List of works - Angela T. Moles

A brief history of seed size

scientific article published in January 2005

A broad approach to abrupt boundaries: looking beyond the boundary at soil attributes within and across tropical vegetation types

scientific article

A comparison of the recruitment success of introduced and native species under natural conditions ⬇️

scientific article

A general model for the scaling of offspring size and adult size

scientific article published in September 2008

A hairy situation: Plant species in warm, sunny places are more likely to have pubescent leaves

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

A hidden herbivory effect on <i>Sphagnum</i> reproduction

scientific article published in 2024

A mammoth mouthful? A test of the idea that larger animals ingest larger seeds

scientific article published in 2015

A new framework for predicting invasive plant species

article

A response to Poisot et al.: Publishing your dataset is not always virtuous

scientific article published in 2013

Abiotic and biotic predictors of macroecological patterns in bird and butterfly coloration

article by Rhiannon L. Dalrymple et al published 26 January 2018 in Ecological Monographs

Advancing the missed mutualist hypothesis, the under-appreciated twin of the enemy release hypothesis ⬇️

scientific article published in 2022

Alpine plants are on the move: Quantifying distribution shifts of Australian alpine plants through time

scientific article published on 15 March 2022

Alternative stable states in Australia’s Wet Tropics: a theoretical framework for the field data and a field-case for the theory

article

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Contribute to Phosphorous Uptake and Allocation Strategies of Solidago canadensis in a Phosphorous-Deficient Environment

scientific article published in 2022

Are introduced species better dispersers than native species? A global comparative study of seed dispersal distance ⬇️

scientific article

Asexual plants change just as often and just as fast as do sexual plants when introduced to a new range

article

Assessing the evidence for latitudinal gradients in plant defence and herbivory

article

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora ⬇️

publication published on 30 September 2021

Being John Harper: Using evolutionary ideas to improve understanding of global patterns in plant traits

article

Birds, butterflies and flowers in the tropics are not more colourful than those at higher latitudes

article by Rhiannon L. Dalrymple et al published 10 September 2015 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

British species that are present in Australia have different traits from British species that are not present in Australia

scientific article published on 18 August 2023

Can dispersal investment explain why tall plant species achieve longer dispersal distances than short plant species?

scientific article

Characteristic and derived diversity: implementing the species pool concept to quantify conservation condition of habitats

article

Chasing the unknown: predicting seed dispersal mechanisms from plant traits

article

Citizen science in schools: Engaging students in research on urban habitat for pollinators

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

Correlated evolution of genome size and seed mass

scientific article published in January 2007

Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article published in Nature

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scholarly article published in Nature

DO SMALL-SEEDED SPECIES HAVE HIGHER SURVIVAL THROUGH SEED PREDATION THAN LARGE-SEEDED SPECIES?

article

Detecting steps in spatial genetic data: Which diversity measures are best?

scientific article published on 14 March 2022

Detecting steps in spatial genetic data: which diversity measures are best?

scientific article published on 31 January 2024

Differences in life-cycle stage components between native and introduced ranges of five woody Fabaceae species

scientific article published in 2016

Do small leaves expand faster than large leaves, and do shorter expansion times reduce herbivore damage?

scientific article published on 27 December 2004

Does a latitudinal gradient in seedling survival favour larger seeds in the tropics?

scientific article published in 2004

Dogmatic is problematic: Interpreting evidence for latitudinal gradients in herbivory and defense

scientific article published in 2013

Evolution of defense and herbivory in introduced plants-Testing enemy release using a known source population, herbivore trials, and time since introduction ⬇️

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Evolutionary coordination between offspring size at independence and adult size

scientific article published in 2009

Exposure time is an important variable in quantifying post‐dispersal seed removal

scientific article published on 3 May 2021

Factors shaping large-scale gradients in seed physical defence: Seeds are not better defended towards the tropics

scientific article published on 04 January 2018

Factors that shape large‐scale gradients in clonality

scientific article published in 2023

Factors that shape seed mass evolution

scientific article

Few changes in native Australian alpine plant morphology, despite substantial local climate change

scientific article published on 02 April 2021

Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications

article published in 2007

From dangerous branches to urban banyan: Facilitating aerial root growth of Ficus rubiginosa

