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op-eds & Law Reviews
- Rylander, J. C., Evansen, M., Miller, J. R. B., Malcom, J. 2020. Defining habitat to promote conservation under the ESA. Environmental Law Reporter 50:10531–10539 | Access
- Miller, J. 2019. How Trump’s wall could alter our biological identity forever. Scientific American.
- Bird, B., R. Peters and J. R. B. Miller. 2018. Border wall disrupts more than people’s lives. Santa Fe New Mexican.
- Miller, J. R. B., J. D. C. Linnell, V. Athreya, and S. Sen. Human-Wildlife Conflict in India: Addressing the Source. 2017. Economic & Political Weekly LII:23-25.
peer-reviewed articles
Wildlife trade & trafficking
Human-wildlife coexistence & spatial risk mapping
Conservation policy
Jaguar & puma conservation & ecology (North and Latin America)
Protected area management
Leopard & lion ecology (Africa)
Predator-prey ecology
Lion trophy hunting
Tiger & leopard human-wildlife conflict (Asia)
Birds & frogs
- Browne, C., E. M. Ronis, J. R. B. Miller, Y. Kapetanakos, S. Gibbs, T. Hendrix, D. Carlson Bremer. 2021. Systems approaches to combating wildlife trafficking: Expanding existing frameworks to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration. Frontiers in Conservation Science (free)
- Rytwinski, T., S. L.A. Ockerman, J.J. Taylor, J. R. Bennett, M. J. Muir, J. R. B. Miller, A. Pokempner, W. Y. Lam, R. S. A. Pickles, S. J. Cooke. 2021. What is the evidence that counter-wildlife crime interventions are effective for conserving Africa, Asian and Latin American wildlife directly threatened by exploitation? A systematic map protocol. Ecological Solutions and Evidence (free).
- Borzée, A., J. McNeely, K. Magellan, J. R. B. Miller, L. Porter, T. Dutta, K. P. Kadinjappalli, S. Sharma, G. Shahabuddin, F. Aprilinayati, G. E. Ryan, A. Hughes, A. H. A. Mutalib, A. Z. A. Wahab, D. Bista, S. A. Chavanich, J. L. Chong, G. A. Gale, H. Ghaffari, Y. Ghimirey, V. K. Jayaraj, A. P. Khatiwada, M. Khatiwada, M. Krishna, N. Lwin, P. K. Paudel, C. Sadykova, T. Savini, B. B. Shrestha, C. T. Strine, M. Sutthacheep, E. P Wong, T. Yeemin, N Z. Zahirudin, L. Zhang. 2020. COVID-19 highlights the need for more effective wildlife trade legislation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution (free).
- Featured on Science Daily
- Rogan, M., J. R. B. Miller, P. Lindsey, J. W. McNutt. 2018. Socioeconomic drivers of illegal bushmeat hunting in a Southern Africa savanna. Biological Conservation | Access.
Human-wildlife coexistence & spatial risk mapping
- McInturff, A., J. R. B. Miller, K. M. Gaynor, J. S. Brashares. 2020. Patterns of coyote predation on sheep in California: A socio-ecological approach to mapping risk of livestock-predator conflict. Conservation Science and Practice (free).
- Blog article on Defenders of Wildlife
- Article in Berkeley Science Review
- Wilkinson, C., A. McInturff, J. R. B. Miller, V. Yovovich, K. Gaynor, K. Calhoun, H. Karandikar, J. Martin, P. Parker-Shames, A. Shawler, A. Van Scoyoc, J. Brashares. 2020. Ecological framework for contextualizing carnivore-livestock conflict. Conservation Biology | Access
- Press release by UC Berkeley, blog article on Defenders of Wildlife
- Awarded Best Student Paper from The Wildlife Society (2021)
- Press release by UC Berkeley, blog article on Defenders of Wildlife
- Miller, J. R. B. and Oswald J. Schmitz. 2019. From landscape of fear to landscape of coexistence: applying spatial predator-prey interaction theory to understand and reduce carnivore-livestock conflict. Biological Conservation | Access.
- van Eeden*, L.M., Eklund*, A., Miller*, J.R.B., Vincent Lopez-Bao, J., Chapron, G., Cejtin, M.R., Crowther, M.S., Dickman, C.R., Frank, J., Krofel, M., Macdonald, D.W., McManus, J., Meyer, T.K., Middleton, A.D., Newsome, T.M., Ripple, W.J., Ritchie, E.G., Schmitz, O.J., Stoner, K.J., Tourani, M., Treves*, A. 2018. The best available science for preventing carnivore predation on livestock. PLOS Biology (free). *Shared first authorship.
