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
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).
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).
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
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.
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.
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)
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)
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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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.
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.
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.