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42
Citations
11526
World Ranking
5437
National Ranking
1848

Overview

Brian A. Maurer was affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research was situated primarily within the social sciences, with notable contributions spanning several subfields including sociology and political science, reproductive medicine, soil science, education, and social psychology.

Their scholarly output included work on topics such as reproductive health and technologies, land rights and reforms, children's rights and participation, early childhood education and development, youth education and societal dynamics, and cultural differences and values.

Maurer's recent published papers illustrate the scope and diversity of their research interests. In 2022, they co-authored "When does ownership matter? Parents' reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions," published in Social Development. Another 2022 paper titled "Who is a thinker? With age, higher SES American children increasingly associate social status with divisions in labour" appeared in Infant and Child Development.

Frequent collaborators in their work included Shaylene E. Nancekivell, who co-authored two papers with them, and Tatyana Farrow, a collaborator on one publication.

Their work was disseminated in journals such as Social Development and Infant and Child Development, reflecting a concentration on social and developmental sciences.

  • Social Sciences
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Reproductive Medicine
  • Soil Science
  • Education
  • Social Psychology

  • Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Cultural Differences and Values

  • When does ownership matter? Parents' reasoning about children's conflicts over possessions, 2022, Social Development
  • Who is a thinker? With age, higher SES American children increasingly associate social status with divisions in labour, 2022, Infant and Child Development

  • Shaylene E. Nancekivell
  • Tatyana Farrow

  • Social Development
  • Infant and Child Development

Best Publications

  • Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework

    Brian J. McGill;Rampal S. Etienne;John S. Gray;David Alonso

  • Macroecology: The Division of Food and Space Among Species on Continents

    James H. Brown;Brian A. Maurer

  • Body size, ecological dominance and Cope's rule

    James H. Brown;Brian A. Maurer;Brian A. Maurer

  • Energy supply and patterns of species richness on local and regional scales

    D. H. Wright;D. J. Currie;B. A. Maurer

  • EVOLUTION OF SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES: EFFECTS OF ENERGETIC CONSTRAINTS AND SPECIES DYNAMICS ON THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN AVIFAUNA

    James H. Brown;Brian A. Maurer

  • Empirical evaluation of neutral theory.

    Brian J. McGill;Brian A. Maurer;Michael D. Weiser

  • Theoretical models of species' borders: single species approaches

    Robert D. Holt;Timothy H. Keitt;Mark A. Lewis;Mark A. Lewis;Brian A. Maurer

  • Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use

    S. K. Morgan Ernest;Brian J. Enquist;James H. Brown;Eric L. Charnov

  • Relationship between cystic fibrosis respiratory tract bacterial communities and age, genotype, antibiotics and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Vanja Klepac-Ceraj;Katherine P. Lemon;Thomas R. Martin;Martin Allgaier

  • Untangling Ecological Complexity: The Macroscopic Perspective

    Brian A. Maurer

  • THE MICRO AND MACRO IN BODY SIZE EVOLUTION.

    Brian A. Maurer;James H. Brown;Renee D. Rusler

  • Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time.

    Felisa A. Smith;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown;John P. Haskell;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • Species' geographic ranges and distributional limits: pattern analysis and statistical issues

    M.-J. Fortin;T. H. Keitt;B. A. Maurer;M. L. Taper

  • Dynamics in subdivided populations of neotropical migratory birds in a fragmented temperate forest

    Marc-Andre Villard;Gray Merriam;Brian A. Maurer

  • Geographical Population Analysis: Tools for the Analysis of Biodiversity

    Brian A. Maurer

  • Population variability of sparrows in space and time

    John L. Curnutt;Stuart L. Pimm;Brian A. Maurer

  • Connecting geographical distributions with population processes

    Brian A. Maurer;Mark L. Taper

  • Distribution of Energy Use and Biomass Among Species of North American Terrestrial Birds

    Brian A. Maurer;James H. Brown

  • Community inertia of Quaternary small mammal assemblages in North America.

    Brian J. McGill;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Brian A. Maurer

  • Species Diversity in Space and Time

    Brian A. Maurer;Michael L. Rosenzweig

Frequent Co-Authors

James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Elizabeth A. Hadly
Elizabeth A. Hadly Stanford University
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jessica L. Green
Jessica L. Green University of Oregon
Mark L. Taper
Mark L. Taper Montana State University
Benjamin Zuckerberg
Benjamin Zuckerberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marc-André Villard
Marc-André Villard Mount Allison University
Shawn J. Riley
Shawn J. Riley Michigan State University

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