By Professor Angela Moles

Book Chapters

Moles AT; Leishman MR, 2008, 'The seedling as part of a plant’s life history strategy', in Seedling Ecology and Evolution, pp. 217 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815133.012

Moles AT; Leishman M, 2008, 'The seedling as part of a plant’s life history strategy', in Leck MA; Parker VT; Simpson RL (ed.), Seedling Ecology and Evolution, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, pp. 239 - 254, http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521873055

Jurado E; Moles AT, 2003, 'Germination deferment strategies.', in Nicolás G; Bradford KJ; Côme D; Curie M; Pritchard HW (ed.), The Biology of Seeds: Recent Research Advances., CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK., pp. 381 - 388

Moles AT; Leishman MR; Wright IJ; Westoby M, 2000, 'The Evolutionary Ecology of Seed Size', in Fenner M (ed.), Seeds The Ecology of Regeneration in Plant Communities, CABI, pp. 31 - 31, https://doi.org/10.1079/9781780641836.0000

Leishman MR; Wright IJ; Moles AT; Westoby M, 2000, 'The evolutionary ecology of seed size.', in Fenner M (ed.), Seeds - the ecology of regeneration in plant communities

Journal articles

Everingham SE; Offord CA; Sabot MEB; Salminen JP; Moles AT, 2026, 'Limited responses of plant defence traits to recent climate change', Evolutionary Ecology, 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-025-10373-0

Xirocostas ZA; Slavich E; Everingham SE; Salminen JP; Booth L; Gleadow R; Ollerton J; Tamme R; Peco B; Lesieur V; Raghu S; Junker RR; Pärtel M; Uesugi A; Bonser SP; Hovenden MJ; Moles AT, 2026, 'In poor taste: leaf palatability traits are not correlated with aboveground enemy release', Oecologia, 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05853-7

Arnold PA; Brown FM; Brown ZA; Aitken SM; Danzey LM; Hanley TC; King JL; Mu X; Osmolovsky I; Sumner EE; Williamson VG; Xirocostas ZA; Leigh A; Moles AT; Venn SE; Nicotra AB, 2025, 'Effective heating chamber design to simulate acute heatwaves and night-time warming for ecological communities under natural field conditions', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16, pp. 1935 - 1947, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70114

Chiarenza GM; Moles AT, 2025, 'Most young leaves pale in comparison to mature leaves: delayed greening is neither binary nor tropical', Ecography, 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecog.07185

Chiarenza GM; Moles AT, 2025, 'Plant species establishing beyond their introduced range are not always released from belowground enemies', Plant and Soil, 514, pp. 373 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07390-x

Perrin A; Moles AT; Offord CA; Slavich E; Zeng K; Everingham SE, 2025, 'Shining a Light on Patterns of Photoperiod Sensitivity in Germination and Flowering Across Latitudes, Ecosystems and Functional Traits', Ecology and Evolution, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71923

Battlay P; Hendrickson BT; Mendez-Reneau JI; Santangelo JS; Albano LJ; Wilson J; Caizergues AE; King N; Puentes A; Tudoran A; Violle C; Vasseur F; Patterson CM; Foster M; Stamps C; Innes SG; Allio R; Angeoletto F; Anstett DN; Anstett J; Bucharova A; Comerford MS; David S; Falahati-Anbaran M; Godsoe W; González-Lagos C; Gundel PE; Hood GR; Lampei C; Lara C; Lázaro-Lobo A; Silva Leandro D; Merritt TJS; Mitchell N; Mohammadi Bazargani M; Moles A; Murúa M; Paule J; Pfeiffer V; Raeymaekers JAM; Rennison DJ; Rios RS; Rowntree JK; Schneider AC; Stack Whitney K; Tamburrino Í; VanWallendael A; Kim PY; Ness RW; Johnson MTJ; Hodgins KA; Kooyers NJ, 2025, 'Haploblocks contribute to parallel climate adaptation following global invasion of a cosmopolitan plant', Nature Ecology and Evolution, 9, pp. 1441 - 1455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02751-2

Osmolovsky I; Xirocostas ZA; Chiarenza GM; Moles AT, 2025, 'Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions', Global Change Biology, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70332

