Amy Miller - Ecologist

Amy stands in a hole excavated by a bear foraging for lupine on the Lake Clark coast.

Amy E. Miller
Supervisory Ecologist
Southwest Alaska I&M Network
240 West 5^th Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99508
907.644.3683
[e-mail]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder, Biology, 2002

B.S. Oregon State University, Botany, 1993

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015-Present: Supervisory Ecologist, National Park Service, Southwest Alaska Network, Anchorage, AK

2014-Present: Affiliate Faculty, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK

2004-2015: Plant Ecologist, National Park Service, Southwest Alaska Network, Anchorage, AK

2002-2004: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1996-2002: Graduate Research Assistant, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1993-1996: Botanist, US Forest Service

Pacific Northwest Research Lab, Bend, OR (1995-1996)

Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Hayfork, CA (1994-1995)

Ochoco National Forest, Prineville, OR (1993-1994)

PUBLICATIONS
Coletti, H., G. Hilderbrand, J. Bodkin, B. Bellachey, J. Erlenbach, G. Esslinger, M. Hannam, K. Kloecker, B. Mangipane, A. Miller, D. Monson, B. Pister, K. Griffin, K. Bodkin, and T. Smith. 2022. Where land and sea meet: Brown bears and sea otters. Frontiers for Young Minds 10: 715993.

McCune, B., U. Arup, O. Breuss, E. Di Meglio, J. Di Meglio, T. L. Esslinger, J. Miadlikowska, A. E. Miller, R. Rosentreter, M. Schultz, J. Sheard, T. Tønsberg, and J. Walton. 2020. Biodiversity and ecology of lichens of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska. Plant and Fungal Systematics 65: 586-619.

Wright, M., R. L. Sherriff, A. E. Miller, and T. Wilson. 2018. Stand basal area and temperature interact to influence growth in white spruce in southwest Alaska. Ecosphere 9(10):e02462 DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2462

Miller AE, Wilson TL, Sherriff RL, Walton J. 2017. Warming drives a front of white spruce establishment near western treeline, Alaska. Global Change Biology 23:5509-5522.

Sherriff RL, Miller AE, Muth K, Shriver M, Batzel R. 2017. Spruce growth responses to warming vary by ecoregion and ecosystem type near the forest-tundra boundary in south-west Alaska. Journal of Biogeography 44:1457-1468.

Csank AZ, Miller AE, Sherriff RL, Berg EE, Welker JM. 2016. Tree-ring isotopes reveal drought sensitivity in trees killed by spruce beetle outbreaks in south-central Alaska. Ecological Applications 26:2001-2020.

Lindsay C, Zhu J, Miller AE, Kirchner P, Wilson TL. 2015. Deriving snow cover metrics for Alaska from MODIS. Remote Sensing 7:12961-12985.

Homyak PM, Sickman JO, Miller AE, Melack JM, Meixner T, Schimel JP. 2014. Assessing nitrogen- saturation in a seasonally dry chaparral watershed: Limitations of traditional indicators of N-saturation. Ecosystems 17:1286-1305.

Carlson ML, Lipkin R, Roland C, Miller AE. 2013. New and important vascular plant collections from south-central and southwestern Alaska: a region of floristic convergence. Rhodora 115:61-95.

Sherriff RL, Berg EE, Miller AE. 2011. Climate variability and spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreaks in south-central and southwest Alaska. Ecology 92:1459-1470.

Thompson WL, Miller AE, Mortenson DC, Woodward A. 2011. Developing effective sampling designs for monitoring natural resources in Alaskan national parks. Biological Conservation 144:1270-1277.

Ashton IW, Miller AE, Bowman WD, Suding KN. 2010. Niche complementarity due to plasticity in resource use: plant partitioning of chemical N forms. Ecology 91:3252-3260.

Li X, Miller AE, Meixner T, Schimel JP, Melack JM, Sickman JO. 2010. Adding an empirical factor to better represent the rewetting pulse mechanism in a soil biogeochemical model. Geoderma 159:440-451.

Schmidt SK, Nemergut DR, Miller AE, Freeman KR, King AJ, Seimon A. 2009. Microbial activity and diversity during extreme freeze-thaw cycles in periglacial soils above 5400 m elevation, Cordillera Vilcanota, Perú. Extremophiles 13:807-816; DOI 10.1007/s00792-009-0268-9.

Reed B, Budde M, Spencer P, Miller AE. 2009. Integration of MODIS-derived metrics to assess interannual variability in snowpack, lake ice, and NDVI in southwest Alaska. Remote Sensing of Environment 113:1443-1452.

Miller AE, Schimel JP, Sickman JO, Skeen K, Meixner T, Melack JM. 2009. Seasonal variation in nitrogen uptake and turnover in two high-elevation soils: mineralization response is site-dependent. Biogeochemistry 93:253-270.

Ashton IW, Miller AE, Bowman WD, Suding KN. 2008. Nitrogen preferences and plant-soil feedbacks as influenced by neighbors in the alpine tundra. Oecologia 156:625-636.

Miller AE, Bowman WD, Suding KN. 2007. Plant uptake of inorganic and organic nitrogen: neighbor identity matters. Ecology 88:1832-1840.

Miller AE, Schimel JP, Sickman JO, Meixner T, Doyle AP, Melack JM. 2007. Mineralization responses at near-zero temperatures in three alpine soils. Biogeochemistry 84:233-245.

Nemergut DR, Anderson SP, Cleveland CC, Martin AP, Miller AE, Seimon A, Schmidt SK. 2007. Microbial community succession in an unvegetated, recently deglaciated soil. Microbial Ecology 53:110-122.

Gende SM, Miller AE, Hood E. 2007. The effects of salmon carcasses on soil nutrient pools in a riparian forest of southeast Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:1194-1202.

Suding KN, Miller AE, Bechtold H, Bowman WD. 2006. The consequence of species loss on ecosystem nitrogen cycling depends on community composition. Oecologia 149:141-149.

Li X, Meixner T, Sickman JO, Miller AE, Schimel JP, Melack JM. 2006. Decadal-scale dynamics of water, carbon and nitrogen in a California chaparral ecosystem: DAYCENT modeling results. Biogeochemistry 77:217-245.

Miller AE, Schimel JP, Meixner T, Sickman JO, Melack JM. 2005. Episodic rewetting enhances carbon and nitrogen release from chaparral soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37:2195-2204.

Miller AE, Bowman WD. 2003. Alpine plants show species-level differences in the uptake of organic and inorganic N. Plant and Soil 250:283-292.

Miller AE, Bowman WD. 2002. Variation in delta¹⁵N and N uptake traits among co-occurring alpine species: do species partition by N form? Oecologia 130:609-616.

Curtis PS, Snow AA, Miller A. 1994. Genotype-specific effects of elevated CO₂ on fecundity in wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum L.). Oecologia 97:100-105.