Brody Sandel

12.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
104 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Brody Sandel is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brody Sandel has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 46 papers in Ecological Modeling and 42 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Brody Sandel's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (67 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers) and Plant and animal studies (30 papers). Brody Sandel is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (67 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers) and Plant and animal studies (30 papers). Brody Sandel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Brody Sandel's co-authors include Jens‐Christian Svenning, Bo Dalsgaard, Christopher J. Sandom, William J. Sutherland, Søren Faurby, Constantinos Tsirogiannis, R. G. Davies, Lars Arge, Kevin J. Gaston and Hong Qian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Brody Sandel

102 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

2011 659 citations Brody Sandel, Bo Dalsgaard et al. profile →
Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

2015 448 citations Jens‐Christian Svenning, Rasmus Ejrnæs et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

2013 389 citations Jens‐Christian Svenning, Brody Sandel profile →
Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

2014 321 citations Christopher J. Sandom, Søren Faurby et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brody Sandel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brody Sandel 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 Brody Sandel. Brody Sandel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models 2025 ·Journal of Ecology ·Brody Sandel, Cory Merow, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Jens‐Christian Svenning	8
2	Richness patterns in vertebrates are robust to the Linnean and Wallacean shortfalls 2025 ·Ecography ·Søren Faurby, Brody Sandel	0
3	Grass trait–abundance relationships and the role of the functional composition of the neighboring community 2023 ·Journal of Vegetation Science ·Robert J. Griffin‐Nolan, Brody Sandel	3
4	Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation 2021 ·Journal of Vegetation Science ·Gunnar Keppel, Dylan Craven, Patrick Weigelt, Stephen A. Smith, Masha T. van der Sande, Brody Sandel, Sam Levin, Holger Kreft, Tiffany M. Knight	17
5	The adaptive challenge of extreme conditions shapes evolutionary diversity of plant assemblages at continental scales 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Danilo M. Neves, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Susy Echeverría‐Londoño, Cory Merow, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Robert K. Peet, Brody Sandel, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Susan K. Wiser, Brian J. Enquist	15
6	Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses 2021 ·Journal of Ecology ·Brody Sandel, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jennifer L. Funk, Fletcher W. Halliday, Gaurav S. Kandlikar, Andrew R. Kleinhesselink, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Loralee Larios, (unknown), Marko J. Spasojevic	21
7	The relationship of woody plant size and leaf nutrient content to large‐scale productivity for forests across the Americas 2019 ·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	22
8	Recent global changes have decoupled species richness from specialization patterns in North American birds 2019 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Anne Mimet, Robert Buitenwerf, Brody Sandel, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Signe Normand	14
9	Current climate, isolation and history drive global patterns of tree phylogenetic endemism 2019 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Brody Sandel, Patrick Weigelt, Holger Kreft, Gunnar Keppel, Masha T. van der Sande, Sam Levin, Stephen A. Smith, Dylan Craven, Tiffany M. Knight	51
10	Late Quaternary climate change explains soil fungal community composition rather than fungal richness in forest ecosystems 2019 ·Ecology and Evolution ·Niu‐Niu Ji, Cheng Gao, Brody Sandel, Yong Zheng, Liang Chen, Binwei Wu, (unknown), (unknown), Peng‐Peng Lü, Xiang Sun, Liang‐Dong Guo	13
11	Species and phylogenetic endemism in angiosperm trees across the Northern Hemisphere are jointly shaped by modern climate and glacial–interglacial climate change 2019 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Gang Feng, (unknown), Brody Sandel, Lingfeng Mao, Signe Normand, Alejandro Ordóñez, Jens‐Christian Svenning	39
12	Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species 2018 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Irena Šímová, Cyrille Violle, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Jens Kattge, Kristine Engemann, Brody Sandel, Robert K. Peet, Susan K. Wiser, Benjamin Blonder, Brian J. McGill, Brad Boyle, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Peter M. van Bodegom, Álvaro G. Gutiérrez, Michael Bahn, W.A. Ozinga, Anna Tószögyová, Brian J. Enquist	98
13	Successful conservation of global waterbird populations depends on effective governance 2017 ·Nature ·Tatsuya Amano, Tamás Székely, Brody Sandel, Szabolcs Nagy, Taej Mundkur, Tom Langendoen, Daniel Blanco, Candan U. Soykan, William J. Sutherland	166
14	Phylogenetic relatedness of native and exotic plants along climate gradients in California, USA 2017 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Hong Qian, Brody Sandel	29
15	PhyloMeasures: a package for computing phylogenetic biodiversity measures and their statistical moments 2015 ·Ecography ·Constantinos Tsirogiannis, Brody Sandel	168
16	Global distribution and drivers of language extinction risk 2014 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Tatsuya Amano, Brody Sandel, Heidi Eager, (unknown), Jens‐Christian Svenning, Bo Dalsgaard, Carsten Rahbek, R. G. Davies, William J. Sutherland	64
17	Human impacts drive a global topographic signature in tree cover 2013 ·Nature Communications ·Brody Sandel, Jens‐Christian Svenning	103
18	Mammal predator and prey species richness are strongly linked at macroscales 2013 ·Ecology ·Christopher J. Sandom, Lars Dalby, Camilla Fløjgaard, W. Daniel Kissling, Jonathan Lenoir, Brody Sandel, Kristian Trøjelsgaard, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Jens‐Christian Svenning	87
19	Specialization in Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated with Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation and Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity 2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Bo Dalsgaard, (unknown), Jon Fjeldså, Ana M. Martín González, Carsten Rahbek, Jens M. Olesen, Jeff Ollerton, Rubén Alarcón, Andréa Cardoso Araujo, Peter A. Cotton, Carlos Lara, Caio Graco Machado, Iván Sazima, Marlies Sazima, Allan Timmermann, Stella Watts, Brody Sandel, William J. Sutherland, Jens‐Christian Svenning	127
20	Reconsidering null models of diversity: Do geometric constraints on species ranges necessarily cause a mid‐domain effect? 2006 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Brody Sandel, Mark McKone	11

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