James H. Miller's Images
Title: Research EcologistOrganization: USDA Forest Service
Unit: Southern Research Station
Country: United States
Web: http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/4105
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James (Jim) Miller has been a Senior Research Ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station, since 1977 at a lab on the Auburn University Campus,and Affiliate Professor of Forestry with Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences during the same period. Jim has Southern Regional responsibility for invasive plant research for the Forest Service. He has published over 100 scientific and popular articles and books. Most noteworthy are a series of reports on the region-wide COMProject with 13 study sites in 7 states in its 25th year studying the influences of woody and herbaceous plants growing in loblolly pine plantations. His books include, Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses, coauthored with Dr. Karl Miller, University of Georgia, and Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests: A field guide for identification and control. He travels widely to speak on the Predicament of Invasive Species and the Ecological and Socio-economic dilemmas they present and works at the national, regional, and state levels to organize efforts to manage the ongoing invasions. He currently leads a Regional Task Force on Invasive Species including all branches of the Forest Service to identify the alien invasive species that most threaten southern forest sustainability. |
| 28 Images of 13 Subjects | View Subject List | View Image Details | View Thumbnails |
| Image | Subject Name | Scientific Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2307048 | Russian-olive | Elaeagnus angustifolia | Stem. Winter |
| 2307140 | winter creeper | Euonymus fortunei | May |
| 0016173 | golden bamboo | Phyllostachys aurea | Deciduous sheaths litter the ground in July |
| 2307111 | multiflora rose | Rosa multiflora | Bristled margins on petiole base that characterizes species in September |
| 2307016 | mimosa | Albizia julibrissin | January |
| 0016081 | sacred bamboo | Nandina domestica | flowering plant in August |
| 0016132 | big periwinkle | Vinca major | vines with new growth in April |
| 0016172 | golden bamboo | Phyllostachys aurea | in July |
| 0016113 | winter creeper | Euonymus fortunei | Stem with small patch of aerial roots in May |
| 0016181 | shrubby lespedeza | Lespedeza bicolor | back and front of leaves in July |
| 2307238 | shrubby lespedeza | Lespedeza bicolor | January |
| 2307243 | sericea lespedeza | Lespedeza cuneata | February |
| 0016064 | Chinese privet | Ligustrum sinense | under a dormant hardwood stand in April |
| 0016133 | big periwinkle | Vinca major | Both regular and variegated varieties shown on right compared to common periwinkle on left |
| 0016190 | sericea lespedeza | Lespedeza cuneata | Leaf backs (left) and leaf fronts (right) in July |
| 0016114 | winter creeper | Euonymus fortunei | stem with aerial roots in May |
| 0016116 | winter creeper | Euonymus fortunei | Stem with distinctive buds in May |
| 0016077 | sweet breath of spring | Lonicera fragrantissima | branch in September |
| 0016029 | chinaberry | Melia azedarach | rootsprouts in July |
| 0016055 | winged burning bush | Euonymus alatus | A single flower beside the stem and corky rings encicle twig joints in April |
| 0016060 | Chinese privet | Ligustrum sinense | resprout in September |
| 0016084 | sacred bamboo | Nandina domestica | woody stem in September |
| 0016092 | multiflora rose | Rosa multiflora | Bristled margins on petiole base that characterizes species in September |
| 0016096 | multiflora rose | Rosa multiflora | branch in winter with red flower buds |
| 0016226 | golden bamboo | Phyllostachys aurea | |
| 0016191 | sericea lespedeza | Lespedeza cuneata | in September |
| 0016183 | shrubby lespedeza | Lespedeza bicolor | in July |
| 0016174 | golden bamboo | Phyllostachys aurea | new sprouts in July |
