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Constance I. Millar

Constance I. Millar

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
10375
World Ranking
7914
National Ranking
2815

Overview

Constance I. Millar is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, including atmospheric science, ecology, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their work addresses a variety of topics focused on environmental and ecological dynamics. Key topics include species distribution and climate change, tree-ring climate responses, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, fire effects on ecosystems, wildlife ecology and conservation, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Millar has published frequently in several scholarly venues. Notable publication venues with multiple contributions include Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, American Antiquity, and Quaternary Research.

Among recent published papers are:

  • Climate-change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Rock glaciers and related cold rocky landforms: Overlooked climate refugia for mountain biodiversity, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Validating climate-change refugia: empirical bottom-up approaches to support management actions, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • From treeline to species line: Thermal patterns and growth relationships across the krummholz zone of whitebark pine, Sierra Nevada, California, USA, 2020, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research
  • Great Basin bristlecone pine mortality: Causal factors and management implications, 2022, Forest Ecology and Management

Millar has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, notably David Hurst Thomas, Robert D. Westfall, Diane L. Delany, David Rhode, and Toni Lyn Morelli. These collaborations indicate a breadth of network and interdisciplinary engagement within their research sphere.

Best Publications

  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND FORESTS OF THE FUTURE: MANAGING IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY

    Constance I. Millar;Nathan L. Stephenson;Scott L. Stephens

  • Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance.

    Constance I. Millar;Nathan L. Stephenson

  • Ain't no mountain high enough: plant invasions reaching new elevations

    Aníbal Pauchard;Christoph Kueffer;Hansjörg Dietz;Curtis C Daehler

  • Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

    A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Constance I. Millar;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation

    Toni Lyn Morelli;Toni Lyn Morelli;Christopher Daly;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Deanna M. Dulen

  • Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane

    Toni Lyn Morelli;Cameron W Barrows;Aaron R Ramirez;Jennifer M Cartwright

  • Restoring diversity: strategies for reintroduction of endangered plants.

    Christopher P. Dunn;Donald A. Falk;Constance I. Millar;Margaret Olwell

  • THE ROLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN INTERPRETING HISTORICAL VARIABILITY

    Constance I. Millar;Wallace B. Woolfenden

  • Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: A National Experiment in Manager-Scientist Partnerships to Apply an Adaptation Framework

    Linda M. Nagel;Brian J. Palik;Michael A. Battaglia;Anthony W. D'Amato

  • Alpine treeline of western North America: Linking organism-to-landscape dynamics

    George P. Malanson;David R. Butler;Daniel B. Fagre;Stephen J. Walsh

  • Guiding concepts for park and wilderness stewardship in an era of global environmental change

    Richard J Hobbs;David N Cole;Laurie Yung;Erika S Zavaleta

  • Response of Subalpine Conifers in the Sierra Nevada, California, U.S.A., to 20th-Century Warming and Decadal Climate Variability

    Constance I. Millar;Robert D. Westfall;Diane L. Delany;John C. King

  • Distribution and Climatic Relationships of the American Pika (Ochotona princeps) in the Sierra Nevada and Western Great Basin, U.S.A.; Periglacial Landforms as Refugia in Warming Climates

    Constance I. Millar;Robert D. Westfall

  • Operational approaches to managing forests of the future in Mediterranean regions within a context of changing climates

    Scott L. Stephens;Constance I. Millar;Brandon M. Collins

  • Forest mortality in high-elevation whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests of eastern California, USA; influence of environmental context, bark beetles, climatic water deficit, and warming

    Constance I. Millar;Robert D. Westfall;Diane L. Delany;Matthew J. Bokach

  • Managing for Multiple Resources Under Climate Change: National Forests

    Linda A. Joyce;Geoffrey M. Blate;Steven G. McNulty;Constance I. Millar

  • Responding to climate change in national forests: a guidebook for developing adaptation options

    David L. Peterson;Connie I. Millar;Linda A. Joyce;Michael J. Furniss

  • Rock glaciers and related periglacial landforms in the Sierra Nevada, CA, USA; inventory, distribution and climatic relationships

    Constance I. Millar;Robert D. Westfall

  • U.S. National Forests adapt to climate change through Science–Management partnerships

    Jeremy S. Littell;David L. Peterson;Constance I. Millar;Kathy A. O’Halloran

  • Impact of the eocene on the evolution of Pinus L.

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  • Surface motion of active rock glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA: inventory and a case study using InSAR

    Lin Liu;C. I. Millar;R. D. Westfall;H. A. Zebker

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Peterson
David L. Peterson University of Washington
Toni Lyn Morelli
Toni Lyn Morelli United States Geological Survey
Nathan L. Stephenson
Nathan L. Stephenson United States Geological Survey
Christopher W. Swanston
Christopher W. Swanston US Forest Service
Stephen T. Jackson
Stephen T. Jackson United States Geological Survey
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
Peter S. White
Peter S. White University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alan L. Flint
Alan L. Flint United States Geological Survey
David N. Cole
David N. Cole US Forest Service
Jessica D. Lundquist
Jessica D. Lundquist University of Washington

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