Bonser SP; Gabriel V; Zeng K; Moles AT, 2025, 'The biocontrol paradox', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 40, pp. 586 - 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.012

Pärtel M; Tamme R; Carmona CP; Riibak K; Moora M; Bennett JA; Chiarucci A; Chytrý M; de Bello F; Eriksson O; Harrison S; Lewis RJ; Moles AT; Öpik M; Price JN; Amputu V; Askarizadeh D; Atashgahi Z; Aubin I; Azcárate FM; Barrett MD; Bashirzadeh M; Bátori Z; Beenaerts N; Bergholz K; Birkeli K; Biurrun I; Blanco-Moreno JM; Bloodworth KJ; Boisvert-Marsh L; Boldgiv B; Brancalion PHS; Brearley FQ; Brown C; Bueno CG; Buffa G; Cahill JF; Campos JA; Cangelmi G; Carbognani M; Carcaillet C; Cerabolini BEL; Chevalier R; Clavel JS; Costa JM; Cousins SAO; Čuda J; Dairel M; Dalle Fratte M; Danilova A; Davison J; Deák B; Del Vecchio S; Dembicz I; Dengler J; Dolezal J; Domene X; Dvorsky M; Ejtehadi H; Enrico L; Epikhin D; Eskelinen A; Essl F; Fan G; Fantinato E; Fazlioglu F; Fernández-Pascual E; Ferrara A; Fidelis A; Fischer M; Flagmeier M; Forte TGW; Fraser LH; Fujinuma J; Furquim FF; Garris B; Garris HW; Giorgis MA; Giusso del Galdo G; González-Robles A; Good MK; Guardiola M; Guarino R; Guerrero I; Guillemot J; Güler B; Guo Y; Haesen S; Hejda M; Heleno RH; Høye TT; Hrivnák R; Huang Y; Hunter JT; Iakushenko D; Ibáñez R; Ingerpuu N; Irl SDH; Janíková E; Jansen F, 2025, 'Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity', Nature, 641, pp. 917 - 924, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08814-5

Zeng K; Sentinella AT; Armitage C; Moles AT, 2025, 'Species that require long-day conditions to flower are not advancing their flowering phenology as fast as species without photoperiod requirements', Annals of Botany, 135, pp. 113 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae121

Xirocostas ZA; Ollerton J; Peco B; Slavich E; Bonser SP; Pärtel M; Raghu S; Moles AT, 2024, 'Introduced species shed friends as well as enemies', Scientific Reports, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61788-8

Chiarenza GM; Slavich E; Moles AT, 2024, 'Guidelines for quantifying leaf chlorophyll content via non-destructive spectrometry', Applications in Plant Sciences, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11610

Zvereva E; Adroit B; Andersson T; Barnett C; Branco S; Castagneyrol B; Chiarenza G; Dáttilo W; del-Val E; Filip J; Griffith J; Hargreaves A; Hernández-Agüero J; Silva I; Hong Y; Kietzka G; Klimeš P; Koistinen M; Kruglova O; Kumpula S; Lopezosa P; March-Salas M; Marquis R; Marusik Y; Moles A; Muola A; Murkwe M; Nakamura A; Olson C; Pagani-Núñez E; Popova A; Rahn O; Reshchikov A; Rodriguez-Campbell A; Rytkönen S; Sam K; Sounapoglou A; Tropek R; Wenda C; Xu G; Zeng Y; Zolotarev M; Zubrii N; Zverev V; Kozlov M, 2024, 'Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13899

Carta A; Vandelook F; Ramírez-Barahona S; Chen SC; Dickie J; Steinbrecher T; Thanos CA; Moles AT; Leubner-Metzger G; Mattana E, 2024, 'The seed morphospace, a new contribution towards the multidimensional study of angiosperm sexual reproductive biology', Annals of Botany, 134, pp. 701 - 710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae099

Cruickshank M; Moles A; Debono S; Xirocostas Z, 2024, 'COVERater—A Free Application for Training Researchers to Accurately Estimate Species Cover in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems', Ecology and Evolution, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70447

