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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
110
Citations
64691
World Ranking
172
National Ranking
71

Brian J. Enquist publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian J. Enquist sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 391 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Brian J. Enquist D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian J. Enquist sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 110 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

Brian J. Enquist is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States, specializing in Environmental Science. Their research focuses on multiple subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

Their work spans a range of topics with particular emphasis on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as Forest Ecology and Management.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Brian J. Enquist include:

  • "Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water" (2021), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The number of tree species on Earth" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning" (2020), published in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brian J. Enquist include:

  • Brian Maitner
  • Cory Merow
  • Xiao Feng
  • Cyrille Violle
  • Jens-Christian Svenning

The venues where Brian J. Enquist has frequently published comprise:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recognition of their work includes awards such as the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (2018), and the George Mercer Award from The Ecological Society of America (2001).

Best Publications

  • A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology

    Geoffrey B. West;James H. Brown;Brian J. Enquist

  • Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits.

    Brian J. McGill;Brian J. Enquist;Evan Weiher;Mark Westoby

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

  • The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

    Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. McGill;Lin Jiang

  • A general model for the structure and allometry of plant vascular systems

    Geoffrey B. West;Geoffrey B. West;James H. Brown;James H. Brown;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist

  • 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

  • A general model for ontogenetic growth

    Geoffrey B. West;Geoffrey B. West;James H. Brown;James H. Brown;Brian J. Enquist

  • Allometric Scaling of Plant Energetics and Population Density

    Brian J. Enquist;James H. Brown;Geoffrey B. West

  • 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

  • Global Allocation Rules for Patterns of Biomass Partitioning in Seed Plants

    Brian J. Enquist;Karl J. Niklas

  • Allometric Scaling of Production and Life History Variation in Vascular Plants

    Brian J. Enquist;Geoffrey B. West;Eric L. Charnov;James H. Brown

  • The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology

    V. M. Savage;V. M. Savage;J. F. Gillooly;W. H. Woodruff;W. H. Woodruff;G. B. West;G. B. West

  • Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Karl J. Niklas

  • The n‐dimensional hypervolume

    Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Christine Lamanna;Christine Lamanna;Cyrille Violle;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist

  • The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

    Cyrille Violle;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Stephen W. Pacala;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Lina Shen;Chongqing Wen

  • Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: wood density and its community-wide variation across latitude and elevation

    Nathan G. Swenson;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

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
Sean T. Michaletz
Sean T. Michaletz University of British Columbia
Van M. Savage
Van M. Savage University of California, Los Angeles
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Andrew J. Kerkhoff
Andrew J. Kerkhoff Kenyon College
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Nathan G. Swenson
Nathan G. Swenson University of Notre Dame

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