Peer-Reviewed Publications
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bold - EEW lab members; § - equal contribution; 1 - high-school student; 2 - undergraduate or post-bacc student; 3 - graduate student; * - corresponding, but not first, author
2024
Leith NT and Moore MP. In Press. Heat-absorbing sexual coloration co-adapts with increased heat tolerance in dragonflies. Frontiers in Ethology.
Nalley SE3 and Moore MP. 2024. Aggregate mating behavior of Sympetrum dragonflies in Colorado and Wyoming wildfire perimeters. The Southwestern Naturalist 69(1): 1-4. DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909-69.1.3
Moore MP§, Leith NT§, Fowler-Finn KD, and Medley KA. 2024. Human-modified habitats imperil ornamented dragonflies less than their non-ornamented counterparts at local, regional, and continental scales. Ecology Letters 27(6): e14455. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14455
Moore MP, Nalley S3, and Hamadah D2. 2024. An evolutionary innovation for mating facilitates ecological niche expansion and buffers species against climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(10): e2313371121. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2313371121
*Check out media attention for this work by ScienceNews, Outdoors.com, Phys.org, and Earth.com
*Selected by PNAS to be one of the issue's featured articles
*Research highlighted by Nature Climate Change
2023
Stroud JT, Moore MP, Langerhans RB, and Losos JB. 2023. Fluctuating selection maintains distinct species phenotypes in an ecological community in the wild. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(42): e2222071120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2222071120
*Check out media attention for this work by Scientific American and Quanta Magazine
*Selected by PNAS to be the cover story of the issue
Moore MP, Shaich J2, and Stroud JT. 2023. Upslope migration is slower in insects that depend on metabolically demanding flight. Nature Climate Change 13: 1063-1066. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01794-2
*Check out media attention for this work from Colorado Public Radio, the Colorado Sun, Daily Kos, and the iNaturalist blog
*Watch Mike & Shel on local news talking about climate change and our work on dragonfly elevational limits
Martin RA, da Silva CRB, Moore MP, and Diamond SE. 2023. When will a changing climate outpace adaptive evolution? WIREs Climate Change. 14(6): e852. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.852
Moore MP and Khan F2. 2023. Relatively large wings facilitate life at higher elevations among Nearctic dragonflies. Journal of Animal Ecology 92: 1613-1621. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13946
Moore MP. 2023. Ornamented species incur higher male mortality in the larval stage. Biology Letters 19: 20230108. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0108
Hersch K2 and Moore MP*. 2023. Ornamentation diversified faster than eco-morphology across Nearctic Dragonflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139(1): 70-78. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blad008
2022
Leith NT, Fowler-Finn KD, and Moore MP. 2022. Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection. Ecology Letters 25(9): 1919-1936. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14072
*Check out some of the media attention for this work in The Washington Post, WashU's The Source, Science Daily, and Fast Company
2021
Moore MP, Hersch K2, Sricharoen C2, Lee S2, Reice C2, Rice P2, Kronick S2, Medley KA§, and Fowler-Finn KD§. 2021. Sex-specific ornament evolution is a consistent feature of climatic adaptation across space and time in dragonflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(28): e2101458118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2101458118
*Selected by PNAS to be one of the issue's featured articles
*Highlighted by Nature Climate Change as an exciting new study
*Check out some of the media attention for this work in The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, The Hill, New Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, ScienceNews, and several other media outlets
* Listen to Mike discuss this work on Public Radio
Moore MP. 2021. Larval habitats impose trait-dependent limits on the direction and rate of adult evolution in dragonflies. Biology Letters 17(5): 20210023. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0023
Moore MP and Martin RA. 2021. Natural selection on adults has trait-dependent consequences for juvenile evolution in dragonflies. The American Naturalist 197(6): 677-689. DOI: 10.1086/714048
Leith NT, Macchiano AT, Moore MP, and Fowler-Finn KD. 2021. Temperature impacts all behavioral interactions during insect and arachnid reproduction. Current Opinion in Insect Science 45: 106-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2021.03.005
2020
Moore MP, Pechmann JHK, and Whiteman HH. 2020. Relative size underlies alternative morph development in a salamander. Oecologia 193(4): 879-888. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04723-8
