Recent Miller Lab Publications

2017

Ryan, W. H., E. S. Gornish, L. Christenson, S. Halpern, S. Henderson, G. LeBuhn, and T. E. Miller.  2016.  A toolbox for initiating and managing long-term data collections in academia.  American Biology Teacher, in press.

2016

Gray, S., T. Poisot, E. Harvey, N. Mouquet, T. Miller, and D. Gravel.  2016.  Temperature and trophic structure are driving microbial productivity along a biogeographical gradient.  Ecography 39:981-989. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01748.

Miller, T. E. and M. Lauck. 2016.  Coastal Dune Habitats.  In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology. Ed. David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press.

Reid, R. W., Y. Luc, S. Yan, T. Miller, and B. Song. 2016. Transcriptome dataset of halophyte beach morning glory, a close wild relative of sweet potato. Frontiers in Plant Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01267

2015

Gornish, E. S., and T. E. Miller.  2015.  Plant community responses to simultaneous changes in temperature, nitrogen availability, and invasion.  PlosOne DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123715.

Miller, T. E.  2015.  Effects of disturbance on vegetation by sand accretion and erosion across coastal dune habitats on a barrier island. AoB Plants 7: plv003. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plv003

2014

Miller, T. E., E. Moran, and C. P. terHorst.  2014.  Rethinking niche evolution: experiments with natural communities of protozoa in pitcher plants.  American Naturalist 184:277-283.

Paisie T. K. , T. E. Miller, O. U. Mason.  2014. Effects of a ciliate protozoa predator on microbial communities in pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) leaves. PLoS ONE 9(11):e113384. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113384 

Pastore, A. I., C. M. Prather, E. S. Gornish, W. H. Ryan, R. D. Ellis, and T. E. Miller.  2014.  Testing the competition–colonization trade-off with a 32-year study of a saxicolous lichen community.  Ecology 2014 95:306-315.

2013

Gornish, E.S., J. A. Hamilton, A. Barberan, B. M. Benito, A. Binzer, J. E. DeMeester, R. Gruwez, B. Moreira, S. Taheri, S. Tomiolo, C. Vinagre, P. Vuarin, and J. Weaver. 2013.  Interdisciplinary climate change collaborations are essential for early-career scientists.  EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, in press.

Gornish, E. S., and T. E. Miller. 2013. Using long-term census data to inform restoration methods for coastal dune vegetation.  Estuaries and Coasts 36:1014-1023. PDF

Monge, J. and Gornish, E.S. 2013.  Mechanisms of facilitation on a barrier island.  Journal of Coastal Research, in press.

2012

Baiser, B., N. J. Gotelli, H. L. Buckley, T. E. Miller, and A. M. Ellison. 2012. Geographic variation in network structure of a nearctic aquatic food web.  Global Ecology and Biogeography: 21:579-591.

Ellis, R. D., and J. E. Powers. 2012. Gag grouper, marine reserves, and density-dependent sex change in the Gulf of Mexico. Fisheries Research 115-116:89-98.

Ibanez, I., E. S. Gornish, L. Buckley, D. M. Debinski, J. Hellman, B. Helmuth, J. HilleRislambers, A. M. Latimer, A. J. Miller-Rushing, and M. Uriarte.  2012.  Moving forward in global-change ecology; capitalizing on natural variability.  Ecology and Evolution. First published online: 29 NOV 2012 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.433

Kadowaki, K., B. D. Inouye, and T. E. Miller.  2012.  Assembly-history dynamics of a pitcher-plant protozoan community in experimental microcosms.  PLoS ONE 7: e42651. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042651.  PDF

Miller, T. E. and C. P. terHorst. 2012. Testing successional hypotheses of stability, heterogeneity, and diversity in pitcher-plant inquiline communities.  Oecologia 170:243-251.  PDF

Miller, T. E. and C. P. terHorst. Indirect Effects in Communities and Ecosystems.  In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology. Ed. David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Pastore, A. I., and F. L. Russell.  2012.  Insect herbivore effects on resource allocation to shoots and roots in Lespedeza capitata.  Plant Ecology 213:843-851.

2011

Mouquet, N., B. Matthiessen, T. E. Miller, and A. Gonzalez. 2011. Extinction debt in source-sink metacommunities. PloS One 6:e17567. PDF

terHorst, C. P. 2011. Experimental evolution of protozoan traits in response to interspecific competition. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 36-46.

2010

Buckley, H., T. E. Miller, A. M. Ellison, and N. J. Gotelli. 2010. Local to continental-scale variation in the richness and composition of an aquatic food web. Journal of Global Ecology and Biogeography 19:711-723.

