Kara A. Moore
http://dynamicecosciences.wordpress.com/
Center for Population Biology
Department of Evolution and Ecology
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue,
Davis, CA, 95616
5310 Storer Hall
Mobile: (530) 902-1553
kmoore@ucdavis.edu
Education
Ph.D. Ecology
2007, University of California, Davis. GPA: 4.00/4.00. Advisor:
Susan P. Harrison
M.S. Forest Ecology
2002, School of Natural Resources and the Environment,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. GPA: 7.92/8.00. Advisor:
Burton V. Barnes
B.S. Biology
1998, with Highest Honors, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Written evaluations. Advisor: Deborah E. Goldberg
Teaching
Kids into Discovering Science, Co-founder and coordinator, 2009-present, McLaughlin
Natural Reserve, University of California, Davis and Lake County Unified School
District
Plant Conservation Biology, Guest lecturer, Winter 2011, Dept. of Environmental Science
and Policy, University of California, Davis
Experimental Ecology and Evolution in the Field, Post-doctoral research mentor, WinterSpring 2008, Dept. of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
Principles of Ecology, Teaching assistant, Fall 2006, Dept. of Environmental Science and
Policy, University of California, Davis
Grass Identification and Ecology, Teaching assistant, Summer 2005, Dept. of Plant
Biology, Dept. of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
Wetland Ecology, Teaching assistant, Fall 2004, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy,
University of California, Davis
Spring Ecosystems and Plants, Lecturer, Spring 2002, School of Natural Resources and the
Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Applied Population Ecology, Graduate student instructor, Winter 2002, School of Natural
Resources and the Environment and Dept. of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
Spring Ecosystems and Plants, Teaching assistant, Spring 2001, School of Natural
Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Woody Plants, Graduate student instructor, Fall 2000, 2001, School of Natural Resources and
the Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Competitive Research Grants and Awards
2013-2015
2010-2015
2010-2014
2009-2013
2010
2005-2007
2002-2007
2004
2003
2002
1996
Principal Investigator, United States Fish and Wildlife Service:
Development and testing of a monitoring protocol for nine endangered,
threatened, and endemic plants at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge,
$110,000.
Principal Investigator, California Energy Commission: Population
viability and restoration potential for rare plants near solar installations,
$753,100
Principal Investigator, California Energy Commission: Mapping
habitat distributions of desert rare plants from optimized data, $580,907
Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research Grant: Consequences of habitat heterogeneity
and seed dormancy for adaptation at the margins of a native plant
population (with co-PI Maureen Stanton), $309,280
Consortium of Women in Research Grant: Kids into Discovering
Science, $1500
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant:
Propagule limitation and its implications for restoration of native annual
forbs in California, $12,000
Block Grant Fellowship, Graduate Group in Ecology, University of
California, Davis: When does propagule availability matter? $32,000
Mildred E. Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant, University of
California Natural Reserve System, $2000
Davis Botanical Society Research Grant, University of California, Davis,
$750
Jastro Shields Research Award, Graduate Group in Ecology, University of
California, Davis, $2000
Consortium for Research at the McLaughlin Natural Reserve
Graduate Research Award, University of California, Davis, $2000
The Terrestrial Ecosystems Faculty Award, School of Natural Resources
and the Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Department of Biology, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, $2000
Publications (§ denotes student coauthor)
Moore, K.A. In press. Editorial. Fremontia.
Moore, K.A. and James M André. In press. Rare plant diversity in the California deserts:
priorities for research and conservation. Fremontia.
§ Tanner, K., K. Moore, and B. Pavlik. In press. Measuring impacts of solar development on
desert plants. Fremontia.
Pavlik, B. M. and K. A. Moore. 2012. Reproductive Biology of the Rare Plants of
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Report prepared for the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service. 146 pp plus appendices.
§ Scampavia, M.R., K. A. Moore, and B.M. Pavlik. 2012. Behaviours of Pollinators Visiting Rare
Plants of Ash Meadows. Appendix to Reproductive Biology of the Rare Plants of Ash
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Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Report prepared for the U.S.Fish and Wildlife
Service. 43 pp.
