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Benning JW*, Carlson J*, Smith OS, Shaw R, and Harpak A. 2025. Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, in press. preprint
Benning JW, Clark EI, Hufbauer RA, and Weiss-Lehman C. 2024. Environmental gradients mediate dispersal evolution during biological invasions. Ecology Letters, 27:e14472. pdf
Benning JW, Faulkner A^, and Moeller DA. 2023. Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290:20230336. pdf
Gorton AJ*, Benning JW*, Tiffin PL, and Moeller DA. 2022. The spatial scale of adaptation in a native annual plant and its implications for responses to climate change. Evolution, 76:2916-2929. pdf
Benning JW, Hufbauer RA, and Weiss-Lehman C. 2022. Increasing temporal variance leads to stable species range limits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289:20220202. pdf
Benning JW and Moeller DA. 2021. Plant-soil interactions limit lifetime fitness outside a native plant’s geographic range margin. Ecology, 102:e03254. pdf
Benning JW and Moeller DA. 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 JW and Moeller DA. 2019. Maladaptation beyond a geographic range limit driven by antagonistic and mutualistic biotic interactions across an abiotic gradient. Evolution, 73:2044-2059. pdf
Benning JW, Eckhart VM, Geber MA, and Moeller DA. 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
Hargreaves AL, Suárez E, Mehltreter K, Myers-Smith I, Vanderplank SE, Slinn HL, Vargas Y, Haeussler S, David S, Muñoz J, Almazán-Núñez RC, Loughnan D, Benning JW, Moeller DA, Brodie JF, Morales PA. 2019. Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations. Science Advances, 5:eaau4403. pdf
Bolin LG^, Benning JW, and Moeller DA. 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
Benning JW. 2015. Odd for an ericad: nocturnal pollination of Lyonia lucida (Ericaceae). American Midland Naturalist, 174:204-218. pdf
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