Caizergues AE; Santangelo JS; Ness RW; Angeoletto F; Anstett DN; Anstett J; Baena-Diaz F; Carlen EJ; Chaves JA; Comerford MS; Dyson K; Falahati-Anbaran M; Fellowes MDE; Hodgins KA; Hood GR; Iñiguez-Armijos C; Kooyers NJ; Lázaro-Lobo A; Moles AT; Munshi-South J; Paule J; Porth IM; Santiago-Rosario LY; Whitney KS; Tack AJM; Johnson MTJ, 2024, 'Does urbanisation lead to parallel demographic shifts across the world in a cosmopolitan plant?', Molecular Ecology, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.17311

Chen YD; Liu C; Moles A; Jassey VEJ; Bu ZJ, 2024, 'A hidden herbivory effect on Sphagnum reproduction', Plant Biology, 26, pp. 214 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/plb.13610

Everingham SE; Offord CA; Sabot MEB; Moles AT, 2024, 'Leaf morphological traits show greater responses to changes in climate than leaf physiological traits and gas exchange variables', Ecology and Evolution, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10941

Dadzie FA; Moles AT; Erickson TE; Machado de Lima N; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2024, 'Inoculating native microorganisms improved soil function and altered the microbial composition of a degraded soil', Restoration Ecology, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.14025

Wang X; Ge W; Zhang M; Fernández‐Pascual E; Moles A; Saatkamp A; Rosbakh S; Bu H; Panahi P; Ma M, 2024, 'Large and non-spherical seeds are less likely to form a persistent soil seed bank', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2764

Lázaro-Lobo A; Andrade BO; Canavan K; Ervin GN; Essl F; Fernández-Pascual E; Follak S; Richardson DM; Moles A; Visser V; Wyse SV; Jiménez-Alfaro B, 2024, 'Monographs on Invasive Plants in Europe N°8: Cortaderia selloana (Schult. & Schult. f.) Asch. & Graebn', Botany Letters, 171, pp. 383 - 407, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2024.2367591

Clark CD; Moles AT; Fazlioglu F; Brandenburger CR; Hartley S, 2024, 'Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia', Journal of Ecology, 112, pp. 28 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14210

Caizergues AE; Santangelo JS; Ness RW; Angeoletto F; Anstett DN; Anstett J; Baena-Diaz F; Carlen EJ; Chaves JA; Comerford MS; Dyson K; Falahati-Anbaran M; Fellowes MDE; Hodgins KA; Hood GR; Iniguez-Armijos C; Kooyers NJ; Lazaro-Lobo A; Moles AT; Johnson MTJ, 2024, ''Does urbanisation lead to parallel demographic shifts across the world in a cosmopolitan plant?' (vol 33, e17311, 2024)', MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.17379

Robinson ML; Hahn PG; Inouye BD; Underwood N; Whitehead SR; Abbott KC; Bruna EM; Cacho NI; Dyer LA; Abdala-Roberts L; Allen WJ; Andrade JF; Angulo DF; Anjos D; Anstett DN; Bagchi R; Bagchi S; Barbosa M; Barrett S; Baskett CA; Ben-Simchon E; Bloodworth KJ; Bronstein JL; Buckley YM; Burghardt KT; Bustos-Segura C; Calixto ES; Carvalho RL; Castagneyrol B; Chiuffo MC; Cinolu D; Cinto Mejía E; Cock MC; Cogni R; Cope OL; Cornelissen T; Cortez DR; Crowder DW; Dallstream C; Dáttilo W; Davis JK; Dimarco RD; Dole HE; Egbon IN; Eisenring M; Ejomah A; Elderd BD; Endara MJ; Eubanks MD; Everingham SE; Farah KN; Farias RP; Fernandes AP; Fernandes GW; Ferrante M; Finn A; Florjancic GA; Forister ML; Fox QN; Frago E; França FM; Getman-Pickering AS; Getman-Pickering Z; Gianoli E; Gooden B; Gossner MM; Greig KA; Gripenberg S; Groenteman R; Grof-Tisza P; Haack N; Hahn L; Haq SM; Helms AM; Hennecke J; Hermann SL; Holeski LM; Holm S; Hutchinson MC; Jackson EE; Kagiya S; Kalske A; Kalwajtys M; Karban R; Kariyat R; Keasar T; Kersch-Becker MF; Kharouba HM; Kim TN; Kimuyu DM; Kluse J; Koerner SE; Komatsu KJ; Krishnan S; Laihonen M; Lamelas-López L; LaScaleia MC; Lecomte N; Lehn CR; Li X, 2023, 'Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory', Science, 382, pp. 679 - 683, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adh8830

