Miro is an ecologist interested in spatial population dynamics, climate change, agroecology, and soil ecology. His current projects involve 1) measuring the response of trees at alpine tree-line to climate change on the western side of Pikes Peak, and 2) bridging empirical observation of spatial metapopulation dynamics of yucca aphids and coccinelid beetles with mathematical theory. His most recent publication, “How the aphids got their spots: Predation drives self-organization of aphid populations in a patchy habitat,” is in the journal Oikos.