Moore, K. A. and S.C. Elmendorf. 2011. Species interactions along stress gradients. In
Serpentine: A model for Evolution and Ecology, S.P. Harrison and N. Rajakaruna, Eds.
University of California Press, Berkeley.
Moore, K. A., S. P. Harrison, and S.C. Elmendorf. 2011. Can spatial isolation help predict
dispersal limited sites for native species restoration? Ecological Applications 21(6):
2119-2128.
Harrison, S. P., H. Cornell, and K. A. Moore. 2010. What controls spatial niches? Testing
theory with tarweeds. Ecology 91:2141-2150.
Moore, K. A. 2009. Fluctuating patch boundaries of a charismatic annual forb result from
niche, not dispersal, limitation. Ecology 90(2): 378-387.
Pavlik, B.M., K.A. Moore-O’Leary, and A.E. Stanton. 2009. Quantifying herbivore inpacts on
rare plants at Ash Meadows. Proceedings of the California Native Plant Society
Conservation Conference. pp 245-255.
Elmendorf, S.C. and K. A. Moore. 2008. Community composition data outperforms
environmental data in predicting species’ fecundity and abundance. Conservation
Biology 22(6):1523-1532.
Elmendorf, S. C., and K. A. Moore. 2007. Plant competition varies with community
composition in an edaphically complex landscape. Ecology 88:2640-2650.
Melbourne, B.A., H.V. Cornell, K. F. Davies, C. J. Dugaw, S.C. Elmendorf, A.L. Freestone, R.
Hall, S.P. Harrison, A. Hastings, M. Holland, M.A. Holyoak, J. Lambrinos, K.A. Moore,
C.M. Taylor and H. Yokomizo. 2007. Invasion in a heterogeneous world: resistance,
coexistence or hostile takeover? Ecology Letters 10:77-94.
Moore, K. A. and S. C. Elmendorf. 2006. Propagule vs. niche limitation: untangling the
mechanisms behind plant species' distributions. Ecology Letters 9:797-804.
Hastings, A., K. Cuddington, K. F. Davies, C. J. Dugaw, S. Elmendorf, A. Freestone, S. Harrison,
M. Holland, J. Lambrinos, U. Malvadkar, B. A. Melbourne, K. Moore, C. Taylor, and D.
Thomson. 2005. The spatial spread of invasions: new developments in theory and
evidence. Ecology Letters 8(1):91-101.
Manuscripts in Review
Moore, K. A. and M. L. Stanton. In review. Propagule limitation, disparate habitat quality, and
variation in phenotypic selection at a local species range boundary.
Thuiller, W., T. Münkemüller, K. H. Schiffers, D. Georges, S. Dullinger, V. M. Eckhart, T. C.
Edwards, D. Gravel, G. Kunstler, C. Merow, K. Moore, C. Piedallu, S. Vissault, N. E.
Zimmermann, D. Zurell, and F. M. Schurr. In review. Does probability of occurrence
relate to demographic performance?
Schiffers, K., F. Schurr, J. Travis, G. Boccedi, A. Duputié, V.M. Eckhart, S. Lavergne, G.
McInerny, K.A. Moore, P. Pearman, W. Thuiller, R. Wüest and R. D. Holt. In review.
Landscape structure and genetic architecture jointly impact rates of adaptation at
species range boarders.
Manuscripts in Preparation (§ denotes student coauthor)
McIntyre, P. J. and K. A. Moore. In preparation. Field-testing distribution models of desert
rare plants: challenges to regional conservation planning for narrow endemics.
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Moore, K. A., P. J. McIntyre, J. M André, § A.R. Maraglia, and B.M. Pavlik, In preparation.
Population persistence of a rare desert perennial is relatively insensitive to uncertainty
in seedling recruitment.
Moore, K. A., B.M. Pavlik, § A.R. Maraglia, P. J. McIntyre, and J. M André, In preparation.
Increased drought frequency and herbivory increase likelihood of extinctions for the
rare desert perennial Penstemon albomarginatus.