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

article

Generalised extreme value distributions provide a natural hypothesis for the shape of seed mass distributions

scientific article

Global analysis of floral longevity reveals latitudinal gradients and biotic and abiotic correlates

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

Global patterns in plant height

article

Global patterns in post-dispersal seed removal by invertebrates and vertebrates

scientific article

Global patterns in seed size

article

Global patterns in seed size

scientific article published in 2006

Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover

scientific article published on 18 March 2022

Guidelines for quantifying leaf chlorophyll content via non‐destructive spectrometry

scientific article published on 3 August 2024

High genetic diversity is not essential for successful introduction ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

How strong is enemy release? A systematic compilation across taxa and approaches

scientific article published on 25 November 2023

In the beginning: phenotypic change in three invasive species through their first two centuries since introduction

article

Incorporating marine macrophytes in plant–soil feedbacks: Emerging evidence and opportunities to advance the field

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Induced defense and its cost in two bryophyte species

scientific article published in May 2021

Introduced species shed friends as well as enemies ⬇️

article published in Nature in May 2024

Invasions: the trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea

scientific article published in 2011

Inverted invasions: Native plants can frequently colonise urban and highly disturbed habitats

scientific article

Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features

scientific article published in 2023

Is rapid evolution common in introduced plant species?

article

Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea?

Is the proportion of clonal species higher at higher latitudes in Australia?

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

Is there a latitudinal gradient in seed production?

article

Is there a latitudinal gradient in the proportion of species with spinescence?

scientific article published on 7 April 2016

Large and non-spherical seeds are less likely to form a persistent soil seed bank

scientific article published in June 2024

Leaf morphological traits show greater responses to changes in climate than leaf physiological traits and gas exchange variables

scientific article published in March 2024

Macroecological patterns in flower colour are shaped by both biotic and abiotic factors

scientific article published on 13 June 2020

Native and commercial microbial inoculants show equal effects on plant growth in dryland ecosystems

scientific article published on 3 March 2023

Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration

scientific article published on 19 October 2022

No evidence for rapid evolution of seed dispersal ability in range edge populations of the invasive speciesSenecio madagascariensis

article

Not so simple after all: searching for ecological advantages of compound leaves

article by Laura Warman et al published 6 December 2010 in Oikos

Phenotypic differentiation among native, expansive and introduced populations influences invasion success

scientific article

Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species

article

Plant size and neighbourhood characteristics influence survival and growth in a restored ex‐agricultural ecosystem

scientific article published in January 2022

Plants are more likely to be spiny at mid‐elevations in the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau, south‐western China

scientific article published on 3 November 2019

Plants do not suffer greater losses to seed predation towards the tropics

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Plants show more flesh in the tropics: variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients

article

Post‐dispersal seed predation on eleven large‐seeded species from the New Zealand flora: A preliminary study in secondary forest

scientific article published on 11 August 2010

Potential contributions of the seed rain and seed bank to regeneration of native forest under plantation pine in New Zealand

scientific article

Prickly pairs: the proportion of spinescent species does not differ between islands and mainlands

scientific article published on 26 May 2019

Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes

scientific article

Rapid evolution of leaf physiology in an introduced beach daisy

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia

scientific article published on 21 October 2023

Rapid reshaping: the evolution of morphological changes in an introduced beach daisy

article

Re-contemplate an entangled bank:The Power of Movement in Plantsrevisited

scientific article published in 2009

Reproductive output of invasive versus native plants

article

Roses are red, violets are blue - so how much replication should you do? An assessment of variation in the colour of flowers and birds

