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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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The evolution of bacterial cell size: the internal diffusion-constraint hypothesis
Romain Gallet,Romain Gallet,Cyrille Violle,Nathalie Fromin,Roula Jabbour-Zahab,Brian J. Enquist,Thomas Lenormand +6 more
TL;DR: This novel hypothesis offers a promising approach for understanding the evolutionary constraints on cell size and shows that bigger cells with greater growth and CO2 production rates and lower mass-to-volume ratio were selected over time in the LTEE.
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Metabolic scaling in insects supports the predictions of the WBE model
TL;DR: It is concluded that the BS-MR relationship in insects broadly supports the core predictions of the WBE model and the deviation observed within the termites warrants further investigation and may be due to either difficulty in accurately measuring termite metabolism and/or particularities of their life history.
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A new class of models of spatial distribution
TL;DR: In this article, a new class of models of spatial distribution, based on a simple colonization rule operating on a rectangular grid, is proposed. But these models are based on traditional random placement and negative binomial models.
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Predicting trait-environment relationships for venation networks along an Andes-Amazon elevation gradient
Benjamin Blonder,Norma Salinas,Norma Salinas,Lisa Patrick Bentley,Alexander Shenkin,Percy Orlando Chambi Porroa,Yolvi Valdez Tejeira,Cyrille Violle,Nikolaos M. Fyllas,Gregory R. Goldsmith,Robert E. Martin,Gregory P. Asner,Sandra Díaz,Sandra Díaz,Brian J. Enquist,Brian J. Enquist,Yadvinder Malhi +16 more
TL;DR: Strong support for TERs between all traits and temperature is found, as well weaker support for a predicted TER between maximum abundance-weighted leaf transpiration rate and maximum potential evapotranspiration, which provide one approach for developing a more mechanistic trait-based community assembly theory.
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Comment on "The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories".
Van M. Savage,Ethan P. White,Ethan P. White,Melanie E. Moses,S. K. Morgan Ernest,Brian J. Enquist,Eric L. Charnov +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the results of Nee et al.'s null model are largely inconsequential for life history theory because the authors confound two definitions of invariance, and rigorous analysis of their null model demonstrates that it does not match observed data.