Recent WildThings publications


  • Arnillas, C. A., Stotz, G. C., Ortiz, A. M. D., Chinga Chamorro, J. B., Chiuffo, M. C., Collinge, S. K., Kariuki, R. W., Norman, H., Regan, H. M., Visakorpi, K., Devarajan, K., Klein, A.-M., Schnabel, F., Arponen, A., Cadotte, M. W., Cousens, R., Ehrlich, K., Grell-Brisk, M., Hughes, L., … Santos Domínguez, N. (2026). Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists and their societies. People and Nature, 00, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70253
  • Clark, J., A. P. K. Sirén, J. Loesberg, and T. L. Morelli. 2025. SiMPL Wildlife Magnets: A Camera Trap Tool for Detecting All Creatures Great and Small. Ecology and Evolution 15, no. 12: e72342. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72342.
  • Morelli, T. L., Mozelewski, T. G., Cavalieri, C. N., Caven, A. J., Dreiss, L. M., Hovel, R. A., Hua, M., Jennings, M. K., John, A., Kehm, G., Keppel, G., Krawchuk, M. A., Langdon, S. F., Lawler, J. J., Lyon, L. M., Meigs, G. W., Mora-Gonzalez, M., Nadeau, C. P., Słowińska, S., … Stralberg, D. (2025). Conserving climate-change refugia: Insights from research and practice. Conservation Science and Practice, e70160. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70160
  • Nadeau, C. P., Smetzer, J. R., Wisner, S., Lima, K. A., Hughes, A. R., Miller-Rushing, A. J., Wheeler, J. S., Morelli, T. L., & Mozelewski, T. G. (2025). From models to management: Implementing the climate-change refugia conservation cycle in national parks of the northeastern United States. Conservation Science and Practice, e70159. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70159
  • Mozelewski, T. G., Mengelt, C. L., Powelson, K., Athearn, N., Grasso, R., Adams, A. J., & Morelli, T. L. (2025). Integrating refugia modeling and decision science to support climate-adaptive conservation in the Sierra Nevada. Conservation Science and Practice, e70170. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70170
  • Cavalieri, C. N., Mtui, D. T., Lobora, A., & Morelli, T. L. (2025). Climate change refugia hotspots for priority species: A case study in East Africa. Conservation Science and Practice, e70178. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70178
  • Marissa Weiss, Addie Rose Holland, Anthony W D'Amato, Linda A Deegan, William H Farmer, Christopher Hoving, Ambarish V Karmalkar, Alexander Latzka, Madeline Magee, Peter B McIntyre, Toni Lyn Morelli, Michael Notaro, Nancy Olmstead, Richard N Palmer, Nancy Pau, Rosalind Renfrew, Christine A Ribic, John Sheppard, Michelle D Staudinger, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Bethany A Bradley, Relationship-centered engagement bridges the divide between science and management, and enhances climate adaptation, BioScience, Volume 75, Issue 10, October 2025, Pages 842–855, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf087
  • Evans, A. E., Pfadenhauer, W. G., Buonaiuto, D. M., Fertakos, M. E., Brown‐Lima, C. J., & Morelli, T. L. (2025). The Future of Biocontrol in the anthropocene: A review of climate change impacts on biocontrol agents and their targets. Ecological Applications, 35(6). https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70088
  • Pastore, Melissa A., Sarah J. Nelson, Elizabeth A. Burakowski, Alexandra R. Contosta, Anthony W. D'Amato, Sarah Garlick, Edward Lindsey, et al. 2025. “ Snow Refugia: Managing Temperate Forest Canopies to Maintain Winter Conditions.” Ecosphere 16(7): e70302. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70302
  • Katzer, A. M., Boydston, E. E., Akresh, M. E., Briggs, J. S., Cooper, K., Barve, V., Lee, L., & Morelli, T. L. (2025). Biodiversity on public lands: How community science can help. Conservation Science and Practice, 7(5), e70016. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70016
  • Condon, D., Scott, T.A., Smith, A.B. et al. Practitioners’ perceived risks to biodiversity from renewable energy expansion through 2050. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 263 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04558-9
  • Kadambari Devarajan et al. When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity. Sci. Adv.11,eado3843 (2025). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ado3843
  • Marjadi MN, Smith RA, Tu HF, Ajmani AM, Holland AR, Lopez BE, et al. (2025) Centering voices of scientists from marginalized backgrounds to understand experiences in climate adaptation science and inform action. PLoS ONE 20(2): e0318438. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318438
  • Morelli, T.L., Hallworth, M.T., Duclos, T., Ells, A., Faccio, S.D., Foster, J.R., McFarland, K.P., Nislow, K., Ralston, J., Ratnaswamy, M., Deluca, W.V. and Siren, A.P.K. (2025), Does habitat or climate change drive species range shifts?. Ecography, 2025: e07560. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07560
  • Belitz, M.W., Campbell, C.J., Drum, R.G. et al. A case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis. Nat. Rev. Biodivers. 1, 134–143 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-024-00014-9
  • Weiskopf, S.R., Morelli, T. L., Mozelewski, T.G., Shiklomanov, A.N., and Lerman, S.L., 2025, Model outputs showing optimized grassland restoration sites in the Great Plains region of Kansas: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://www.doi.org/10.5066/P139JZZK.
  • Evans, A. E., Brewington, L., Brown-Lima, C., Fusco, E., Gregg, R. M., Lieurance, D., Parsons, E. W., Nagy, R. C., Thurman, L., & Morelli, T. L. (2025). Challenges and priorities for climate-informed invasive species management across multiple scales. Conservation Science and Practice, 7(7), e70074. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70074​
​For more publications, view Toni Lyn Morelli’s Google Scholar page here.

Top Cited publications

Morelli Lab Student Pages

Interested in learning more about research with the Morelli lab? View the Google Scholar or Research Gate pages of our lab’s alumni for more associated publications. 

Cathleen Balantic, PhD
Jahiya Clark, PhD
Kadambari Devarajan, PhD
Joseph Drake, PhD
Nigel Golden, PhD
Benjamin Padilla, PhD
Tatjana Washington
Sarah Weiskopf, PhD
Alexej Siren, PhD
Tina Mozelewski, PhD
Annette Evans, PhD