David L. Otis

515-294-7639, Fax 515-294-5468
dotis@iastate.edu
http://www.cfwru.iastate.edu/otis.htm

B.S., 1971
M.S., 1974
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1976

Research

Dr. Otis specializes in population biology of free-ranging wildlife populations, development and evaluation of quantitative techniques useful in ecological field studies, and estimation and modeling of effects of anthropogenic processes on wildlife population demographics.

Publications

Berdeen, J.B. and D. L. Otis. In Press. The influence of subcutaneous transmitter implants on the weight change and survival of mourning doves. Wildlife Society Bulletin.

Otis, D. L. In Press. A mourning dove hunting regulation strategy based on annual harvest statistics and banding data. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Peters, K. A. and D. L. Otis. In Press. Wading bird response to recreational boat traffic on a national wildlife refuge in South Carolina: Does flushing translate into site avoidance? Wildlife Society Bulletin

Peters, K. A. and D. L. Otis. 2005. Using the risk-disturbance hypothesis to assess the relative effects of human disturbance and predation risk on foraging American oystercatchers. Condor 107: 715 - 724.

Sanders, F. A, N. Jordan, D. Otis, and R. Costa. In Press. Hatching patterns, brood reduction, and the insurance hypothesis in red-cockaded woodpeckers.

Sanders, F. J., R. Costa, and D. L. Otis. 2005. Use of modified artificial cavities to access red-cockaded woodpecker nests. In Costa, R. and Daniels,S. J., Eds. Proceedings of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker Symposium IV. Hancock House. Surrey, BC, Canada. pp. 453 - 458.

Jordan, N. E., D. L. Otis, R. Costa, and S. A. Gauthreaux. 2004. Hatching failure and embryonic mortality within a red-cockaded woodpecker population in South Carolina. In Costa, R. and Daniels, S. J., Eds. Proceedings of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker Symposium IV. Hancock House. Surrey, BC, Canada. pp. 607 - 616.

Otis, D. L. And G. C. White. 2004. Evaluation of ultrastructure and random effects band recovery models for estimating relationships between survival and harvest rates in exploited populations. In Senar, J. C., Dhondt, A., and Conroy, M. J., Eds. Proceedings of the International Euring Conference 2003. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 27: 157 - 173.

Otis, D. L. 2004. Comparison of the distribution of mallard harvest in the Mississippi and Atlantic Flyways between periods of restrictive and liberal hunting regulations. Journal of Wildlife Management 68:351-360.

Scott, D. P., J. B. Berdeen, D. L. Otis, and R. L. Fendrick. 2004. Harvest parameters of urban and rural morning doves in Ohio. Journal of Wildlife Management 68:694-700.

Otis, D. L. 2003. A framework for reproductive models of mourning dove populations. Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science 110: 13-16.

Sanders, F. J., R. Costa, and D. L. Otis. In Press. Use of modified artificial cavities to access red-cockaded woodpecker nests. Proceedings of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker Symposium IV.

Jordan, N. E., D. L. Otis, R. Costa, and S. A. Gauthreaux. In Press. Hatching failure and embryonic mortality within a red-cockaded woodpecker population in South Carolina. Proceedings of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker Symposium IV.

Otis, D. L. and G. C. White. 2002. Re-analysis of a banding study to test effects of an experimental increase in bag limits of mourning doves. In Morgan, B.J.T. and Thomson, D.L.,Eds. Statistical Analysis of Data from Marked Bird Populations. Journal of Applied Statistics 29, nos1-4.

Otis, D. L. 2004. Comparison of the distribution of mallard harvest in the Mississippi and Atlantic Flyways between periods of restrictive and liberal hunting regulations. Journal of Wildlife Management 68:351-360.

Otis, D. L. 2002. Survival models for harvest management of mourning dove populations. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:1052-1063.

Otis, D. L. and G. C. White. 1999. Autocorrelation of location estimates and the analysis of radiotracking data. Journal of Wildlife Management 63:1039-1044.

Otis, D. L. 1998. Analysis of the influence of spatial pattern in habitat selection studies. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 3:254-268.

Allen, D. L. and D. L. Otis. 1998. Relationships between deer mouse population parameters and dieldrin contamination in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76:243-250.