Email:
Tom.Miller@rice.edu
Address:
6100 Main St, MS-170
Houston, TX 77005
Phone:
713-348-4218
Publications (*undergraduate co-author)
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Rudgers, J.A., Miller, T.E.X., Ziegler, S.M., and K.D. Craven. There are many ways to be a mutualist: Endophytic fungus reduces plant survival but increases population growth. Ecology (in press)
- Lee, C.T., Miller, T.E.X., and B.D. Inouye. 2011. Consumer effects on the vital rates of their resource can determine the outcome of competition between consumers. American Naturalist 178:452-463
- Miller, T.E.X. and B.D. Inouye. 2011. Confronting two-sex demographic models with data. Ecology 92: 2141-2151
- Miller, T.E.X. and V.H.W Rudolf. 2011. Thinking inside the box: community-level consequences of stage-structured populations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26:457-466
- Miller, T.E.X., A.K. Shaw, B.D. Inouye, and M.G. Neubert. 2011. Sex-biased dispersal and the speed of two-sex invasions. American Naturalist 177 (5):549-561
- Holland, J.N., S.A. Chamberlain, and T.E.X. Miller. 2011. Consequences of ants and extrafloral nectar for a pollinating seed-consuming mutualism: ant satiation, floral distraction, or plant defense? Oikos 120 (3): 381-388
- Miller, T.E.X., J.C. Legaspi, B. Legaspi. 2010. Experimental test of biotic resistance to an invasive herbivore provided by potential plant mutualists. Biological Invasions 12(10):3563-3577.
- Miller, T.E.X. and B. Tenhumberg. 2010. Contributions of demography and dispersal parameters to the spatial spread of a stage-structured insect invasion: a comparison of local and global perturbation analyses. Ecological Applications 20 (3):620-633.
- *Rominger, A.J., Miller, T.E.X., and Collins, S.L. 2009. Relative contributions of neutral and niche-based processes to the structure of a desert grassland grasshopper community. Oecologia 161 (4): 791-800
- *Robbins, M. and T.E.X. Miller. 2009. Patterns of ant activity on Opuntia stricta (Cactaceae), a native host-plant of the invasive cactus moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Florida Entomologist 92:391-393
- Miller, T.E.X., S.M. Louda, K.A. Rose, and J. Eckberg. 2009. Impacts of chronic insect herbivory on cactus population dynamics and distribution: experimental demography across an environmental gradient. Ecological Monographs 79:155-172
- Takahashi, M., Louda, S.M., Miller, T.E.X., and C.W. O’Brien. 2009. Occurrence of the biological control weevil, Trichosirocalus horridus (Panzer), on a newly acquired native host plant and on a pre-adapted, targeted exotic thistle. Environmental Entomology 38:731-740
- Miller, T.E.X., B. Tenhumberg, and S.M Louda. 2008. Herbivore-mediated ecological costs of reproduction shape the life-history of an iteroparous plant. American Naturalist 171: 141-149 (Featured article of February 2008 issue)
Featured on This Week in Evolution: Feb 18, 2008; Winner of the 2009 American Naturalist best student paper award - Miller, T.E.X. 2008. Bottom-up, top-down, and within-trophic level pressures on a cactus-feeding insect. Ecological Entomology 33: 261-268
- Miller, T.E.X. 2007. Does having multiple partners weaken the benefits of facultative mutualism? A test with cacti and cactus-tending ants. Oikos 116: 500-512
- Miller, T.E.X. 2007. Demographic models reveal the shape of density dependence for a specialist insect herbivore on variable host-plants. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 722-729
- Miller, T.E.X., A.J. Tyre, and S.M. Louda. 2006. Plant reproductive allocation predicts herbivore dynamics across spatial and temporal scales. American Naturalist 168: 608-616