Publications

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Journal Articles

  • Wiens J.D., Bloom P.H., Madden M.C., Kolar P.S., Tracey J.A., Fisher R.N. (2022). Golden eagle occupancy surveys and monitoring strategy in coastal southern California, United States. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9:665792.
  • Poessel S.A., Woodbridge B., Smith B.W., Murphy R.K., Bedrosian B.E., Bell D.A., et al. (2022). Interpreting long-distance movements of non-migratory golden eagles: Prospecting and nomadism?. Ecosphere, 13(6):e4072.
  • Sur M., Woodbridge B., Esque T.C., Belthoff J.R., Bloom P.H., Fisher R.N., et al. (2021). Linking behavioral states to landscape features for improved conservation management. Ecology and Evolution, 11(12):7905–7916.
  • Brehme C.S., Tracey J.A., Ewing B.A., Hobbs M.T., Launer A.E., Matsuda T.A., et al. (2021). Responses of migratory amphibians to barrier fencing inform the spacing of road underpasses: a case study with California tiger salamanders (Ambystoma californiense) in Stanford, CA, USA. Global Ecology and Conservation, 31:e01857.
  • Sur M., Duerr A.E., Bell D.A., Fisher R.N., Tracey J.A., Bloom P.H., et al. (2020). Relevance of individual and environmental drivers of movement of Golden Eagles. Ibis, 162(2):381–399.
  • Rapstine N.I., Tracey J.A., Gordon J.M., Fisher R.N. (2019). Unsupervised Clustering of Telemetry Data. Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. link
  • Tracey J.A., Rochester C.J., Hathaway S.A., Preston K.L., Syphard A.D., Vandergast A.G., et al. (2018). Prioritizing conserved areas threatened by wildfire and fragmentation for monitoring and management. PLoS One, 13(9):e0200203. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200203
  • Syphard A.D., Butsic V., Bar-Massada A., Keeley J.E., Tracey J.A., Fisher R.N. (2016). Setting priorities for private land conservation in fire-prone landscapes: Are fire risk reduction and biodiversity conservation competing or compatible objectives?. Ecology and Society, 21(3). doi:10.5751/ES-08410-210302
  • Risley J.C., Tracey J.A., Markstrom S.L., Hay L. (2014). Using Gridded Snow Covered Area and Snow-Water Equivalence Spatial Data Sets to Improve Snow-Pack Depletion Simulation in a Continental Scale Hydrologic Model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
  • Tracey J.A., Sheppard J., Zhu J., Wei F., Swaisgood R.R., Fisher R.N. (2014). Movement-Based Estimation and Visualization of Space Use in 3D for Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. PLoS One, 9(7):e101205. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101205
  • Tracey J.A., Bevins S.N., VandeWoude S., Crooks K.R. (2014). An agent-based movement model to assess the impact of landscape fragmentation on disease transmission. Ecosphere, 5(9). doi:10.1890/ES13-00376.1
  • Ascens{~a}o F., Grilo C., LaPoint S., Tracey J., Clevenger A.P., Santos-Reis M. (2014). Inter-Individual Variability of Stone Marten Behavioral Responses to a Highway. PLoS One, 9(7):e103544. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103544
  • Tracey J.A., Zhu J., Boydston E., Lyren L., Fisher R.N., Crooks K.R. (2013). Mapping behavioral landscapes: a finite mixture modeling approach. Ecological Applications, 23(3):654–669. doi:10.1890/12-0687.1
  • Brehme C.S., Tracey J.A., McClenaghan L.R., Fisher R.N. (2013). Permeability of roads to movement of scrubland lizards and small mammals. Conservation Biology, 27(4):710-720. doi:10.1111/cobi.12081
  • Ruell E., Riley S., Douglas M., Antolin M., Pollinger J., Tracey J., et al. (2012). Urban habitat fragmentation and genetic population structure of bobcats in coastal southern California. The American Midland Naturalist, 168(2):265–280. doi:10.1674/0003-0031-168.2.265
  • Tracey J.A., Zhu J., Crooks K.R. (2011). Modeling and inference of animal movement using artificial neural networks. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 18(3):393–410. doi:10.1007/s10651-010-0138-8
  • Scherer R.D., Tracey J.A. (2011). A power analysis for the use of counts of egg masses to monitor wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) populations. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 6(1):81–90.
  • Bevins S.N., Tracey J.A., Franklin S.P., Schmit V.L., MacMillan M.L., Gage K.L., et al. (2009). Wild Felids as Hosts for Human Plague, Western United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 15(12):2021–2024. doi:10.3201/eid1512.090526
  • Lyren L.M., Turschak G.M., Ambat E.S., Haas C.D., Tracey J.A., Boydston E.E., et al. (2006). Carnivore activity and movement in a southern California protected area, the North/Central Irvine Ranch. US Geological Survey Technical Report, :1–115.
  • Tracey J.A., Zhu J., Crooks K.R. (2005). A set of nonlinear regression models for animal movement in response to a single landscape feature. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 10(1):1–18. doi:10.1198/108571105X29056

