Publications of T. E. Miller
Miller, T. E., and Cuellar-Gempeler, C. (submitted). Experimental tests of the combined effects of heterogeneity and dispersal in a metacommunity. Ecology. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Beldi, L., Henderson, A., Lee, M., Luneau, J., Mazel, F., Miller, T. E., Padmanabha, P., Raach, B., van Vliet, S., Weiss, A., Meacock, O., and Vogel, M. (in press). A microbiologist's field guide to community ecology. ISME Communications.
Cuellar-Gempeler, C., terHorst, C., and Miller, T. E. (2026). Opposing effects of succession on bacterial diversity and function result in negative biodiversity-function relationships within pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) leaves. Ecology, 207. doi:https://doi.org/10.1086/738725
Moore, L., Hacker, S., Breithaupt, J., deVries, S., Miller, T. E., Ruggiero, P., and Zinnert, J. (2025). Ecomorphodynamics of coastal foredune evolution. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment.
Spaeth, M. K., Miller, T. E., Gornish, E. S., and Barberan, A. (2025). Soil microbial community diversity varies by coastal dune successional stage. Journal of Coastal Research. doi:DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-24-00059
Pilipczak, N. C., and Miller, T. E. (2025). The Timing of Nectar Production in Leaves of the Purple Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Southeastern Naturalist, 24, 440-448.
Miller, T. E., Pastore, A., Cuellar-Gempeler, C., Cantor, E., and Mason, O. (2023). Effects of community richness and competitive asymmetry on protozoa evolution in Sarracenia purpurea leaves. American Naturalist, 200, 691-703. doi:https://doi.org/10.1086/721010
Cuellar-Gempeler, C., terHorst, C., Mason, O., and Miller, T. E. (2022). Predator dispersal in pitcher plant microbial metacommunities influences predator distribution but not prey diversity. Ecology. doi:DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3912
Miller, T. E., and Travis, J. (Eds.). (2022). Foundations of Ecology II [edited book]. University of Chicago.
Miller, T. E., and Cooper, G. (2022). Competition, Coexistence, and Extinction. In Thomas E. Miller, and Joseph Travis (Eds.), Foundations of Ecology II (pp. 151-162). University of Chicago.
Travis, J., Miller, T. E., and Rodd, H. (2022). General Introduction. In Thomas E. Miller, and Joseph Travis (Eds.), Foundations of Ecology II (pp. 1-10). University of Chicago.
Miller, T. E., and Bascompte, J. (2022). Incorporating Trophic and Spatial Structure. In Thomas E. Miller, and Joseph Travis (Eds.), Foundations of Ecology II (pp. 397-407). University of Chicago.
Rodriguez, Z., Holdridge, E., and Miller, T. E. (2022). Understanding spatially complex cryptic coloration in the Green Lynx Spider Peucetia viridans. Ecological Entomology, 47, 481-487. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13132
Vogel, M., Mason, O., and Miller, T. E. (2021). Composition of seagrass microbial phyllosphere communities suggests rapid environmental regulation of community structure. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 97. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiab013
Pastore, A., Barabas, G., Bimler, M., Mayfield, M., and Miller, T. E. (2021). The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-01383-y
Vogel, M., Mason, O., and Miller, T. E. (2020). Host and environmental determinants of microbial community structure in the marine phyllosphere. PLoS One, 15, e0235441. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0235441
Green, M. D., and Miller, T. (2019). Germination traits explain deterministic processes in the assembly of early successional coastal dune vegetation. Estuaries and Coasts, 42, 1097-1103. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-019-00550
Ryan, W. H., and Miller, T. E. (2019). Reproductive strategy changes across latitude in a clonal sea anemone. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 611, 129-141. doi:https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12862
Miller, T. E., Buhler, L. M., and Cuellar-Gempeler, C. (2019). Species-specific differences determine responses to a resource pulse and predation. Oecologia, 8, 169-178. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04393
Miller, T. E., Bradshaw, W. E., and Holzapfel, C. M. (2018). Pitcher-plant communities as model systems for addressing fundamental questions in ecology and evolution. In Ellison, Aaron M., and Adamec, Lubomir (Eds.), Carnivorous plants: physiology, ecology, and evolution (pp. 333-348). Oxford University Press.
