USGS researchers at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are using trail cameras to track bobcats, black bears, and coyotes across New York. The researchers created an online database where the public can report wildlife sightings.
Angela Fuller, PhD
Unit Leader - New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Research Interests
The single unifying theme of Angela's research program that transcends all projects is that they provide information that contributes to the conservation or management of wildlife species and that has an impact on the way species are managed. The first area of her research is on how spatial variation in the environment influences resource use, movements, and population ecology of mammals. This research is focused primarily on mammalian carnivores, which have many traits that make them especially susceptible to landscape change (e.g., large home ranges, relatively low population densities, and long dispersal distances). She frequently uses non-invasive sampling methods that do not require direct capture of individuals. Using these noninvasively collected samples from carnivores, she employs methods for population estimation that incorporate spatial or landscape processes to help explain the density of species across a landscape. The second major program area of her research is in applying structured decision making (SDM) and adaptive management to guide natural resource management and policy outcomes. SDM is a process for helping to make management or policy decisions in a clear and transparent way, and involves evaluating how well alternative management strategies do at achieving objectives that have been identified by the decision maker and stakeholders. This work integrates quantitative modeling to help predict outcomes of the management strategies that were developed to achieve the stated objectives. Both of her research areas involve the spatial ecology of species, investigating how spatial landscape patterns influence the distribution, density, or dynamics of animal populations.
Teaching Interests
- Decision Making for Natural Resources
- Landscape Ecology
- Habitat Ecology
- Forest Landscape Planning
Science and Products
Capture-recapture meets big data: integrating statistical classification with ecological models of species abundance and occurrence
Advances in new technologies such as remote cameras, noninvasive genetics and bioacoustics provide massive quantities of electronic data. Much work has been done on automated (“machine learning”) methods of classification which produce “sample class designations” (e.g., identification of species or individuals) that are regarded as observed data in ecological models. However, these “data...
Spatial Capture-Recapture Models to Estimate Abundance and Density of Animal Populations
The Challenge: For decades, capture-recapture methods have been the cornerstone of ecological statistics as applied to population biology. While capture-recapture has become the standard sampling and analytical framework for the study of population processes (Williams, Nichols & Conroy 2002) it has advanced independent of and remained unconnected to the spatial structure of the population or the...
Bobcat spotted on a trail camera
USGS researchers at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are using trail cameras to track bobcats, black bears, and coyotes across New York. The researchers created an online database where the public can report wildlife sightings.
Screenshot of a bobcat spotted on a trail camera
USGS researchers at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are using trail cameras to track bobcats, black bears, and coyotes across New York. The researchers created an online database where the public can report wildlife sightings.
USGS researchers at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are using trail cameras to track bobcats, black bears, and coyotes across New York. The researchers created an online database where the public can report wildlife sightings.
Technician and trained canine detection dog observe the invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard
Technician and trained canine detection dog observe the invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyardUSGS ecologists at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, are using trained canine scent detection dogs to sniff out invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Vineyards are especially vulnerable, but tree farms, fruit farms, and nurseries are also at risk of damage.
Technician and trained canine detection dog observe the invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard
Technician and trained canine detection dog observe the invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyardUSGS ecologists at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, are using trained canine scent detection dogs to sniff out invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Vineyards are especially vulnerable, but tree farms, fruit farms, and nurseries are also at risk of damage.
Canine scent detection dog sniffs out invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard in New Jersey
Canine scent detection dog sniffs out invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard in New JerseyUSGS researchers at the USGS New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are investigating invasive spotted lanternfly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
Canine scent detection dog sniffs out invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard in New Jersey
Canine scent detection dog sniffs out invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard in New JerseyUSGS researchers at the USGS New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are investigating invasive spotted lanternfly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
Eric Clifton of Cornell University collects data on invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard
Eric Clifton of Cornell University collects data on invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyardUSGS researchers at the USGS New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are investigating invasive spotted lanternfly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Vineyards are especially vulnerable to invasive spotted lanternfly, but tree farms, fruit farms, and nurseries are also at risk of damage.