Moore, K.A., Guisan, A., Svenning, J.C., Normand, S. H., Zimmerman, N.E., Merow, C., Zurell,
D., McInerny, G., O’Hara, Wüest R., Schiffers, K., Nabel, J.E.M.S., and V. M. Eckhart. In
preparation. Integration of spatial scales in species distribution modeling.
Moore, K.A. and B. M. Pavlik. In preparation. Can breeding system and reproductive biology
predict vulnerability to disturbance? Lessons from the rare plants of Ash Meadows.
Moore, K.A., J.C. Svenning, S.H. Normand, N.E. Zimmerman, C. Merow, D. Zurell, G.
McInerny, R. O’Hara, R. Wüest, K. Schiffers, J.E.M.S. Nabel, V. M. Eckhart and A.
Guisan. In preparation. Integration of spatial scales in species distribution modeling.
Normand, S., H. Lischke, F.M. Schurr, A. Huth, A.M. Latimer, A. Duputié, A. Guisan, R. B.
O'Hara, B. Schröder, C. Merow, C. Randin, D. Zurell, D. Gravel, G. McInerny, J.C.
Svenning, J., Pagel, K.A. Moore, K. Schiffers, R.D. Holt, S.I. Higgins, T. Münkemüller,
T. Hickler, T.C. Edwards, V.M. Eckhart, W. Thuiller, S. Dullinger, J.E.M.S Nabel, M.
Scherstjanoi, N. Zurbriggen, M.P. Nobis, R. Wüest, R., P.B. Pearman, and N.E.
Zimmermann. In review. Demography as the basis for understanding and predicting
range dynamics: what is on the horizon?
Zurell, D., A. Guisan, N.E. Zimmermann, R.D. Holt, B. Schröder, G. McInerny, F. Schurr, J.
Pagel, J., K.A. Moore, K. Schiffers, P. Pearman, R. Wüest, S. Dullinger, T.
Münkemüller, W. Thuiller, J. Cabral, and C. Merow. In preparation. Testing novel
approaches for prediction of range dynamics: a model contest with simulated data.
Research Experience
Assistant Project Scientist, 2012-present. Center for Population Biology, Dept. of Evolution
and Ecology, University of California, Davis
Principal Investigator, 2010-present. BMP Ecosciences
Post-doctoral Associate, 2007-2012, Center for Population Biology, Dept. of Evolution and
Ecology, UC Davis. Advisor: Maureen Stanton
Senior Scientist, 2006-2010, Endangered and threatened plant reproductive biology and
pollinator dependence. BMP Ecosciences and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge,
Ash Meadows, Nevada.
Post-doctoral Researcher, 2007- 2008, Serpentine endemic plants’ biogeography and
potential responses to climate change, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, UC
Davis. Advisors: Susan Harrison and Mark Schwartz
Dissertation Research, 2002-2007, Using models and field experiments to define niche
versus dispersal limitation in California grassland annuals, Dept. of Environmental
Science and Policy, UC Davis. Advisor Susan Harrison
Graduate Research Assistant, 2005-2007, Klamath-Siskiyou plant diversity and climate
change, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis
Advisors: Susan Harrison and Ellen Damschen (NCEAS)
Graduate Research Assistant, 2002-2007, California serpentine regional plant diversity,
Dept. Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis. Advisors: Susan Harrison and Hugh
Safford (US Forest Service)
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Graduate Research Assistant, 2006, Botanical surveys of LTER grassland plant diversity, UC
McLaughlin Natural Reserve, advisor Dr. Susan Harrison
Graduate Research Assistant, 2006, Valley elderberry longhorn beetle habitat assessment,
American river corridor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis. Advisor:
Marcel Holyoak
Master’s Thesis Research, 2000-2002, The occurrence and vegetative reproduction of red
maple among landscape ecosystem types, northern Lower Michigan, University of
Michigan Biological Station, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, UM Ann
Arbor. Advisor: Burton Barnes
Undergraduate Research Fellow, 1996-1998, Honors Thesis: An exploration of the
competitive interactions of three clonal sedges in a Michigan fen Dept. of Biology, UM
Ann Arbor. Advisor: Deborah Goldberg
Mentorship
Jan 2013-present Austen Apigo, Brandon Tonokawa, and Drew Bell (class of 2013, UC
Davis), undergraduate research assistants and field technicians, Gilia tricolor
evolutionary ecology
2012-present
Tasya Herskovitz, desert rare plant mapping and demography field
technician and botanist
2011-present
Karen Tanner (class of 2012, Mills College), Senior project and recipient of
the Mills College Barrett Award, $2000 and California Native Plant Society
Student Research Award, $2000: Experimental shading of a rare desert
annual
2008-present
Andrew Maraglia (class of 2010, UC Davis), Junior Specialist and Senior
Field Biologist on rare plant projects in California Desert Region.
