Wiens lab

phylogenetic biology, herpetology, etc.

Daniel Moen

E-mail:dmoen@life.bio.sunysb.edu

Lab phone: 631-632-1886

Office phone: 631-632-1438

Dan is broadly interested in phylogenetics, historical evolutionary analyses, and amphibians and reptiles. Specifically, he is currently studying frog morphological diversity, looking at (1) lots of museum specimens and (2) the relationship between performance and morphology, examined in diverse assemblages of frogs across the world. Dan really enjoys the latter aspect of his research, which involves traveling to great places, eating delicious foods, and finding sweet frogs that his advisor drools about. Dan recently came back from a summer in China while doing his first set of frog performance trials.

Major Awards

East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (in China), National Science Foundation (2009)

Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2005)

Henri Seibert Award (2005), best student talk in Evolution & Systematics, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

Graduate Council Fellowship, Stony Brook University (2004)

3rd place, 1st annual Sunbutter™recipe contest (2003; total entries: 51 old ladies + me): Sunflower-butter ice cream with sunflower nuts and chocolate chips

Barry M. Goldwater Scholar (2002)

Publications

Moen, D.S., C.T. Winne, and R.N. Reed. 2005. Habitat-mediated shifts and plasticity in the evaporative water loss rates of two congeneric pitvipers (Squamata, Viperidae, Agkistrodon). Evolutionary Ecology Research 7:759–766. pdf

Moen, D.S. and C.A. Stockwell. 2006. Specificity of the monogenean Gyrodactylus tularosae, Kritsky and Stockwell, 2005, to its natural host, the White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa, Miller and Echelle 1975). Comparative Parasitology 73:278–281. pdf

Moen, D.S. 2006. Cope's rule in cryptodiran turtles: do the body sizes of extant species reflect a trend of phyletic size increase? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:1210–1221. pdf

Wiens, J. J., C. H. Graham, D. S. Moen, S. A. Smith, and T. W. Reeder. 2006. Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient in hylid frogs: treefrog trees unearth the roots of high tropical diversity. American Naturalist 168:579–596. pdf

Wiens, J. J., and D. S. Moen. 2008. Missing data and the accuracy of Bayesian phylogenetics. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46:307–314.

Moen, D. S., and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Phylogenetic evidence for competitively-driven divergence: body-size evolution in Caribbean treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteopilus). Evolution 63:195–214.

Moen, D. S., S. A. Smith, and J. J. Wiens. 2009. Community assembly through evolutionary diversification and dispersal in Middle American treefrogs. Evolution (in press).