Book Chapters

  • Brown T.K., Lemm J.M., Montagne J., Tracey J.A., Alberts A.C. (2008). Spatial ecology, habitat use, and survivorship of resident and translocated red diamond rattlesnakes (Crotalus ruber). In The Biology of Rattlesnakes. Loma Linda University Press, California, USA.
  • Tracey J.A. (2006). Individual-based modeling as a tool for conserving connectivity. In Connectivity Conservation: Maintaining Connections for Nature, pp. 343. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511754821.001

Conference Proceedings

  • Rapstine N.I., Tracey J.A., Gordon J.M., Fisher R.N. (2019). Unsupervised Clustering of Telemetry Data. Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. link
  • Risley J.C., Tracey J.A., Markstrom S.L., Hay L. (2014). Using Gridded Snow Covered Area and Snow-Water Equivalence Spatial Data Sets to Improve Snow-Pack Depletion Simulation in a Continental Scale Hydrologic Model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
  • Tracey J.A., Sheppard J.K., Lockwood G.K., Chourasia A., Tatineni M., Fisher R.N., et al. (2014). Efficient 3D movement-based kernel density estimator and application to wildlife ecology. Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment. doi:10.1145/2616498.2616522

Reports

  • Tracey J.A., Madden M.C., Bloom P.H., Fisher R.N. (2020). A clarification on the effects of urbanization on Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) habitat selection. U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Data Series 1128. doi:10.3133/ds1128
  • Tracey J.A., Madden M.C., Molden J.C., Sebes J.B., Bloom P.H., Fisher R.N. (2020). Biotelemetry data for Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) captured in coastal southern California, February 2017–December 2019. U.S. Geological Survey, 1128. doi:10.3133/ds1128
  • Tracey J.A., Madden M.C., Bloom P.H., Katzner T.E., Fisher R.N. (2018). Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) habitat selection as a function of land use and terrain, San Diego County, California. U.S. Geological Survey, 2018-1067. doi:10.3133/ofr20181067
  • Boydston E.E., Tracey J.A., Preston K.L., Rochester C.J., Fisher R.N. (2018). Modeling resource selection of bobcats (Lynx rufus) and vertebrate species distributions in Orange County, southern California, with a section on modeling for reptile, amphibian, and bird distributions. US Geological Survey, 2018-1095. doi:10.3133/ofr20181095
  • Tracey J.A., Madden M.C., Sebes J.B., Bloom P.H., Katzner T.E., Fisher R.N. (2017). Biotelemetry data for golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) captured in coastal southern California, February 2016–February 2017. U.S. Geological Survey, 1051. doi:10.3133/ds1051
  • Tracey J.A., Madden M.C., Sebes J.B., Bloom P.H., Katzner T.E., Fisher R.N. (2016). Biotelemetry data for golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) captured in coastal southern California, November 2014–February 2016. U.S. Geological Survey, 994. doi:10.3133/ds994
  • Tracey J.A., Brehme C.S., Rochester C., Clark D., Fisher R.N. (2014). A Field Study of Small Vertebrate Use of Wildlife Underpasses in San Diego County, 2014. U.S. Geological Survey.

Theses

  • Tracey J.A. (2006). Agent-based movement models and landscape connectivity. Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University.
  • Tracey J.A. (2004). Models for Animal Movement in Response to Landscape Features. Thesis for M.S. in Biometry, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • Tracey J.A. (2000). Movement of Red Diamond Rattlesnakes ({}) in Heterogeneous Landscapes in Coastal Southern California. Thesis for M.S. in Biology, University of California, San Diego.