Recently Completed
(FY'08 & FY'09)

WILDLIFE/TERRESTRIAL
Unit Scientists
Dave Otis, Unit Leader, PI
Development and Evaluation of Methods for Regional Monitoring of Mourning Dove Recruitment

Relationships Between the Relative Abundance of Amphibians, Contaminants, and Chytridiomycosis; Malformation and Disease in Midwestern Landscapes

Collaborating ISU Faculty
W. Sue Fairbanks, PI
Interaction Between Bison, Elk, and Plant Communities in Ongoing Tallgrass Prairie Restoration

Donald Farrar, PI
South Coastal Alaska/Wrangell St. Elias Mountains Moonwort Fern Surveys and Genetic Analysis with an Emphasis on Botrychium tunux

James Pease, PI
Bird Nesting on Rotationally-Grazed Pastures that Incorporate Warm-Season Grasses

Steve Dinsmore, PI
Initiation of Iowa's Second Breeding Bird Atlas

Diane Debinski, PI
Development of an Invertebrate-based Terrestrial Index of Biotic Integrity

James Miller, PI
Response of Forest Birds to Changes in Land Use/Land Cover in the Driftless Area of Northeastern Iowa
(Co-PI Lisa Schulte, ISU)