Brian J. Enquist

59.5k citations

244 papers · 33.7k indexed · 18 hit papers · h-index 78

Impact in

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.01%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Ecological Modeling top 0.02%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change

Papers in

Ecological Modeling 77
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 77
Nature and Landscape Conservation 145
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 133
- Forest ecology and management 24

Co-authors: James H. Brown Geoffrey B. West Brian J. McGill Andrew J. Kerkhoff Mark Westoby Evan Weiher Nathan G. Swenson Karl J. Niklas
Journals: Global Ecology and Biogeography (16 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (14 papers)Ecology Letters (14 papers)Nature (13 papers)Ecography (12 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom France

In The Last Decade

Brian J. Enquist

237 papers receiving 32.5k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change 2024 · 37 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Communications
2016 Nature Communications
2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2014 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2012 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2010 New Phytologist
2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2007 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2007 Ecology Letters
2006 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2004 Functional Ecology
2002 Science
2001 Nature
1999 Nature
1999 Science
1999 Nature
1998 Nature
1997 Science

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1	High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal anthropogenic climate change Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Coline C. F. Boonman, Selwyn Hoeks, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Wen‐Yong Guo, Brian J. Enquist, Brian Maitner, Cory Merow, Jens‐Christian Svenning	2025	2
2	fluxible: An R package to process ecosystem gas fluxes from closed‐loop chambers in an automated and reproducible way Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Nobukane Chiyo, Richard J. Telford, Julia Chacón‐Labella, 尊徳佐藤, Brian J. Enquist, Joachim Töpper, Fujun Wang, Vigdis Vandvik, Shota Higashida, Dalmy F. Carvalho, Hansol Choi, В.А. Косевской, Siti Mutiara Nurdahniar, 保広森下, Aud H. Halbritter	2025	0
3	Developing a predictive science of the biosphere requires the integration of scientific cultures Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Brian J. Enquist, Christopher P. Kempes, Geoffrey B. West	2024	3
4	occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Noboru Odan, Brian Maitner, Coline C. F. Boonman, Daniel Park, Wen‐Yong Guo, Abdullah Ahmed Nada, Brian J. Enquist, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Cory Merow	2024	2
5	More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change Nature Communications ·Coline C. F. Boonman, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Selwyn Hoeks, Wen‐Yong Guo, Brian J. Enquist, Brian Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Cory Merow, Robert Buitenwerf, Jens‐Christian Svenning Hit paper breakdown →	2024	37
6	Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography Global Change Biology ·Alain Senghor K. Ngute, David S. Schoeman, Marion Pfeifer, Geertje van der Heijden, Oliver L. Phillips, Michiel van Breugel, Mason J. Campbell, 一任原, Brian J. Enquist, Rachael V. Gallagher, Christoph Gehring, Jefferson S. Hall, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Susan G. Letcher, Wenyao Liu, Martin J. P. Sullivan, S. Joseph Wright‬, Ana Elisa Gonçalves Pereira Rodrigues Silva, Andrew R. Marshall	2024	14
7	Code sharing in ecology and evolution increases citation rates but remains uncommon Ecology and Evolution ·Brian Maitner, Siti Mutiara Nurdahniar, Tiffany Paonessa, Jamie M. Kass, Hannah L. Owens, George Barbosa, Brad Boyle, Matiss Castorena, Brian J. Enquist, Xiao Feng, Daniel Park, Andrea Paz, Gonzalo E. Pinilla‐Buitrago, Cory Merow, Adam M. Wilson	2024	5
8	Bootstrapping outperforms community‐weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Brian Maitner, Aud H. Halbritter, Richard J. Telford, Tanya Strydom, Julia Chacón‐Labella, Christine Lamanna, Lindsey Sloat, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Julie Messier, Nick L. Rasmussen, Francesco Pomati, Q. Shen, Vigdis Vandvik, Brian J. Enquist	2023	13
9	The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation Nature Communications ·Laura Duncanson, Jeevan Kumar Gurung, Veronika Leitold, John Armston, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Ralph Dubayah, Sébastien Costedoat, Brian J. Enquist, Temilola Fatoyinbo, S. J. Goetz, Mariano González‐Roglich, Cory Merow, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Karyn Tabor, Alex Zvoleff	2023	82
