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Overview

Kirk A. Moloney is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with specific attention to fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and fire dynamics and safety research.

The scientist has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • Spatio-Temporal Variation in Soil Nutrients and Plant Recovery across a Fire-Severity Gradient in Old-Growth Araucaria-Nothofagus Forests of South-Central Chile, 2022, published in Forests
  • Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review, 2024, published in Fire Ecology
  • Climate Impacts on Fire Risk in Desert Shrublands: A Modeling Study, 2021, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Andrés Fuentes-Ramírez
  • Leonardo Almonacid
  • Nayadeth Muñoz-Gómez
  • Octavio Toy-Opazo
  • Valeria Palma-Soto

Kirk A. Moloney publishes regularly in the following venues:

  • Forests
  • Fire Ecology
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Their main fields of study are categorized under environmental science, with subfields including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Key research topics addressed by the scientist cover:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire dynamics and safety research

Best Publications

  • Rings, circles, and null-models for point pattern analysis in ecology

    Thorsten Wiegand;Kirk A. Moloney

  • Handbook of Spatial Point-Pattern Analysis in Ecology

    Thorsten Wiegand;Kirk Adams Moloney

  • Finding the missing link between landscape structure and population dynamics: a spatially explicit perspective

    Thorsten Wiegand;Kirk A. Moloney;Javier Naves;Felix Knauer

  • Effects of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on Population Dynamics

    Thorsten Wiegand;Eloy Revilla;Kirk A. Moloney

  • The Effects of Disturbance Architecture on Landscape-Level Population Dynamics

    Kirk A. Moloney;Simon A. Levin

  • An assessment of grassland restoration success using species diversity components

    Leanne M. Martin;Kirk A. Moloney;Brian J. Wilsey

  • An evaluation of the state of spatial point pattern analysis in ecology

    Eduardo Velázquez;Isabel Martínez;Stephan Getzin;Kirk A. Moloney

  • Modelling the impact of small-scale heterogeneities on tree—grass coexistence in semi-arid savannas

    F. Jeltsch;S.J. Milton;W.R.J. Dean;N. van Rooyen

  • A generalized algorithm for determining category size.

    Kirk A. Moloney

  • The state of plant population modelling in light of environmental change

    Florian Jeltsch;Kirk A. Moloney;Frank Martin Schurr;Martin Köchy

  • The role of water depth and soil temperature in determining initial composition of prairie wetland coenoclines

    Eric W. Seabloom;Eric W. Seabloom;Arnold G. van der Valk;Kirk A. Moloney

  • Detecting process from snapshot pattern: lessons from tree spacing in the southern Kalahari

    Florian Jeltsch;Kirk Moloney;Suzanne J. Milton

  • Fine‐Scale Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Demography of a Perennial Bunchgrass

    Kirk A. Moloney

  • Rethinking the common garden in invasion research.

    Kirk A. Moloney;Claus Holzapfel;Katja Tielbörger;Florian Jeltsch

  • CONSTRAINTS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PLANTS ALONG A FLUCTUATING WATER-DEPTH GRADIENT

    Eric W. Seabloom;Kirk A. Moloney;Arnold G. van der Valk

  • Population dynamics, disturbance, and pattern evolution: identifying the fundamental scales of organization in a model ecosystem.

    Thorsten Wiegand;Kirk A. Moloney;Suzanne J. Milton

  • Phenotypic plasticity of native vs. invasive purple loosestrife: a two-state multivariate approach.

    Young Jin Chun;Michael L. Collyer;Kirk A. Moloney;Jason D Nason

  • Analysis of fine-scale spatial pattern of a grassland from remotely-sensed imagery and field collected data

    Agustín Lobo;Kirk Moloney;Oscar Chic;Nona Chiariello

  • Comparison of quantitative and molecular genetic variation of native vs. invasive populations of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L., Lythraceae).

    Young Jin Chun;John D. Nason;Kirk A. Moloney

  • Implication of climate change for the persistence of raptors in arid savanna

    Matthias C. Wichmann;Florian Jeltsch;W. Richard J. Dean;Kirk A. Moloney

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Jeltsch
Florian Jeltsch University of Potsdam
Thorsten Wiegand
Thorsten Wiegand Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Brian J. Wilsey
Brian J. Wilsey Iowa State University
Simon A. Levin
Simon A. Levin Princeton University
Nona R. Chiariello
Nona R. Chiariello Stanford University
John J. Obrycki
John J. Obrycki University of Kentucky
Arnold G. van der Valk
Arnold G. van der Valk Iowa State University
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Christian Wissel
Christian Wissel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Brent J. Danielson
Brent J. Danielson Iowa State University

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