Fuller, Todd K. - Department of Environmental Conservation

Todd Fuller

Professor Emeritus

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Todd_Fuller

Primary Interests

Dr. Fuller’s research efforts focused on identifying factors affecting variation in mammal density and distribution. Whether a species is recognized as endangered, a nuisance, or harvestable, knowledge of its natural history and population ecology is essential in order to predict or responsibly manage population change. In order to better understand the mechanisms of this change, Dr. Fuller and his students captured, marked, and monitored a variety of carnivores, ungulates, and smaller herbivores to document their movements, habitat use, food habits, survival, reproduction, social behavior, and density, then synthesize results from their own and other studies. They surveyed populations through direct and indirect means (e.g., scats, tracks, calls, cameras) to assessed distribution and relative abundance, and also collaborated with colleagues to investigate roles of disease, genetics, nutrition, morphology, and human activities in population regulation and species conservation.

Current Students and Their Projects

Juan Carlos Cruz Diaz (PhD., ECo, co-advised with Eduardo Carrillo) – Conservation of jaguars and their prey on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.

Recent Publications

Moheb, Z., A.M. Rajabi, N. Jahed, S. Ostrowski, P.I. Zahler, and T.K. Fuller. 2022. Using double-observer surveys to monitor urial and ibex populations in the Hindu Kush of Wakhan National Park, Afghanistan. Oryx 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605322000412

Moheb, Z., T.K. Fuller, and P.I. Zahler. 2022. Snow leopard-human conflict as a conservation challenge – a review. Snow Leopard Reports 1:11-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.56510/slr.v1.8158

Montalvo, V.H., C. Sáenz-Bolaños, J.C. Cruz-Diaz, E. Carrillo, and T.K. Fuller. 2022. The use of camera traps and auxiliary satellite telemetry to estimate jaguar population density in northwestern Costa Rica. Animals 12:2544. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12192544

Montalvo, V.H., I. Hagnauer, J.C. Cruz-Diaz,B. Morera, K. Lloyd, C. Saénz-Bolaños, T.K. Fuller, and E. Carrillo. 2022. Experimental release of orphaned wild felids into a tropical rainforest in southwestern Costa Rica. Veterinary Sciences. 9:468. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci9090468

Saenz-Bolanos, C., T.K. Fuller, L. Sievert, and E. Carrillo. 2022. Human-wildlife conflict in indigenous communities of the Nairi Awari Indigenous Territory of East Central Costa Rica. Biodiversitas – Journal of Biological Diversity 23(4):2238-2244. https://doi.org/10.13057/biodiv/d230460

Morera, B., V. Montalvo, C. Saénz-Bolaños, J.C. Cruz-Diaz, T.K. Fuller, and E. Carrillo. 2022. Osteophagia of sea turtle bones by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Santa Rosa National Park, northwestern Costa Rica. Neotropical Biology and Conservation. 17:143–149. https://doi.org/10.3897/neotropical.17.e87274

Falconi, N., T.A. Carlo, T.K. Fuller, S. DeStefano, and J.F. Organ. 2022. Bear diets and human-bear conflicts: insights from isotopic ecology. Mammal Review 52:322–327. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12285

Montalvo, V.H., C. Saénz-Bolaños, I. Hagnauer, J.C. Cruz-Diaz, P. Vasquez, S. Ramirez, T.K. Fuller, and E. Carrillo. 2022. A backyard puma in Costa Rica: translocation as a successful management option. Urban Naturalist 9(N1):1-7. https://www.eaglehill.us/URNAonline2/access-pages/001-Montalvo-note-accesspage.shtml

Carrillo, E. and T.K. Fuller. 2022. Heterospecific infanticide among sympatric peccaries in Costa Rica. Biotropica. 54:284–288. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13060

Wuesthoff, E.F., T.K. Fuller, C. Sutherland, J.M. Kamilar, R. Ramanankirahina, R. Rakotondravony, S. Rouse, and U. Radespiel. 2021. Differential habitat use by sympatric species of mouse lemurs across a mangrove–dry forest habitat gradient. Journal of Mammalogy. 102:1266-1278. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab082

Filous, A, R.J. Lennox, J.P. Beaury, H. Bagnis, M. Mchugh, A.M. Friedlander, E.E.G. Clua, S.J. Cooke, T.K. Fuller, A.J. Danylchuk. 2021. Fisheries science and marine education catalyze the renaissance of traditional management (rahui) to improve an artisanal fishery in French Polynesia. Marine Policy 123:104291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104291

Cove, M., et al. 2021. SNAPSHOT USA 2019: the first coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology 102(6):e03353.

