Research

Dana is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences and Program Coordinator for Mizzou Tigers for Tigers, the university’s conservation organization working to protect tigers in the wild.

For her dissertation, Dana studied the effects of forest fragmentation and nest predation on body condition and reproductive output of Indigo Buntings, using mass corrected for structural size and stress hormone (plasma corticosterone) levels. She also analyzed blood samples for paternity and to determine if offspring sex ratios vary with maternal condition or landscape fragmentation.

Publications

Morris, D. L., D. Western, and D. Maitumo. In Press. Pastoralist’s livestock and settlements influence game bird diversity and abundance in a savannah ecosystem in southern Kenya. African Journal of Ecology.

Washburn, B. E., J. J. Millspaugh, D. L. Morris, J. Faaborg, and J. H. Schultz. 2007. Using a commercially available enzyme immunoassay to quantify testosterone in avian plasma. The Condor 109:181-186.

Washburn BE, DL Morris, JJ Millspaugh, J Faaborg, JH Schulz. 2002. Using a commericially available radioimmunoassay to quantify corticosterone in avian plasma. Condor 104(3):558-563.

Morris DL, FR Thompson III. 1998. Effects of habitat and invertebrate density on abundance and foraging behavior of brown-headed cowbirds. Auk 115(2):376-385.

Cawthorn JM, DL Morris, ED Ketterson, V Nolan Jr. 1998. Influence of experimentally elevated testosterone on nest defence in dark-eyed juncos. Animal Behaviour 56(3):617-621.

Contact Information

Office: 302 ABNR Building
Mailing Address: 302 ABNR Building, Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: (573) 882-2187
Fax: (573) 882-5070
Email: MorrisD at missouri.edu

Avian Ecology at MU

University of Missouri - Columbia

Dana Morris

Adjunt Assistant Professor

Program Coordinator, Mizzou Tigers for Tigers

Research

Publications

Contact Information