Brian Maitner

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Brian Maitner is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Maitner has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecological Modeling, 24 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 15 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Brian Maitner's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). Brian Maitner is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). Brian Maitner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Brian Maitner's co-authors include Brian J. Enquist, Cyrille Violle, Cory Merow, Benjamin Blonder, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Christine Lamanna, David J. Harris, Cecina Babich Morrow, Xiao Feng and Aud H. Halbritter and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Brian Maitner

41 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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

2024 37 citations Coline C. F. Boonman, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Maitner United States	22	836	664	605	551	460	46	1.7k
Severin D. H. Irl Germany	22	722 0.9×	537 0.8×	592 1.0×	488 0.9×	290 0.6×	50	1.4k
Rolland Douzet France	10	898 1.1×	454 0.7×	534 0.9×	580 1.1×	476 1.0×	11	1.6k
Daijiang Li United States	21	838 1.0×	629 0.9×	512 0.8×	668 1.2×	354 0.8×	57	1.6k
Brad Boyle United States	14	1.1k 1.3×	557 0.8×	623 1.0×	747 1.4×	338 0.7×	19	1.7k
Romain Bertrand France	15	907 1.1×	742 1.1×	978 1.6×	488 0.9×	587 1.3×	29	1.8k
Kévin Cazelles Canada	17	605 0.7×	799 1.2×	428 0.7×	535 1.0×	355 0.8×	30	1.7k
Daniel J. McGlinn United States	21	800 1.0×	590 0.9×	449 0.7×	383 0.7×	510 1.1×	44	1.6k
Jonas J. Lembrechts Belgium	18	797 1.0×	525 0.8×	615 1.0×	447 0.8×	279 0.6×	46	1.4k
Anke Stein Germany	11	1.2k 1.4×	778 1.2×	596 1.0×	699 1.3×	616 1.3×	14	2.1k
Blas M. Benito Spain	20	510 0.6×	515 0.8×	529 0.9×	370 0.7×	439 1.0×	44	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Maitner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Maitner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Maitner based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brian Maitner. Brian Maitner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Boonman, Coline C. F., Selwyn Hoeks, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, et al.. (2025). High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal anthropogenic climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(26). e2420059122–e2420059122. 2 indexed citations

Merow, Cory, Brian Maitner, Andreas L. S. Meyer, et al.. (2025). Hottest year in recorded history compounds global biodiversity risks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(35). e2504945122–e2504945122.

Feng, Xiao, Adam B. Smith, Brad Boyle, et al.. (2025). The next stage of biodiversity informatics: community-driven synthesis and integration of biodiversity databases. BioScience. 75(11). 913–925. 1 indexed citations

Moulatlet, Gabriel M., Cory Merow, Brian Maitner, et al.. (2025). General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(46). e2517585122–e2517585122. 2 indexed citations

Boonman, Coline C. F., Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Selwyn Hoeks, et al.. (2024). More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change. Nature Communications. 15(1). 166–166. 37 indexed citations breakdown →

Maitner, Brian, Jamie M. Kass, Hannah L. Owens, et al.. (2024). Code sharing in ecology and evolution increases citation rates but remains uncommon. Ecology and Evolution. 14(8). e70030–e70030. 5 indexed citations

Serra‐Diaz, Josep M., Brian Maitner, Coline C. F. Boonman, et al.. (2024). occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(7). 2 indexed citations

Gonçalves‐Souza, Thiago, Nathan J. Sanders, Peter B. Reich, et al.. (2024). ZooTraits: An R shiny app for exploring animal trait data for ecological and evolutionary research. Ecology and Evolution. 14(5). e11334–e11334.

Maitner, Brian, Aud H. Halbritter, Richard J. Telford, et al.. (2023). Bootstrapping outperforms community‐weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(10). 2592–2610. 13 indexed citations

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Slingsby, Jasper A., Adam M. Wilson, Brian Maitner, & Glenn R. Moncrieff. (2023). Regional ecological forecasting across scales: A manifesto for a biodiversity hotspot. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). 757–770. 5 indexed citations

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Kass, Jamie M., Gonzalo E. Pinilla‐Buitrago, Andrea Paz, et al.. (2023). wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions. Ecography. 2023(3). 51 indexed citations

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Gallagher, Rachael V., Stuart Allen, Rafaël Govaerts, et al.. (2023). Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country. Plants People Planet. 5(6). 885–898. 24 indexed citations

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Guo, Wen‐Yong, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, et al.. (2023). Climate change and land use threaten global hotspots of phylogenetic endemism for trees. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6950–6950. 22 indexed citations

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Maitner, Brian, Daniel Park, Brian J. Enquist, & Katrina M. Dlugosch. (2021). Where we've been and where we're going: the importance of source communities in predicting establishment success from phylogenetic relationships. Ecography. 2022(6). 8 indexed citations

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Maitner, Brian, Daniel Park, Brian J. Enquist, & Katrina M. Dlugosch. (2021). Both source‐ and recipient‐range phylogenetic community structure can predict the outcome of avian introductions. Ecography. 2022(2). 1 indexed citations

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Kemppinen, Julia, Pekka Niittynen, Peter C. le Roux, et al.. (2021). Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(4). 458–467. 32 indexed citations

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Owens, Hannah L., Cory Merow, Brian Maitner, et al.. (2021). occCite: Tools for querying and managing large biodiversity occurrence datasets. Ecography. 44(8). 1228–1235. 5 indexed citations

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Geange, Sonya R., Jonathan von Oppen, Tanya Strydom, et al.. (2020). Next‐generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning. Ecology and Evolution. 11(8). 3577–3587. 7 indexed citations

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Park, Daniel, Xiao Feng, Brian Maitner, Kacey C. Ernst, & Brian J. Enquist. (2020). Darwin’s naturalization conundrum can be explained by spatial scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(20). 10904–10910. 65 indexed citations

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Grady, John M., Brian Maitner, Ara S. Winter, et al.. (2019). Metabolic asymmetry and the global diversity of marine predators. Science. 363(6425). 80 indexed citations

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