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ecy.3353

Falconi, N., T.K. Fuller, S. DeStefano, and J. Organ. 2020. An open-access occurrence database for Andean bears in Peru. Ursus 31e11:1-6. https://doi.org/10.2192/URSUS-D-19-00012.1

LeFlore, E.G., T.K. Fuller, M. Tomeletso, T.C. Dimbindo, and A.B. Stein. 2020. Human dimensions of human-lion conflict: a pre- and post-assessment of a lion conservation programme in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Environmental Conservation, 47(3), 182-189.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892920000120

Montalvo, V., T.K. Fuller, C. Saénz-Bolaños, J.C. Cruz, I. Hagnauer, H. Herrera, and E. Carrillo. 2020. Influence of sea turtle nesting on hunting behavior and movements of jaguars in the dry forest of northwest Costa Rica. Biotropica 52:1076-1083. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12803

Malatsi, P.P., T.K. Fuller, S.M. Campbell, J. Dreyer, J. Fiocchi, L.C. Fiocchi, D. Fuller, M.R. Fuller, A. Hazard, P.R. Sievert, and C.R. Griffin. 2020. Honey badger Mellivora capensis predation on an African sharptooth catfish in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Small Carnivore Conservation 58:e58004. http://www.smallcarnivoreconservation.org/volume-58.html

Amulike, B.B., T.K. Fuller, P.W. Houlihan, and C.R. Griffin. 2020. Seasonal variation in grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) abundance in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 58:685-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12738

Vinitporsawan, S. and T.K. Fuller. 2020. Spatio-temporal correlations of large predators and their prey in western Thailand. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68:118-131.

Sáenz-Bolaños, C., T.K. Fuller, and E. Carrillo J. 2020. Wildlife diversity and relative abundance among a variety of adjacent protected areas in the Northern Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica. Diversity 12, 134; doi:10.3390/d12040134

Mamba, H., T. Randhir, and T.K. Fuller. 2020. Community attitudes and perceptions concerning rhinoceros poaching and conservation: a case study in eSwatini. African Journal of Wildlife Research 50:1-7.

Fuller, T.K., A.M. Silva, V.H. Montalvo, C. Sáenz-Bolaños, and E. Carrillo J. 2020. Reproduction of white-tailed deer in a seasonally dry tropical forest of Costa Rica: a test of aseasonality. Journal of Mammalogy 101:241-247. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz173

LeFlore, E.G., T.K. Fuller, J.T. Finn, S. DeStefano, and J.F. Organ. 2019. Wild canid distribution and co-existence during Fall in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. Northeastern Naturalist 26:325-342.

Sáenz-Bolaños, C., T.K. Fuller, M.S. Mooring, J. Porras, P.R. Sievert, V.H. Montalvo, and E. Carrillo J. 2019. Bush dogs in Central America: recent range expansion, cryptic distribution, or both? Tropical Conservation Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940082919849758

LeFlore, E.G., T.K. Fuller, M. Tomeletso, and A.B. Stein. 2019. Livestock depredation by large carnivores in northern Botswana. Global Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00592

Montalvo, V.H., C. Sáenz-Bolaños, L.D. Alfaro, J.C. Cruz, F.H. Guimarães-Rodrigues, E. Carrillo, C. Sutherland, and T.K. Fuller. 2019. Seasonal use of waterholes and pathways by macrofauna in the dry forest of Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467418000457

Herrera, H., E.J. Chávez, L.D. Alfaro, T.K. Fuller, V. Montalvo, F. Rodrigues, and E. Carrillo. 2018. Time partitioning among jaguar Panthera onca, puma Puma concolor and ocelot Leopardus pardalis (Carnivora: Felidae) in Costa Rica’s dry and rain forests. Revista de Biología Tropical 66:1559-1568.

Sáenz-Bolaños, C., V. Montalvo, E. Carrillo, and T.K. Fuller. 2018. Tayra predation of brown-throated three-toed sloth in Costa Rica. Edentata 19:70-73.

Quiñónez C., A., T.K. Fuller, and T.O. Randhir. 2018. A review of otter distribution modeling: approach, scale, and metrics. IUCN Otter Specialist Group Bulletin. 35:97-127.

Timm, M., S. Maji and T. Fuller. 2018. Large-scale ecological analyses of animals in the wild using computer vision. The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 2018:2009-2011.

Moheb, Z., S.N. Mostafawi, P.I. Zahler, and T.K. Fuller. 2018. Markhor and Siberian ibex occurrence and conservation in northern Afghanistan. Caprinae News 2018:4-7.

Carrillo, E. and T.K. Fuller. 2018. Predation of a Central American coral snake (Micrurus nigrocinctus) by a nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. Edentata 19:67-69.

Rayl, N.D., G. Bastille-Rousseau, J.F. Organ, M.A. Mumma, S.P. Mahoney, C.E. Soulliere, K.P. Lewis, R.D. Otto, D.L. Murray, L.P. Waits, and T.K. Fuller. 2018. Spatiotemporal heterogeneity in prey abundance and vulnerability shapes the foraging tactics of an omnivore. Journal of Animal Ecology 87:874–887. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12810

Morjan, M., N.D. Rayl, P. Elkan, J. Deutsch, B. Henke, and T.K. Fuller. 2018. Armed conflict and development in South Sudan threatens some of Africa’s longest and largest ungulate migrations. Biodiversity and Conservation 27:365-380.