Gornish, E. and T. E. Miller. 2010. Effects of storm frequency on dune vegetation. Global Change Biology 16:2668-2675.

Miller, T. E., E. Gornish, and H. Buckley. 2010. Climate and coastal dune vegetation: disturbance, recovery and succession. Plant Ecology 206:97-104. PDF

terHorst, C. P. 2010. Evolution in response to direct and indirect ecological effects in pitcher plant inquiline communities. American Naturalist 176: 675-685.

terHorst, C., T. E. Miller, and D. R. Levitan. 2010. Evolution of prey in ecological time reduces the effects size of predators. Ecology 91:629-636. PDF

terHorst, C. P., T. E. Miller and E. Powell. 2010. When can competition for resources lead to ecological equivalence? Evolutionary Ecology Research 12:843-854. PDF (A version of the R program associated with this manuscript can be downloaded here).

2009

Miller, T. E, C. terHorst, and J. Burns. 2009. The ghost of competition present. American Naturalist 173:347-353. PDF

2008

Burns, Jean H., Pablo Munguia, Benjamin E. Nomann, Sarah J. Braun, Casey P. terHorst and Thomas E. Miller. 2008. Vegetative morphology and trait correlations in 54 species of Commelinaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 158:257-268. PDF

Mouquet, N., T. Daufresne, T. Miller, and S. Gray. 2008. Modelling the relationship between a pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) and its phytotelma community: mutualism or parasitism? Functional Ecology 22:728-737 PDF

Munguia, P. and T.E. Miller. 2008. Habitat destruction and metacommunity size in marine systems. Journal of Animal Ecology 77:1175-1182.

terHorst, C. and P. Munguia. 2008. Relationship between productivity and biomass in seagrass beds. Community Ecology 9:39-44.

2007

Hoekman, D., C. terHorst, A. Bauer, S. Bruan, P. Gignac, R. Hopkins, S. Joshi, K. Laskis, N. Sanscrainte, J. Travis, and T. E. Miller. 2007. Oviposition decreased in response to enriched water: a field study of the pitcher plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Ecological Entomology 32:92-96.

Munguia, P. 2007. Spatial structure of pen shell (Atrina rigida) communities. Marine Biology 152:149-156.

2006

Burns, J. H. 2006. Relatedness and environment affect traits associated with invasive and noninvasive introduced Commelinaceae. Ecological Applications 16:1367-1376.

Burns, J. H., and A. A. Winn. 2006. A comparison of plastic responses to competition by invasive and noninvasive congeners in the Commelinaceae. Biological Invasions 8:797-807.

Gray, S., T. E. Miller, N. Mouquet, and T. Daufresne. 2006. Nutrient limitation in a detritus-based container community. Hydrobiologia 573:173-181.

Mouquet, N., T. E. Miller, T. Daufresne, and J. M. Kneitel. 2006. Consequences of varying regional heterogeneity in source-sink metacommunities. Oikos 113:481-488.

2005

Miller, T. E., J. H. Burns, P. Munguia, E. L. Walters, J. M. Kneitel, P. Richards, N. Mouquet, and H. Buckley. 2005. A critical review of twenty years' use of the resource-ratio theory. American Naturalist 165:439-448.

Miller, T. E., and J. M. Kneitel. 2005. Inquiline communities in pitcher plants as a prototypical metacommunity. Pp. 122-145 in Holyoak, M., M. A. Leibold, and R. D. Holt (eds.), Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. huge PDF

2004

Knight, T., and T. E. Miller. 2004. Local adaptation within a population of Hydrocotyle bonariensis. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6:103-114.

Leibold, M. A., and T. E. Miller. 2004. From metapopulations to metacommunities. Pp. 133-150 in Hanski, I., and O. Gaggiotti (eds.), Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution of Metapopulations. Elsevier Academic Press.

Munguia, P. 2004. Successional patterns on pen shell communities at local and regional scales. J. Animal Ecology 73:64-74.

Srivastava, D. S., Kolasa, J., Bengtsson, J., Gonzalez, A., Lawler, S. P., Miller, T. E., et al. 2004. Are natural microcosms useful model systems for ecology? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 19:379-384.

2003

Kneitel, J. M. and T. E. Miller. 2003. Dispersal rates affect community composition in metacommunities of Sarracenia purpurea inquilines. American Naturalist 162:165-171.

Mouquet, N., P. Munguia, J. M. Kneitel, and T. E. Miller. 2003. Community assembly time and the relationship between local and regional species richness. Oikos 103:618-626.

Revised: August 24, 2016