Spatial Modeling

  • Perry, G. L. W., K. A. Moloney, and T. R. Etherington. 2016. Using network coonectivity to prioritise sites for the control of invasive species. Journal of Applied Ecology. 54(4):1238-1250.

  • Fuentes-Ramirez, A.,  J. W. Veldman, C. Holzapfel and K. A. Moloney. 2016. Spreaders, igniters and burning shrubs: plant flammability explains novel fire dynamics in grass-invaded deserts. Ecological Applications 26(7):2311-2322.

  • Fuentes-Ramirez, A., E. L. Mudrak, P. C. Caragea, C. Holzapfel and K. A. Moloney. 2015. Assessing the impact of fire on the spatial distribution of Larrea tridentata in the Sonoran Desert, USA. Oecologia 178:473-484.

  • Fuentes-Ramirez, A., J. L. Schafer, E. L. Mudrak, M. Schat, H. A. Parag, C. Holzapfel, and K. A. Moloney.2015. Spatio-temporal impacts of fire on soil nutrient availability in Larrea tridentata shrublands of the Mojave Desert, USA. Geoderma 259: 126-133.

  • Thomas, S. M. and K. A. Moloney, 2015. “Combining the effects of surrounding land-use and propagule pressure to predict the distribution of an invasive plant” Biological Invasions 17(1):477-495.

  • Mudrak, E. L., J. L. Schafer, A. Fuentes-Ramirez, C. Holzapfel and K. A. Moloney. 2014.
    Predictive modeling of spatial patterns of soil nutrients related to fertility islands. Landscape Ecology 29(3):491-505.

    Jeltsch, F., K. A. Moloney, M. Schwager, K. Körner, and N. Blaum. 2011.. Consequences of correlations between habitat modifications and negative impact of climate change for regional species survival. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment145(1):49-58.

  • Sieck, M., P. L. Ibisch, K. A. Moloney, and F. Jeltsch. 2011. Current models broadly neglect specific needs of biodiversity conservation in protected areas under climate change. BMC Ecology 11(1):12

  • Jeltsch F., K. A. Moloney, F. Schurr, M. Köchy, and M. Schwager. 2008. The state of plant population modelling in light of environmental change. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics9(3-4):171-190.

  • Wiegand T. , E. Revilla, and K.A. Moloney. 2005. Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on population dynamics. Conservation Biology 19 (1):108-121
  • Tews, J., K. A. Moloney and F. Jeltsch.  2004. Modeling seed dispersal in a variable environment: a case study of the fleshy-fruited savanna shrub Grewia flava . Ecological Modeling 175:65-76.
  • Wichmann, M., K. Johst, K. A. Moloney, C. Wissel, and F. Jeltsch. 2003. Extinction risk in periodically fluctuating environments. Ecological Modeling 167(3) :221-231.
  • Jeltsch, F. and K. A. Moloney. 2002. Spatially-explicit vegetation models: what have we learned? Progress in Botany 63:326-343.
  • Seabloom, E. W., Kirk A. Moloney, and Arnold G. van der Valk. 2001.Constraints on the establishment of plants along a fluctuating water-depth gradient. Ecology 82(8):2216-2232.
  • Weber, G. E., K. A. Moloney, and F. Jeltsch. 2000. Simulated long-term vegetation response to alternative stocking strategies in savanna rangelands. Plant Ecology 150:77-96.
  • Wiegand, T., K. A. Moloney, J. Naves, F. Knauer, and P. Kaczensky. 1999. Finding the missing link between landscape structure and population dynamics: a spatially explicit perspective. American Naturalist 154:605-627.
  • Wiegand, T., K. A. Moloney, and S. J. Milton. 1998. Pattern analysis and landscape population dynamics: the influence of disturbance on the interactions between species. American Naturalist 152:321-337.
  • Moloney, K.A. and S. A. Levin. 1996. The effects of disturbance architecture on landscape level population dynamics. Ecology 72(2):375-394.
  • Moloney, K. A., S. A. Levin, N. Chiariello, and L. Buttel. 1992. Pattern and scale in a serpentine grassland. Theoretical Population Biology 41:257-276.
  • Levin, S. A., K. A. Moloney, L. Buttel, and C. Castillo-Chavez. 1989. Dynamical models of ecosystems and epidemics. Future Generation Computer Systems 5:265-274.
  • Moloney, K.A. 1988. Fine-scale spatial and temporal variation in the demography of a perennial bunchgrass. Ecology 69:1588-1598.
  • Moloney, K. A.  1986. Wave and non-wave regeneration processes in a subalpine Abies balsamea forest.  Canadian Journal of Botany 64:341-349.