David Miller

Associate Professor of Wildlife Population Ecology

David Miller

Research Summary

Population ecology, quantitative ecology, avian and amphibian ecology, conservation decision analysis, life-history evolution.

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Publication Tags

Amphibians Rate Geographical Distribution Distribution Amphibian Sampling Modeling Climate Methodology Plasticity Deer Species Occurrence Drought Life History Disturbance Effect Population Corticosterone Biogeography Permeability Sex Chromosomes Predator Physiology Geographical Variation Salamander

Most Recent Publications

Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity

Beth A. Reinke, Hugo Cayuela, Fredric J. Janzen, Jean François Lemaître, Jean Michel Gaillard, A. Michelle Lawing, John B. Iverson, Ditte G. Christiansen, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Gregorio Sánchez-Montes, Jorge Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Francis L. Rose, Nicola Nelson, Susan Keall, Alain J. Crivelli, Theodoros Nazirides, Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, Klaus Henle, Emiliano Mori, Gaëtan Guiller, Rebecca Homan, Anthony Olivier, Erin Muths, Blake R. Hossack, Xavier Bonnet, David S. Pilliod, Marieke Lettink, Tony Whitaker, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Michael G. Gardner, Marc Cheylan, Françoise Poitevin, Ana Golubović, Ljiljana Tomović, Dragan Arsovski, Richard A. Griffiths, Jan W. Arntzen, Jean Pierre Baron, Jean François Le Galliard, Thomas Tully, Luca Luiselli, Massimo Capula, Lorenzo Rugiero, Rebecca McCaffery, Lisa A. Eby, Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Frank Mazzotti, David Pearson, Brad A. Lambert, David M. Green, Nathalie Jreidini, Claudio Angelini, Graham Pyke, Jean Marc Thirion, Pierre Joly, Jean Paul Léna, Anton D. Tucker, Col Limpus, Pauline Priol, Aurélien Besnard, Pauline Bernard, Kristin Stanford, Richard King, Justin Garwood, Jaime Bosch, Franco L. Souza, Jaime Bertoluci, Shirley Famelli, Kurt Grossenbacher, Omar Lenzi, Kathleen Matthews, Sylvain Boitaud, Deanna H. Olson, Tim S. Jessop, Graeme R. Gillespie, Jean Clobert, Murielle Richard, Andrés Valenzuela-Sánchez, Gary M. Fellers, Patrick M. Kleeman, Brian J. Halstead, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Phillip G. Byrne, Thierry Frétey, Bernard Le Garff, Pauline Levionnois, John C. Maerz, Julian Pichenot, Kurtuluş Olgun, Nazan Üzüm, Aziz Avcı, Claude Miaud, Johan Elmberg, Gregory P. Brown, Richard Shine, Nathan F. Bendik, Lisa O'Donnell, Courtney L. Davis, Michael J. Lannoo, Rochelle M. Stiles, Robert M. Cox, Aaron M. Reedy, Daniel A. Warner, Eric Bonnaire, Kristine Grayson, Roberto Ramos-Targarona, Eyup Baskale, David Muñoz, John Measey, F. Andre de Villiers, Will Selman, Victor Ronget, Anne M. Bronikowski, David A.W. Miller, 2022, Science on p. 1459-1466

Using interview surveys and multispecies occupancy models to inform vertebrate conservation

Rajeev Pillay, David A.W. Miller, R. Raghunath, Atul A. Joshi, Charudutt Mishra, A. J.T. Johnsingh, M. D. Madhusudan, 2022, Conservation Biology

Sex-related differences in aging rate are associated with sex chromosome system in amphibians

Hugo Cayuela, Jean François Lemaître, Jean Paul Léna, Victor Ronget, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Erin Muths, David S. Pilliod, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Gregorio Sánchez-Montes, Jorge Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Graham Pyke, Kurt Grossenbacher, Omar Lenzi, Jaime Bosch, Karen H. Beard, Lawrence L. Woolbright, Brad A. Lambert, David M. Green, Nathalie Jreidini, Justin M. Garwood, Robert N. Fisher, Kathleen Matthews, David Dudgeon, Anthony Lau, Jeroen Speybroeck, Rebecca Homan, Robert Jehle, Eyup Başkale, Emiliano Mori, Jan W. Arntzen, Pierre Joly, Rochelle M. Stiles, Michael J. Lannoo, John C. Maerz, Winsor H. Lowe, Andrés Valenzuela-Sánchez, Ditte G. Christiansen, Claudio Angelini, Jean Marc Thirion, Juha Merilä, Guarino R. Colli, Mariana M. Vasconcellos, Taissa C.V. Boas, Ísis da C. Arantes, Pauline Levionnois, Beth A. Reinke, Cristina Vieira, Gabriel A.B. Marais, Jean Michel Gaillard, David A.W. Miller, 2022, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution on p. 346-356

Ignoring species availability biases occupancy estimates in single-scale occupancy models

Graziella V. DiRenzo, David A.W. Miller, Evan H.C. Grant, 2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

How does landscape permeability affect the movement of eastern red-backed salamanders?