Earle RAD; Atkinson J; Moles AT, 2023, 'British species that are present in Australia have different traits from British species that are not present in Australia', Diversity and Distributions, 29, pp. 1289 - 1298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13758

Xirocostas ZA; Ollerton J; Tamme R; Peco B; Lesieur V; Slavich E; Junker RR; Pärtel M; Raghu S; Uesugi A; Bonser SP; Chiarenza GM; Hovenden MJ; Moles AT, 2023, 'The great escape: patterns of enemy release are not explained by time, space or climate', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1022

Dadzie F; Muñoz-Rojas M; Slavich E; Pottier P; Zeng K; Moles AT, 2023, 'Paired comparisons of native and commercial inoculants, bacteria and fungi, and single and multi-strain microorganisms show equal effects on plant growth in dryland ecosystems.', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-17010

Zhang H; Chen SC; Bonser SP; Hitchcock T; Moles AT, 2023, 'Factors that shape large-scale gradients in clonality', Journal of Biogeography, 50, pp. 827 - 837, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14577

Everingham SE; Blick RAJ; Sabot MEB; Slavich E; Moles AT, 2023, 'Southern hemisphere plants show more delays than advances in flowering phenology', Journal of Ecology, 111, pp. 380 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13828

Flores-Moreno H; Dalrymple RL; Cornwell WK; Popovic G; Nakagawa S; Atkinson J; Cooke J; Laffan SW; Bonser SP; Schwanz LE; Crean AJ; Eldridge DJ; Garratt M; Brooks RC; Vergés A; Poore AGB; Cohen DR; Clark GF; Sen Gupta A; Reich PB; Cornelissen JHC; Craine JM; Hemmings FA; Kattge J; Niinemets Ü; Peñuelas J; Moles AT, 2023, 'Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1073842

Dadzie FA; Moles AT; Erickson TE; Slavich E; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2022, 'Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration', Journal of Applied Ecology, 59, pp. 2983 - 2992, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14293

Moles AT; Xirocostas ZA, 2022, 'Statistical power from the people', Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 1802 - 1803, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01902-z

Díaz S; Kattge J; Cornelissen JHC; Wright IJ; Lavorel S; Dray S; Reu B; Kleyer M; Wirth C; Prentice IC; Garnier E; Bönisch G; Westoby M; Poorter H; Reich PB; Moles AT; Dickie J; Zanne AE; Chave J; Wright SJ; Sheremetiev SN; Jactel H; Baraloto C; Cerabolini BEL; Pierce S; Shipley B; Casanoves F; Joswig JS; Günther A; Falczuk V; Rüger N; Mahecha MD; Gorné LD; Amiaud B; Atkin OK; Bahn M; Baldocchi D; Beckmann M; Blonder B; Bond W; Bond-Lamberty B; Brown K; Burrascano S; Byun C; Campetella G; Cavender-Bares J; Chapin FS; Choat B; Coomes DA; Cornwell WK; Craine J; Craven D; Dainese M; de Araujo AC; de Vries FT; Domingues TF; Enquist BJ; Fagúndez J; Fang J; Fernández-Méndez F; Fernandez-Piedade MT; Ford H; Forey E; Freschet GT; Gachet S; Gallagher R; Green W; Guerin GR; Gutiérrez AG; Harrison SP; Hattingh WN; He T; Hickler T; Higgins SI; Higuchi P; Ilic J; Jackson RB; Jalili A; Jansen S; Koike F; König C; Kraft N; Kramer K; Kreft H; Kühn I; Kurokawa H; Lamb EG; Laughlin DC; Leishman M; Lewis S; Louault F; Malhado ACM; Manning P; Meir P; Mencuccini M; Messier J; Miller R; Minden V; Molofsky J; Montgomery R, 2022, 'The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset', Scientific Data, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01774-9

Moles AT; Dalrymple RL; Raghu S; Bonser SP; Ollerton J, 2022, 'Advancing the missed mutualist hypothesis, the under-appreciated twin of the enemy release hypothesis', Biology Letters, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0220

