Publications

Most of my papers are freely available in a pdf format via Research Gate or arXiv

Journal papers:

[J50] Moustakas, A., Georgiakakis, P. Kret, E. and Kapsalis, E. (2023) Wind turbine power and land cover effects on cumulative bat mortalities. Science of the Total Environment. in press

[J49] Santin, C., Moustakas, A., Doerr, S. (2023) Searching the flames: trends in global and regional public interest in wildfires. Environmental Science and Policy, 146: 151-161  

[J48] HJ Li, L Wang, Z Wang, Z Du, B Yang, C Xia, AA Moustakas, S Pei (2021) Mathematical modelling of the pandemic of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19): Patterns, Dynamics, Prediction, and Control. Frontiers in Physics. 9:738602.

[J47] ] Moustakas, A., Davlias, O. (2021) Minimal effect of prescribed burning on fire spread rate and intensity in savanna ecosystems. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 35: 849–860

[J46] Kati, K., Kassara, K., Vrontisi, Z., Moustakas, A. (2021) The biodiversity-wind energy-land use nexus in a global biodiversity hotspot. Science of the Total Environment, 768: 144471.

[J46] Moustakas, A., Davlias, O. (2021) Minimal effect of prescribed burning on fire spread rate and intensity in savanna ecosystems. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-021-01977-3.

[J45] Konstantopoulos, K., Moustakas, A., Vogiatzakis, I. N. (2020) A spatially explicit impact assessment of road characteristics, road-induced fragmentation and noise on birds species in Cyprus. Biodiversity, 1: 61-71

[J44] Moustakas, A., Daliakopoulos, I.N. Benton, T.G. (2019). Data-driven competitive facilitative tree interactions and their implications on nature-based solutions. Science of the Total Environment, 651: 2269-2280

[J43] Moustakas, A., Evans, M.R., Daliakopoulos, I.N. Markonis, Y. (2018). Abrupt events and population synchrony in the dynamics of Bovine Tuberculosis. Nature Communications, 9: 2821

[J42] Moustakas, A. (2018). Assessing the predictive causality of individual based models using Bayesian inference intervention analysis: an application in epidemiology. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess. 32: 2861–2869

[J41] Moustakas, A., Katsanevakis, S. (2018). Editorial: Data mining and methods for early detection, horizon scanning, modelling,and risk assessment of invasive species. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics: 4: 5.

[J40] Katsanevakis, S., Moustakas, A. (2018). Uncertainty in marine invasion science. Frontiers in Marine Science: 5: 38.

[J39] Moustakas, A., Voutsela, A., Katsanevakis, S. (2018). Sampling alien species inside and outside protected areas: Does it matter? Science of The Total Environment 625: 194-198.

[J38] Evans, M. R. and A. Moustakas (2018). Plasticity in foraging behaviour as a possible response to climate change. Ecological Informatics. 47: 61-66

[J37] Bjarnason A, Katsanevakis S, Galanidis A, Vogiatzakis IN, Moustakas A (2017) Evaluating Hypotheses of Plant Species Invasions on Mediterranean Islands: Inverse Patterns between Alien and Endemic Species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5:91

[J36] Daliakopoulos IN, Katsanevakis S, Moustakas A (2017) Spatial Downscaling of Alien Species Presences Using Machine Learning. Frontiers in Earth Science 5:60

[J35] Moustakas A (2017) Spatio-temporal data mining in ecological and veterinary epidemiology. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 31(4): 829–834

[J34] Fodelianakis, S., Moustakas, A., Papageorgiou, N. et al. (2017). Modified niche optima and breadths explain the historical contingency of bacterial community responses to eutrophication in coastal sediments. Molecular Ecology 26(7): 2006-2018.

[J33] Moustakas A, Evans MR (2017) A big-data spatial, temporal and network analysis of bovine tuberculosis between wildlife (badgers) and cattle. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 31(2):315-328

[J32] Moustakas, A. (2016) The effects of marine protected areas over time and species' dispersal potential: a quantitative conservation conflict attempt. Web Ecology 16: 113-122.

[J31] Evans, M.R. & Moustakas, A. (2016) A comparison between data requirements and availability for calibrating predictive ecological models for lowland UK woodlands: learning new tricks from old trees. Ecology and Evolution 6: 4812-4822

[J30] Moustakas, A. & Evans, M.R. (2016) Regional and temporal characteristics of Bovine Tuberculosis of cattle in Great Britain Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 30: 989-1003

[J29] Lehsten, V., Arneth, A., Spessa, A.C., Thonicke, K. & Moustakas, A. (2015) The effect of fire on tree-grass coexistence in savannas: a simulation study. International Journal of Wildland Fire 25: 137-146

[J28] Louca, M., Vogiatzakis, I.N. & Moustakas, A. (2015) Modelling the combined effects of land use and climatic changes: coupling bioclimatic modelling with markov-chain cellular automata in a case study in Cyprus. Ecological Informatics 30: 241-249

[J27] Evans, M.R., Moustakas, A., Carey, G., Malhi, Y., Butt, N., Benham, S., Pallett, D. & Schäfer, S. (2015) Allometry and growth of eight tree taxa in UK woodlands. Nature Scientific Data. 2: 150006

[J26] Moustakas, A. & Evans, M.R. (2015) Effects of growth rate, size, and light availability on tree survival across life stages: a demographic analysis accounting for missing values and small sample sizes. BMC Ecology. 15: 6

[J25] Moustakas, A. & Evans. M.R. (2015) Coupling models of cattle and farms with models of badgers for predicting the dynamics of bovine tuberculosis (TB). Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 29: 623-635

[J24] Moustakas, A. (2015) Fire acting as an increasing spatial autocorrelation force: Implications for pattern formation and ecological facilitation. Ecological Complexity. 21: 142-149.

