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Brian J. Enquist
Researcher at University of Arizona
Publications - 316
Citations - 44459
Brian J. Enquist is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 84, co-authored 295 publications receiving 37843 citations. Previous affiliations of Brian J. Enquist include Chinese Academy of Sciences & Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
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Ecosystem allometry: the scaling of nutrient stocks and primary productivity across plant communities.
TL;DR: Individual plant allometries are used to predict how nutrient content and productivity scale with total plant biomass (phytomass) in whole plant communities and their basis in the structure and function of individual plants will likely provide a useful quantitative framework for research linking plant traits to ecosystem processes.
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Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon.
Sarah J. Feakins,Lisa Patrick Bentley,Norma Salinas,Alexander Shenkin,Benjamin Blonder,Gregory R. Goldsmith,Camilo Ponton,Lindsay J. Arvin,Mong Sin Wu,Tom Peters,A. Joshua West,Roberta E. Martin,Brian J. Enquist,Gregory P. Asner,Yadvinder Malhi +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used xylem and leaf samples for analysis of plant water and plant leaf wax hydrogen isotopic compositions in forest canopy trees across a highly biodiverse, 3 km elevation range on the eastern flank of the Andes.
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Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient
Nikolaos M. Fyllas,Lisa Patrick Bentley,Alexander Shenkin,Gregory P. Asner,Owen K. Atkin,Sandra Díaz,Brian J. Enquist,Brian J. Enquist,William Farfan-Rios,Emanuel Gloor,Rossella Guerrieri,Rossella Guerrieri,Walter Huaraca Huasco,Yoko Ishida,Roberta E. Martin,Patrick Meir,Patrick Meir,Oliver L. Phillips,Norma Salinas,Norma Salinas,Miles R. Silman,Lasantha K. Weerasinghe,Lasantha K. Weerasinghe,Joana Zaragoza-Castells,Joana Zaragoza-Castells,Yadvinder Malhi +25 more
TL;DR: A semi-mechanistic model uses a trait-spectra and individual-based model, to analyse variation in forest primary productivity along a 3.3 km elevation gradient in the Amazon-Andes, and suggests that spatial variation in traits can potentially be used to estimate spatial variations in productivity at the landscape scale.
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The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning.
Brian J. Enquist,Brian J. Enquist,Andrew J. Abraham,Mike Harfoot,Yadvinder Malhi,Christopher E. Doughty +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend metabolic scaling theory and use global simulation models to demonstrate that megabiota are more prone to extinction due to human land use, hunting, and climate change.
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Yes, West, Brown and Enquist"s model of allometric scaling is both mathematically correct and biologically relevant
TL;DR: The WBE model of the mammalian cardiovascular systems shows quantitatively and realistically how the scalings of the structure and hydrodynamics solve the problem of distributing blood from a beating heart through elastic hierarchically branching arteries to body-size invariant capillaries.