Stephen Dinsmore

515-294-1348
cootjr@iastate.edu

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cootjr/

B.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Biology, Iowa State University, 1990
M.S. Zoology, North Carolina State University, 1994
Ph.D. Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, 2001

Teaching

A Ecl/Biol 371, Ecological Methods.
A Ecl/Biol 458/558, Ornithology.
A Ecl 516, Avian Ecology.
NREM 496, Natural History of Costa Rica

Research

Dr. Dinsmore's research is in avian ecology and population biology.

Publications

Dinsmore, S. J., and M. D. Smith.  Mountain Plover responses to plague in Montana.  Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, in press.

Hanson, K. C., T. L. DeVault, and S. J. Dinsmore.  Increased abundance of Neotropic Cormorants on the Alluvial Plain of Mississippi.  Southeastern Naturalist, in press.

Holt, R. D., L. W. Burger, Jr., S. J. Dinsmore, M. D. Smith, S. J. Szukaitis, and K. D. Godwin.  2009.  Estimating duration of short-term acute effects of capture handling and radiomarking.  Journal of Wildlife Management 73:989-995.

Pearse, A. T., K. J. Reinecke, R. M. Kaminski, and S. J. Dinsmore.  2009.  Using simulation to improve wildlife surveys: wintering mallards in Mississippi, USA.  Wildlife Research 36:279-288.

Childers, T. M., and S. J. Dinsmore.  2008.  Density and abundance of Mountain Plovers in northeastern Montana.  The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120:700- 707.

Pearse, A. T., S. J. Dinsmore, R. M. Kaminski, and K. J. Reinecke.  2008. Evaluation of an aerial survey to estimate abundance of wintering ducks in western Mississippi.  Journal of Wildlife Management 72:1413-1419.

Dinsmore, S. J.  2008.  Black Skimmer nest survival in Mississippi. Waterbirds 31:24-29.

Augustine, D. J., S. J. Dinsmore, M. B. Wunder, V. J. Dreitz, and F. L. Knopf.  2008.  Plovers, prairie dogs and plague: Response of a declining grassland bird to black-tailed prairie dog colony dynamics in landscapes affected by plague.  Landscape Ecology 23:689-697.

Dinsmore, S. J.  2008.  Influence of drought on annual survival of the Mountain Plover in Montana.  Condor 110:45-54.

Pearse, A. T., P. D. Gerard, S. J. Dinsmore, R. M. Kaminski, and K. D. Reinecke.  2008.  Estimation and correction of visibility bias in aerial surveys of wintering ducks.  Journal of Wildlife Management 72:808-813.

Obrecht, J. D., and S. J. Dinsmore. 2007.  Factors influencing winter roosts of American Crows in central Iowa. Journal of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 114:35-39.

Hood, S. L., and Dinsmore, S. J. 2007. Use of Occupancy Abundance Models to Estimate Abundance of Snowy and Wilson’s Plovers in the Lower Laguna Madre Region of Texas. Journal of Field Ornithology 78:362-368

Colwell, M. A., S. J. Hurley, J. N. Hall, and S. J. Dinsmore. 2007. Age-related survival and behavior of Snowy Plover chicks in two habitats. Condor 109:638-647.

Pearse, A. T., B. S. Dorr, S. J. Dinsmore, and R. M. Kaminski. 2007. Comparison of sampling methods to estimate abundance of Double-crested Cormorants in western Mississippi. Human-Wildlife Conflicts 1:27-34.

Hood, S. L., and S. J. Dinsmore. 2007. The influence of habitat on nest survival of Snowy and Wilson’s Plovers in the Lower Laguna Madre region of Texas. Studies in Avian Biology 34:124-135.

Dinsmore, S. J., and J. J. Dinsmore. 2007. Modeling avian nest survival in program MARK. Studies in Avian Biology 34:73-83.

Smith, M. D., P. J. Barbour, L. W. Burger, Jr., and S. J. Dinsmore. 2005. Breeding Bird Abundance and Diversity in Agricultural Field Borders in the Black Belt Prairie of Mississippi. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 59:43-46.

Dinsmore, S. J., and F. L. Knopf. 2005. Differential parental care by adult Mountain Plovers, Charadrius montanus. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119:532-536.

Chouinard, M. D., R. M. Kaminski, P. D. Gerard, and S. J. Dinsmore. 2005. Experimental evaluation of duck nesting structures in Prairie-Parkland Canada. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:1231-1239.

Dinsmore, S. J., G. C. White, and F. L. Knopf. 2005. Mountain Plover population responses to black-tailed prairie dogs in Montana. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:1546-1553.

Jorgensen, J. G., and S. J. Dinsmore. 2005. An assessment of the status of White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi) in the Great Plains. North American Birds 59:376-381.

Smith, M. D., P. J. Barbour, L. W. Burger, Jr., and S. J. Dinsmore. 2005. Density and diversity of overwintering birds in managed field borders in Mississippi. Wilson Bulletin 117:258-269.

Dinsmore, S. J., and D. H. Johnson. 2005. Chapter 6 – Population analysis in wildlife biology. Pages 154-184 in Braun, C. E., editor. Techniques for wildlife investigations and management. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, MD.

Iko, W. M., S. J. Dinsmore, and F. L. Knopf. 2004. On determining the sex of Mountain Plovers (Charadrius montanus) from morphometric measurements. Western North American Naturalist 64:492-496.

Dinsmore, J. J., S. J. Dinsmore, and D. L. Howell. 2004. Piping Plovers and Least Terns in Iowa: dependence on fly-ash deposits. Pages 51-55 in Higgins, K. F., M. R. Brashier, and C. Fleming, eds. Proceedings, Third Missouri River and North American Piping Plover and Least Tern habitat workshop/symposium. WFS1-05, South Dakota State University. Brookings.

Rotella, J. J., S. J. Dinsmore, and T. L. Shaffer. 2004. Modeling nest-survival data: a comparison of recently developed methods that can be implemented in MARK and SAS. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 27:187-205.

Dinsmore, S. J., and J. A. Collazo. 2003. The influence of body condition on local apparent survival of spring migrant Sanderlings in coastal North Carolina. Condor 105:465-473.

Dinsmore, S. J., G. C. White, and F. L. Knopf. 2003. Annual survival and population estimates of Mountain Plovers in southern Phillips County, Montana. Ecological Applications 13:1013-1026.

Dinsmore, S. J., G. C. White, and F. L. Knopf. 2002. Advanced techniques for modeling avian nest survival. Ecology 83:3476-3488.