Independent research project: Do interactions with herbivores and
pollinators compound the extinctions risk of a threatened desert perennial?
2008-2013
Glora Solorio (class of 2012, UC Davis), research assistant on grassland
and desert laboratory analysis
2012
Angelica Sauceda (class of 2012, UC Davis) and Katherine Moon (class
of 2012, Mills College, Oakland), desert rare plant mapping and demography
field technicians
2011-2012
Christopher Knight (class of 2011, UC Davis), database and GIS
technician for desert rare plant mapping and demography
2008-2012
Brian Lee (class of 2009, UC Davis), Junior Specialist, Gilia tricolor
evolutionary ecology. Independent research project: Does site specific pollen
dispersal influence seed production and quality?
2008-2012
Valeria Campos, Elizabeth Axton, and Lennah Shakeri (all class of
2012, UC Davis), undergraduate research assistants on the Gilia tricolor
project
2011
Jonathan Clark (Class of 2011, UC Davis) and Carli Morgan, desert rare
plant mapping and demography field technicians
2010-2011
Courtney Gomola, Student Conservation Corp Intern in restoration ecology
at the McLaughlin Natural Reserve
2009-2011
Katherine Bauman, Independent volunteer research project: Developing
true-breeding lines of anthocyanin-deficient Gilia tricolor for use in
estimating directions and distances of seed dispersal
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2008-2010
2007-2010
2006-2009
2003-2006
Service
M. Rei Scampavia (class of 2010, Mills College), Senior project and
recipient of the Mills College Barrett Award, $2000: Pollinator behavior and
visitation rates on the rare plants of Ash Meadows
Helena Stoddard and Merri Gordon (class of 2008, Mills College), Erica
Smith (MS, UC Davis, 2009), and Jennifer Wolf (UC Davis 2009, current
UC Merced, Ecology PhD candidate), Field technicians on plant reproductive
biology at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
Gabriela Garibay (class of 2009, MS, Social Work and Women’s Health,
UCLA), student research assistant, McLaughlin Natural Reserve, and at Ash
Meadows
Libby Van Wyhe, Trung Tran, and Belinda Lo (all class of 2006),
undergraduate interns Lupinus nanus spatial ecology
Managing editor, 2013-present, Fremontia: Journal of the California Native Plant Society.
Issue 42 Part 1 (January 2014) and Part 2 (May 2014). Mojave and Sonoran Desert
Special Double Issues
Reviewer, 2013, International Congress of Conservation Biology
Invited participant and project leader, 2012-present, Advancing concepts and models of
range dynamics, understanding and disentangling processes across scales. Danish
Council for Independent Research and Swiss Federal Research Institute, Riederalp,
Switzerland and Peyresq, France
Invited participant, 2009-present, Rare desert species distribution modeler’s hoe down.
