Completed Research Projects

Fisheries/Aquatic

Clay Pierce, Principal Investigator:

• Monitoring of Fish Movement, Condition, Community Structure and Invertebrate Communities Following Modification of Two Streambed Grade Control Structures in Turkey Creek, Cass County, Iowa (with Tim Stewart, co-PI, completed FY06)
  The Iowa Rivers Information System (IRIS) (with Kevin Kane, co-PI, completed FY06)
• Iowa Aquatic Gap Analysis Project (with Kevin Kane, co-PI, completed FY05)
• Fish communities of the upper Little Sioux River basin: Current status and historical trends (completed FY03)
• Population Characteristics and Angler Use of Muskellunge in Shoepack Lake, Voyageurs National Park (completed FY03)
• Habitat use and population dynamics of benthic fishes along the Missouri River (completed FY02)

Wildlife/Terrestrial

Dave Otis, Principal Investigator:

• Evaluation of the Statistical Properties of Grand Canyon Humpback Chub Abundance and Trend Estimates Produced from ASMR and Alternative Mark-Recapture Models (completed FY06)
• Planning and Design of Field Surveys for Wildlife Species of Greatest Conservation Need in Iowa (completed FY06)
• National Mourning Dove Banding Study (completed FY06)
• Development and Evaluation of Mourning Dove Population Models for Optimizing National Harvest Management Strategies (completed FY06)
• Nest Success and Brood Habitat Selection of the Northern Bobwhite in Managed and Unmanaged Landscapes (completed FY06)
• Development and Evaluation of Sampling Designs for Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Programs (with Bill Clark and Sarah Nusser, co-PIs, completed FY06)
• Temporal and spatial changes in survival, harvest distribution, and breeding site fidelity of mallard populations in the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways (completed FY03)
• The influence of landscape and predator-prey relationships on recruitment and survival of migratory birds in the Central and Mississippi Flyways (completed FY03)

Rolf Koford , Principal Investigator:

• Habitat and landscape associations of grassland birds in the Spring Run Complex of northwestern Iowa (completed FY05)
• Bird and bat mortality associated with the Top of Iowa Wind Farm (completed FY05)
• A landscape approach to grassland bird conservation in the Prairie Pothole Region of Iowa and Minnesota (completed FY05)
• Bird survey of the Kellerton Bird Conservation Area (BCA) (completed FY04)
• Effect of habitat restoration on grassland birds in the southern part of the Northern Tallgrass Prairie Ecoregion (completed FY03)

Cooperating Faculty

• Joe Morris, PI: Best Management Practices for Channel Catfish Culture in Plastic-Lined Ponds (completed FY06)
• Bill Clark, PI: Population dynamics and dispersal of bobcats in Iowa (completed FY06)
• John Downing, PI: Landscape Ecology of Mississippi River Mussels: Multiple Scale Metapopulation Perspective in Unionid Population Biology (completed FY06)
• Jim Miller, PI: Avian response to prairie restoration in the Loess Hills of western Iowa (completed FY05)
• Joe Morris, PI: Fertilization strategies for plastic-lined fish culture ponds (completed FY04)
• Bonnie Bowen, PI: Genetic variability and geographic structure of Lampsilis higginsii mussels in the upper Mississippi River and tributaries (completed FY04)
• Erv Klaas, PI: Iowa Gap Analysis Program (completed FY03)
• Brent Danielson, PI: Development of monitoring protocol for the Iowa Pleistocene snail (completed FY02)
• Don Farrar, PI: Ecology and systematics of moonwort ferns (Botrychium) in Cook Inlet and South Coastal Alaska (completed FY02)