Elizabeth R. Milano, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Bryce A. Richardson, Gerald Rehfeldt, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero, Elizabeth R. Milano. 2024. A climate analog approach to evaluate seed transfer and vegetation transitions
• Francis F. Kilkenny, Jeffrey E. Ott, Sarah C. Barga, Jessica Irwin, Kimberly Rizkowsky, Nyika Campbell, Bryce A. Richardson, Elizabeth R. Milano, Corey Gucker. 2023. Great Basin Native Plant Project: 2022 Progress Report
• Lukas P. Grossfurthner, Elizabeth R. Milano, Paul A. Hohenlohe, Lisette P. Waits, Bryce A. Richardson. 2023. Population structure and hybridization under contemporary and future climates in a heteroploid foundational shrub species (Artemisia tridentata)
• Phillip J. van Mantgem, Elizabeth R. Milano, Joan Dudney, Jonathan C. B. Nesmith, Amy G. Vandergast, Harold Zald. 2023. Growth, drought response, and climate‐associated genomic structure in whitebark pine in the Sierra Nevada of California
• Joan Dudney, Andrew M. Latimer, Phillip van Mantgem, Harold Zald, Claire E. Willing, Jonathan C. B. Nesmith, Jennifer Cribbs, Elizabeth R. Milano. 2023. The energy–water limitation threshold explains divergent drought responses in tree growth, needle length, and stable isotope ratios

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Vandergast, A. G., Kus, B. E., Wood, D. A., Milano, E. R., & Preston, K. L. (2022). Subspecies differentiation and range-wide genetic structure are driven by climate in the California gnatcatcher, a flagship species for coastal sage scrub conservation. Evolutionary Applications, 15, 1201–1217. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13429
• Milano, E.R., Mulligan, M.R., Rebman, J.P. et al. High-throughput sequencing reveals distinct regional genetic structure among remaining populations of an endangered salt marsh plant in California. Conserv Genet 21, 547–559 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-020-01269-3
• Milano, E.R., and Vandergast, A.G., 2018, Population genomic surveys for six rare plant species in San Diego County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018–1175, 60 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181175.
• Milano, E.R., Payne, C.E., Wolfrum, E. et al. Quantitative trait loci for cell wall composition traits measured using near-infrared spectroscopy in the model C4 perennial grass Panicum hallii. Biotechnol Biofuels 11, 25 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-018-1033-z
• Milano, E.R., Kenney, A.M. and Juenger, T.E. (2016), Adaptive differentiation in floral traits in the presence of high gene flow in scarlet gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata). Mol Ecol, 25: 5862-5875. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13752
• Milano, E.R., Lowry, D.B., Juenger, T.E., The Genetic Basis of Upland/Lowland Ecotype Divergence in Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Volume 6, Issue 11, 1 November 2016, Pages 3561–3570, https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.116.032763

• Program
  

  Maintaining Resilient Dryland Ecosystems

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/drylandecosystems
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Climate distance and nearest neighbor approaches to assess climate seed transfer and plant community transitions

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bilclimate-distance-and-nearest-neighbor-approaches-assess-current-and-future-climate
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Building common garden arrays and developing climate-smart seed transfer zones to guide revegetation of priority habitats in high fire risk landscapes in the Great Basin and Intermountain West

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-building-common-garden-arrays
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Revealing climate analogs to restore tomorrow’s ecosystems

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/revealing-climate-analogs-restore-tomorrows-ecosystems

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Productive Forests and Rangelands: Science for Productive Rangelands

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/productive-forests-and-rangelands-science-productive-rangelands
• Webinars

  SCIENCEx Genetics: Landscape Restoration and Plants

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/sciencex-genetics-landscape-restoration-and-plants

• University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. Plant Biology, Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics, 2015
• University of California, Davis, B.S. Genetics, Genetics and plant biology, 2006