It is designed to look at movement on the time scale of a few generations, using data at multiple time points. In the modeling step, parametric models are used to keep dimensionality low and the models interpretable.
Inference then is done in a maximum likelihood framework.
So far I have mainly worked on modeling a simple, haploid situation in order to assess the potential of this framework. In a side project, I have applied exact monte carlo tests for species associations to a setof data comprising records of parasite incidence on a planting of poplartrees. The the trees in the planting were all members of a threegeneration pedigree, so we were able to test for host genotype effects onparasite incidence as well as for positive or negative interactionsbetween the species.