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

Jim completed his Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in September 2001. His dissertation focused on interactions among frugivorous birds and fruiting plants on Puerto Rico. He has since studied bryophyte responses to forest management in Washington, forest bird ecology in southeast Alaska, and has taught ornithology at the University of Alaska Southeast. Jim currently directs IBP's tropical banding progams (MoSI, TMAPS) and is studying spatial and temporal patterns in demographic parameters derived from MAPS data.

Selected Publications:

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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