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Benning JW, Faulkner A^, and Moeller DA. 2022. Rapid evolution in response to climate-change-induced drought and its demographic and genetic controls. In revision, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. preprint
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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