Savage, C., and Miller, T. E. (2018). A test of group foraging by the carnivorous plant, Sarracenia flava: are pitcher plants like wolves? American Midland Naturalist, 179, 78-85. doi:https://doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-179.1
terHorst, C. P., Zee, P. C., Heath, K. D., Miller, T., Pastore, A. I., Patel, S., Schreiber, S. J., Wade, M. J., and Walsh, M. R. (2018). Evolution in a community context: Trait responses to multiple species interactions. American Naturalist, 191, 1-13.
Canter, E., Cuellar-Gempeler, C., Pastore, A., Miller, T. E., and Mason, O. (2018). Predator identity more than predator richness structures aquatic microbial assemblages in Sarracenia purpurea leaves. Ecology, 99, 652-660. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2128
Ryan, W. H., Gornish, E. S., Christenson, L., Halpern, S., Henderson, S., LeBuhn, G., and Miller, T. E. (2017). A toolbox for initiating and managing long-term data collections with students and citizen scientists. American Biology Teacher, 79, 28-34.
Miller, T., and Lauck, M. (2016). Coastal Dunes. Oxford Bibliographies Online, NA.
Gray, S. M., Poisot, T., Harvey, E., Mouquet, N., Miller, T. E., and Gravel, D. (2016). Temperature and trophic structure are driving microbial productivity along a biogeographical gradient. Ecography, 39, 981-989. doi:10.1111/ecog.01748
Reid, R. W., Luc, Y., Yan, S., Miller, T., and Song, B. (2016). Transcriptome dataset of halophyte beach morning glory, a close wild relative of sweet potato. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7, 1267. doi:10.3389/fpls.2016.0126
Miller, T. (2015). Effects of disturbance on vegetation by sand accretion and erosion across coastal dune habitats on a barrier island. AoB Plants, 2015, 10. doi:10.1093/aobpla/plv003 Gornish, E. S., and Miller, T. (2015). Plant community responses to simultaneous changes in temperature, nitrogen availability, and invasion. PlosOne, NA. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123715 Paisie, T. K., Miller, T. E., and Mason, O. U. (2014). Effects of a ciliate protozoa predator on microbial communities in pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) leaves. PlosOne, 9, 1. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113384 Miller, T. E., Moran, E. R., and terHorst, C. P. (2014). Rethinking niche evolution: experiments with natural communities of protozoa in pitcher plants. American Naturalist, 184, 277-283. Pastore, A., Prather, C., Gornish Elise S., Ryan, W., Ellis, R., and Miller, T. E. (2014). Testing the competition-colonization trade-off with a 32 year study of a saxicolous lichen community. Ecology, 95, 306-315. Gornish, E. S., and Miller, T. E. (2013). Using long-term census data to inform restoration methods for coastal dune vegetation. Estuaries and Coasts, 36, 1014-1023. Kadowaki, K., Inouye, B. D., and Miller, T. E. (2012). Assembly-history dynamics of a pitcher-plant protozoan community in experimental microcosms. PLoS One, 7, e42651. Baiser, B., Gotelli, N. J., Buckley, H. L., Miller, T. E., and Ellison, A. M. (2012). Geographic variation in network structure of a nearctic aquatic food web. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21, 579–591. Miller, T. E., and terHorst, C. P. (2012). Testing successional hypotheses of stability, heterogeneity, and diversity in pitcher-plant inquiline communities. Oecologia, 170, 243–251. Miller, T. E., and terHorst, C. P. (2012). Indirect effects in communities and ecosystems. New York: Oxford University Press, NA, NA. Mouquet, N., Matthiessen, B., Miller, T. E., and Gonzalez, A. (2011). Extinction debt in source-sink metacommunities. PLoS One, 6, e17567. Miller, T. E., Gornish, E., and Buckley, H. (2010). Climate and coastal dune vegetation: disturbance, recovery and succession. Plant Ecology, 206, 97–104. Gornish, E., and Miller, T. E. (2010). Effects of storm frequency on dune vegetation. Global Change Biology, 16, 2668–2675. terHorst, C., Miller, T. E., and Levitan, D. R. (2010). Evolution of prey in ecological time reduces the effects size of predators. Ecology, 91, 629–636. Buckley, H., Miller, T. E., Ellison, A. M., and