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Kailen A. Mooney

Affiliation: University of California, Irvine

ORCID: 0000-0001-7102-7794

Works: 48 total (19 publications, 29 datasets, 0 documents)

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Plant-Herbivore Interactions Along Elevational Gradients

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Different aspects of dominance are not equivalent when testing for trade-offs in ant communities

2025Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.72207

Herbivory and water availability interact to shape the adaptive landscape in the perennial forb, Boechera stricta

2025EvolutionDOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae186Cited 6 times

Decomposing an elevational gradient in predation by insectivorous birds

2024EcosphereDOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4790Cited 2 times

The Evolution and Ecology of Interactions Between Ants and Honeydew-Producing Hemipteran Insects

2022The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsDOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102220-014840Cited 62 times

Tests for Elevational Gradients in Herbivore Abundance and Plant Resistance in the Rocky Mountain Ecosystem

2021

Snow melt timing acts independently and in conjunction with temperature accumulation to drive subalpine plant phenology

2021Global Change BiologyDOI: 10.1111/gcb.15803Cited 35 times

Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates

2020Ecological EntomologyDOI: 10.1111/een.12794Cited 8 times

Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior

2019Current Opinion in Insect ScienceDOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2018.12.003Cited 25 times

Elevational cline in herbivore abundance driven by a monotonic increase in trophic level sensitivity to aridity

2019Journal of Animal EcologyDOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13034Cited 7 times

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

2019OikosDOI: 10.1111/oik.05650Cited 25 times

Abiotic mediation of a mutualism drives herbivore abundance.

2016Ecology Letters

Abiotic mediation of a mutualism drives herbivore abundance.

2016Ecology Letters

Sex-specific responses to climate change in plants alter population sex ratios and performance.

2016ScienceDOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2588Cited 104 times

Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities

2013EcologyDOI: 10.1890/12-2170.1Cited 21 times

Plant sex and induced responses independently influence herbivore performance, natural enemies and aphid-tending ants

2012Arthropod-Plant InteractionsDOI: 10.1007/s11829-012-9204-5Cited 13 times

Evolutionary biology: Insects converge on resistance

Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant foraging and interspecific interactions in the field

2012Ecological EntomologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2012.01349.xCited 20 times

Species Interactions in Arthropod Communities: Density Dependence and Ant Interactions on Aphid Per Capita Population Growth

A balanced diet: Effects of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nutritional state on the balance between mutualism and predation upon aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae)