2026 Brian J. Enquist: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	110	174	163	71	67	391	64691

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

5971
Citations
Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits.

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

5349
Citations
TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

2885
Citations
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

1923
Citations
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

1748
Citations
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

1667
Citations
A general model for ontogenetic growth

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

1348
Citations
Allometric Scaling of Plant Energetics and Population Density

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

1130
Citations
Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling and ecological response to global change

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

1086
Citations
Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

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

1008
Citations
Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology.

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

980
Citations
Global Allocation Rules for Patterns of Biomass Partitioning in Seed Plants

Brian J. Enquist;Karl J. Niklas

967
Citations
Allometric Scaling of Production and Life History Variation in Vascular Plants

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

847
Citations
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

822
Citations
Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities

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

764
Citations
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

746
Citations
The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

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

731
Citations
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

709
Citations
Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

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

658
Citations
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

657
Citations
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

582
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley

Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

James H. Brown University of New Mexico

Sean T. Michaletz University of British Columbia

Van M. Savage University of California, Los Angeles

Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma

Andrew J. Kerkhoff Kenyon College

Brian J. McGill University of Maine

Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University

Nathan G. Swenson University of Notre Dame

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