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Brian Dennis
Research/Focus Areas
  • Statistical Ecology
  • Biometrics
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Theoretical Ecology
  • Conservation Biology
  • Population Dynamics
Academic Programs
My 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

Brian Dennis

College of Natural Resources
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; Department of Statistical Sciences
Professor

Home Town
Moscow, Idaho

Campus Locations
Moscow

With UI Since
1981
Office: PHI 316
Phone: (208) 885-7423
Email: brian@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address:
c/o Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho
P.O. Box 441136
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1136

Curriculum Vitae
  • Ph.D. Ecology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1982.
  • M.A. Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1980.
  • B.A. Fine Arts, Roger Williams College, Bristol, RI, 1973.

M.A. (statistics) and Ph.D. (ecology) from Penn State University. Scientific career has specialized in applications of statistics, mathematics, and computer simulation in ecology and natural resources management.



Selected Publications


  • Dennis, B., J.C. Civille, and D.R. Strong.  2011.  Lateral spread of invasive Spartina alterniflora in uncrowded environments.  Biological Invasions, 13;401-411.
  • Ellison, A.M., and B. Dennis.  2010.  Paths to statistical fluency for ecologists.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8:362-370.
  • Dennis, B., J.M. Ponciano, and M.L. Taper.  2009.  Replicated sampling increases efficiency in monitoring biological populations.  Ecology 91:610-620.
  • Humbert, J.-Y., L. S. Mills, J. S. Horne, and B. Dennis.  2009.  A better way to estimate trend.  Oikos 118:1940-1946.
  • Ponciano, J.M., M.L. Taper, B. Dennis, and S.R. Lele. 2009. Hierarchical models in ecology: confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and model selection using data cloning. Ecology 90:356-362.
  • Kramer, A.M., B. Dennis, A Liebhold, and J.M. Drake. 2009. The evidence for Allee effects. Population Ecology 51:341-354.
  • Lele, S.R,, and B. Dennis. 2009. Bayesian methods for hierarchical models: are ecologists making a Faustian bargain? Ecological Applications 19:581-584.
  • Hampton, S.E., L.R. Izmest'eva, M.V. Moore, S.L. Katz, B. Dennis, and E.A. Silow. 2008. Sixty years of environmental change in the world's largest freshwater lake – Lake Baikal, Siberia. Global Change Biology 14:1947-1958.
  •  Staples, D.F., M.L. Taper, B. Dennis, and R.J. Boik. 2008. Effects of sampling error and temporal correlations in population growth on process variance estimators. Environmental and Ecological Statistics (online).
  • Lele, S.R., B. Dennis, and F. Lutscher. 2007. Data cloning: easy maximum likelihood estimation for complex ecological models using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. Ecology Letters 10:551-563.
  • Henson, S.M., B. Dennis, J.L. Hayward, J.M. Cushing, and J.G. Galusha. 2007. Predicting the dynamics of animal behaviour in field populations. Animal Behaviour 74:103-110.
  • Cushing, J.M., R.F. Constantino, B. Dennis, R.A. Desharnais, and S.M. Henson. 2003. Chaos in Ecology: Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.

Research Projects

  • Nonlinear Dynamics in Population Ecology
  • Density Dependence, Carrying Capacity, and Statistical Equilibrium
  • Allee Effects
  • Modeling in Conservation Biology
  • Modeling Insect Phenology
  • Stochastic Population Modeling

Outreach Projects

Guest presentations in K-12 classrooms.