Brian Dennis reprints available as pdf files:
Taper, M.L., S.R. Lele, J.M. Ponciano, B. Dennis, and C.L. Jerde. 2021. Assessing
the global and local uncertainty in scientific evidence in the presence of model misspecification. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9.
Dennis, B., J.M. Ponciano, M.L. Taper, and S.R.Lele. 2019. Errors in statistical inference under model misspecification: evidence, hypothesis testing, and AIC. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7.
Hanley, B., and B. Dennis. 2019. Analytical expressions for the eigenvalues, demographic quantities, and extinction criteria arising from a three-stage wildlife population matrix. Natural Resource Modeling 32.
Dennis, B., and J.M. Ponciano. 2014. Density-dependent state-space model for population-abundance data with unequal time intervals. Ecology 95:2069-2076.
Stevens, B.S., and B. Dennis. 2013. Wildlife mortality from infrastructure collisions: statistical modeling of count data from carcass surveys. Ecology 94:2087-2096.
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. 2010. 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.
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.
Dennis, B., J.M. Ponciano, S.R. Lele, M.L. Taper, D.F. Staples. 2006. Estimating density dependence, process noise, and observation error. Ecological Monographs 76:323-341.
Desharnais, R.A., R.F. Costantino, J.M. Cushing, S.M. Henson, B. Dennis, and A.A. King. 2006. Experimental support of the scaling rule for demographic stochasticity. Ecology Letters 9:537-547.
Staples, D.F., M.L. Taper, and B. Dennis. 2004. Estimating population trend and process variation for PVA in the presence of sampling error. Ecology 85:923-929.
Kemp, W.P., J. Bosch and B. Dennis, 2004. Oxygen consumption during the life cycle of the prepupa- wintering bee Megachile rotundata and the adult-wintering bee Osimia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97:161-170.
King,
A.A., R.F. Costantino, J.M. Cushing, S.M. Henson, R.A. Desharnais,
and B. Dennis. 2004. Anatomy of a chaotic attractor: subtle model-predicted
patterns revealed in population data. Proceedings
of the
Henson, S.M., A.A. King , R.F. Costantino, J.M. Cushing, B. Dennis, and R.A. Desharnais. 2003. Explaining and predicting patterns in stochastic population systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270:1549-1553.
Edmunds,
J., J.M. Cushing, R.F. Costantino, S.M. Henson, B. Dennis, and R.A. Desharnais. 2003.
Dennis, B. R.A. Desharnais, J.M. Cushing, S.M. Henson, and R.F. Costantino. 2003. Can noise induce chaos? Oikos 102:329-339.
Ives, A.R., B. Dennis, K.L. Cottingham, and S.R. Carpenter. 2003. Estimating community stability and ecological interactions from time-series data. Ecological Monographs 73:301-330.
Dennis, B. 2002. Allee effects in stochastic populations. Oikos 96:389-401.
Henson, S.M., R.F. Constantino, R.A. Desharnais, J.M. Cushing, and B. Dennis. 2002. Basins of attraction: population dynamics with two stable 4-cycles. Oikos 98:17-24.
King, A.A., R.A. Desharnais, S.M. Henson, R.F. Costantino, J.M. Cushing, and B. Dennis. 2002. Random perturbations and lattice effects in chaotic populations. Science 297:2163a.
Dennis, B., R.A. Desharnais, J.M. Cushing, S.M. Henson, and R.F. Costantino. 2001. Estimating chaos and complex dynamics in an insect population. Ecological Monographs 71:277-303.
Dennis, B., W.P. Kemp, and M.L. Taper. 1998. Joint density dependence. Ecology 79:426-441. (Testing for synchrony in multiple populations)
Dennis, B. 1996. Discussion: should ecologists become Bayesians? Ecological Applications 6:1095-1103.
Dennis, B., and M. L. Taper. 1994. Density dependence in time series observations of natural populations: estimation and testing. Ecological Monographs 64:205-224.
Kemp, W. P., and B. Dennis. 1991. Toward a general model of rangeland grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) phenology in the steppe region of Montana. Environmental Entomology 20:1504-1515. (Earliest paper in ecological literature to use AIC?)
Dennis, B., P. L. Munholland, and J. M. Scott. 1991. Estimation of growth and extinction parameters for endangered species. Ecological Monographs 61:115-143.
Dennis, B. 1989. Stochastic differential equations as insect population models. Pp 219-238 in L. McDonald, B. Manly, J. Lockwood, and J. Logan, eds. Estimation and analysis of insect populations. Lecture notes in statistics, vol. 55. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Big file! Scanned into pdf)
Dennis, B. 1989. Allee effects: population growth, critical density, and the chance of extinction. Natural Resource Modeling 3:481-538. (Big file! Scanned into pdf)
Dennis, B., and W. P. Kemp. 1988. Further statistical inference methods for a stochastic model of insect phenology. Environmental Entomology 17:887-893.
Dennis, B., and R. F. Costantino. 1988. Analysis of steady-state populations with the gamma abundance model: application to Tribolium. Ecology 69:1200-1213.
Dennis, B., and G. P. Patil. 1988. Applications in ecology. Pp 303-330 in E. L. Crow and K. Shimizu, eds. Lognormal distributions: theory and applications. Marcel Dekker, New York.
Kemp, W. P., B. Dennis, and R. C. Beckwith. 1986. Stochastic phenology model for the western spruce budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Environmental Entomology 15:547-554.
Dennis, B., W. P. Kemp, and R. C. Beckwith. 1986. Stochastic model of insect phenology: estimation and testing. Environmental Entomology 15:540-546.
Dennis, B, and G. P. Patil. 1984. The gamma distribution and weighted multimodal gamma distributions as models of population abundance. Mathematical Biosciences 68:187-212.
Dennis, B. 1981. Extinction and waiting times in birth-death processes: applications to endangered species and insect pest control. Pp 289-301 in C. Taillie, G. P. Patil, and B. A. Baldessari, eds. Statistical distributions in scientific work, vol. 6. D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland.
Dennis, B., G. P. Patil, O. Rossi, S. Stehman, and C. Taillie. 1979. A bibliography of literature on ecological diversity and related methodology. Pp 319-353 in J. F. Grassle, G. P. Patil, W. Smith, and C. Taillie, eds. Ecological diversity in theory and practice. International Co-operative Publishing House, Fairland, Maryland.
Dennis, B. 1978. Analytical solution to an open-system model of population growth. Mathematical Biosciences 40:167-169.
Brian Dennis slides
from recent presentations:
Evidence in normal linear models (Applied Statistics Seminar Series, University of Idaho, 2023)
How to fix statistical hypothesis testing (Applied Statistics Seminar Series, University of Idaho, 2023)
Use R in STEM courses (Seminar in Dept Physics, University of Idaho, 2016)
The fourth R: using R in STEM courses (National Science Teachers Association, San Antonio, 2013)
Hierarchical models are not Bayesian (Applied Statistics Seminar Series, University of Idaho, 2013)
Stochastic logistic with environmental noise (Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, 2011)
Allee effects in stochastic populations (various venues, 2009)
Estimating ecological trend (ESA, Milwaukee, 2008)
Density
dependence, process noise, and observation error (ESA,
R programs
Dennis and Taper 1994 parametric bootstrap likelihood ratio test of density dependence
Staples et al. 2004, Humbert et al. 2009, Exponential growth state space model
Dennis et al. 2006 Gompertz state space model
Book
B. Dennis. 2013. The R Student Companion. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. (Amazon link) The premise of the
book is that R could/should be used instead of calculators in high school and college science and math courses.