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Miles R. Silman

Department of Energy and Environment

49

Works

4,796

Citations

26

h-index

31

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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Plant and animal studies Species Distribution and Climate Change

Affiliations

Smithsonian Institution1998–1999

Florida Institute of Technology2004–2004

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute1998–1998

Duke University1999–1999

Department of Energy and Environment2025–2025

Top Works

SEED DISPERSAL NEAR AND FAR: PATTERNS ACROSS TEMPERATE AND TROPICAL FORESTS

James S. Clark,Miles R. Silman,et al.

1999883 citations

Forest ecology and management

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

Yadvinder Malhi,Toby Gardner,et al.

2014501 citations

Net primary productivity allocation and cycling of carbon along a tropical forest elevational transect in the Peruvian Andes

Cécile Girardin,Yadvinder Malhi,et al.

2010419 citations

Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

Noah Fierer,Christy M. McCain,et al.

2010396 citations

48,000 Years of Climate and Forest Change in a Biodiversity Hot Spot

Mark B. Bush,Miles R. Silman,et al.

2004382 citations

Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research

Yadvinder Malhi,Miles R. Silman,et al.

2010307 citations

Keep collecting: accurate species distribution modelling requires more collections than previously thought

Kenneth J. Feeley,Miles R. Silman

2011221 citations

Vegetation dynamics of predator‐free land‐bridge islands

John Terborgh,Kenneth J. Feeley,et al.

2006157 citations

Biotic attrition from tropical forests correcting for truncated temperature niches

Kenneth J. Feeley,Miles R. Silman

2009152 citations