and Management of Geomonuments. At: Lesvos island, Greece
  • (Presentation) Kyriazi, E., Boonchai, N., Gray R. J., Gawee, S. and Zacharias, N. (2015). The Petrified Forest of Tak, Thailand: New Challenges for the Science of Conservation. Conference: Conservation of Cultural Heritage - Challenges and Reviews, At Athens, Greece
  • (Presentation) Gray, R. J. (2017). Counteracting Ophidiophobia: A Positivistic Approach to Mythology, Local Folklore and Sensationalist Media. Young Conservation Scientists Conference. Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
  • (Presentation) Gray, R. J. (2019) Natural history monitoring through space and time: review and implementation of digital resources to streamline basiline ecological research. Young Scientists Conference (YCS) 
  • (Presentation) Karlsson, C., Feijó, A. Gray, R. J., Hughes, A. (2020) Selection against extreme sizes, range rather than mean explains the drivers of body size in Anurans
Spatial Ecology Projects
  • King Cobra spatial ecology  - Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Thailand
  • Green Pit Viper spatial ecology - Sakaerat Biosphere reserve
  • White lipped mud turtle spatial ecology - Stann Creek District, Belize
  • Argentinian black and white tegu telemetry, Florida, USA
  • Sumatran elephant movement ecology, and home ranges in Aceh, Sumatra
  • Spatial distribution of nine Pakistan frog species​
  • Global Amphibian distributions trends
  • Primate spatial ecology analysis assistance (Macaca leonina) and short-term volunteer work scan sampling and fecal sampling (Macaca nemestrina)
  • Pangolin movement ecology in Vietnam

Ecological Communities Projects
  • Snake communities - Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Thailand
  • Herpetofaunal communities - Stann Creek District, Belize
  • Community assemblages in Fort White & Suwanee Ridge, Florida, USA (assistance with data analysis)
  • Global lakes microbial communities 
  • Wetland small carnivores project in U Minh, southern Vietnam
  • Thermal drone monitoring of primate communities in Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam

Invasive Species Management
  • North African rock python detection and removal, Florida, USA
  • Argentinian black and white tegu trapping and removal, Florida, USA
  • Burmese python detection and removal, Florida, USA
  • Spectacled caiman detection and removal, Florida, USA
  • Nile monitor detection and removal, Florida, USA
  • Green iguana detection and removal, Florida, USA
  • African Red-Headed Agama Geographic Profiling

Conservation management
  • American alligator population monitoring, morphometrics, and occupancy, Florida, USA
  • American crocodile population monitoring, morphometrics, and occupancy, Florida, USA
  • Assistance with the establishment of Satun UNESCO Global Geopark, Thailand
  • Assistance with fossil tree conservation at Bantak Petrified Forest Park, Tak, Thailand. ​
  • Thermal tolerance of Nanorana vicina and Allopaa hazarensis​
  • Conservation of the Sunda and Chinese pangolin in Vietnam
  • Notes on natural history of small carnivores -- Spotted Linsang, Raccoon Dog, Greater Hog Badger, Owston's Civet in the northern Annamite Mountains
  • Thermal & RGB drone monitoring of gaur, sambar, muntjac, black shanked douc langurs, and Siamese crocodile, and southern yellow-cheeked gibbon populations Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam

Evolution and Phylogenetics
  • ​Revision of Apostolepis tertulianobeui
  • Evolutionary reconstruction of Anurans in the context of climate change
  • Ancestral reconstruction of snake behaviors
  • Evolutionary origins of biofluorescence

Wildlife Law Enforcement & Site Protection
  • Member of Technology Council of the SMART Partnership 
  • Improving analysis and reporting methods of the Spatial Monitoring And Reporting Tool (SMART) for anti-poaching efforts in Vietnam
  • Optimizing PAWS and implementing predictive patrolling models in protected and conserved areas of Vietnam.
  • Incorporating Geographic Profiling methods into rapid-response planning to identify poacher camps from recorded trap locations
  • Strategic planning of PoacherCam (cellular camera systems) placement for rapid-response protocols for poachers illegaly entering protected and conserved areas.
  • ​Coordinating monitoring and research of wildlife trade through social media platforms, wildlife farms, wild meat restaurants, and rescue centers in Vietnam

GIS Initiatives
  • Training staff and students in conservation and ecology GIS principles (species distribution modelling, occupancy modelling, geographic weighted regression, interpolation), camera trapping analyses, and drone analyses in Vietnam University of Forestry, University of Guyana, and Liverpool John Moores University in R programming language.
  • Building capacity for ESRI users in custom Survey123 Connect and ArcOnline survey structuring and implementation to maintain effective databases
  • Historic remote sensing for Protected Area viability and encroachment analyses
  • Creating geospatial dashboards in Arc Online, and R Shiny

IUCN Specialist Groups
  • IUCN SSC Small Carnivores Specialist Group
  • ​IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group
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Future Plans

  • Assistance with the establishment of Khorat UNESCO Global Geopark (in progress)
  • Global amphibian data project (in progress)
  • Biofluorescence in vertebrate land animals (in review)
  • Movement ecology analyses improvements (published)
  • Mobilization for scientific publication reform (in progress)
  • Capacity building for R and ecological analyses (ongoing)
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