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Landscape structure affects specialists but not generalists in naturally fragmented grasslands by Miller, Jesse E. D, Damschen, Ellen I, Harrison, Susan P, Grace, James B

“…Understanding how biotic communities respond to landscape spatial structure is critically important for conservation management as natural habitats become…”
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Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity by Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda, Miller, Jesse E. D., McAlvay, Alex C., Ritchie, Patrick Morgan, Lepofsky, Dana

“…Human land-use legacies have long-term effects on plant community composition and ecosystem function. While ancient and historical land use is known to affect…”
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Productivity modifies the effects of fire severity on understory diversity by Brodie, Emily G., Miller, Jesse E.D., Safford, Hugh D.

“…High severity fire may promote or reduce plant understory diversity in forests. However, few empirical studies have tested long-standing theoretical…”
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The species diversity × fire severity relationship is hump‐shaped in semiarid yellow pine and mixed conifer forests by Richter, Clark, Rejmánek, Marcel, Miller, Jesse E. D., Welch, Kevin R., Weeks, JonahMaria, Safford, Hugh

“…The combination of direct human influences and the effects of climate change are resulting in altered ecological disturbance regimes, and this is especially…”
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Early- and late-flowering guilds respond differently to landscape spatial structure by Miller, Jesse E. D., Ives, Anthony R., Harrison, Susan P., Damschen, Ellen I.

“…1. Species with unique phenologies have distinct trait syndromes and environmental affinities, yet there has been little exploration of whether community…”
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High‐severity fire drives persistent floristic homogenization in human‐altered forests by Weeks, JonahMaria, Miller, Jesse E. D., Steel, Zachary L., Batzer, Evan E., Safford, Hugh D.

“…Ecological disturbance regimes across the globe are being altered via direct and indirect human influences. Biodiversity loss at multiple scales can be a…”
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Biotic soil crust lichen diversity and conservation in shrub-steppe habitats of Oregon and Washington by Root, Heather T, Miller, Jesse E. D, McCune, Bruce

“…Biological soil crusts are ecosystem engineers in arid and semi-arid habitats; they affect soil chemistry, stability, and vegetation. Their ecosystem functions…”
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Climate drives loss of phylogenetic diversity in a grassland community by Li, Daijiang, Miller, Jesse E. D., Harrison, Susan

“…While climate change has already profoundly influenced biodiversity through local extinctions, range shifts, and altered interactions, its effects on the…”
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Indirect Effects of Landscape Spatial Structure and Plant Species Richness on Pollinator Diversity in Ozark Glades by Grover, Shannon N, Miller, Jesse E. D, Damschen, Ellen I

“…Changes in landscape spatial structure—specifically, reductions in habitat area and connectivity—are thought to be a primary cause of pollinator declines…”
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Epiphyte type and sampling height impact mesofauna communities in Douglas-fir trees by Young, Alexander R, Miller, Jesse E D, Villella, John, Carey, Greg, Miller, William R

“…Branches and boles of trees in wet forests are often carpeted with lichens and bryophytes capable of providing periodically saturated habitat suitable for…”
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Are plant community responses to wildfire contingent upon historical disturbance regimes? by Miller, Jesse E. D., Safford, Hugh D., Poulter, Benjamin

“…Background Ecological disturbance is a major driver of ecosystem structure and evolutionary selection, and theory predicts that the frequency and/or intensity…”
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Grazing disturbance promotes exotic annual grasses by degrading soil biocrust communities by Root, Heather T., Miller, Jesse E. D., Rosentreter, Roger

“…Exotic invasive plants threaten ecosystem integrity, and their success depends on a combination of abiotic factors, disturbances, and interactions with…”
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Functional traits and community composition: A comparison among community‐weighted means, weighted correlations, and multilevel models by Miller, Jesse E. D., Damschen, Ellen I., Ives, Anthony R., Baselga, Andrés

“…Of the several approaches that are used to analyse functional trait–environment relationships, the most popular is community‐weighted mean regressions (CWMr)…”
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Functional diversity is a passenger but not driver of drought‐related plant diversity losses in annual grasslands by Miller, Jesse E. D., Li, Daijiang, LaForgia, Marina, Harrison, Susan, Jones, Holly

“…Effects of climate change on plant community functional diversity are of interest since experiments have found functional diversity to predict ecosystem…”
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Altered fire regimes cause long‐term lichen diversity losses by Miller, Jesse E. D., Root, Heather T., Safford, Hugh D.

“…Many global ecosystems have undergone shifts in fire regimes in recent decades, such as changes in fire size, frequency, and/or severity. Recent research shows…”
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Response to Comment on: Grazing promotes exotic annual grasses by degrading soil biocrust communities by Root, Heather T., Miller, Jesse E. D., Rosentreter, Roger

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Plant community data from a statewide survey of paired serpentine and non‐serpentine soils in California, USA by Miller, Jesse E. D., Copeland, Stella, Davies, Kendi, Anacker, Brian, Safford, Hugh, Harrison, Susan

“…Soils derived from ultramafic parent materials (hereafter serpentine) provide habitat for unique plant communities containing species with adaptations to the…”
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Epiphytic macrolichen communities take decades to recover after high-severity wildfire in chaparral shrublands by Miller, Jesse E. D., Weill, Alexandra M., Villella, John

“…Aim Fire regimes are shifting globally due to climate change, land management practices and population growth, putting species at risk if they are unable to…”
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A roadmap for pyrodiversity science by Steel, Zachary L., Miller, Jesse E. D., Ponisio, Lauren C., Tingley, Morgan W., Wilkin, Kate, Blakey, Rachel, Hoffman, Kira M., Jones, Gavin

“…Background Contemporary and projected shifts in global fire regimes highlight the importance of understanding how fire affects ecosystem function and…”
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Holding the line: three decades of prescribed fires halt but do not reverse woody encroachment in grasslands by Miller, Jesse E. D., Damschen, Ellen I., Ratajczak, Zak, Özdoğan, Mutlu

“…Context Encroachment of woody vegetation represents a significant global threat to biodiversity in grasslands, but practices used to reverse encroachment are…”
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