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Andrew J. Kerkhoff

Andrew J. Kerkhoff

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
10915
World Ranking
7984
National Ranking
2645

Overview

Andrew J. Kerkhoff is affiliated with Kenyon College in the United States. Their research primarily intersects Environmental Science and related subfields including Molecular Biology, Information Systems and Management, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

Their work covers a range of topics such as Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research; Scientific Computing and Data Management; Research Data Management Practices; Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies; Wildlife Ecology and Conservation; Species Distribution and Climate Change; and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience.

Kerkhoff's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need for Instructor Skills Training, 2021, BioScience
  • Bootstrapping outperforms community-weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions, 2023, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Does creative writing improve scientific writing and learning?, 2020, The FASEB Journal
  • The adaptive challenge of extreme conditions shapes evolutionary diversity of plant assemblages at continental scales, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Macroevolution of dimensionless life-history metrics in tetrapods, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Brian J. Enquist
  • Nathan Emery
  • Erika Crispo
  • Sarah R. Supp
  • Kaitlin J. Farrell

Scientific outputs by Kerkhoff have appeared in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other publication venues include Methods in Ecology and Evolution, The FASEB Journal, BioScience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling and ecological response to global change

    James Elser;W. F. Fagan;A. J. Kerkhoff;N. G. Swenson

  • Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

    Jessica A. Bryant;Christine Lamanna;Hélène Morlon;Andrew J. Kerkhoff

  • Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology.

    Ethan P. White;Ethan P. White;S.K. Morgan Ernest;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Brian J. Enquist

  • Phylogenetic and Growth Form Variation in the Scaling of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Seed Plants

    Andrew J. Kerkhoff;William F. Fagan;James J. Elser;Brian J. Enquist

  • Convergence of terrestrial plant production across global climate gradients

    Sean T. Michaletz;Dongliang Cheng;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Brian J. Enquist

  • Plant allometry, stoichiometry and the temperature-dependence of primary productivity

    Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Brian J. Enquist;James J. Elser;William F. Fagan

  • New approaches for delineating n-dimensional hypervolumes

    Benjamin Blonder;Cecina Babich Morrow;Brian Maitner;David J. Harris

  • Multiplicative by nature : Why logarithmic transformation is necessary in allometry

    Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Brian J. Enquist

  • The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Jason Pither;Andrew J. Kerkhoff

  • The latitudinal species richness gradient in New World woody angiosperms is consistent with the tropical conservatism hypothesis

    Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Pamela E. Moriarty;Pamela E. Moriarty;Michael D. Weiser

  • A general integrative model for scaling plant growth, carbon flux, and functional trait spectra

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Scott C. Stark;Nathan G. Swenson

  • Climate shapes and shifts functional biodiversity in forests worldwide.

    Daniel J. Wieczynski;Brad Boyle;Vanessa Buzzard;Sandra M. Duran

  • Testing the metabolic theory of ecology

    Charles A. Price;Joshua S Weitz;Van M. Savage;Van M. Savage;James Stegen

  • Biological scaling: does the exception prove the rule?

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Andrew P. Allen;James H. Brown;James H. Brown;James F. Gillooly

  • Ecosystem allometry: the scaling of nutrient stocks and primary productivity across plant communities.

    Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Brian J. Enquist

  • Toward a stoichiometric framework for evolutionary biology

    Adam D. Kay;Isabel W. Ashton;Elena Gorokhova;Andrew J. Kerkhoff

  • Adaptive differences in plant physiology and ecosystem paradoxes: insights from metabolic scaling theory

    Brian J. Enquist;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Travis E. Huxman;Evan P. Economo

  • Global Patterns of City Size Distributions and Their Fundamental Drivers

    Ethan H. Decker;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Melanie E. Moses

  • The Implications of Scaling Approaches for Understanding Resilience and Reorganization in Ecosystems

    Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Brian J. Enquist

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Nathan G. Swenson
Nathan G. Swenson University of Notre Dame
Sean T. Michaletz
Sean T. Michaletz University of British Columbia
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
William F. Fagan
William F. Fagan University of Maryland, College Park
Van M. Savage
Van M. Savage University of California, Los Angeles
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Bruce T. Milne
Bruce T. Milne University of New Mexico

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