In review
Kern, B.R., S.A. Sianta, Y. Brandvain, and D.A. Moeller. Genetic architecture of pollinator responses to recent population divergence in floral traits and mating system.
Mueller, T.L. & D.A. Moeller. Endophyte diversity is influenced by host species and environment but community composition is structured by spatial distance. preprint
2026 and in press
Lake, T.A., R.D. Briscoe Runquist, & D.A. Moeller. Two decades of Landsat images reveal spatial and temporal dynamics of invasion and improve species distribution models. Ecological Applications, in press. preprint
Sianta, S.A., B.R. Kern, A. Siri, Y. Brandvain, & D.A. Moeller. 2026. Introgression despite minimal hybridization: mating system modulates phenotypic associations with introgression in Clarkia. New Phytologist 250: 2619-2633. pdf
Harrington, A.D. & D.A. Moeller. 2026. Hidden in plain sight: Distinguishing a narrow endemic Clarkia from an allopolyploid derivative despite morphological and ecological overlap. Plant Systematics and Evolution 312, 36. pdf
Harrington, A.D. & D.A. Moeller. 2026. Niche position mediates the effect of polyploidy on geographic range size in Clarkia. Journal of Biogeography 53, e70291. pdf
Comte, L. et al. (24 authors). 2026. At the leading edge: advancing and bridging the science and management of range-shifting species. Bioscience. biag088. pdf
2025
Kooyers, N.J., J.T. Anderson, A.L. Angert, M.L. Avolio, D.R. Campbell, M. Exposito-Alonso, T.E. Juenger, D.A. Moeller, J.D. Napier, S.N. Sheth. Responses to climate change – insights and limitations from herbaceous plant model systems. New Phytologist. 248:461-493. pdf
Carley, L.N., M.A. Geber, W.F. Morris, V.M. Eckhart, & D.A. Moeller. Long-term population stability predicts the magnitude of local adaptation. Ecology Letters 28:e70071. pdf
2024
Sianta, S., D.A. Moeller, & Y. Brandvain. 2024. The extent of introgression between incipient Clarkia species is determined by temporal environmental variation and mating system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 121:e2316008121. pdf
Cocciardi, J.M. & 33 other authors including D.A. Moeller. 2024. The value of long-term ecological research for evolutionary insights. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8:1584-1592. link
Briscoe Runquist, R.D. & D.A. Moeller. 2024. Isolation-by-environment and its consequences for range shifts with global change: landscape genomics of the invasive plant common tansy. Molecular Ecology 33:e17462. pdf
Vergara, I.H., M.A. Geber, D.A. Moeller, & V.M. Eckhart. 2024. Population histories of reproductive failure and low winter precipitation correlate with risk-averse seed germination in a Mediterranean-climate winter annual. American Journal of Botany 111:e16412. pdf
2023
Lake, T.A., R.D. Briscoe Runquist, L.E. Flagel, & D.A. Moeller. 2023. Chronosequence of invasion reveals minimal losses of population genomic diversity, niche expansion, and trait divergence in the polyploid, leafy spurge. Evolutionary Applications 16:1680-1696. pdf
Siegmund, G.-F., D.A. Moeller, V.M. Eckhart, & M.A. Geber. 2023. Bet hedging is not sufficient to explain germination patterns of a winter annual plant. American Naturalist 202:767-784. pdf
*Best student paper, American Naturalist 2024
Kern, B.R., L.N. Carley, & D.A. Moeller. 2023. Direct tracking of pollen with quantum dots reveals surprising uniformity in dispersal distance across eleven populations of an annual plant. American Journal of Botany 110:e16201. pdf
*Editor’s choice, Journal Highlights July 2023
Benning, J.W., A. Faulkner, & D.A. Moeller. 2023. Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:20230336. pdf
Sianta, S.A., S. Peischl, D.A. Moeller, & Y. Brandvain. 2023. The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment. Evolution 77:394-408. pdf
2022
Gorton, A.J., J.W. Benning, P. Tiffin, & D.A. Moeller. 2022. The spatial scale of adaptation in a native annual plant and its implications for responses to climate change. Evolution 76:2916- 2929. pdf
Lake, T.A. Lake, R.D. Briscoe Runquist, & D.A. Moeller. 2022. Deep learning detects invasive plant species across complex landscapes using Worldview-2 and Planetscope satellite imagery. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 8:875–889. pdf
*AAAS, Biotechniques, Phys.org, & other news outlets
*”Top downloaded article” from the journal
Mueller, T., E. Karlsen-Ayala, D.A. Moeller, & J. Bellemare. 2022. Of mutualism and migration: Will interactions with novel ericoid mycorrhizal communities help or hinder Rhododendron range shifts in response to climate change? Oecologia 198:839-852. pdf
*Journal Cover
2021
Erlandson, S.K., J. Bellemare, & D.A. Moeller. 2021. Limited range-filling among endemic forest herbs of Eastern North America and its implications for conservation with climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:751728. pdf
