David Miller
Associate Professor of Wildlife Population Ecology

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411 Forest Resources
University Park, PA - dxm84@psu.edu
- 814-863-1598
Research Summary
Population ecology, quantitative ecology, avian and amphibian ecology, conservation decision analysis, life-history evolution.
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Publication Tags
Amphibians Sampling Distribution Geographical Distribution Amphibian Modeling Methodology Population Climate Rate Plasticity Longevity Life History Wildlife Ecology Method Corticosterone Drought Sex Chromosomes Geographical Variation Permeability Physiology Biogeography Salamander MonitoringMost Recent Publications
A practical guide to understanding and validating complex models using data simulations
Graziella V. DiRenzo, Ephraim Hanks, David A.W. Miller, 2023, Methods in Ecology and Evolution on p. 203-217
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 on p. 1790-1804
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
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
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
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
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: A framework for data fusion
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
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
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
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
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
Determining Occurrence Dynamics when False Positives Occur: Estimating the Range Dynamics of Wolves from Public Survey Data
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
Assessing global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy and richness by integrating local camera trap surveys
Lindsey N. Rich, Courtney L. Davis, Zach J. Farris, David A.W. Miller, Jody M. Tucker, Sandra Hamel, Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Robin Steenweg, Mario S. Di Bitetti, Kanchan Thapa, Mamadou D. Kane, S. Sunarto, Nathaniel P. Robinson, Agustín Paviolo, Paula Cruz, Quinton Martins, Navid Gholikhani, Ateih Taktehrani, Jesse Whittington, Febri A. Widodo, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Claudia Wultsch, Bart J. Harmsen, Marcella J. Kelly, 2017, Global Ecology and Biogeography on p. 918-929
Decades of field data reveal that turtles senesce in the wild
Daniel A. Warner, David A.W. Miller, Anne M. Bronikowski, Fredric J. Janzen, 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 6502-6507
News Articles Featuring David Miller
Jun 23, 2022
Secrets of reptile and amphibian aging revealed
At 190 years old, Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise recently made news for being the “oldest living land animal in the world.” Although, anecdotal evidence like this exists that some species of turtles and other ectotherms — or ‘cold-blooded’ animals — live a long time, evidence is spotty and mostly focused on animals living in zoos or a few individuals living in the wild.
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May 07, 2019
Institutes of Energy and the Environment announces seed grant recipients
Several Huck researchers are among the recipients of 2018-19 IEE seed grants.
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Sep 23, 2018
Why removal of cougars and wolves from Pa. means more Lyme disease
The removal of wolves and cougars in Pennsylvania long ago is responsible for today’s deer problems — and maybe even the explosion of tick-related Lyme disease, a new study suggests.
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