Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Cunningham, S.A., T. Pyszczynski, T.M. Watson, R. Bakeriean, P.G. Jensen, and J.L. Frair (2022) Detecting denning behavior with camera traps: an example with fishers. Wildlife Society Bulletin e1371.  https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1371

Hinton, J.W., J.E. Hurst, D.W. Kramer, J.H. Stickles, and J.L. Frair (2022) Model-based estimate of winter distribution and abundance of white-tailed deer in the Adirondack Park. PLoS ONE 17(8): e0273707. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273707

Hinton, J.W., K.M. West, D.J. Sullivan, K.E. Brzeski, J.L. Frair, and M.J. Chamberlain (2022) The natural history and ecology of melanism in red wolf and coyote populations of the southeastern United States – evidence for Gloger’s rule. BMC Zoology, 7(33).  https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-022-00138-5

Devlin, A.L., J.L. Frair, P.G. Crawshaw Jr., L.T.B. Hunter, F.R. Tortato, R. Hoogesteijn, N. Robinson, H.S. Robinson, and H.B. Quigley (accepted May 2022) Drivers of large carnivore density in non-hunted, multi-use landscapes. Conservation Science and Practice.

Hinton, J.W., R.E. Wheat, P. Schuette, J. Hurst, D. Kramer, J. Stickles, and J. Frair (2022) Challenges and opportunities for estimating abundance of a low-density moose population. Journal of Wildlife Management, 8(4):e22213. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22213

Peterson, S., D. Kramer, J. Hurst, D. Spalinger, and J. Frair (2022) Forage and habitat limitations for moose in the Adirondack Park, New York. Alces, 58:1-30. https://alcesjournal.org/index.php/alces/article/view/969.

Kramer, D.W., T.J. Prebyl, N.P. Nibbelink, K.V. Miller, A.A. Royo, and J.L. Frair (2022) Managing moose from home: determining landscape carrying capacity for Alces alces using remote sensing. Forests, 13:150. https://doilorg/10.3390/f13020150

A. Falcon-Cortes, D. Boyer, E. Merrill, J.L. Frair, and J.M. Morales (2021) Hierarchical, memory-based movement models for translocated elk (Cervus canadensis).  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.702925.

Lewis, M.A., W.F. Fagan, M. Auger-Methe, J. Frair, J.M. Fryxell, C. Gros, E. Gurarie, S.D. Healy, and J.A. Merkle (2021) Learning and animal movement.  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.681704.

Wybron, M.D., M.D. Schlesinger, M.K. Fierke, J.L. Frair, and D. Parry (2021) Estimating abundance and occupancy of Northern Barrens Tiger Beetles in an isolated New York population.  Northeastern Naturalist, 28(2):156-168.

Saldivar-Bellassai, S., A. Feldpausch-Parker, A.J. Giordano, and J. Frair (2021) Hunting practices and harvest of peccaries in the northern Paraguayan Dry Chaco.  Biological Conservation, 256:109059.

Powers, K., L. Petracca, A. MacDuff, and J. Frair (2021) A pragmatic approach for determining otter distribution from disparate occurrence records.  Journal of Wildlife Management, 85(1):63-72.

Petracca, L.S., J.L. Frair, G. Bastille-Rousseau, D.W. Macdonald, and A.J. Loveridge (2021) Harassment induced changes in lion space use as a conflict mitigation tool.  Conservation Science and Practice, 3(5):e373.

Frair, J. and G. Bastille-Rousseau. (2021) Data collection and quantitative considerations for studying pattern-process relationships on landscapes. Chapter 8 in Wildlife Management and Landscapes, edited by W.F. Porter, C.J. Parent, R.A. Steward, and D.M. Williams. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Teitelbaum, C.S., Sirén, A.P.K., Coffel, E., Foster, J.R., Frair, J.L., Hinton, J.W., Horton, R.M., Kramer, D.W., Lesk, C., Raymond, C., Wattles, D.W., Zeller, K.A., and Morelli, T.L. (2021). Habitat use as an indicator of adaptive capacity to climate change. Diversity and Distributions. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13223

Yi, X., D. Donner, P. Marquardt, J. Palmer, M. Jusino, J. Frair, D. Lindner, and E. Latch (2020) MHC variation is similar in little brown bats before and after white-nose syndrome outbreak. Ecology and Evolution, 10:10031-10043. ** Data published via DRYAD.

Peterson, S., D. Kramer, J. Hurst, and J. Frair (2020) Browse selection by moose in the Adirondack Park, New York. Alces, 56:107-126.

Petracca, L.S., J.L. Frair, G. Bastille-Rousseau, J.E. Hunt, D.W. Macdonald, L. Sibanda, and A.J. Loveridge (2019) The effectiveness of hazing African lions as a conflict mitigation tool: Implications for carnivore management.  Ecosphere 10(2):e02967.