Desert Renewable Energy and Conservation Plan Working Group, Sacramento, CA
Invited speaker and panelist, 2012, Emeritus Brown Bag Lunch, College of Biological
Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA
Invited speaker and panelist, 2011, Impacts of renewable energy on rare plants:
challenges and mitigation strategies. UC Energy Week, California Integrated Renewable
Energy Systems Program and California Renewable Energy Collaborative, University of
California, Davis, CA
Serpentine ecologist, 2007, Environmental Protection Department, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Grant review panel assistant, 2006, California Bay-Delta Area Ecosystem Restoration
Program, Land Use and Natural Resources Extension, University of California, Davis, CA
Restoration ecologist, 2000-2002, Walpole Island Heritage Center, Prairie Inventory,
Walpole Island First Nation, Canada
Workshop assistant, 1999, First Annual Meeting on Agricultural Sustainability, National
Pollution Prevention Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Restoration crew and bird survey volunteer, 1999-2001, Natural Areas Preservation
Division, City Parks and Recreation, Ann Arbor, MI
Education program leader, 1998-2000, Leslie Science Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Co-founder, Environmental learning fund, Ann Arbor, MI
Presentations
(not including junior authored)
Society for Conservation Biology International Congress of Conservation Biology,
July 2013. Baltimore, MD. Moore, K.A., B.M. Pavlik, Tanner, K. McIntyre, P.J., André,
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J.A, and A.R. Maraglia. A regional approach to rare plant vulnerability to energy
development in the California Deserts.
Society for Conservation Biology North America Congress for Conservation Biology,
July 2012. Oakland, CA. Moore, K.A., J. A. André, P. J. McIntyre, B.M. Pavlik, and A.R.
Maraglia. Population change scenarios for a rare plant in the shadow of energy
development.
California Native Plant Society Conservation Conference, January 2012. San Diego, CA.
Moore, K.A., J.A. André, B.M. Pavlik, A.E. Stanton, and P.J. McIntyre. A preliminary
model of a rare perennial population in the light of solar energy.
Public Interest Energy Research Workshop, California Energy Commission, January 2011.
Sacramento, CA. Moore, K.A., B.M. Pavlik, and A.E. Stanton. Population viability and
restoration potential of rare plants near solar installations.
Center for Population Biology, October 2010. UC Davis, CA. Life and death on the edge:
selection across a local range boundary.
Society for the Study of Evolution Meeting, June 2010. Portland, OR. Moore, K.A., M.L.
Stanton, and R. Gomulkiewicz. Consequences of habitat heterogeneity and seed
dormancy for adaptation at the margins of a native plant population.
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Symposium, February 2010. Pahrump, NV.
Moore, K.A. and B.M. Pavlik. Using phenology and effects of pollen source on fitness to
evaluate the sensitivity of rare plant reproduction to disturbance.
California Native Plant Society Conservation Conference, January 2009. Sacramento
CA. Moore, K.A., S. P. Harrison, and S.C. Elmendorf. Can spatial isolation help predict
dispersal-limited sites for native species restoration?
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Symposium, February 2009. Pahrump, NV.
Moore, K.A. and B.M. Pavlik. Limitations on endemic plant seed availability at Ash
Meadows.
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Symposium, February 2008. Las Vegas, NV.
Moore, K.A. and B.M. Pavlik. Rare plant breeding biology at Ash Meadows.
Joint Meeting of the Ecological Society of American/Society for Ecological
Restoration, August 2007. San Jose, CA. Moore, K.A. Shifts in spatial occurrence of
the native annual Lupinus nanus result from coupling between interannual variation and
deterministic niche constraints.
California Native Grassland Association and Annual Meeting, August 2007. Santa
Barbara, CA Moore, K.A. and S. P. Harrison. Dispersal limitation and site suitability vary
with distance from existing patches of two charismatic native annuals.
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 2006. Nashville, TN. Moore, K.A.
and S. C. Elmendorf. The plant’s eye view of competitive gradients.
Technology
R (data management, statistics, data visualization, and GIS), GPS, JMP, SAS, Microsoft Access,
ArcGIS, Windows, and Mac
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Peer Review
Acta Oecologica, American Midland Naturalist, American Naturalist, Biological Invasions,
Ecography, Ecoscience, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Fremontia, Journal of Ecology, Ecological
Applications, Oecologia, Plant Ecology, PLOSone
Professional Affiliations
American Society of Naturalists
Association for Women in Science, California East Bay Chapter
California Native Grassland Association
California Native Plant Society
Ecological Society of America
Society for the Study of Evolution
References
Available upon request
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