Miller Lab

Population dynamics are central to studies of distribution and abundance, including species of conservation or management concern, and are the building blocks of community- and ecosystem-level processes. Population dynamics are governed by two processes: demography and dispersal. “Demography” includes all the life cycle transitions that give rise to births and deaths, while “dispersal” refers to movement. Overlaid on these two main ingredients are the two dimensions over which population dynamics play out: time and space. From this perspective, the science of population ecology is surprisingly simple. There are two dimensions along which populations may change (time and space) and two...