Publications & Conference PResentations

Projects & Involvement
Research Articles
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Oliveira, H. F., Peters, S. L., Gray, R. J., & Novaes, R. L. M. (2021). First report of intraspecific variation in wing translucency for a Neotropical bat species. Journal of Bat Research & Conservafion Volume, 14(1), 38.
  • (Article) 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.
  • (Article) 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
  • (Article) 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.
  • (Article) 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.
  • (Article) 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
  • (Pre-Print/Under Review) 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.
  • ​(Pre-Print/Now Published) Gray, R. J. (2020). Sorry, we're open: Golden Open Access and inequality in the natural sciences. bioRxiv.
  • (Article) 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.
  • (Article) 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.
  • (Article) Erich P. Hofmann, Russell J. Gray, Larry David Wilson & Josiah H. Townsend (2017) Description of the first male specimen of Tantilla hendersoni Stafford, 2004 (Squamata: Colubridae), from a new locality in central Belize. Herpetological Review.
  • ​(Article) 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.
  • (Article) Russell J. Gray & Erich P. Hofmann. (2017). Two new herpetofaunal records for Stann Creek District, Belize. Mesoamerican Herpetology
Books
  • (Book) Gray, R. (2018). Fungi of Belize. Global Explorer Press
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)

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

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 Java and Chinese pangolin in Vietnam
  • Improving analysis and reporting methods of the Spatial Monitoring And Reporting Tool (SMART) for anti-poaching efforts in 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
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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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