Jody M. Tucker, PhD

Biological Scientist

Rocky Mountain Research Station

0000-0001-5010-2257

jody.tucker@usda.gov

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Treesearch Publications

Ronan Hart, Craig M. Thompson, Jody M. Tucker, Sarah Sawyer, Stephanie A. Eyes, Saba J. Saberi, Zhiqiang Yang, Gavin M. Jones. 2025. Rapid declines in southern Sierra Nevada fisher habitat driven by drought and wildfire
Kadambari Devarajan, Mason Fidino, Zach J. Farris, Solny A. Adalsteinsson, Gabriel Andrade-Ponce, Julia L. Angstmann, Whitney Anthonysamy, Jesica Aquino, Addisu Asefa, Jordan Heiman, Jody M. Tucker. 2025. When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity
G. Bradley Smith, Jody M. Tucker, Mourad Gabriel, Greta Wengert, Jonathan N. Pauli. 2024. Dietary partitioning of fishers and martens in a rapidly changing landscape
Jordan Heiman, Jody M. Tucker, Sarah N. Sells, Joshua J. Millspaugh, Michael K. Schwartz. 2024. Leveraging local wildlife surveys for robust occupancy trend estimation
Jody M. Tucker, Caleb King, Ryan Lekivetz, Remi Murdoch, Zoe C. Jewell, Sky K. Alibhai. 2024. Development of a non-invasive method for species and sex identification of rare forest carnivores using footprint identification technology
David S. Green, Marie E. Martin, Sean M. Matthews, Jocelyn R. Akins, Jennifer Carlson, Pete Figura, Brian E. Hatfield, John D. Perrine, Cate Quinn, Benjamin N. Sacks, Thomas R. Stephenson, Sarah L. Stock, Jody M. Tucker. 2023. A hierarchical modeling approach to predict the distribution and density of Sierra Nevada Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes necator)
Lindsey N. Rich, Ivan D. Medel, Sara Bangen, Greta M. Wengert, Matthew Toenies, Jody M. Tucker, Mourad Gabriel, Courtney L. Davis. 2023. Integrating existing data to assess the risk of an expanding land use change on mammals
Jody M. Tucker, Katie Moriarty, Martha Ellis, Jessie Golding. 2021. Effective sampling area is a major driver of power to detect long-term trends in multispecies occupancy monitoring
Jody M. Tucker, Fred W. Allendorf, Richard L. Truex, Michael K. Schwartz. 2017. Sex-biased dispersal and spatial heterogeneity affect landscape resistance to gene flow in fisher
Martha Ellis, Jacob S. Ivan, Jody M. Tucker, Michael K. Schwartz. 2015. rSPACE: Spatially based power analysis for conservation and ecology
Jody M. Tucker, Michael K. Schwartz, Richard L. Truex, Samantha M. Wisely, Fred W. Allendorf. 2014. Sampling affects the detection of genetic subdivision and conservation implications for fisher in the Sierra Nevada
Bill Zielinski, Jim Baldwin, Richard L. Truex, Jody M. Tucker, Patricia Flebbe. 2013. Estimating trend in occupancy for the Southern Sierra fisher Martes pennanti population
Jody M. Tucker, Michael K. Schwartz, Richard L. Truex, Kristine L. Pilgrim, Fred W. Allendorf. 2012. Historical and contemporary DNA indicate fisher decline and isolation occurred prior to the European settlement of California

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

Green, DS, Martin, ME, Matthews, SM, Akins, JR, Carlson, J, Figura, P, Hatfield, BE, Perrine, JD, Quinn, CB, Sacks, BN, Stephenson, TR, Stock, SL, and Tucker, JM. 2023. Distribution and density of Sierra Nevada red fox predicted by hierarchical modeling. J. Mammalogy.Pauli, JN, Manlick, PJ, Tucker, JM, Smith, GB, Jensen, PG and Fisher, JT. 2022. Competitive overlap between martens Martes americana and Martes caurina and fishers Pekania pennanti: a rangewide perspective and synthesis. Mammal Review. doi: 10.1111/mam.12284Smith, GB, Tucker, JM, and Pauli, JN. 2022. Habitat and drought influence the diet of an unexpected mycophagist: fishers in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. J. Mammalogy 103: 328-338Davis, CL, Rich, LN, Farris, ZJ, Kelly, MJ, Di Bitetti, MS, Blanco, YD, Albanesi, S, Farhadinia, MS, Gholikhani, N, Hamel, S Harmsen, BJ, Tucker, JM et al., 2018. Ecological correlates of the spatial co-occurrence of sympatric mammalian carnivores worldwide. Ecology Letters 21: 1401-1412