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Donald B. Miles

Donald B. Miles

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
8517
World Ranking
5031
National Ranking
1723

Donald B. Miles publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald B. Miles sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 113 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Donald B. Miles D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald B. Miles sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Donald B. Miles is affiliated with Ohio University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Social Psychology.

Their research topics extensively cover Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Turtle Biology and Conservation.

Several recent publications illustrate the scope of their work in ecological and evolutionary biology. These include:

  • Lizards from warm and declining populations are born with extremely short telomeres, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Time of activity is a better predictor of the distribution of a tropical lizard than pure environmental temperatures, 2020, Oikos
  • Scaling between macro- to microscale climatic data reveals strong phylogenetic inertia in niche evolution in plethodontid salamanders, 2020, Evolution
  • Interaction of hydric and thermal conditions drive geographic variation in thermoregulation in a widespread lizard, 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • Ecological responses of squamate reptiles to nocturnal warming, 2023, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Donald B. Miles frequently publishes in specific scientific venues including the Journal of Thermal Biology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ecology and Evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Evolution. The number of their publications in these venues reflects established engagement in these research communities.

Collaborative research is an important aspect of their work, as demonstrated by frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Jean Clobert, Andréaz Dupoué, Alexis Rutschmann, Jean-François Le Galliard, and Sandrine Meylan.

Best Publications

  • Erosion of lizard diversity by climate change and altered thermal niches.

    Barry Sinervo;Barry Sinervo;Fausto Méndez-de-la-Cruz;Donald B. Miles;Donald B. Miles;Benoit Heulin

  • Testosterone, Endurance, and Darwinian Fitness: Natural and Sexual Selection on the Physiological Bases of Alternative Male Behaviors in Side-Blotched Lizards

    Barry Sinervo;Barry Sinervo;Donald B. Miles;W.Anthony Frankino;Matthew Klukowski

  • Patterns of Covariation in Life History Traits of Squamate Reptiles: The Effects of Size and Phylogeny Reconsidered

    Arthur E. Dunham;Donald B. Miles

  • The Correlation Between Ecology and Morphology in Deciduous Forest Passerine Birds

    Donald B. Miles;Robert E. Ricklefs

  • The race goes to the swift: fitness consequences of variation in sprint performance in juvenile lizards

    Donald B. Miles

  • Historical perspectives in ecology and evolutionary biology: the use of phylogenetic comparative analyses

    Donald B. Miles;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Locomotor performance and dominance in male Tree Lizards, Urosaurus ornatus

    M. A. Robson;D. B. Miles

  • LIFE ON THE ROCKS: HABITAT USE DRIVES MORPHOLOGICAL AND PERFORMANCE EVOLUTION IN LIZARDS

    Brett A. Goodman;Donald B. Miles;Lin Schwarzkopf

  • Reproductive burden, locomotor performance, and the cost of reproduction in free ranging lizards.

    Donald B. Miles;Barry Sinervo;W. Anthony Frankino

  • Testing the hypothesis that a clade has adaptively radiated: iguanid lizard clades as a case study.

    Jonathan B. Losos;Donald B. Miles

  • Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards

    Joan Garcia-Porta;Iker Irisarri;Martin Kirchner;Ariel Rodríguez

  • Hormonally mediated maternal effects, individual strategy and global change

    Sandrine Meylan;Sandrine Meylan;Donald B. Miles;Donald B. Miles;Jean Clobert

  • Chapter 10. Covariation between Morphology and Locomotory Performance in Sceloporine Lizards

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  • Comparative Analyses of Phylogenetic Effects in the Life-History Patterns of Iguanid Reptiles

    Donald B. Miles;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Models of density-dependent genic selection and a new rock-paper-scissors social system.

    Barry Sinervo;Benoit Heulin;Yann Surget-Groba;Jean Clobert

  • Concordance of ecomorphological relationships in three assemblages of passerine birds

    Donald B. Miles;Robert E. Ricklefs;Joseph Travis

  • Relating endocrinology, physiology and behaviour using species with alternative mating strategies

    D. B. Miles;B. Sinervo;L. C. Hazard;L. C. Hazard;Erik Svensson

  • Natural selection on thermal preference, critical thermal maxima and locomotor performance.

    Anthony L. Gilbert;Donald B. Miles

  • Niche segregation among sympatric Amazonian teiid lizards.

    L. J. Vitt;S. S. Sartorius;T. C. S. Avila-Pires;M. C. Espósito

  • Corticosterone, locomotor performance, and metabolism in side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana).

    Donald B. Miles;Ryan Calsbeek;Barry Sinervo

  • Extinction risks forced by climatic change and intraspecific variation in the thermal physiology of a tropical lizard.

    Emerson Pontes-da-Silva;William E. Magnusson;Barry Sinervo;Gabriel H. Caetano

  • Gonadotropin Hormone Modulation of Testosterone, Immune Function, Performance, and Behavioral Trade‐Offs among Male Morphs of the Lizard Uta stansburiana

    Suzanne C. Mills;Lisa Hazard;Lisa Hazard;Lesley Lancaster;Tapio Mappes

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry Sinervo
Barry Sinervo University of California, Santa Cruz
Jean Clobert
Jean Clobert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-François Le Galliard
Jean-François Le Galliard École Normale Supérieure
Sandrine Meylan
Sandrine Meylan Sorbonne University
Guarino R. Colli
Guarino R. Colli University of Brasília
Arthur E. Dunham
Arthur E. Dunham University of Pennsylvania
Raymond B. Huey
Raymond B. Huey University of Washington
Jack W. Sites
Jack W. Sites Brigham Young University
Jonathan B. Losos
Jonathan B. Losos Washington University in St. Louis
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis

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