Seed addition experiments are more likely to increase recruitment in larger-seeded species

article

Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

article

Seed mass and seedling establishment after fire in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Sydney, Australia

article

Seed mass and shape predicts species' seed bank persistence at a global scale

scientific article published on 31 January 2024

Seed size and plant strategy across the whole life cycle

article

Seed size and shape and persistence in the soil in the New Zealand flora

scientific article published on 27 December 2004

Seed size and survival in the soil in arid Australia

article

Seedling survival and seed size: a synthesis of the literature

scientific article published in 2004

Seeds tend to disperse further in the tropics

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Small-seeded species produce more seeds per square metre of canopy per year, but not per individual per lifetime

article

Southern hemisphere plants show more delays than advances in flowering phenology

scientific article published on 3 February 2022

Species that require long-day conditions to flower are not advancing their flowering phenology as fast as species without photoperiod requirements

scientific article published on 31 July 2024

Statistical power from the people

scientific article published on 20 October 2022

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taller plants have lower rates of molecular evolution

scientific article published on January 2013

Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta‐analysis

scientific article published on 12 May 2022

The Christmas tree project: comparing the effects of five treatments on the health of cut Christmas trees (Pinus radiata, Pinaceae)

article

The Ecology of Seeds

scientific article published on 27 July 2006

The ZAX Herbivory Trainer—Free software for training researchers to visually estimate leaf damage

scientific article published on 21 December 2021

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

article

The contribution of pathogenic soil microbes to ring formation in an iconic Australian arid grass, Triodia basedowii (Poaceae)

scientific article published in 2021

The global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The global trend in plant twining direction

article

The great escape: patterns of enemy release are not explained by time, space or climate

scientific article published in 2023

The mid-domain effect: it's not just about space

The seed morphospace, a new contribution towards the multidimensional study of angiosperm sexual reproductive biology

scientific article published on 22 June 2024

The seedling as part of a plant's life history strategy

article

The sex with the reduced sex chromosome dies earlier: a comparison across the tree of life

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Three Frontiers for the Future of Biodiversity Research Using Citizen Science Data

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article with two erratum

Time travelling seeds reveal that plant regeneration and growth traits are responding to climate change

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Traits and ecological strategies of Australian tropical and temperate climbing plants

article

Tropical plants do not have narrower temperature tolerances, but are more at risk from warming because they are close to their upper thermal limits

scientific article published on 8 June 2020

Untangling direct species associations from indirect mediator species effects with graphical models

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Weedy and seedy: the rapid evolution of life-history characteristics in an introduced daisy

scientific article published in 2022

What do seedlings die from and what are the implications for evolution of seed size?

scientific article published in 2004

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

article

Zanne et al. reply

scientific article

List of works by Angela T. Moles

A brief history of seed size

A broad approach to abrupt boundaries: looking beyond the boundary at soil attributes within and across tropical vegetation types

A comparison of the recruitment success of introduced and native species under natural conditions ⬇️

A general model for the scaling of offspring size and adult size

A hairy situation: Plant species in warm, sunny places are more likely to have pubescent leaves

A hidden herbivory effect on <i>Sphagnum</i> reproduction

A mammoth mouthful? A test of the idea that larger animals ingest larger seeds

A new framework for predicting invasive plant species

A response to Poisot et al.: Publishing your dataset is not always virtuous

Abiotic and biotic predictors of macroecological patterns in bird and butterfly coloration

Advancing the missed mutualist hypothesis, the under-appreciated twin of the enemy release hypothesis ⬇️

Alpine plants are on the move: Quantifying distribution shifts of Australian alpine plants through time

Alternative stable states in Australia’s Wet Tropics: a theoretical framework for the field data and a field-case for the theory

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Contribute to Phosphorous Uptake and Allocation Strategies of Solidago canadensis in a Phosphorous-Deficient Environment

Are introduced species better dispersers than native species? A global comparative study of seed dispersal distance ⬇️

Asexual plants change just as often and just as fast as do sexual plants when introduced to a new range

Assessing the evidence for latitudinal gradients in plant defence and herbivory

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora ⬇️

Being John Harper: Using evolutionary ideas to improve understanding of global patterns in plant traits

Birds, butterflies and flowers in the tropics are not more colourful than those at higher latitudes

British species that are present in Australia have different traits from British species that are not present in Australia

Can dispersal investment explain why tall plant species achieve longer dispersal distances than short plant species?

