Dr. David L. Otis
Current Publications
Otis, D. L. 2006. A mourning dove hunting regulation strategy based on annual harvest statistics and banding data. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:1302-1307.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

Technical Reports
Otis, D. L., W. Crumpton, D. Green, A. Loan-Wilsey, R. McNeely, K. Kane,
T. Cooper, and R. Johnson. 2009. Assessment of Environmental Services of CREP Wetlands in Iowa and the Midwestern Corn Belt. USDA Farm Services Agency, Washington, DC.
23 pp.

Otis, D. L., Dixon, P. and J. Sauer.  2008.  Use of hierarchical models in interim mourning dove harvest strategies.   For USFWS Division of Migratory Bird Management.  13 pp.

Otis, D. L. 2009. Mourning dove banding needs assessment. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Migratory Bird Management. 22 pp.