Hans Otto - Department of Biology

2324 Weston Hall
Office Phone: (906) 227-2184
hotto@nmu.edu

2014 – MS, Physiological Ecology, University of Nebraska

2011 – BS, Biology, University of Nebraska

I am interested in the seasonal activity of small mammals in reference to climate change, range expansions and extensions of North American bats, pilfering among heteromyid rodents, and natural history of shrews of the genus Sorex.

• BI108 - Northern Ecosystems
• BI105 - Student Success in BI111

• Lund M. C., B. B. Larsen, D. M. Rowsey, H. W. Otto, S. Gryseeles, S. Kraberger, J. M. Custer, L. Steger, K. M. Yule, R. E. Harris, M. Worobey, K. Van Doorslaer, N. S. Upham, and A. Varsani. 2023. Using archived and biocollection samples towards deciphering the DNA virus diversity associated with rodent species in the families Cricetidae and Heteromyidae. Virology. 585: 42-60.
• Potticary, A. L., H.W. Otto, J. V. McHugh, and A. J. Moore. 2023. Spatiotemporal variation in the competitive environment, with implication for how climate change may affect a species with parental care. Ecology and Evolution, 13 (4): e9972.
• Harding, C., B. B. Larsen, H. W. Otto, A. L. Potticary, S. Kraberger, J. M. Custer, C. Suazo, N. S. Upham, M. Worobey, K. Van Doorslaer, and A. Varsani. 2023. Diverse DNA virus genomes identified in fecal samples of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) captured in Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona (USA). Virology.
• Harding, C., B. B. Larsen, S. Gryseels, H. W. Otto, C. Suazo, S. Kraberger, N. S. Upham, M. Worobey, K. Van Doorslaer, and A. Varsani. 2022. Discovery of three cycloviruses in fecal samples from silver-haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) in Arizona (USA). Archives of Virology, pp.1-5.
• Larsen, B. B., S. Gryseels, H. W. Otto, and M. Worobey. 2021. Evolution and diversity of bat and rodent Paramyxoviruses from North America. Journal of Virology. JVI. 01098-21.
• White, J. A., P. F. Freeman, H. W. Otto, and C. A. Lemen. 2020. Winter use of a rock crevice by northern long-eared myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) in Nebraska. Western North American Naturalist. 80 (1): 114-119.
• Andersen, B. R., K. Geluso, H. W. Otto, and L. Bishop-Boros. 2017. Westward expansion of the evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis) in the United States, with notes on the first record from New Mexico. Western North American Naturalist. 77(2): 223-229.
• White, J. A., P. W. Freeman, H. W. Otto, B. R. Andersen, and J. Hootman. 2017. Autumn migration of Myotis septentrionalis in Nebraska: Documentation of fall activity, migratory timing, and distance using radio-telemetry. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Science and Affiliated Societies. 511.
• Otto, H. W., J. A. Wilson, E. A. Beever, and J. A. White. 2015. Facing a changing world: thermal physiology of American pikas (Ochotona princeps), relative to climate change. Western North American Naturalist. 75(4): 429-455.
• Dreier, C., B. Adams, J. Frisch, A. Lingenfelter, T. Bridger, H. W. Otto, B. Andersen, J. A. White, and K. Geluso. 2015. Mammalian records from western Oklahoma and southwestern Kansas, including the first record of the desert shrew (Notiosorex crawfordi) in Kansas. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University. Number 333: 1-11.
• White, J. A., B. R. Andersen, H. W. Otto, C. A. Lemen, and P. W. Freeman. 2014. Winter activity of bats in southeastern Nebraska: An Acoustic Study. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Science and Affiliated Societies. 34, 80-83.
• Otto, H. W. and J. A. White. 2011. Late seasonal captures of the plains pocket mouse (Perognathus flavescens) in Iowa. The Prairie Naturalist. 43(3/4): 124-126.