Characteristic and derived diversity: implementing the species pool concept to quantify conservation condition of habitats

Chasing the unknown: predicting seed dispersal mechanisms from plant traits

Citizen science in schools: Engaging students in research on urban habitat for pollinators

Correlated evolution of genome size and seed mass

Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

DO SMALL-SEEDED SPECIES HAVE HIGHER SURVIVAL THROUGH SEED PREDATION THAN LARGE-SEEDED SPECIES?

Detecting steps in spatial genetic data: Which diversity measures are best?

Detecting steps in spatial genetic data: which diversity measures are best?

Differences in life-cycle stage components between native and introduced ranges of five woody Fabaceae species

Do small leaves expand faster than large leaves, and do shorter expansion times reduce herbivore damage?

Does a latitudinal gradient in seedling survival favour larger seeds in the tropics?

Dogmatic is problematic: Interpreting evidence for latitudinal gradients in herbivory and defense

Evolution of defense and herbivory in introduced plants-Testing enemy release using a known source population, herbivore trials, and time since introduction ⬇️

Evolutionary coordination between offspring size at independence and adult size

Exposure time is an important variable in quantifying post‐dispersal seed removal

Factors shaping large-scale gradients in seed physical defence: Seeds are not better defended towards the tropics

Factors that shape large‐scale gradients in clonality

Factors that shape seed mass evolution

Few changes in native Australian alpine plant morphology, despite substantial local climate change

Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications

From dangerous branches to urban banyan: Facilitating aerial root growth of Ficus rubiginosa

Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

Generalised extreme value distributions provide a natural hypothesis for the shape of seed mass distributions

Global analysis of floral longevity reveals latitudinal gradients and biotic and abiotic correlates

Global patterns in plant height

Global patterns in post-dispersal seed removal by invertebrates and vertebrates

Global patterns in seed size

Global patterns in seed size

Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover

Guidelines for quantifying leaf chlorophyll content via non‐destructive spectrometry

High genetic diversity is not essential for successful introduction ⬇️

How strong is enemy release? A systematic compilation across taxa and approaches

In the beginning: phenotypic change in three invasive species through their first two centuries since introduction

Incorporating marine macrophytes in plant–soil feedbacks: Emerging evidence and opportunities to advance the field

Induced defense and its cost in two bryophyte species

Introduced species shed friends as well as enemies ⬇️

Invasions: the trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea

Inverted invasions: Native plants can frequently colonise urban and highly disturbed habitats

Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features

Is rapid evolution common in introduced plant species?

Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea?

Is the proportion of clonal species higher at higher latitudes in Australia?

Is there a latitudinal gradient in seed production?

Is there a latitudinal gradient in the proportion of species with spinescence?

Large and non-spherical seeds are less likely to form a persistent soil seed bank

Leaf morphological traits show greater responses to changes in climate than leaf physiological traits and gas exchange variables

Macroecological patterns in flower colour are shaped by both biotic and abiotic factors

Native and commercial microbial inoculants show equal effects on plant growth in dryland ecosystems

Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration

No evidence for rapid evolution of seed dispersal ability in range edge populations of the invasive speciesSenecio madagascariensis

Not so simple after all: searching for ecological advantages of compound leaves

Phenotypic differentiation among native, expansive and introduced populations influences invasion success

Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species

Plant size and neighbourhood characteristics influence survival and growth in a restored ex‐agricultural ecosystem

Plants are more likely to be spiny at mid‐elevations in the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau, south‐western China