Brian Enquist

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

About

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

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Recent

Consistent climatic controls of global wood density among angiosperms and gymnosperms

2024

climatic controls, wood density, angiosperms, global

An allometry perspective on crops

2024

agricultural biology, crop management, plant growth, scaling relationships, agricultural innovation

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

2024

predictive science, biosphere, integration, scientific cultures, development

Colonization and extinction lags drive non‐linear responses to warming in mountain plant communities across the Northern Hemisphere

2024

climate change, biodiversity, ecology, plant communities, mountain ecosystems

Life history scaling in a tropical forest

2024

life history, scaling, tropical forest, ecology, biodiversity

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

2024

forest disturbance, climate, topography, global dominance, lianas

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

2024

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

PFTCourses plant functional traits, carbon fluxes, temperatures, and spectral data from climate and global change experiments along climate gradients in Western Norway Thermal Imaging Data

2024

plant traits, carbon fluxes, thermal imaging, global change

Plant trait and vegetation data along a 1314 m elevation gradient with fire history in Puna grasslands, Perú

2024

plant ecology, vegetation dynamics, fire ecology

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

2024

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

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Biological Scaling
Evolution of Plant Form and Function
Research in Ecology and Evolution

Brian Enquist

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Grants(26)

Publications(356)

Consistent climatic controls of global wood density among angiosperms and gymnosperms

An allometry perspective on crops

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

Colonization and extinction lags drive non‐linear responses to warming in mountain plant communities across the Northern Hemisphere

Life history scaling in a tropical forest

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

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

PFTCourses plant functional traits, carbon fluxes, temperatures, and spectral data from climate and global change experiments along climate gradients in Western Norway Thermal Imaging Data

Plant trait and vegetation data along a 1314 m elevation gradient with fire history in Puna grasslands, Perú

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

Collaborations(30)

Nirav Merchant

Scott Saleska

Xubin Zeng

Elizabeth Baldwin

Peter Troch

News(26)

Study Shows Impacts of Deforestation and Forest Burning on Amazon Biodiversity

Drought – More Than Temperature – Governs Diversity of Life on Earth

Save the Giants, Save the Planet

Hotter and Drier With a Chance of Extinction: Forecasting Biodiversity With Big Data

Looking at Tropical Forests Through New Eyes

Courses(3)

Biological Scaling

Evolution of Plant Form and Function

Research in Ecology and Evolution