publications

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2025

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    Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics
    John W Benning*, Jedidiah Carlson*, Olivia S Smith, Ruth G Shaw, and Arbel Harpak
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2025
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2024

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    Environmental gradients mediate dispersal evolution during biological invasions
    John W Benning, Eliza I Clark, Ruth A Hufbauer, and Christopher Weiss-Lehman
    Ecology Letters, 2024
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2023

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    Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought
    John W Benning, Alexai Faulkner^, and David A Moeller
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2023
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2022

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    Increasing temporal variance leads to stable species range limits
    John W Benning, Ruth A Hufbauer, and Christopher Weiss-Lehman
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022
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    The spatial scale of adaptation in a native annual plant and its implications for responses to climate change
    Amanda J Gorton*, John W Benning*, Peter Tiffin, and David A Moeller
    Evolution, 2022
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2021

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    Microbes, mutualism, and range margins: testing the fitness consequences of soil microbial communities across and beyond a native plant’s range
    John W Benning and David A Moeller
    New Phytologist, 2021
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    Plant–soil interactions limit lifetime fitness outside a native plant’s geographic range margin
    John W Benning and David A Moeller
    Ecology, 2021
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2019

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    Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the Equator and from high to low elevations
    Anna L Hargreaves, Esteban Suárez, Klaus Mehltreter, Isla Myers-Smith, Sula E Vanderplank, Heather L Slinn, and 5 more authors
    Science Advances, 2019
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    Biotic interactions contribute to the geographic range limit of an annual plant: herbivory and phenology mediate fitness beyond a range margin
    John W Benning, Vincent M Eckhart, Monica A Geber, and David A Moeller
    The American Naturalist, 2019
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    Maladaptation beyond a geographic range limit driven by antagonistic and mutualistic biotic interactions across an abiotic gradient
    John W Benning and David A Moeller
    Evolution, 2019
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2018

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    Mycorrhizal interactions do not influence plant–herbivore interactions in populations of Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana spanning from center to margin of the geographic range
    Lana G Bolin^, John W Benning, and David A Moeller
    Ecology and Evolution, 2018
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2015

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    Odd for an Ericad: nocturnal pollination of Lyonia lucida (Ericaceae)
    John W Benning
    The American Midland Naturalist, 2015
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