Petracca, L.S., P.J. Funston, P. Henschel, J.B. Cohen, S. Maclennan, and J.L. Frair (2019) Modeling community occupancy from line transect data: a case study with large mammals in post-war Angola.  Animal Conservation, online early.

Lesser, M.R., M. Dovciak,, R. Wheat, P. Curtis, P. Smallidge, J. Hurst, D. Kramer, M. Roberts, and J. Frair (2019) Modelling white-tailed deer impacts on forest regeneration to inform deer management options at landscape scales.  Forest Ecology and Management, 448:395-408.

Bastille-Rousseau, F., C.B. Yackulic, J.P. Gibbs, J.L. Frair, F. Cabrera, and S. Blake (2019) Migration triggers in a large herbivore: Galápagos giant tortoises navigating resource gradients on volcanoes. Ecology, early view (e02658).

Berkman, L.K., J.L. Frair, P.E. Marquardt, D.M. Donner, J.C. Kilgo, and C.M. Whipps (2019) Spatial genetic analysis of coyotes in New York State. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 43(1):21-30.

Peach, M.A., J.B. Cohen, J.L. Frair, B. Zuckerberg, P.J. Sullivan, W.F. Porter, and C. Lang (2019) The value of protected areas to avian persistence across 20 years of climate and land use change. Conservation Biology, 33(2):423-433.

Fuda, R.K., S.J. Ryan, J.B. Cohen, J. Hartter, and J.L. Frair (2018) Assessing the impacts of oil exploration and restoration on mammals in Murchison Falls Conservation Area, Uganda. African Journal of Ecology, 56(4):804-817.

Whitman, B., W. Porter, A. Dechen Quinn, D. Williams, J. Frair, B. Underwood, and J. Crawford. (2018) Movement behavior preceding autumn mortality for white-tailed deer in central New York. Journal of Mammalogy, 99(3):675-683.

Petracca, L.S., Frair, J.L., Cohen, J.B., Calderon, A.P., Carazo-Salazar, J., Castaneda, F., Corrales-Gutierrez, D., Foster, R.J., Harmsen, B., Hernandez-Potosme, S., Robinson, N., Salom-Perez, R., Urbina, Y., Zeller, K.A., and Quigley, H. (2018) Robust inference on large-scale species habitat use with interview data: The status of jaguars outside of protected areas in Central America. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55:723-734.

Peach, M., Cohen, J., and Frair, J. (2017) Single-visit dynamic occupancy models: an approach to account for imperfect detection with Atlas data. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54:2033-2042.

Bastille-Rouseau, G., Yackulic, C.B., Frair, J.L., Cabrera, F., Rousseau, L.-P., Wikelski, M., Keummeth, F. and Blake, S. (2017) Animal movement in the absence of predation: environmental drivers of movement strategies in a partial migration system. Oikos, 126:1004-1019.

Tortato, F., Devlin, A., Hoogensteijn, R., May, J., Frair, J., Crawshaw, P., Izzo, T. and Quigley, H. (2017) Infanticide in a jaguar (Panthera onca) population – does the provision of livestock carcasses increase the risk? Acta Ethologica, 20(1):69-73.

Petracca, L. and Frair, J. (2017) When methodological flaws limit inference: A response to Caruso et al. (2016). Oryx, 51(2):208.

Fuda, R.K., Ryan, S.J., Cohen, J.B., Hartter, J., and Frair, J.L. (2016) Assessing impacts to primary productivity at the park edge in Murchison Falls Conservation Area, Uganda. Ecosphere 7:e01486.

Bastille-Rousseau, G., Yackulic, C., Frair, J., Cabrera, F., and Blake, S. (2016) Allometric and temporal scaling of movement characteristics in Galapagos tortoises. Journal of Animal Ecology 85:1171-1181.

Bastille-Rousseau, G., Potts, J., Yackulic, C., Frair, J., Ellington, E.H., and Blake, S. (2016) Flexible characterization of animal movement pattern using net squared displacement and a latent state model. Movement Ecology, 4:15. R package available at: https://github.com/BastilleRousseau/lsmnsd

Hansen, S.K., Frair, J.L., Underwood, H.B., and Gibbs, J.P. (2015) Pairing call-response surveys and distance sampling for a mammalian carnivore. Journal of Wildlife Management,79(4):662-671.

Campbell, S.P., Frair, J.L., Gibbs, J.P. and Rundell, R. (2015) Coexistence of the endangered, endemic Chittenango Ovate Amber Snail (Novisuccinea chittenangoensis) and a non-native competitor. Biological Invasions, 17(2):711-723.

Warsen, S.A., Frair, J.L., and Teece, M.A. (2014) Isotopic investigation of niche partitioning among native carnivores and the non-native coyote (Canis latrans). Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2014.897946.

Campbell, S.P., Frair, J.L., Gibbs, J.P., and Volk, T.A. (2012) Use of short-rotation coppice willow plantations by birds and small mammals in central New York. Biomass and Bioenergy, 47:342-353.

