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Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

Brian Dennis
Professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and Division of Statistics, University of Idaho
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Ph.D. (1982 ) Ecology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

M.A. (1980) Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

B.A. (1973 ) Fine Arts, Roger Williams College, Bristol, RI
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Fish and Wildlife Resources
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-1136
Office Phone: (208) 885-7423
Office Fax: (208) 885-9080
E-mail: brian@uidaho.edu
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Related Experience:
1997 (fall) Distinguished Research Fellow, Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California/Davis

1982-94 Staff Member, University of Idaho Statistics Consulting Center

1992-94 Associate Professor, Wildlife Resources and Statistics, University of Idaho

1987-92 Associate Professor, Forest Resources and Statistics, University of Idaho

1989-90 Visiting Associate Professor, Statistics, Montana State University, Bozeman

1984 (fall) Visiting Assistant Professor, Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

1981-87 Assistant Professor, Forest Resources and Statistics, University of Idaho
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Professional Interests:
Statistical Ecology
Biometrics
Mathematical Modeling
Theoretical Ecology
Conservation Biology
Population Dynamics
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Courses:
Models for Resource Decisions
Theoretical Population Biology
Statistical Ecology
Mathematical Statistics
Calculus
Principles of Statistics
SAS in Natural Resource Management
Introduction to Statistics
Probability & Statistics
Fish & Wildlife Population Ecology

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Recent and Current Research:
Nonlinear Dynamics in Population Ecology
Density Dependence, Carrying Capacity, and Statistical Equilibrium
Allee Effects
Modeling in Conservation Biology
Modeling Insect Phenology
Stochastic Population Modeling
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Current Graduate Students:
José Ponciano (statistics)
Glenn Szerlong (statistics)

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Diversity of Publications:

2001 Allee effects and stochasticity. Oikos (in press).

2001 Estimating chaos and complet dynamics in an insect population. Ecological Monographs 71:277-303 (with R. Desharnais, J. Cushing, S. Henson, and R. Costantino).

2000 Joint effects of density dependence and rainfall on abundance of San Joaquin kit fox. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:388-400 (with M. Otten).

1999 Phase switching in population cycles. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265:2229-2234 (with S. Henson, J. Cushing, R. Costantino, and R. Desharnais).

1998 Joint density dependence. Ecology 79:426-441 (with W. Kemp and M. Taper)

1998 Moving toward an unstable equilibrium: saddle nodes in population systems. Journal of Animal Ecology 67:298-306 (with J. Cushing, R. Desharnais, and R. Costantino).

1997 Transitions in population dynamics: equilibria to periodic cycles to aperiodic cycles. Journal of Animal Ecology 66:704-729 (with R. Desharnais, J. Cushing, and R. Costantino).

1997 Chaotic dynamics in an insect population. Science 25:389-391 (with R. Costantino, R. Desharnais, and J. Cushing).

1996 Discussion: Should ecologists become Bayesians? Ecological Applications 6:1095-1102

1995 Experimentally induced transitions in the dynamic behavior of insect populations. Nature 375:227-230 (with R. Costantino, , R. Desharnais, and J. Cushing).

1995 Nonlinear demographic dynamics: mathematical models, statistical methods, and biological experiments. Ecological Monographs 65:261-281 (with R. Desharnais, J. Cushing, and R. Costantino).

1994 Density dependence in time series observations of natural populations: estimation and testing. Ecological Monographs 64:205-224 (with M. Taper).

1993 Density dependence in rangeland grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Oecologia 96:1-8 (with W. Kemp).

1992 Biological aspects of a stochastic model for insect life history data. Environmental Entomology 21:1229-1238 (with P. Munholland).

1991 Estimation of growth and extinction parameters for endangered species. Ecological Monographs 61:115-143 (with P. Munholland and J.M. Scott).

1990 Genetics analysis of a population of Tribolium. IX. Maximization of population size and the concept of a stochastic equilibrium. Genome 33:571-580 (with R. Desharnais and R. Costantino).

1989 Allee effects: population growth, critical density, and the chance of extinction. Natural Resource Modeling 3:481-538.

1988 Further statistical inference methods for a stochastic model of insect phenology. Environmental Entomology 17:887-893 (with W. Kemp).

1988 Analysis of steady-state populations with the gamma abundance model: application to Tribolium. Ecology 69:1200-1213 (with R. Costantino).

1988 Applications in ecology. Chapter 12 in: Lognormal Distributions: Theory and Applications, E.L. Crow and K. Shimizu, eds. Marcel Dekker (with G. Patil).

1986 A stochastic model of insect phenology: Estimations and testing. Environmental Entomology 15:540-546.

1984 The gamma distribution and weighted multimodal gamma distributions as models of population abundance. Mathematical Biosciences 68:187-212 (with G. Patil).

Department of Fish and
Wildlife Resources

fish_wildlife@uidaho.edu
Moscow, ID 83844-1136