Eric Clifton of Cornell University collects data on invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard
Eric Clifton of Cornell University collects data on invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyardUSGS researchers at the USGS New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are investigating invasive spotted lanternfly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Vineyards are especially vulnerable to invasive spotted lanternfly, but tree farms, fruit farms, and nurseries are also at risk of damage.
Spotted lanternfly egg mass on a support pole at a vineyard
Spotted lanternfly egg mass on a support pole at a vineyardUSGS ecologists at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, are using trained canine scent detection dogs to sniff out invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Spotted lanternfly egg mass on a support pole at a vineyard
Spotted lanternfly egg mass on a support pole at a vineyardUSGS ecologists at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, are using trained canine scent detection dogs to sniff out invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Science and Products
Capture-recapture meets big data: integrating statistical classification with ecological models of species abundance and occurrence
Advances in new technologies such as remote cameras, noninvasive genetics and bioacoustics provide massive quantities of electronic data. Much work has been done on automated (“machine learning”) methods of classification which produce “sample class designations” (e.g., identification of species or individuals) that are regarded as observed data in ecological models. However, these “data...
Spatial Capture-Recapture Models to Estimate Abundance and Density of Animal Populations
The Challenge: For decades, capture-recapture methods have been the cornerstone of ecological statistics as applied to population biology. While capture-recapture has become the standard sampling and analytical framework for the study of population processes (Williams, Nichols & Conroy 2002) it has advanced independent of and remained unconnected to the spatial structure of the population or the...
Bobcat spotted on a trail camera
USGS researchers at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are using trail cameras to track bobcats, black bears, and coyotes across New York. The researchers created an online database where the public can report wildlife sightings.
USGS researchers at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are using trail cameras to track bobcats, black bears, and coyotes across New York. The researchers created an online database where the public can report wildlife sightings.
Screenshot of a bobcat spotted on a trail camera
USGS researchers at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are using trail cameras to track bobcats, black bears, and coyotes across New York. The researchers created an online database where the public can report wildlife sightings.
USGS researchers at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are using trail cameras to track bobcats, black bears, and coyotes across New York. The researchers created an online database where the public can report wildlife sightings.
Technician and trained canine detection dog observe the invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard
Technician and trained canine detection dog observe the invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyardUSGS ecologists at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, are using trained canine scent detection dogs to sniff out invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Vineyards are especially vulnerable, but tree farms, fruit farms, and nurseries are also at risk of damage.
Technician and trained canine detection dog observe the invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard
Technician and trained canine detection dog observe the invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyardUSGS ecologists at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, are using trained canine scent detection dogs to sniff out invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Vineyards are especially vulnerable, but tree farms, fruit farms, and nurseries are also at risk of damage.
Canine scent detection dog sniffs out invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard in New Jersey
Canine scent detection dog sniffs out invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard in New JerseyUSGS researchers at the USGS New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are investigating invasive spotted lanternfly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
Canine scent detection dog sniffs out invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard in New Jersey
Canine scent detection dog sniffs out invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard in New JerseyUSGS researchers at the USGS New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are investigating invasive spotted lanternfly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
Eric Clifton of Cornell University collects data on invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard
Eric Clifton of Cornell University collects data on invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyardUSGS researchers at the USGS New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are investigating invasive spotted lanternfly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Vineyards are especially vulnerable to invasive spotted lanternfly, but tree farms, fruit farms, and nurseries are also at risk of damage.
Eric Clifton of Cornell University collects data on invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyard
Eric Clifton of Cornell University collects data on invasive spotted lanternfly at a vineyardUSGS researchers at the USGS New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are investigating invasive spotted lanternfly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Vineyards are especially vulnerable to invasive spotted lanternfly, but tree farms, fruit farms, and nurseries are also at risk of damage.
Spotted lanternfly egg mass on a support pole at a vineyard
Spotted lanternfly egg mass on a support pole at a vineyardUSGS ecologists at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, are using trained canine scent detection dogs to sniff out invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Spotted lanternfly egg mass on a support pole at a vineyard
Spotted lanternfly egg mass on a support pole at a vineyardUSGS ecologists at the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, are using trained canine scent detection dogs to sniff out invasive spotted lanternfly egg masses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.