Zuckerberg B., Huettmann F., and Frair J. (2011) Data management as a scientific foundation for reliable predictive modeling. Chapter 3 in Drew A., Huettman F., and Wiersma Y., eds., Predictive Modeling in Landscape Ecology. Springer Verlag, NY.

Leblond, M., Frair, J., Fortin, D., Dussault, C., Ouellet, J.P. and Courtois, R. (2011) Assessing the influence of resource covariates at multiple scales: an application to forest-dwelling caribou faced with intensive human activity. Landscape Ecology, 26(10):1433-1446.

Eager, P.T., Allen, D.C., Frair, J.L., and Fierke, M.K. (2011) Within-tree distributions of the Sirex noctilio Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) – parasitoid complex and development of an optimal sampling scheme. Environmental Entomology, 40(5):1266-1275.

Frair, J., Fieberg, J., Hebblewhite, M., Cagnacci, F., DeCesare, N. and Pedrotti, L. (2010) Resolving issues of imprecise and habitat-biased locations in ecological analyses using GPS telemetry data. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 365(1550):2187-2200.

Fieberg, J., Boyce, M.S. Matthiopoulous, J., Hebblewhite, M. and Frair, J. (2010) Correlation and studies of habitat selection: problem, red herring, or opportunity? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 365(1550):2233-2244.

Beyer, H.L., Haydon, D.T., Morales, J.M., Frair, J.L., Hebblewhite, M., Mitchell, M., and Matthiopoulos, J. (2010) The interpretation of habitat preference metrics under use-availability designs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 365(1550):2245-2254.

Merrill, E., Sand, H., Zimmerman, B., McPhee, H., Webb, N., Hebblewhite, M., Wabakken, P. and Frair, J. (2010) Building a mechanistic understanding of predation with GPS-based movement data. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 365(1550):2279-2288.

Morales, J.M., Moorcroft, P.R., Matthiopoulos, J., Frair, J.L., Kie, J.G., Powell, R.A., Merrill, E.H., and Haydon, D.T. (2010) Building the bridge between animal movement and population dynamics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 365(1550):2289-2301.

Van Moorter, B., Visscher, D.R., Jerde, C. L., Frair, J.L. and Merrill, E.H. (2010) Identifying movement states from location data using cluster analysis. Journal of Wildlife Management, 74(3):588-594.

Wolf, M., Frair, J., Merrill, E. and Turchin, P. (2009) The attraction of the known: the importance of spatial familiarity in habitat selection in wapiti (Cervus elaphus). Ecography, 32, 401-410.

Frair, J.L., Merrill, E.H., Beyer, H.L. and Morales, J.M. (2008) Thresholds in landscape connectivity and mortality risks in response to growing road networks. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45, 1504-1513.

Frair, J.L., Merrill, E.H., Allen, J.R. and Boyce, M.S. (2007) Know thy enemy: experience affects elk translocation success in risky landscapes. Journal of Wildlife Management, 71(2), 541-554.

Gillies, C.S., Krawchuk, M.A., Aldridge, C.L., Hebblewhite, M., Frair, J.L., Saher, D.J., Stevens, C.E., Jerde, C.J. and Nielsen, S.E. (2006) Application of random effects to the study of resource selection by animals. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75, 887-898.

Visscher, D.R., Merrill, E.H., Fortin, D. and Frair, J.L. (2006) Estimating woody browse availability for ungulates at increasing snow depths. Forest Ecology and Management, 222, 348-354.

Frair, J.L., Merrill, E.H., Visscher, D.R., Fortin, D., Beyer, H. and Morales, J.M. (2005) Scales of movement by elk (Cervus elaphus) in response to heterogeneity in forage resources and predation risk. Landscape Ecology, 20, 273-287.

Anderson, D.P., Forester, J.D., Turner, M.G., Frair, J.L., Merrill, E.H., Fortin, D., Beyer, H., Mao, J.S. and Boyce, M.S. (2005) Factors influencing seasonal home-range sizes in elk (Cervus canadensis) in North American landscapes. Landscape Ecology, 20, 257-271.

Morales, J.M., Fortin, D., Frair, J.L. and Merrill, E.H. (2005) Adaptive Models for Large Herbivore Movements in Heterogeneous Landscapes. Landscape Ecology, 20, 301-316.

Frair, J.L., Nielsen, S.E., Merrill, E.H., Lele, S.R., Boyce, M.S., Munro, R.H.M., Stenhouse, G.B. and Beyer, H.L. (2004) Removing GPS collar bias in habitat selection studies. Journal of Applied Ecology, 41, 201-212.

Morales, J.M., Haydon, D.T., Frair, J., Holsinger, K.E. and Fryxell, J.M. (2004) Extracting more out of relocation data: building movement models as mixtures of random walks. Ecology, 85(9), 2436-2445.

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