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40
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5363
World Ranking
6185
National Ranking
2097

Overview

David A. W. Miller is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several interconnected subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The core topics of David A. W. Miller's work include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation
  • Avian ecology and behavior

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Evan H. Campbell Grant
  • David Muñóz
  • Erin Muths
  • Anne M. Bronikowski
  • Robert N. Fisher

David A. W. Miller has contributed to multiple scholarly venues, publishing extensively in:

  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecology

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by David A. W. Miller include:

  • A Synthesis of Evidence of Drivers of Amphibian Declines, 2020, Herpetologica
  • Migratory strategy drives species-level variation in bird sensitivity to vegetation green-up, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Integrating citizen-science and planned-survey data improves species distribution estimates, 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • Demographic consequences of phenological asynchrony for North American songbirds, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Threading the needle: How humans influence predator-prey spatiotemporal interactions in a multiple-predator system, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology

Best Publications

  • Improving occupancy estimation when two types of observational error occur: non‐detection and species misidentification

    David A Miller;James D Nichols;Brett T Mcclintock;Evan H Campbell Grant

  • 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

  • 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

  • Integrating multiple data sources in species distribution modeling: a framework for data fusion*

    Krishna Pacifici;Brian J. Reich;David A.W. Miller;Beth Gardner

  • Trends in Amphibian Occupancy in the United States

    Michael J. Adams;David A. W. Miller;David A. W. Miller;Erin Muths;Paul Stephen Corn

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Thierry Chambert;Thierry Chambert;David A. W. Miller;James D. Nichols

  • Quantifying climate sensitivity and climate-driven change in North American amphibian communities

    David A. W. Miller;Evan H. Campbell Grant;Erin Muths;Staci M. Amburgey

  • 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

  • A Synthesis of Evidence of Drivers of Amphibian Declines

    Evan H. Campbell Grant;David A.W. Miller;Erin Muths

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

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Joint estimation of habitat dynamics and species interactions: disturbance reduces co-occurrence of non-native predators with an endangered toad.

    David A. W. Miller;Cheryl S. Brehme;James E. Hines;James D. Nichols

  • Ecological correlates of the spatial co-occurrence of sympatric mammalian carnivores worldwide

    Courtney L. Davis;Lindsey N. Rich;Zachary J. Farris;Zachary J. Farris;Marcella J. Kelly

  • Decades of field data reveal that turtles senesce in the wild

    Daniel A. Warner;David A. W. Miller;Anne M. Bronikowski;Fredric J. Janzen

  • Individual variation in baseline and stress-induced corticosterone and prolactin levels predicts parental effort by nesting mourning doves

    David A. Miller;Carol M. Vleck;David L. Otis

  • Migratory strategy drives species-level variation in bird sensitivity to vegetation green-up

    Casey Youngflesh;Jacob Socolar;Jacob Socolar;Bruna R Amaral;Ali Arab

  • The diversity of population responses to environmental change.

    Fernando Colchero;Owen R Jones;Dalia A. Conde;David Hodgson

  • Estimating patterns and drivers of infection prevalence and intensity when detection is imperfect and sampling error occurs

    David A. W. Miller;Brooke L. Talley;Karen R. Lips;Evan H. Campbell Grant

  • Predator functional response and prey survival: direct and indirect interactions affecting a marked prey population.

    David A. Miller;James B. Grand;Thomas F. Fondell;Michael Anthony

  • Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)

    David L. Otis;John H. Schulz;David Miller;R. E. Mirarchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Evan H. Campbell Grant
Evan H. Campbell Grant United States Geological Survey
Gary M. Fellers
Gary M. Fellers United States Geological Survey
Erin Muths
Erin Muths United States Geological Survey
Anne M. Bronikowski
Anne M. Bronikowski Iowa State University
Larissa L. Bailey
Larissa L. Bailey Colorado State University
Robert N. Fisher
Robert N. Fisher United States Geological Survey
Fredric J. Janzen
Fredric J. Janzen Iowa State University
Susan C. Walls
Susan C. Walls United States Geological Survey
James E. Hines
James E. Hines United States Geological Survey
Brian J. Reich
Brian J. Reich North Carolina State University

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