- Press release and video by Defenders of Wildlife
- Article in The Conversation
- Covered by the Sacramento Bee and international media outlets
- Miller, J. R. B., K. J. Stoner, M. R. Cejtin, T. K. Meyer, A. D. Middleton, and O. J. Schmitz. 2016. Tools for human-carnivore coexistence: a quantitative assessment of techniques for reducing large carnivore depredation of livestock. Wildlife Society Bulletin | Access.
- Press releases from Yale and UC Berkeley
Conservation policy
- Delach, A., Caldas, et al, Malcom, J. W., Salvo, M., J. R. B Miller. 2019. Agency plans are inadequate to conserve US endangered species under climate change. Nature Climate Change | Access
- Malcom, J., Schwartz, M. W., Evansen, M., Ripple, W. J., Polasky, S., Gerber, L. R., Lovejoy, T. E., Talbot, L. M., J. R. B. Miller, 1,648 scientist signatories. 2019. Solve the biodiversity crisis with funding. Science (free)
- Peters, R., W. J. Ripple, C. Wolf, M. Moskwik, G. Carreón-Arroyo, G. Ceballos, A. Córdova, R. Dirzo, P. R. Ehrlich, A. D. Flesch, R. List, T. E. Lovejoy, R. F. Noss, J. Pacheco, J. K. Sarukhán, M. E. Soulé, E. O. Wilson, J. R. B. Miller and >3,000 scientist signatories from 43 countries. 2018. Nature divided, scientists united: U.S.-Mexico border wall threatens biodiversity and binational conservation. 2018. BioScience (free)
- Covered by >30 news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Hill, Huffington Post
- 2nd "most read" article in BioScience
Jaguar & puma conservation & ecology (North and Latin America)
- LaBarge, L. R., Evans, M. J., Miller, J. R. B., Cannataro, G., Hunt, C, M. L. Elbroch. 2022. Pumas Puma concolor as ecological brokers: a review of their biotic relationships. Mammal Review (free)
- Covered by Newsweek
- Sanderson, E., Beckmann, J. P., Beier, P., Bird, B., Bravo, J. C., Fisher, K., Grigione, M. M., Lopez Gonzalez, C. A., Miller, J. R. B., Mormorunni, C., Paulson, L., Peters, R., Polisar, J., Povilities, T., Robinson, M. J., Wilcox, S. 2021. The case for rewilding: the jaguar (Panthera onca) in the United States as a model. Conservation Science and Practice (free)
- Covered by 182 news outlets, including The Washington Post, Vox, Mongabay, Scientific American
- Miller, P. S., Sanderson, E. W., Fisher, K., Peters, R., Bird, B., Mormorunni, C., Miller, J. R. B. 2020. Population viability analysis indicates opportunities for restoring jaguars in an expanded region of the southwestern United States. Report, Defenders of Wildlife.
- Sanderson, E., Fisher, K., Peters, R., Beckmann, J. P., Bird, B., Bradley, C. M., Bravo, J. C., Grigione, M. M., Hatten, J. R., Lopez-Gonzalez, C., Menke, K., Miller, J. R. B., Miller, P. S., Mormorunni, C., Robinson, M. J., Thomas, R. E., S. Wilcox. 2020. A systematic review of potential habitat suitability for jaguar (Panthera onca) in central Arizona and New Mexico, United States. Oryx (free).
- Press release in EurekAlert!
- Featured in the Oryx blog
Protected area management
- Baghai, M.*, J. R. B. Miller*, L. J. Blanken, H. T. Dublin, K. H. Fitzgerald, P. Gandiwa, K. Laurenson, J. Milanzi, A. Nelson, and P. Lindsey. 2018. Models for the collaborative management of African protected areas. Biological Conservation 218:73-82. *Shared first authorship | Access.
- Lindsey, P., J. R. B. Miller*, L. S. Petracca, L. Coad, A. J. Dickman, K. H. Fitzgerald, M. V. Flyman, P. J. Funston, P. Henschel, S. Kasiki, K. Knights, A. J. Loveridge, D. W. Macdonald, R. L. Mandisodza-Chikerema, S. Nazerali, A. J. Plumptre, R. Stevens, H. W. Van Zyl, L. Hunter. 2018. The price of protection: More than $1 billion needed annually to secure Africa’s protected areas with lions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 115:788-796. *Shared first authorship | Access.
- Media coverage by the New York Times, BBC World Service and Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
- Press release by UC Berkeley
- Pekor, A., J. R. B. Miller, M. V. Flyman, S. Kasiki, K. M. Kesch, S. Miller, K. Uiseb, V. van der Merve, P. Lindsey. 2018. Fencing Africa’s protected areas: costs, benefits, and management issues. Biological Conservation 229:67-75. | Access.
Leopard & lion ecology (Africa)
- Miller, J. R. B., R. T. Pitman, G. K. H. Mann, A. K. Fuller, and G. A. Balme. 2018. Lions and leopards show no spatial, temporal or demographic consequences of intraspecific competition. Journal of Animal Ecology 87:1709-1726 | Access.