10	AI chatbots can boost scientific coding Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Cory Merow, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Brian J. Enquist, Adam M. Wilson	2023	31
11	Climate change and land use threaten global hotspots of phylogenetic endemism for trees Nature Communications ·Wen‐Yong Guo, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Brian Maitner, Cory Merow, Cyrille Violle, Matthew J. Pound, (unknown), Ferry Slik, Anne Blach‐Overgaard, Brian J. Enquist, Jens‐Christian Svenning	2023	22
12	Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data Environmental Research Letters ·R. Subburaj, Chun-Po Tang, Inge Althuizen, L. M Hojo, Shuli Chen, 六郎土屋, Aud H. Halbritter, Jonathan J. Henn, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Kari Klanderud, Yaoqi Li, Brian Maitner, Sean T. Michaletz, Pekka Niittynen, Ruben E. Roos, Richard J. Telford, Brian J. Enquist, Vigdis Vandvik, Marc Macias‐Fauria, Yadvinder Malhi	2021	53
13	Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Julia Kemppinen, Pekka Niittynen, Peter C. le Roux, J. Lee, Konsta Happonen, Juha Aalto, Loey Knapp, Brian J. Enquist, Vigdis Vandvik, Aud H. Halbritter, Brian Maitner, Miska Luoto	2021	32
14	Darwin’s naturalization conundrum can be explained by spatial scale Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Daniel Park, Xiao Feng, Brian Maitner, Kacey C. Ernst, Brian J. Enquist	2020	65
15	Next‐generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning Ecology and Evolution ·Sonya R. Geange, Jonathan von Oppen, Tanya Strydom, Lucas Gabriel Santos Costa, T. Gauthier, Pilar Manglano, Aud H. Halbritter, Christian Passarge, Sara Lil Middleton, Aidan Shoham-Amizlev, Mary Lynn Beack, Julia Chacón‐Labella, Sehoya Cotner, William Farfán-Ríos, Brian Maitner, Sean T. Michaletz, Richard J. Telford, Brian J. Enquist, Vigdis Vandvik	2020	7
16	The relationship of woody plant size and leaf nutrient content to large‐scale productivity for forests across the Americas Journal of Ecology ·Irena Šímová, Brody Sandel, Brian J. Enquist, Sean T. Michaletz, Jens Kattge, Cyrille Violle, Brian J. McGill, Benjamin Blonder, Kristine Engemann, Robert K. Peet, Susan K. Wiser, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Brad Boyle, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Jens‐Christian Svenning	2019	22
17	Patterns and ecological determinants of woody plant height in eastern Eurasia and its relation to primary productivity Journal of Plant Ecology ·Zhiheng Wang, Yaoqi Li, Xiangyan Su, Shengli Tao, Xiao Feng, Qinggang Wang, Xiaoting Xu, Yunpeng Liu, Sean T. Michaletz, Nawal Shrestha, Markku Larjavaara, Brian J. Enquist	2019	19
18	Adaptive diversification of growth allometry in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·François Vasseur, Moisés Expósito‐Alonso, Emilie Danchin, George Wang, Brian J. Enquist, Denis Vile, Cyrille Violle, Detlef Weigel	2018	62
19	Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling and ecological response to global change New Phytologist ·James J. Elser, William F. Fagan, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Nathan G. Swenson, Brian J. Enquist Hit paper breakdown →	2010	790
20	Comment on "The Illusion of Invariant Quantities in Life Histories" Science ·Van M. Savage, Ethan P. White, Melanie E. Moses, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Brian J. Enquist, Eric L. Charnov	2006	22

About Brian J. Enquist

Brian J. Enquist is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, having authored 244 papers that have together received 33.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (133 papers), Plant and animal studies (83 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (77 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (65 papers), Physiological and biochemical adaptations (25 papers), Forest ecology and management (24 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (15 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (16.3k citations), Ecological Modeling (5.4k citations), Global and Planetary Change (10.5k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (9.1k citations) and Ecology (11.3k citations). Brian J. Enquist has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include James H. Brown, Geoffrey B. West, Brian J. McGill, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Mark Westoby, Evan Weiher, Nathan G. Swenson, Karl J. Niklas, Cyrille Violle and Ethan P. White. Their work appears in journals such as Global Ecology and Biogeography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology Letters, Nature and Ecography.

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