Briscoe Runquist, R.D., T.A. Lake, & D.A. Moeller. 2021. Improving predictions of range expansion for invasive species using joint species distribution models and surrogate co-occurring species. Journal of Biogeography 48:1693-1705. pdf
Benning, J.W., & D.A. Moeller. 2021. Microbes, mutualism, and range margins: testing the fitness consequences of soil microbial communities across and beyond a native plant’s range. New Phytologist 229:2886-2900. pdf
Benning, J.W., & D.A. Moeller. 2021. Plant-soil interactions limit lifetime fitness outside a native plant’s geographic range margin. Ecology 102:e03254. pdf
Kostanecki, A., A.J. Gorton, & D.A. Moeller. 2021. An urban-rural spotlight: evolution at small spatial scales among urban and rural populations of common ragweed. Journal of Urban Ecology 7:juab004. pdf
Sullivan L.L., K.P. Sperry, M.J. Michalska-Smith, D.A. Moeller, & A.K. Shaw. 2021. Consequences of ignoring dispersal variation in network models for landscape connectivity. Conservation Biology 35:944-954. pdf
2020
Lake, T.A., R.D. Briscoe Runquist, & D.A. Moeller. 2020. Predicting range expansion of invasive species: pitfalls and best practices for obtaining biologically realistic projections. Diversity and Distributions 26:1767–1779. pdf
Ruane, L.G., S.M. Mangum, K.M. Horner, & D.A. Moeller. 2020. The opportunity for outcrossing varies across the geographic range of the primarily selfing Clarkia xantiana ssp. parviflora. American Journal of Botany 107:1198-1207. pdf
Hämälä, T., A.J. Gorton, D.A. Moeller, & P. Tiffin. 2020. Pleiotropy facilitates local adaptation to distant optima in common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia). PLoS Genetics 16:e1008707. pdf
Briscoe Runquist R.D., A.J. Gorton*, J.B. Yoder, N.J. Deacon, J.J. Grossman, S. Kothari, M.P. Lyons, S.N. Sheth, P. Tiffin, & D.A. Moeller. 2020. Context dependence of local adaptation to abiotic and biotic environments: a quantitative and qualitative synthesis. American Naturalist 195:412-431. pdf
*Highlighted in PNAS Front Matter
2019
Benning, J.W.*, & D.A. Moeller. 2019. Maladaptation beyond a geographic range limit driven by antagonistic and mutualistic biotic interactions across an abiotic gradient. Evolution 73: 2044-2059. pdf
Benning, J.W.*, M.A. Geber, V.M. Eckhart, & D.A. Moeller. 2019. Biotic interactions contribute to the geographic range of an annual plant: herbivory and phenology mediate fitness beyond a range margin. American Naturalist 193:786-797. pdf
Gorton, A.J.*, P. Tiffin, & D.A. Moeller. 2019. Does adaptation to historical climate shape plant responses to future rainfall patterns? A rainfall manipulation experiment with common ragweed. Oecologia 190:941-953. pdf
Hargreaves, A.L., E. Suárez, K. Mehltreter, I. Myers-Smith, S.E. Vanderplank, H.L. Slinn, Y.L. Vargas-Rodriguez, S. Haeussler, S. David, J. Muñoz, R.C. Almazán-Núñez, D. Loughnan, J.W. Benning*, D.A. Moeller, J.F. Brodie, H.J.D. Thomas, & P.A. Morales. 2019. Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations. Science Advances 5:eaau4403. pdf
Briscoe Runquist, R.D., T. Lake*, P. Tiffin, & D.A. Moeller. 2019. Species distribution models throughout the invasion history of Palmer amaranth predict regions at risk of future invasion and reveal challenges with modeling rapidly shifting geographic ranges. Scientific Reports 9:2426. pdf
2018
Gorton, A.J.*, D.A. Moeller, & P. Tiffin. 2018. Little plant, big city: a test of adaptation to urban environments in common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia). Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 176:1799-1809. pdf
Pironen, S., J. Villellas, W. Thuiller, V.M. Eckhart, M.A. Geber, D.A. Moeller, & M.B. García. 2018. The “Hutchinsonian niche” as an assemblage of demographic niches: implications for species’ geographic ranges. Ecography. 41:1103-1113. pdf
Bolin, L.G.†, J.W. Benning*, & D.A. Moeller. 2018. Mycorrhizal interactions do not influence plant-herbivore interactions in populations of Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana spanning from center to margin of the geographic range. Ecology & Evolution. 8:10743–10753. pdf
2017
Moeller, D.A., R.D. Briscoe Runquist, A.M. Moe, M.A. Geber, C. Goodwillie, P.-O. Cheptou, C.G. Eckert, E. Elle, M.O. Johnston, S. Kalisz, R.H. Ree, R.D. Sargent, M. Vallejo-Marin, & A.A. Winn. 2017. Global biogeography of mating system variation in seed plants. Ecology Letters 20:375-384. pdf
Briscoe Runquist, R.D., M.A. Geber, M. Pickett-Leonard†, & D.A. Moeller. 2017. Mating system evolution under strong pollen limitation: Evidence of disruptive selection through male and female fitness in Clarkia xantiana. American Naturalist 189:549-563. pdf
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