Gotelli, N. J. (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. terHorst, C. P., Miller, T. E., and Powell, E. (2010). When can competition for resources lead to ecological equivalence? Evolutionary Ecology Research, 12, 843–854. Miller, T. E., terHorst, C., and Burns, J. (2009). The ghost of competition present. American Naturalist, 173, 347–353. Munguia, P., and Miller, T. E. (2008). Habitat destruction and metacommunity size in pen shell communities. Journal of Animal Ecology, 77, 1175–1182. Mouquet, N., Daufresne, T., Gray, S. M., and Miller, T. E. (2008). Modelling the relationship between a pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) and its phytotelma community: mutualism or parasitism? Functional Ecology, 22, 728–736. Burns, J. H., Munguia, P., Nomann, B. E., Braun, S. J., terHorst, C. P., and Miller, T. E. (2008). Vegetative morphology and trait correlations in 54 species of Commelinaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 158, 257–268. Miller, T. E., Burns, J. H., Munguia, P., Walters, E. L., Kneitel, J. M., Richards, P., Mouquet, N., and Buckley, H. (2007). Evaluating support for the resource-ratio hypothesis: a response to Wilson et al. American Naturalist, 169, 707–708. Hoekman, D., Bauer, A., Braun, S., Gignac, P., Hopkins, R., Joshi, S., Laskis, K., Sanscrainte, N., terHorst, C., Travis, J., and Miller, T. E. (2007). Oviposition decreased in response to enriched water: a field study of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Ecological Entomology, 32, 92–96. Mouquet, N., Miller, T. E., Daufresne, T., and Kneitel, J. M. (2006). Consequences of varying regional heterogeneity in source-sink metacommunities. Oikos, 113, 481–488. Gray, S., Miller, T. E., Mouquet, N., and Daufresne, T. (2006). Nutrient limitation in detritus-based microcosms. Hydrobiologia, 573, 173–181. Miller, T. E., Burns, J. H., Munguia, P., Walters, E. L., Kneitel, J. M., Richards, P., Mouquet, N., and Buckley, H. (2005). A critical review of twenty years' use of the resource-ratio theory. American Naturalist, 165, 439–448. Miller, T. E., and Kneitel, J. M. (2005). Inquiline communities in pitcher plants as a prototypical metacommunity. In Holyoak, M., Leibold, M. A., and Holt, R. D. (Eds.), Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities (pp. 122–145). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Srivastava, D. S., Kolasa, J., Bengtsson, J., Gonzalez, A., Lawler, S. P., Miller, T. E., Munguia, P., Romanuk, T., Schneider, D. C., and Trzcinski, M. K. (2004). Are natural microcosms useful model systems for ecology? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19, 379–384. Burns, J. H., and Miller, T. E. (2004). Invasion of Chinese tallow (Sapium sebiferum) in the Lake Jackson area, northern Florida. American Midland Naturalist, 152, 410–417. Knight, T., and Miller, T. E. (2004). Local adaptation within a population of Hydrocotyle bonariensis. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6, 103–114. Ellison, A. M., Buckley, H. L., Miller, T. E., and Gotelli, N. J. (2004). Morphological variation in Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae): geographic, environmental, and taxonomic correlates. American Journal of Botany, 91, 1930–1935. Buckley, H. L., Burns, J. H., Kneitel, J. M., Walters, E. L., Munguia, P., and Miller, T. E. (2004). Small-scale patterns in community structure of Sarracenia purpurea inquiline communities. Community Ecology, 5, 181–188. Leibold, M. A., and Miller, T. E. (2004). From metapopulations to metacommunities. In Hanski, I., and Gaggiotti, O. (Eds.), Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution of Metapopulations (pp. 133–150). Burlington, Vermont: Elsevier. Ellison, A. M., Gotelli, N. J., Brewer, J. S., Cochran-Stafira, D. L., Kneitel, J. M., Miller, T. E., Worley, A. C., and Zamora, R. (2003). Carnivorous plants as model ecological systems. Advances in Ecological Research, 33, 1–74. Mouquet, N., Munguia, P., Kneitel, J. M., and Miller, T. E. (2003). Community assembly time and the relationship between local and regional species richness. Oikos, 103, 618–626. Kneitel, J. M., and Miller, T. E. (2003). Dispersal