Rachel Snyder, Emily Mausteller, Tanya J.Hawley Matlaga, David A.W. Miller, 2022, Journal of Wildlife Management

Joint estimation of growth and survival from mark–recapture data to improve estimates of senescence in wild populations: Reply

Anne M. Bronikowski, Beth A. Reinke, Luke Hoekstra, Fredric J. Janzen, David A.W. Miller, 2022, Ecology

Geographic variation and thermal plasticity shape salamander metabolic rates under current and future climates

David Muñoz, David Miller, Rudolf Schilder, Evan H. Campbell Grant, 2022, Ecology and Evolution

Over a decade of field physiology reveals life-history specific strategies to drought in garter snakes (Thamnophis legans)

Kaitlyn G. Holden, Eric J. Gangloff, David A.W. Miller, Ashley R. Hedrick, Carli Dinsmore, Alison Basel, Greta Kutz, Anne M. Bronikowski, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Integrating citizen-science and planned-survey data improves species distribution estimates

Viviane Zulian, David A.W. Miller, Gonçalo Ferraz, 2021, Diversity and Distributions on p. 2498-2509

Threading the needle

Asia Murphy, Duane R. Diefenbach, Mark Ternent, Matt Lovallo, David Miller, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology on p. 2377-2390

Most-Cited Papers

Quantitative evidence for the effects of multiple drivers on continental-scale amphibian declines

Evan H.Campbell Grant, David A.W. Miller, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Michael J. Adams, Staci M. Amburgey, Thierry Chambert, Sam S. Cruickshank, Robert N. Fisher, David M. Green, Blake R. Hossack, Pieter T.J. Johnson, Maxwell B. Joseph, Tracy A.G. Rittenhouse, Maureen E. Ryan, J. Hardin Waddle, Susan C. Walls, Larissa L. Bailey, Gary M. Fellers, Thomas A. Gorman, Andrew M. Ray, David S. Pilliod, Steven J. Price, Daniel Saenz, Walt Sadinski, Erin Muths, 2016, Scientific Reports

Trends in Amphibian Occupancy in the United States

Michael J. Adams, David A.W. Miller, Erin Muths, Paul Stephen Corn, Evan H.Campbell Grant, Larissa L. Bailey, Gary M. Fellers, Robert N. Fisher, Walter J. Sadinski, Hardin Waddle, Susan C. Walls, 2013, PLoS One

Integrating multiple data sources in species distribution modeling

Krishna Pacifici, Brian J. Reich, David A.W. Miller, Beth Gardner, Glenn Stauffer, Susheela Singh, Alexa McKerrow, Jaime A. Collazo, 2017, Ecology on p. 840-850

Large-scale recovery of an endangered amphibian despite ongoing exposure to multiple stressors

Roland A. Knapp, Gary M. Fellers, Patrick M. Kleeman, David A.W. Miller, Vance T. Vredenburg, Erica Bree Rosenblum, Cheryl J. Briggs, 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 11889-11894

Using camera trapping and hierarchical occupancy modelling to evaluate the spatial ecology of an African mammal community

Lindsey N. Rich, David A.W. Miller, Hugh S. Robinson, J. Weldon McNutt, Marcella J. Kelly, 2016, Journal of Applied Ecology on p. 1225-1235

Modeling false positive detections in species occurrence data under different study designs

Thierry Chambert, David A.W. Miller, James D. Nichols, 2015, Ecology on p. 332-339

The recent past and promising future for data integration methods to estimate species’ distributions

David A.W. Miller, Krishna Pacifici, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Brian J. Reich, 2019, Methods in Ecology and Evolution on p. 22-37

Determining Occurrence Dynamics when False Positives Occur

David A.W. Miller, James D. Nichols, Justin A. Gude, Lindsey N. Rich, Kevin M. Podruzny, James E. Hines, Michael S. Mitchell, 2013, PLoS One on p. e65808

Joint estimation of habitat dynamics and species interactions

David A.W. Miller, Cheryl S. Brehme, James E. Hines, James D. Nichols, Robert N. Fisher, 2012, Journal of Animal Ecology on p. 1288-1297

Experimental investigation of false positive errors in auditory species occurrence surveys

David A.W. Miller, Linda A. Weir, Brett T. McClintock, Evan H.Campbell Grant, Larissa L. Bailey, Theodore R. Simons, 2012, Ecological Applications on p. 1665-1674