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 wildlife populations, development and evaluation of quantitative techniques useful in ecological field studies, and modeling of effects of anthropogenic processes on wildlife population dynamics.

Publications

Peters, K. A. and D. L. Otis. 2007.  Shorebird roost-site selection at two temporal scales is human disturbance a factor? Journal of Applied Ecology 44:196-209.

Peters, K. A. and D. L. Otis. 2006. Wading bird response to recreational boat traffic on a national wildlife refuge in South Carolina: Does flushing translate into site avoidance? Wildlife Society Bulletin 34: 1383-1392.

Greenberg, C., D. L. Otis, and T. Waldrop. 2006.  Response of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) to fire and fire surrogate fuel reduction treatments in a southern Appalachian hardwood forest.  Forest Ecology and Management 234:355-362.

Kinkead, K.E. and D. L. Otis. 2007.  Estimating superpopulation size and annual breeding probability of breeding for pond breeding salamanders. Herpetologica 63:151-162.

Kinkead, K. E. , A. G. Abbott, and D. L. Otis. 2007. Genetic variation among Ambystoma breeding populations on the Savannah River Site.  Conservation Genetics 8:281-292.

Nusser, S.M., W. R. Clark, D. L. Otis, and L. Huang. 2008.  Sampling considerations for surveillance in wildlife populations. Journal of Wildlife Management72:52-61.

Otis, D. L., J. H. Schulz, and D. P. Scott.  2008.  Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) harvest and population parameters derived from a national banding study.  U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Biological Technical Publication FWS/BTP-R3010-2008, Washington D.C.

Otis, D. L., J. H. Schulz, D. A. Miller, R. Mirarchi, and T. Baskett.  2008.  Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura).  In The Birds of North America, No. 117.  (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.).  Philadelphia:  The Academy of Natural Sciences; Washington, D.C.: The American Ornithologists Union.

Thomson, D. L. , M. J. Conroy, D. R. Anderson, E. G. Cooch, C. M. Francis, J. D. Lebreton, M. S. Lindberg, B. J. T. Morgan, D. L. Otis, and G. C. White.  2009.  Standardising terminology and notation for the analysis of demographic processes in mark populations.  Pages 1099 – 1007 in D. L. Thomson, E. G. Cooch, M. J. Conroy, eds.  Modeling demographic processes in marked populations.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics Series: Volume 3.  Springer. New York, NY.

Loda, J. L. and D. L. Otis.  In Press.  Low prevalence of amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachocytrium dendrobatis) in Northern Leopard Frog (Rana pipiens) populations of north-central Iowa, USA.  Herpetological Review.

 Miller, D. A., C. M. Vleck, and D. L. Otis. In Press. Individual variation in baseline and stress-induced corticosterone and prolactin levels predicts parental effort by nesting mourning doves.  Hormones and Behavior.