rates affect species composition in metacommunities of Sarracenia purpurea inquilines. American Naturalist, 162, 165–171. Buckley, H. L., Miller, T. E., Ellison, A. M., and Gotelli, N. J. (2003). Reverse latitudinal trends in species richness of pitcher-plant food webs. Ecology Letters, 6, 825–829. Miller, T., Kneitel, J. M., and Burns, J. H. (2002). Effects of community structure on invasion success and rate. Ecology, 83, 898–890. Kneitel, J. M., and Miller, T. E. (2002). The effects of resource and top-predator addition to the inquiline community of the pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Ecology, 83, 680–688. Miller, T. E., Horth, L., and Reeves, R. (2002). Trophic interactions in the phytotelmata communities of the pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Community Ecology, 3, 109–116. Dickinson, J. B., and Miller, T. E. (1998). Competition among small, free-floating aquatic plants. American Midland Naturalist, 140, 55–67. McPeek, M. A., and Miller, T. E. (1996). Evolutionary biology and community ecology. Ecology, 77, 1319–1320. Miller, T. E. (1996). On quantifying the intensity of competition across gradients. Ecology, 77, 978–981. Kindell, C., Winn, A. A., and Miller, T. E. (1996). The effects of surrounding vegetation and transplant age on the detection of local adaptation in the perennial grass Aristida stricta. Journal of Ecology, 84, 745–754. Miller, T. E., and Travis, J. (1996). The evolutionary role of indirect effects in communities. Ecology, 77, 1329–1335. Harvey, E., and Miller, T. E. (1996). Variance in composition in inquiline communities in leaves of Sarracenia purpurea L. on multiple spatial scales. Oecologia, 108, 562–566. Winn, A. A., and Miller, T. E. (1995). Effect of density on magnitude of directional selection on seed mass and emergence time in Plantago wrightiana Dcne. (Plantaginaceae). Oecologia, 103, 365–370. Miller, T. E. (1995). The evolution of Brassica rapa L. (Cruciferae) populations in intra- and interspecific competition. Evolution, 49, 1125–1133. Miller, T. E. (1994). Direct and indirect species interactions in an early old-field plant community. American Naturalist, 143, 1007–1025. Miller, T. E., Leips, J., Kindell, K., Cassill, D., Johnson, C., McInnes, D., Bevis, T., Mehlman, D., and Richard, B. (1994). Intraspecific and interspecific competition of Wyeomyia smithii (Coq.) (Culicidae) in pitcher plant communities. American Midland Naturalist, 131, 136–145. Miller, T. E., Winn, A. A., and Schemske, D. W. (1994). The effects of density and spatial distribution on selection for emergence time in Prunella vulgaris. American Journal of Botany, 81, 1–6. Miller, T. E., and Schemske, D. W. (1990). An experimental study of competitive performance in Brassica rapa (Cruciferae). American Journal of Botany, 77, 992–998. Goldberg, D. E., and Miller, T. E. (1990). Resource additions and species diversity in an annual plant community: effects of different resources. Ecology, 71, 213–225. Miller, T. E., and Weiner, J. (1989). Local density variation may mimic effects of asymmetric competition on plant size variability. Ecology, 70, 1188–1191. Miller, T. E., and Werner, P. A. (1987). Competitive effects and responses between plant species in a first-year old-field community. Ecology, 68, 1201–1210. Miller, T. E., and Kerfoot, W. C. (1987). Redefining indirect effects. In Kerfoot, W. C., and Sih, A. (Eds.), Predation: Direct and Indirect Impacts on Aquatic Communities (pp. 33–37). Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. Miller, T. E. (1987). Effects of emergence time on survival and growth in an early old-field plant community. Oecologia, 72, 272–278. Miller, T. E., Wing, J. S., and Huete, A. R. (1984). The agricultural potential of selected C4 forbs in arid environments. Journal of Arid Environments, 7, 275–286. Dungan, M. L., Miller, T. E., and Thomson, D. A. (1982). Catastrophic decline of a top carnivore in the Gulf of California rocky intertidal zone. Science, 216, 989–991. Miller, T. E. (1982). Community diversity and interactions between the size and frequency of disturbance. American Naturalist, 120, 533–536.