Todd Fuller
Professor Emeritus
Email: tkfuller
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
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, 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