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D-Index
42
Citations
6811
World Ranking
5584
National Ranking
1908

Thomas E. Miller 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 Thomas E. Miller sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 112 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Thomas E. Miller 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 Thomas E. Miller sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Thomas E. Miller is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States and has a body of research focusing primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans several interrelated subfields, including oceanography, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, and signal processing.

The scientist's main research topics include marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, plant and animal studies, plant and biological electrophysiology studies, plant parasitism and resistance, and speech and audio processing.

Their recent published papers reflect a focus on ecological and microbial community dynamics. These publications include:

  • The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Composition of seagrass phyllosphere microbial communities suggests rapid environmental regulation of community structure (2021, FEMS Microbiology Ecology)
  • Host and environmental determinants of microbial community structure in the marine phyllosphere (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Environmental stressors alter the composition of seagrass phyllosphere microbial communities (2021, Climate Change Ecology)
  • Predator dispersal influences predator distribution but not prey diversity in pitcher plant microbial metacommunities (2022, Ecology)

Thomas E. Miller has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Olivia U. Mason, Margaret A. Vogel, Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Abigail I. Pastore, and Casey P. terHorst.

The scientist has published in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to journals such as PLoS ONE and The American Naturalist. Other publication venues include Nature Ecology & Evolution, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, and Climate Change Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Are natural microcosms useful model systems for ecology

    Diane S. Srivastava;Jurek Kolasa;Jan Bengtsson;Andrew Gonzalez

  • Effects of Different Resource Additions of Species Diversity in an Annual Plant Community

    Deborah E. Goldberg;Thomas E. Miller;Thomas E. Miller

  • Dispersal rates affect species composition in metacommunities of Sarracenia purpurea inquilines.

    Jamie M. Kneitel;Thomas E. Miller

  • A Critical Review of Twenty Years' Use of the Resource-Ratio Theory

    Thomas E. Miller;Jean H. Burns;Pablo Munguia;Eric L. Walters;Eric L. Walters

  • Competitive Effects and Responses Between Plant Species in a First‐Year Old‐Field Community

    T. E. Miller;T. E. Miller;P. A. Werner

  • Community Diversity and Interactions Between the Size and Frequency of Disturbance

    Thomas E. Miller

  • DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPECIES INTERACTIONS IN AN EARLY OLD-FIELD PLANT COMMUNITY

    Thomas E. Miller

  • The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences

    Abigail I. Pastore;Abigail I. Pastore;György Barabás;György Barabás;Malyon D. Bimler;Margaret M. Mayfield

  • Climate and coastal dune vegetation disturbance, recovery, and succession

    T. E. Miller;E. S. Gornish;H. L. Buckley

  • Effects of emergence time on survival and growth in an early old-field plant community.

    T. E. Miller

  • Community assembly time and the relationship between local and regional species richness

    N. Mouquet;N. Mouquet;P. Munguia;J. M. Kneitel;T. E. Miller

  • Catastrophic decline of a top carnivore in the gulf of california rocky intertidal zone.

    Michael L. Dungan;Thomas E. Miller;Donald A. Thomson

  • RESOURCE AND TOP‐PREDATOR REGULATION IN THE PITCHER PLANT (SARRACENIA PURPUREA) INQUILINE COMMUNITY

    Jamie M. Kneitel;Thomas E. Miller

  • The Evolutionary Role of Indirect Effects in Communities

    Thomas E. Miller;Joseph Travis

  • Reverse latitudinal trends in species richness of pitcher-plant food webs

    Hannah L. Buckley;Hannah L. Buckley;Thomas E. Miller;Aaron M. Ellison;Nicholas J. Gotelli

  • Morphological variation in Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae): geographic, environmental, and taxonomic correlates

    Aaron M. Ellison;Hannah L. Buckley;Thomas E. Miller;Nicholas J. Gotelli

  • EFFECT OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ON INVASION SUCCESS AND RATE

    Thomas E. Miller;Jamie M. Kneitel;Jean H. Burns

  • The evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants

    Aaron M. Ellison;Nicholas J. Gotelli;J.Stephen Brewer;D.Liane Cochran-Stafira

  • Local Density Variation may Mimic Effects of Asymmetric Competition on Plant Size Variability

    Thomas E. Miller;Jacob Weiner

  • Evolution in a Community Context: Trait Responses to Multiple Species Interactions*

    Casey P. terHorst;Peter C. Zee;Katy D. Heath;Thomas E. Miller

  • The Effects of Surrounding Vegetation and Transplant Age on the Detection of Local Adaptation in the Perennial Grass Aristida Stricta

    Carolyn E. Kindell;Alice A. Winn;Thomas E. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannah L. Buckley
Hannah L. Buckley Auckland University of Technology
Nicolas Mouquet
Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier
Aaron M. Ellison
Aaron M. Ellison Harvard University
Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont
Andrew Gonzalez
Andrew Gonzalez McGill University
Joseph Travis
Joseph Travis Florida State University
Sebastian J. Schreiber
Sebastian J. Schreiber University of California, Davis
Jurek Kolasa
Jurek Kolasa McMaster University
Mathew A. Leibold
Mathew A. Leibold University of Florida
Douglas W. Schemske
Douglas W. Schemske Michigan State University

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