Peter Turchin

Professor (Ph.D., Duke University)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Mathematics (adjunct)
University of Connecticut
75 N. Eagleville Road, U-43, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA
Tel: (860) 486-3603; Fax: (860) 486-6364
E-Mail: Peter.Turchin@UConn.edu

Measuring spatial fluxes of

swarming bark beetles in the

wilds of Louisiana

According to ISIHighlyCited.com, Turchin is one of top 250 cited authors in the field of Ecology/Environment

Current areas of research

Theoretical ecology and population dynamics in space and time, with an emphasis on interaction between models and data
Demographic and social dynamics of human populations: see Historical Dynamics page

Publications

Books:

Turchin P. 2006. War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations. Pi Press. See it at Amazon.com

Turchin, P. 2003. Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall. Princeton University Press. See it at Princeton University Press

Turchin, P. 2003. Complex Population Dynamics: a Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis. Princeton University Press. Additional stuff (known typos, NLTSM software) here.

Turchin, P. 1998. Quantitative Analysis of Movement: measuring and modeling population redistribution in plants and animals. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

Courses taught: General Ecology
Theoretical Ecology
Population Ecology
Biological Statistics

Graduate Students: Jay Bancroft (Ph.D. 1999)
Eric Schauber (Ph.D. 2000)
Kristian Omland (Ph.D. 2001)
Juan Manuel Morales (Ph.D. 2004)

Selected Journal Articles:

Burtsev M, Turchin P. 2006. Evolution of cooperative strategies from first principles. Nature in press.

Turchin P. 2003. Evolution in population dynamics. Nature 424: 257-258.

Turchin, P. 2001. Does population ecology have general laws? Oikos 94:17-26.

Turchin, P., Oksanen, L., Ekerholm, P., Oksanen, T., Henttonen, H. 2000. Are lemmings prey or predators? Nature 405: 562-565.

Turchin, P., Ellner, S.P. 2000. Living on the edge of chaos: population dynamics of Fennoscandian voles. Ecology 81: 3099-3116.

Turchin, P., Taylor A.D., Reeve J.D. 1999. Dynamical role of predators in population cycles of a forest insect: an experimental test. Science 285: 1068-1071.

Turchin, P., Hanski, I. 1997. An empirically-based model for the latitudinal gradient in vole population dynamics. American Naturalist 149:842-874.

Hanski, I., Turchin P., Korpimäki, E., and Henttonen, H. 1993. Population oscillations of boreal rodents: regulation by mustelid predators leads to chaos. Nature 364:232-235.

Turchin, P. 1990. Rarity of density dependence or population regulation with lags? Nature 344:660-663.

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