Brandenburger CR; Maslen B; Sherwin WB; Moles AT, 2022, 'Weedy and seedy: the rapid evolution of life-history characteristics in an introduced daisy', Aob Plants, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plac038

Song B; Sun L; Barrett SCH; Moles AT; Luo YH; Armbruster WS; Gao YQ; Zhang S; Zhang ZQ; Sun H, 2022, 'Global analysis of floral longevity reveals latitudinal gradients and biotic and abiotic correlates', New Phytologist, 235, pp. 2054 - 2065, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.18271

Atkinson J; Simpson-Young C; Fifield G; Schneemann B; Bonser SP; Moles AT, 2022, 'Species and functional diversity of direct-seeded vegetation declines over 25 years', Ecological Management and Restoration, 23, pp. 252 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/emr.12570

Atkinson J; Brudvig LA; Mallen-Cooper M; Nakagawa S; Moles AT; Bonser SP, 2022, 'Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta-analysis', Ecology Letters, 25, pp. 1725 - 1737, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14025

Auld J; Everingham SE; Hemmings FA; Moles AT, 2022, 'Alpine plants are on the move: Quantifying distribution shifts of Australian alpine plants through time', Diversity and Distributions, 28, pp. 943 - 955, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13494

Qi S; Wang J; Wan L; Dai Z; da Silva Matos DM; Du D; Egan S; Bonser SP; Thomas T; Moles AT, 2022, 'Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Contribute to Phosphorous Uptake and Allocation Strategies of Solidago canadensis in a Phosphorous-Deficient Environment', Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.831654

Santangelo JS; Ness RW; Cohan B; Fitzpatrick CR; Innes SG; Koch S; Miles LS; Munim S; Peres-Neto PR; Prashad C; Tong AT; Aguirre WE; Akinwole PO; Alberti M; Álvarez J; Anderson JT; Anderson JJ; Ando Y; Andrew NR; Angeoletto F; Anstett DN; Anstett J; Aoki-Gonçalves F; Andis Arietta AZ; Arroyo MTK; Austen EJ; Baena-Díaz F; Barker CA; Baylis HA; Beliz JM; Benitez-Mora A; Bickford D; Biedebach G; Blackburn GS; Boehm MMA; Bonser SP; Bonte D; Bragger JR; Branquinho C; Brans KI; Bresciano JC; Brom PD; Bucharova A; Burt B; Cahill JF; Campbell KD; Carlen EJ; Carmona D; Castellanos MC; Centenaro G; Chalen I; Chaves JA; Chávez-Pesqueira M; Chen XY; Chilton AM; Chomiak KM; Cisneros-Heredia DF; Cisse IK; Classen AT; Comerford MS; Fradinger CC; Corney H; Crawford AJ; Crawford KM; Dahirel M; David S; De Haan R; Deacon NJ; Dean C; del-Val E; Deligiannis EK; Denney D; Dettlaff MA; DiLeo MF; Ding YY; Domínguez-López ME; Dominoni DM; Draud SL; Dyson K; Ellers J; Espinosa CI; Essi L; Falahati-Anbaran M; Falcão JCF; Fargo HT; Fellowes MDE; Fitzpatrick RM; Flaherty LE; Flood PJ; Flores MF; Fornoni J; Foster AG; Frost CJ; Fuentes TL; Fulkerson JR; Gagnon E; Garbsch F; Garroway CJ; Gerstein AC; Giasson MM, 2022, 'Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover', Science, 375, pp. 1275 - 1281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0989

Sentinella AT; Moles AT; Bragg JG; Rossetto M; Sherwin WB, 2022, 'Detecting steps in spatial genetic data: Which diversity measures are best?', Plos One, 17, pp. e0265110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265110

Xirocostas ZA; Debono SA; Slavich E; Moles AT, 2022, 'The ZAX Herbivory Trainer—Free software for training researchers to visually estimate leaf damage', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13, pp. 596 - 602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13785

Atkinson J; Freudenberger D; Dwyer JM; Standish RJ; Moles AT; Bonser SP, 2022, 'Plant size and neighbourhood characteristics influence survival and growth in a restored ex-agricultural ecosystem', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12131

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