Lis C1, Moore MP*, and Martin RA. 2020. Warm developmental temperatures induce non-adaptive plasticity in the intrasexually selected coloration of a dragonfly. Ecological Entomology 45 (3): 663-670. DOI: 10.1111/een.12839
2019
Moore MP and Martin RA. 2019. On the evolution of carry-over effects. Journal of Animal Ecology 88 (12): 1832-1844. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13081
*Finalist for the Sidnie Manton Award from Journal of Animal Ecology
*Check out our post on this paper over at the Journal of Animal Ecology's In Focus Blog
Moore MP, Whiteman HH, and Martin RA. 2019. A mother's legacy: the strength of maternal effects in animal populations. Ecology Letters 22(10): 1620-1628. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13351
Lackey ACR, Moore MP, Doyle J, Gerlanc N, Hagan A, Geile M, Eden C, and Whiteman HH. 2019. Lifetime fitness, sex-specific life-history differences, and the maintenance of a polyphenism. The American Naturalist 194(2): 230-245. DOI: 10.1086/704156
Khazan ES, Verstraaten T, Moore MP, and Dugas MB*. 2019. Nursery crowding does not influence offspring, but might influence parental, fitness in a phytotelm-breeding frog. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73: 33. DOI:10.1007/s00265-019-2642-7
Moore MP, Lis C1, Gherghel I, and Martin RA. 2019. Temperature shapes the costs, benefits, and geographic diversification of sexual coloration in a dragonfly. Ecology Letters 22(3): 437-446. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13200
*Check out some of the press attention for this work at ScienceDaily, the iNaturalist blog, MSN, the Daily Kos, and Amore a Quattro Zampe (in Italian)
*Mentioned as an exciting new use of iNaturalist data on the citizen science SciStarter Podcast (~26 minute mark)
*CWRU Department of Biology Outstanding Paper Award - 2nd Place - 2019
2018
Moore MP, Lis C1, and Martin RA. 2018. Immune deployment increases larval vulnerability to predators and inhibits adult life-history traits in a dragonfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31(9): 1365-1376. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13337
Moore MP and Martin RA. 2018. Trade-offs between larval survival and adult ornament development depend on predator regime in a territorial dragonfly. Oecologia 188(1): 97-106. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4171-x
Moore MP, Lis C1, and Martin RA. 2018. Larval body condition regulates predator-induced life-history variation in a dragonfly. Ecology 99(1): 224-230. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2056
*CWRU Department of Biology Outstanding Paper Award - Honorable Mention - 2018
2016
Moore MP and Martin RA. 2016. Intrasexual selection favours an immune-correlated colour ornament in a dragonfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29(11): 2256-2265. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12953
Dugas MB§, Moore MP§, Martin RA, Richards-Zawacki CL, and Sprehn CG. 2016. The pay-offs of maternal care increase as offspring develop, favouring extended provisioning in an egg-feeding frog. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 29(10): 1977-1985. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12921
Moore MP and Whiteman HH. 2016. Natal philopatry varies with larval condition in salamanders. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70(8): 1247-1255. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2133-z
Moore MP, Riesch R, and Martin RA. 2016. The predictability and magnitude of life-history divergence to ecological agents of selection: a meta-analysis in livebearing fishes. Ecology Letters 19(4): 435-442. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12576
*CWRU Department of Biology Outstanding Paper Award - 1st Place - 2016
2015 and before
Moore MP, Landberg T, and Whiteman HH. 2015. Maternal investment mediates offspring life history variation with context-dependent fitness consequences. Ecology 96(9): 2499-2509. DOI: 10.1890/14-1602.1
*Research highlighted at phys.org
Dugas MB, Moore MP, Wamelink CN, Richards-Zawaki CL, and Martin RA. 2015. An experimental test for age-related improvements in reproductive performance in a frog that cares for its young. The Science of Nature: Naturwissenschaften 102: 48. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-015-1302-7
Moore MP, Burt CR, Whitney TD, Hastings SA, and Chang GC*. 2012. Does social feeding improve larval survival of the two-spotted lady beetle, Adalia bipunctata? Journal of Insect Science 12: 101. DOI: 10.1673/031.012.10101
bold - EEW lab members; § - equal contribution; 1 - high-school student; 2 - undergraduate or post-bacc student; 3 - graduate student; * - corresponding, but not first, author
2024
Leith NT and Moore MP. In Press. Heat-absorbing sexual coloration co-adapts with increased heat tolerance in dragonflies. Frontiers in Ethology.
