
Courses Taught
- INCO 590: Student Research Experience
- INCO 790: Advanced Research Experience
- NR 433: Wildlife Ecology
- NR 713: Quantitative Ecology
- NR 903: Approach to Research
- NR 913: Hierarchical Modeling Ecology
Research Interests
- Wildlife & Habitat Management/Conservation
- Animal Ecology
- Geospatial modeling
- Spatial Statistics
- Urban and spatial studies
- Natural Resources Management
- Data Analysis
Selected Publications
Devarajan, K., Fidino, M., Farris, Z. J., Adalsteinsson, S. A., Andrade-Ponce, G., Angstmann, J. L., . . . Gerber, B. D. (2025). When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity.. Sci Adv, 11(9), eado3843. doi:10.1126/sciadv.ado3843
Heit, D. R., Ortiz-Calo, W., Poisson, M. K. P., Butler, A. R., & Moll, R. J. (2024). Generalized nonlinearity in animal ecology: Research, review, and recommendations.. Ecol Evol, 14(7), e11387. doi:10.1002/ece3.11387
Allen, M. L., Green, A. M., & Moll, R. J. (2022). Modelling the distribution and intraguild associations of an understudied mesocarnivore across the contiguous United States. DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, 28(5), 1022-1033. doi:10.1111/ddi.13502
Moll, R. J., McRoberts, J. T., Millspaugh, J. J., Wiskirchen, K. H., Sumners, J. A., Isabelle, J. L., . . . Montgomery, R. A. (2021). A rare 300 kilometer dispersal by an adult male white-tailed deer. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 11(9), 3685-3695. doi:10.1002/ece3.7354
Moll, R. J., Jackson, P. J., Wakeling, B. F., Lackey, C. W., Beckmann, J. P., Millspaugh, J. J., & Montgomery, R. A. (2021). An apex carnivore's life history mediates a predator cascade. OECOLOGIA, 196(1), 223-234. doi:10.1007/s00442-021-04927-6
Beck, J. M., Moll, R. J., Kissui, B. M., & Montgomery, R. A. (2021). Do pastoralist cattle fear African lions?. OIKOS, 130(3), 422-430. doi:10.1111/oik.07965
Moll, R. J., Cepek, J. D., Lorch, P. D., Dennis, P. M., Robison, T., & Montgomery, R. A. (2020). At what spatial scale(s) do mammals respond to urbanization?. ECOGRAPHY, 43(2), 171-183. doi:10.1111/ecog.04762
Moll, R. J., Eaton, J. T., Cepek, J. D., Lorch, P. D., Dennis, P. M., Robison, T., . . . Montgomery, R. A. (2020). Dynamic rodent behavioral response to predation risk: implications for disease ecology.. Oecologia, 192(1), 67-78. doi:10.1007/s00442-019-04565-z
Moll, R. J., Cepek, J. D., Lorch, P. D., Dennis, P. M., Tans, E., Robison, T., . . . Montgomery, R. A. (2019). What does urbanization actually mean? A framework for urban metrics in wildlife research. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, 56(5), 1289-1300. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13358
Moll, R. J., Redilla, K. M., Mudumba, T., Muneza, A. B., Gray, S. M., Abade, L., . . . Montgomery, R. A. (2017). The many faces of fear: a synthesis of the methodological variation in characterizing predation risk.. J Anim Ecol, 86(4), 749-765. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12680