- Published article in Panthera blog on Animal Selfies as Research
- Balme, G. A., J. R. B. Miller, R. T. Pitman, and L. T. B. Hunter. 2017. Caching reduces kleoptoparasitism in a solitary, large felid. Journal of Animal Ecology 86:634-644 | Access.
- Feature article by the BBC Earth
- Balme, G., R. Pitman, H. Robinson, J. R. B. Miller, P. Funston, and L. Hunter. 2017. Leopard distribution and abundance is unaffected by interference competition with lions. Behavioral Ecology 28:1348-1358 | Access.
Predator-prey ecology
- Schmitz, O. J., J. R. B. Miller, A. M. Trainor, B. Abrahms. 2017. Toward a community ecology of landscapes: predicting multiple predator-prey interactions across geographic space. Ecology 98:2281-2292 | Access.
- Miller, J. R. B., J. M. Ament, and O. J. Schmitz. 2013. Fear on the move: predator hunting mode predicts variation in prey mortality and plasticity in prey spatial response. Journal of Animal Ecology 83:214-222 | Access.
Lion trophy hunting
- Begg, C., J. R. B. Miller, and K. Begg. 2018. Effective implementation of age restrictions increases selectivity of sport hunting of the African lion. Journal of Applied Ecology 55:139-146 | Access.
- Miller, J.R.B., Balme, G.A., Lindsey, P.A., Loveridge, A.J., Becker, M.S., Begg, C.M., Brink, H., Dolrenry, S., Hunt, J.E., Jansson, I., Macdonald, D.W., Mandisodza-Chikerema, R.L., Cotterill, A.O., Packer, C., Rosengren, D., Stratford, K., Trinkel, M., White, P.A., Winterbach, C., Winterbach, H.E.K., Funston, P.J. 2016. Aging traits and sustainable trophy hunting of African lions. Biological Conservation 201:160-168 | Access.
- Project website
- Published article in Panthera blog on How to Age a Lion
Tiger & leopard human-wildlife conflict (Asia)
- Miller, J. R. B., Y. V. Jhala, and J. Jena. 2016. Livestock losses and hotspots of attack from tigers and leopards in Kanha Tiger Reserve, central India. Regional Environmental Change 16:17-29 | Access.
- Press releases by the Yale Daily News and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
- Miller, J. R. B., Y. V. Jhala, and O. J. Schmitz. 2016. Human perceptions mirror realities of carnivore attack risk for livestock: implications of mitigating human-carnivore conflict. PLOS One 11:e0162685 (free).
- Press release by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
- Miller, J. R. B. 2015. Mapping attack hotspots to mitigate human-carnivore conflict: Approaches and applications of spatial predation risk modeling. Biodiversity and Conservation 24:2887-2911 | Access.
- Awarded the Herbert Bormann Prize for Best Scientific Paper at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
- Featured in Oxford's WildCRU News and the Yale Schmitz Lab blog
- Miller, J. R. B., Y. V. Jhala, J. Jyoti, and O. J. Schmitz. 2015. Landscape-scale accessibility of livestock to tigers: implications of spatial grain for modeling predation risk to mitigate human-carnivore conflict. Ecology and Evolution 5:1354-1367 | Access.
Birds & frogs
- Miller, J. R. B. 2010. Survey of Western Tragopan, Koklass Pheasant, and Himalayan Monal populations in the Great Himalayan National Park, Himachal Pradesh, India. Indian Birds 6:60-65.
- Miller, J. R. B. 2009. New vocalizations by the Koklass pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha. International Journal of Galliforms Conservation 1:56-57 | Access.
- Miller, J. R. B. and D. A. McFarlane. 2008. A preliminary investigation into Hayne Estimates of poison dart frog (Anura: Dendrobatidae) densities in recovering tropical forest habitats, southwest Costa Rica. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 3:298-294 | Access.
Blog & Magazine features
- Answering the Call of the Wild. 2020. The New Big 5.
- Viruses Threaten Wildlife, Too. 2020. Wild Without End.
- The Science of Human-Wildlife Coexistence. 2019. Wild Without End.
- Why I March for Science. 2018. Wild Without End.
- Live and let live. 2014. Frontline | PDF.
- Reading the Bones: In the Field with a Depredation Detective. 2013. Sage Magazine.
- Sweat Behind the Stripes: A Week with 'Project Tiger' in Rajaji. Sanctuary Asia 31(4):58-61. 2011.
- The Pheasant Sings Once More: Pheasant Conservation in the Great Himalayan National Park. Sanctuary Asia 29(1):46-49. 2009.
"Trust, respect, cultural sensitivity, and empathy are crucial elements of the professional relationship that must be clearly conveyed, not only as part of the human-to-human connection, but as part of the professional process of conflict mitigation." - Miller et al. 2017, Economic & Political Weekly |