Nalley SE3 and Moore MP. 2024. Aggregate mating behavior of Sympetrum dragonflies in Colorado and Wyoming wildfire perimeters. The Southwestern Naturalist 69(1): 1-4. DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909-69.1.3
Moore MP§, Leith NT§, Fowler-Finn KD, and Medley KA. 2024. Human-modified habitats imperil ornamented dragonflies less than their non-ornamented counterparts at local, regional, and continental scales. Ecology Letters 27(6): e14455. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14455
Moore MP, Nalley S3, and Hamadah D2. 2024. An evolutionary innovation for mating facilitates ecological niche expansion and buffers species against climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(10): e2313371121. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2313371121
*Check out media attention for this work by ScienceNews, Outdoors.com, Phys.org, and Earth.com
*Selected by PNAS to be one of the issue's featured articles
*Research highlighted by Nature Climate Change
2023
Stroud JT, Moore MP, Langerhans RB, and Losos JB. 2023. Fluctuating selection maintains distinct species phenotypes in an ecological community in the wild. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(42): e2222071120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2222071120
*Check out media attention for this work by Scientific American and Quanta Magazine
*Selected by PNAS to be the cover story of the issue
Moore MP, Shaich J2, and Stroud JT. 2023. Upslope migration is slower in insects that depend on metabolically demanding flight. Nature Climate Change 13: 1063-1066. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01794-2
*Check out media attention for this work from Colorado Public Radio, the Colorado Sun, Daily Kos, and the iNaturalist blog
*Watch Mike & Shel on local news talking about climate change and our work on dragonfly elevational limits
Martin RA, da Silva CRB, Moore MP, and Diamond SE. 2023. When will a changing climate outpace adaptive evolution? WIREs Climate Change. 14(6): e852. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.852
Moore MP and Khan F2. 2023. Relatively large wings facilitate life at higher elevations among Nearctic dragonflies. Journal of Animal Ecology 92: 1613-1621. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13946
Moore MP. 2023. Ornamented species incur higher male mortality in the larval stage. Biology Letters 19: 20230108. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0108
Hersch K2 and Moore MP*. 2023. Ornamentation diversified faster than eco-morphology across Nearctic Dragonflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139(1): 70-78. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blad008
2022
Leith NT, Fowler-Finn KD, and Moore MP. 2022. Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection. Ecology Letters 25(9): 1919-1936. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14072
*Check out some of the media attention for this work in The Washington Post, WashU's The Source, Science Daily, and Fast Company
2021
Moore MP, Hersch K2, Sricharoen C2, Lee S2, Reice C2, Rice P2, Kronick S2, Medley KA§, and Fowler-Finn KD§. 2021. Sex-specific ornament evolution is a consistent feature of climatic adaptation across space and time in dragonflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(28): e2101458118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2101458118
*Selected by PNAS to be one of the issue's featured articles
*Highlighted by Nature Climate Change as an exciting new study
*Check out some of the media attention for this work in The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, The Hill, New Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, ScienceNews, and several other media outlets
* Listen to Mike discuss this work on Public Radio
Moore MP. 2021. Larval habitats impose trait-dependent limits on the direction and rate of adult evolution in dragonflies. Biology Letters 17(5): 20210023. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0023
Moore MP and Martin RA. 2021. Natural selection on adults has trait-dependent consequences for juvenile evolution in dragonflies. The American Naturalist 197(6): 677-689. DOI: 10.1086/714048
Leith NT, Macchiano AT, Moore MP, and Fowler-Finn KD. 2021. Temperature impacts all behavioral interactions during insect and arachnid reproduction. Current Opinion in Insect Science 45: 106-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2021.03.005
2020
Moore MP, Pechmann JHK, and Whiteman HH. 2020. Relative size underlies alternative morph development in a salamander. Oecologia 193(4): 879-888. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04723-8
Lis C1, Moore MP*, and Martin RA. 2020. Warm developmental temperatures induce non-adaptive plasticity in the intrasexually selected coloration of a dragonfly. Ecological Entomology 45 (3): 663-670. DOI: 10.1111/een.12839
2019
Moore MP and Martin RA. 2019. On the evolution of carry-over effects. Journal of Animal Ecology 88 (12): 1832-1844. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13081
*Finalist for the Sidnie Manton Award from Journal of Animal Ecology
*Check out our post on this paper over at the Journal of Animal Ecology's In Focus Blog
Moore MP, Whiteman HH, and Martin RA. 2019. A mother's legacy: the strength of maternal effects in animal populations. Ecology Letters 22(10): 1620-1628. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13351
Lackey ACR, Moore MP, Doyle J, Gerlanc N, Hagan A, Geile M, Eden C, and Whiteman HH. 2019. Lifetime fitness, sex-specific life-history differences, and the maintenance of a polyphenism. The American Naturalist 194(2): 230-245. DOI: 10.1086/704156
