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Brian Enquist

Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Brian Joseph Enquist is an American biologist and academic. Enquist is a Professor of Biology at the University of Arizona. He is also external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a biologist, plant biologist and an ecologist

Research Area

biodiversity, ecology, climate change, biogeography, forest ecology, plant physiology, botany, plant ecology, tropical forests, climate, evolution, plant traits, macroecology, ecosystem dynamics, ecosystems, plant biology, ecosystem, community ecology, species distribution, ecosystem function, evolutionary biology, research, global change, species diversity, taxonomy, terrestrial ecosystems, drought, conservation, functional traits, scaling theory

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    Global patterns in community‐scale leaf mass per area distributions of extant woody non‐monocot angiosperms and their utility in the fossil record

    2025

    Leaf venation network image dataset: Kosñipata Valley CHAMBASA elevation transect)

    2025

    Developing a predictive science of the biosphere requires the integration of scientific cultures

    2024
    predictive science, biosphere, integration, scientific cultures, development

    Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene

    2024
    ecological resilience, macroecology, anthropocene, ecological assessment

    More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change

    2024
    biodiversity, environmental change, tree species, global change, ecosystem

    Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change

    2024
    forest ecology, climate change, ecosystem dynamics, biodiversity, ecological gradients

    Rare species do not disproportionately contribute to phylogenetic diversity in a subalpine plant community

    2024
    biodiversity, phylogenetics, species conservation, community ecology, population genetics

    Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography

    2024
    forest disturbance, climate, topography, global dominance, lianas

    PFTC7 PFTC Courses Thermal Imaging Data from an elevational gradient in the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa

    2024

    Tree Surface Area Allometry

    2024
    botany, forestry, ecology, mathematics, biometry

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    • Xubin Zeng

    • Peter Troch

    • Elizabeth Baldwin

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    • Evolution of Plant Form and Function

    • Research in Ecology and Evolution

    • Biological Scaling

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