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Overview

Ben D. Moore is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Forestry, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research focuses on key topics such as Silicon Effects in Agriculture, Pasture and Agricultural Systems, Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Gut Microbiota and Health.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Tau molecular diversity contributes to clinical heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment (2020, Nature)
  • Maternal inheritance of the koala gut microbiome and its compositional and functional maturation during juvenile development (2021, Environmental Microbiology)
  • Pastures and Climate Extremes: Impacts of Cool Season Warming and Drought on the Productivity of Key Pasture Species in a Field Experiment (2022, Frontiers in Plant Science)
  • Silicon suppresses a ubiquitous mite herbivore and promotes natural enemy attraction by altering plant volatile blends (2021, Journal of Pest Science)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Sally A. Power
  • Karen L. M. Catunda
  • Amber C. Churchill
  • Scott N. Johnson
  • Haiyang Zhang

Their research outputs are published in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Medicine, Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Pest Science, and Ecological Entomology.

Best Publications

  • Explaining intraspecific diversity in plant secondary metabolites in an ecological context.

    Ben D. Moore;Rose L. Andrew;Carsten Külheim;William J. Foley

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

    Mingkai Jiang;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;John E. Drake;Remko A. Duursma

  • Tree use by koalas in a chemically complex landscape

    Ben D Moore;Ben D Moore;William J Foley

  • The effects of plant defensive chemistry on nutrient availability predict reproductive success in a mammal

    Jane L. DeGabriel;Jane L. DeGabriel;Ben D. Moore;Ben D. Moore;William John Foley;Christopher N. Johnson

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

    Angela T. Moles;Ian R. Wallis;William J. Foley;David I. Warton

  • Revisiting the dietary niche: When is a mammalian herbivore a specialist?

    Lisa A. Shipley;Jennifer S. Forbey;Ben D. Moore

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

    Angela T. Moles;Begoña Peco;Ian R. Wallis;William J. Foley

  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora.

    Daniel Falster;Rachael Gallagher;Rachael Gallagher;Elizabeth H. Wenk;Ian J. Wright

  • Antiherbivore Chemistry of Eucalyptus-- Cues and Deterrents for Marsupial Folivores

    Ben D. Moore;Ian R. Wallis;Jesús Palá-Paúl;Joseph J. Brophy

  • Plant secondary metabolites and vertebrate herbivores – from physiological regulation to ecosystem function

    William John Foley;Ben D. Moore

  • Palatability mapping : a koala's eye view of spatial variation in habitat quality

    Ben D. Moore;Ivan R. Lawler;Ian R. Wallis;Colin M. Beale

  • Use of expert knowledge to elicit population trends for the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

    Christine Adams-Hosking;Marissa F. McBride;Marissa F. McBride;Greg Baxter;Mark Burgman

  • A review of feeding and diet selection in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)

    Benjamin D. Moore;William J. Foley

  • Eucalyptus foliar chemistry explains selective feeding by koalas

    Ben D Moore;William J Foley;Ian R Wallis;Ann Cowling

  • A simple, integrative assay to quantify nutritional quality of browses for herbivores

    Jane L. DeGabriel;Jane L. DeGabriel;Jane L. DeGabriel;Ian R. Wallis;Ben D. Moore;Ben D. Moore;William J. Foley

  • FOLIAR NUTRITION, SITE QUALITY, AND TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE FOLIAR CHEMISTRY OF TALLOWWOOD (EUCALYPTUS MICROCORYS)

    Ben D. Moore;Ian R. Wallis;Jeff T. Wood;William J. Foley

  • Do multiple herbivores maintain chemical diversity of Scots pine monoterpenes

    Glenn R. Iason;Julianne M. O'Reilly-Wapstra;Mark J. Brewer;Ron W. Summers

  • The role of nutrition in the conservation of the marsupial folivores of eucalypt forests

    Ben D. Moore;Ian R. Wallis;Karen J. Marsh;William J. Foley

  • Faecal inoculations alter the gastrointestinal microbiome and allow dietary expansion in a wild specialist herbivore, the koala

    Michaela D. J. Blyton;Rochelle M. Soo;Desley Whisson;Karen J. Marsh

  • Translating nutritional ecology from the laboratory to the field: milestones in linking plant chemistry to population regulation in mammalian browsers

    Jane L. DeGabriel;Ben D. Moore;Annika M. Felton;Jörg U. Ganzhorn

  • The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faecal microbiome differs with diet in a wild population.

    Kylie L. Brice;Kylie L. Brice;Pankaj Trivedi;Pankaj Trivedi;Thomas C. Jeffries;Michaela D.J. Blyton

  • The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing

    Ben Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Foley
William J. Foley Australian National University
Scott N. Johnson
Scott N. Johnson Western Sydney University
Ian R. Wallis
Ian R. Wallis Australian National University
Markus Riegler
Markus Riegler Western Sydney University
Sally A. Power
Sally A. Power Western Sydney University
Jeff R. Powell
Jeff R. Powell Western Sydney University
Glenn R. Iason
Glenn R. Iason James Hutton Institute
Christopher N. Johnson
Christopher N. Johnson University of Tasmania
Kristine Y. Crous
Kristine Y. Crous Western Sydney University
Mark G. Tjoelker
Mark G. Tjoelker Western Sydney University

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