Khazan ES, Verstraaten T, Moore MP, and Dugas MB*. 2019. Nursery crowding does not influence offspring, but might influence parental, fitness in a phytotelm-breeding frog. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73: 33. DOI:10.1007/s00265-019-2642-7
Moore MP, Lis C1, Gherghel I, and Martin RA. 2019. Temperature shapes the costs, benefits, and geographic diversification of sexual coloration in a dragonfly. Ecology Letters 22(3): 437-446. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13200
*Check out some of the press attention for this work at ScienceDaily, the iNaturalist blog, MSN, the Daily Kos, and Amore a Quattro Zampe (in Italian)
*Mentioned as an exciting new use of iNaturalist data on the citizen science SciStarter Podcast (~26 minute mark)
*CWRU Department of Biology Outstanding Paper Award - 2nd Place - 2019
2018
Moore MP, Lis C1, and Martin RA. 2018. Immune deployment increases larval vulnerability to predators and inhibits adult life-history traits in a dragonfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31(9): 1365-1376. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13337
Moore MP and Martin RA. 2018. Trade-offs between larval survival and adult ornament development depend on predator regime in a territorial dragonfly. Oecologia 188(1): 97-106. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4171-x
Moore MP, Lis C1, and Martin RA. 2018. Larval body condition regulates predator-induced life-history variation in a dragonfly. Ecology 99(1): 224-230. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2056
*CWRU Department of Biology Outstanding Paper Award - Honorable Mention - 2018
2016
Moore MP and Martin RA. 2016. Intrasexual selection favours an immune-correlated colour ornament in a dragonfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29(11): 2256-2265. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12953
Dugas MB§, Moore MP§, Martin RA, Richards-Zawacki CL, and Sprehn CG. 2016. The pay-offs of maternal care increase as offspring develop, favouring extended provisioning in an egg-feeding frog. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 29(10): 1977-1985. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12921
Moore MP and Whiteman HH. 2016. Natal philopatry varies with larval condition in salamanders. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70(8): 1247-1255. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2133-z
Moore MP, Riesch R, and Martin RA. 2016. The predictability and magnitude of life-history divergence to ecological agents of selection: a meta-analysis in livebearing fishes. Ecology Letters 19(4): 435-442. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12576
*CWRU Department of Biology Outstanding Paper Award - 1st Place - 2016
2015 and before
Moore MP, Landberg T, and Whiteman HH. 2015. Maternal investment mediates offspring life history variation with context-dependent fitness consequences. Ecology 96(9): 2499-2509. DOI: 10.1890/14-1602.1
*Research highlighted at phys.org
Dugas MB, Moore MP, Wamelink CN, Richards-Zawaki CL, and Martin RA. 2015. An experimental test for age-related improvements in reproductive performance in a frog that cares for its young. The Science of Nature: Naturwissenschaften 102: 48. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-015-1302-7
Moore MP, Burt CR, Whitney TD, Hastings SA, and Chang GC*. 2012. Does social feeding improve larval survival of the two-spotted lady beetle, Adalia bipunctata? Journal of Insect Science 12: 101. DOI: 10.1673/031.012.10101
Manuscripts under Review
Nalley SE3 and Moore MP. Mating characters underlie the risk of local extinction to global warming and wildfires in Nearctic dragonflies. In Revision.
Other Publications
Moore MP and Stroud JT. 2023. Climate change is already forcing lizards, insects, and other species to evolve--and most can't keep up. The Conversation.
* re-published in YahooNews, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Idaho Press
Moore MP, Hersch K2, Sricharoen C2, Lee S2, Reice C2, Rice P2, Kronick S2, Medley KA, and Fowler-Finn KD. 2021. How will dragonflies adapt to a warmer Earth? Environmental Science Journal for Teens.
Moore MP. 2021. Human activities imperil one of Earth's great survivalists: dragonflies. The Hill (Opinion).
Moore MP. 2020. There are no second acts in animal life cycles. Animal Ecology in Focus.
Moore MP and Stroud JT. 2023. Climate change is already forcing lizards, insects, and other species to evolve--and most can't keep up. The Conversation.
* re-published in YahooNews, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Idaho Press
Moore MP, Hersch K2, Sricharoen C2, Lee S2, Reice C2, Rice P2, Kronick S2, Medley KA, and Fowler-Finn KD. 2021. How will dragonflies adapt to a warmer Earth? Environmental Science Journal for Teens.
Moore MP. 2021. Human activities imperil one of Earth's great survivalists: dragonflies. The Hill (Opinion).
Moore MP. 2020. There are no second acts in animal life cycles. Animal Ecology in Focus.
Publicly Available Presentations
Moore MP and Seltzer C. 2020. From invading lanternflies to evolving dragonflies: how your observations can lead to amazing discoveries. 46th Annual Hefner Lecture. Hefner Museum of Natural History, Miami University (beginning at 36:29)
Moore MP. 2020. Climate drives the diversification of animal beauty. Tyson Summer Seminar Series. Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis
Moore MP. 2020. Climate drives the diversification of animal beauty. Tyson Summer Seminar Series. Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis
