James F. Saracco (Program Director) Tel: (415) 663 2054

Jim completed his Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in 2001. He directs IBP's tropical banding programs, MoSI and TMAPS. Current research topics include development and application of capture-recapture models, spatial modeling, winter ecology of migratory songbirds, and responses of forest birds to wildfire in the Sierra Nevada.

Selected Recent Publications:

Saracco, J. F., J. A. Royle, D. F. DeSante, and B. Gardner. 2011. Spatial modeling of survival and residency and application to the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship program. Journal of Ornithology in press. doi: 10.1007/s10336-010-0565-1

Saracco, J. F., R. B. Siegel, and B. L. Wilkerson. 2011. Occupancy modeling of black-backed woodpeckers on burned Sierra Nevada forests. Ecosphere 2(3): art31. doi:10.1890/ES10-00132.1

Siegel, R. B., R. L. Wilkerson, J. F. Saracco, and Z. Steel. 2011. Elevation ranges of birds on the Sierra Nevada's west slope. Western Birds in press.

Fuller, T., S. Saatchi, E. Curd, E. Toffelmier, H. Thomassen, W. Buermann, D. F. DeSante, M. P. Nott, J. F. Saracco, C. J. Ralph, J. Pollinger, J. Alexander, and T. B. Smith. 2010. Mapping risk of avian influenza in wild birds in the US. BMC Infectious Diseases 10:187.

Saracco, J. F., J. A. Royle, D. F. DeSante, and B. Gardner. 2010. Modeling spatial variation in avian survival and residency probabilities. Ecology 91:1885-1891.

DeSante, D. F., D. K. Kaschube, James F. Saracco, and J. E. Hines. 2009. Power to detect differences and trends in apparent survival rates. Bird Populations 9:29-41.

DeSante, D. F. and J. F. Saracco. 2009. Power of the MAPS program to detect differences and trends in survival and a vision for future program expansion. Bird Populations 9:42-75.

Robinson, R. A., R. Julliard, and J. F. Saracco. 2009. Constant effort: monitoring avian population change though standardised ringing. Ringing and Migration 24:199-204.

Saracco, J. F., D. F. DeSante, M. P. Nott, and D. R. Kaschube. 2009. Using the MAPS and MoSI programs to monitor landbirds and inform conservation. Pp. 651-658 In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference (T. D. Rich, C. D. Thompson, D. Demarest, and C. Arizmendi, editors). Partners in Flight.

Saracco, J. F., D. F. DeSante, M. P. Nott, W. M. Hochachka, S. Kelling, and D. Fink. 2009. Integrated bird monitoring and the Avian Knowledge Network: using multiple data resources to understand spatial variation in demographic processes and abundance. Pp. 659-661 In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference (T. D. Rich, C. D. Thompson, D. Demarest, and C. Arizmendi, editors). Partners in Flight.

Saracco, J. F., D. F. DeSante, and D. R. Kaschube. 2008. Assessing landbird monitoring programs and demographic causes of population trends. Journal of Wildlife Management. 72:1665-1673.

Dovciak, M., C. B. Halpern, J. F. Saracco, S. A. Evans, and D. A. Liguori. 2006. Persistence of ground-layer bryophytes in a structural-retention experiment: initial effects of level and pattern of overstory retention. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:3039-3052.

Saracco, J. F., J. A. Collazo, M. J. Groom, and T. A. Carlo. 2005. Crop size and fruit neighborhood effects on bird visitation to fruiting Schefflera morototoni trees in Puerto Rico. Biotropica 37:81-87.

DeSante, D. F., T. S. Sillett, R. B. Siegel, J. F. Saracco, C. A. Romo de Vivar Alvarez, S. Morales, A. Cerezo, D. Kaschube, B. Milá, and M. Grosselet. 2005. MoSI (Monitoreo de Sobrevivencia Invernal): Assessing habitat-specific overwintering survival of neotropical migratory landbirds. Pp. 926-936 In: Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration in the Americas (C. J. Ralph and T. D. Rich, Editors). USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-191.

Saracco, J. F., J. A. Collazo, and M. J. Groom. 2004. How do frugivores track resources? Insights from spatial analyses of bird foraging in a tropical forest. Oecologia 139:235-245.

DeSante, D. F., J. F. Saracco, D. R. O'Grady, K. M. Burton, and B. L. Walker. 2004. Some methodological considerations of the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship Program. Studies in Avian Biology 29:28-45.

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