[J23] Evans, M.R., Benton, T.G., Grimm, V., Lessells, C.M., O’Malley, M.A., Moustakas, A. & Weisberg, M. (2014) Data availability and model complexity, generality and utility – a reply to Lornegan. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 29: 302–303

[J22] Evans, M.R., Bithell, M., Cornell, S.J., Dall, S.R.X., Díaz, S., Emmott, S., Ernande, B., Grimm, V., Hodgson, D.J., Lewis, S.L., Mace, G.M., Morecroft, M., Moustakas, A., Murphy, E., Newbold, T., Norris, K.J., Petchey, O., Smith, M., Travis, J.M.J. & Benton, T.G. (2013) Predictive systems ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280: 20131452

[J21] Moustakas, A. & Evans, M.R. (2013) Integrating Evolution into Ecological Modelling: Accommodating Phenotypic Changes in Agent Based Models. PloS One, 8, e71125.

[J20] Moustakas A., Kunin, W.E., Cameron, T.C., Sankaran, M. (2013) Facilitation or competition? Tree effects on grass biomass across a precipitation gradient. PLoS One, 8, e57025

[J19] Dohn, J., Dembélé, F., Karembé, M., Moustakas, A., Amévor, K.A. & Hanan, N.P. (2013) Tree effects on grass growth in savannas: Competition, facilitation and the stress-gradient hypothesis. Journal of Ecology 101: 202–209 - Editor's Choice, Open Access

[J18] Matossian, A.D., Matsinos, Y.I., Konstantinidis, P. & Moustakas, A. (2013) Post-fire succession indices performance in a Mediterranean ecosystem. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment. 27: 323-335

[J17] Keil, P., Schweiger, O., Kühn, I., Kunin, W.E., Kuussaari, M., Settele, J., Henle, K., Brotons, L., Pe’er, G., Lengyel, S., Moustakas, A., Steinicke, H. & Storch, D. (2012) Patterns of beta diversity in Europe: the effects of climate, land-cover and distance across scales. Journal of Biogeography 39: 1473–1486

[J16] Matsinos Y.G., Wolff W.F, & Moustakas A. (2012) Adapting foraging to habitat heterogeneity and climate change: an individual-based model for wading birds. Ethology, Ecology, and Evolution 24: 209-229

[J15] Silvert, W. and Moustakas, A. (2011) The impacts over time of marine protected areas: a null model. Ocean & Coastal Management 54: 312-317

[J14] Moustakas, A. and Silvert, W. (2011) Spatial and temporal effects on the efficacy of marine protected areas: implications from an individual based model. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment. 25: 403-413

[J13] Moustakas, A., Wiegand, K., Ward, D., Meyer, K.M. and Sankaran, M. (2010) Learning new tricks from old trees: revisiting the savanna question. Frontiers of Biogeography. 2: 47-53

[J12] Moustakas, A., Sakkos, K., Wiegand, K., Ward, D., Meyer, K.M. and Eisinger, D. (2009) Are savannas patch dynamic systems? A landscape model. Ecological Modelling. 220: 3576-3588

[J11] Moustakas, A. and Karakassis, I. (2009). A geographic analysis of published aquatic biodiversity research in relation to the ecological footprint of the country where the work was done. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment. 23: 737-748

[J10] Moustakas, A. and Hristopulos D.T. (2009). Estimating tree abundance from remotely sensed imagery in semi-arid & arid environments: Bringing mall trees to the light. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment. 23: 111-118.

[J9] Meyer, K.M., Wiegand, K., Ward, D. and Moustakas, A. (2008). Determining patch size. African Journal of Ecology. 46: 440-442

[J8] Moustakas, A., Wiegand, K., Getzin, S., Ward, D., Meyer, K.M., Guenther, M. and Mueller, K-H. (2008). Spacing patterns of an Acacia tree in the Kalahari over 61-year time replicate: how clumped becomes regular and vice versa. Acta Oecologica. 33: 355-364

[J7] Meyer, K.M., Ward, D., Wiegand, K. and Moustakas, A. (2008). Multi-proxy evidence for competition between savanna woody species. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution & Systematics. 10: 63-72

[J6] Meyer, K.M., Wiegand, K., Ward, D. and Moustakas, A. (2007). SATCHMO: A spatial simulation model of growth, competition, and mortality in cycling savanna patches. Ecological Modelling. 209: 377-391

[J5] Meyer, K.M., Wiegand, K., Ward, D. and Moustakas, A. (2007). The rhythm of savanna patch-dynamics. Journal of Ecology 95: 1306–1315

[J4] Moustakas, A., Guenther, M., Wiegand, K., Mueller, K-H., Ward, D., Meyer, K.M. and Jeltsch, F. (2006). Long-term mortality patterns of the deep-rooted Acacia erioloba: the middle class shall die! Journal of Vegetation Science 17: 473-480

[J3] Moustakas, A, Silvert, W. and Dimitromanolakis A (2006) A spatially explicit learning model of migratory fish and fishers for evaluating closed areas. Ecological Modelling 192: 245-258

[J2] Moustakas, A. and Karakassis, I. (2005). How diverse is Aquatic Biodiversity research? Aquatic Ecology 39:367–375.

[J1] Meyer, K.M., Ward, D., Moustakas, A. and Wiegand, K. (2005). Big is not better: Small Acacia mellifera shrubs are more vital after fire. African Journal of Ecology 43: 131-136.

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