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48
Citations
9515
World Ranking
4207
National Ranking
1464

Overview

Robert J. Miller is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on various subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of marine and coastal ecosystem studies. These include:

  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Daniel C. Reed
  • Henry M. Page
  • Kyle A. Emery
  • Jenifer E. Dugan
  • Li Kui

Robert J. Miller frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Communications Biology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Oceanography
  • Ecosphere

Representative recent papers include:

  • Foundation species promote community stability by increasing diversity in a giant kelp forest, 2020, Ecology
  • Nano and traditional copper and zinc antifouling coatings: metal release and impact on marine sessile invertebrate communities, 2020, Journal of Nanoparticle Research
  • Influence of offshore oil and gas structures on seascape ecological connectivity, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • The Blob marine heatwave transforms California kelp forest ecosystems, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Responses of Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change: Insights from Long-Term Ecological Research, 2022, BioScience

Best Publications

  • Stability and Aggregation of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Natural Aqueous Matrices

    Arturo A Keller;Hongtao Wang;Dongxu Zhou;Hunter S Lenihan

  • Status and management of world sea urchin fisheries

    N. L. Andrew;Y. Agatsuma;E. Ballesteros;A. G. Bazhin

  • Effectiveness of Crab and Lobster Traps

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  • Impacts of metal oxide nanoparticles on marine phytoplankton

    Robert J. Miller;Hunter S. Lenihan;Erik B. Muller;Nancy Tseng

  • TiO2 nanoparticles are phototoxic to marine phytoplankton.

    Robert J. Miller;Samuel Bennett;Arturo A. Keller;Scott Pease;Scott Pease

  • Comparative environmental fate and toxicity of copper nanomaterials

    Arturo A. Keller;Arturo A. Keller;Adeyemi S. Adeleye;Adeyemi S. Adeleye;Jon R. Conway;Jon R. Conway;Kendra L. Garner;Kendra L. Garner

  • The colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. A: Current distribution, basic biology and potential threat to marine communities of the northeast and west coasts of North America

    Stephan G. Bullard;Gretchen Lambert;Mary R. Carman;J. Byrnes

  • Advancing marine biological observations and data requirements of the complementary Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) and Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) Frameworks

    Frank E. Muller-Karger;Patricia Miloslavich;Patricia Miloslavich;Nicholas Bax;Nicholas Bax;Samantha E. Simmons

  • Toxicity of nano-zero valent iron to freshwater and marine organisms.

    Arturo A. Keller;Kendra Garner;Robert J. Miller;Hunter S. Lenihan

  • Nanomaterials in the environment: from materials to high-throughput screening to organisms

    Courtney R. Thomas;Saji George;Allison M. Horst;Zhaoxia Ji

  • Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, increases faunal diversity through physical engineering.

    Robert J. Miller;Kevin D. Lafferty;Thomas Lamy;Li Kui

  • Ecological nanotoxicology: integrating nanomaterial hazard considerations across the subcellular, population, community, and ecosystems levels.

    Patricia A. Holden;Roger M. Nisbet;Hunter S. Lenihan;Robert J. Miller

  • Extreme warming challenges sentinel status of kelp forests as indicators of climate change.

    Daniel Reed;Libe Washburn;Andrew Rassweiler;Robert Miller

  • Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems

    Frank E. Muller‐Karger;Erin Hestir;Christiana Ade;Kevin Turpie

  • SHADING FACILITATES SESSILE INVERTEBRATE DOMINANCE IN THE ROCKY SUBTIDAL GULF OF MAINE

    Robert J. Miller;Ron J. Etter

  • Kelp as a trophic resource for marine suspension feeders: a review of isotope-based evidence

    Robert J. Miller;Henry M. Page

  • Structure-Forming Corals and Sponges and Their Use as Fish Habitat in Bering Sea Submarine Canyons

    Robert J. Miller;John Hocevar;Robert P. Stone;Dmitry V. Fedorov

  • Partitioning of primary production among giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), understory macroalgae, and phytoplankton on a temperate reef

    Robert J. Miller;Daniel C. Reed;Mark A. Brzezinski

  • Fine-scale population genetic structuring of bottlenose dolphins in Irish coastal waters

    L. Mirimin;L. Mirimin;R. Miller;E. Dillane;S. D. Berrow

  • Diadema antillarum 17 years after mass mortality: is recovery beginning on St. Croix?

    R. J. Miller;A. J. Adams;Nancy B. Ogden;John C. Ogden

  • Accumulation and toxicity of metal oxide nanoparticles in a soft-sediment estuarine amphipod.

    Shannon K. Hanna;Robert J. Miller;Dongxu Zhou;Arturo A. Keller

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C. Reed
Daniel C. Reed University of California, Santa Barbara
Hunter S. Lenihan
Hunter S. Lenihan University of California, Santa Barbara
Jenifer E. Dugan
Jenifer E. Dugan University of California, Santa Barbara
Arturo A. Keller
Arturo A. Keller University of California, Santa Barbara
Milton S. Love
Milton S. Love University of California, Santa Barbara
Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey
Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey The University of Texas at El Paso
Frank E. Muller-Karger
Frank E. Muller-Karger University of South Florida
Gary N. Cherr
Gary N. Cherr University of California, Davis
Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Mark A. Brzezinski
Mark A. Brzezinski University of California, Santa Barbara

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