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2967
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1048

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Brody Sandel is affiliated with Santa Clara University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with specific emphasis on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Genetics as subfields of study.

The main themes of their work revolve around Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Plant Diversity and Evolution, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Sandel has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity, 2022, Nature Communications
  • sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Global priorities of environmental issues to combat food insecurity and biodiversity loss, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Responses of global waterbird populations to climate change vary with latitude, 2020, Nature Climate Change

Their frequent co-authors include Jens-Christian Svenning, Robert K. Peet, Cyrille Violle, Brian J. Enquist, and Naia Morueta-Holme.

Sandel commonly publishes in venues such as Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ecography, UNC Libraries, Journal of Ecology, and Journal of Vegetation Science.

Best Publications

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

    B. Sandel;L. Arge;B. Dalsgaard;R. G. Davies

  • 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

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Pil B M Pedersen;C Josh Donlan;Rasmus Ejrnæs

  • Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Brody Sandel

  • Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change.

    Christopher James Sandom;Søren Faurby;Brody Steven Sandel;J.-C. Svenning

  • Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient.

    Christine Lamanna;Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Cyrille Violle;Nathan J.B. Kraft

  • Specialization of Mutualistic Interaction Networks Decreases toward Tropical Latitudes

    Matthias Schleuning;Jochen Fründ;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Stefan Abrahamczyk;Stefan Abrahamczyk

  • The BIEN R package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database

    Brian S. Maitner;Brad Boyle;Nathan Casler;Rick Condit

  • The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Signe Normand;Alejandro Ordonez

  • The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants.

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Xiao Feng;Brad Boyle;Brian Maitner

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Successful conservation of global waterbird populations depends on effective governance

    Tatsuya Amano;Tamás Székely;Tamás Székely;Brody Sandel;Szabolcs Nagy

  • Community and Ecosystem-level Changes in a Species-rich Tallgrass Prairie Restoration

    Philip Camill;Mark J. McKone;Sean T. Sturges;William J. Severud

  • PhyloMeasures: a package for computing phylogenetic biodiversity measures and their statistical moments

    Constantinos Tsirogiannis;Brody Sandel

  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

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  • Ecological, historical and evolutionary determinants of modularity in weighted seed-dispersal networks

    Matthias Schleuning;Lili Ingmann;Rouven Strauß;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Global distribution and drivers of language extinction risk

    Tatsuya Amano;Brody Sandel;Heidi Eager;Edouard Bulteau

  • Specialization in Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated with Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation and Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity

    Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Else Magård;Jon Fjeldså;Ana M. Martín González

  • Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation

    Brody Sandel;Brody Sandel;Leah J. Goldstein;Nathan J.B. Kraft;Nathan J.B. Kraft;Jordan G. Okie

  • Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests

    Christopher E. Doughty;Adam Wolf;Naia Morueta-Holme;Naia Morueta-Holme;Peter M. Jørgensen

  • COMMUNITY- AND ECOSYSTEM-LEVEL CHANGES IN A SPECIES-RICH

    Philip Camill;Mark J. Mckone;Sean T. Sturges

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley
Robert K. Peet
Robert K. Peet University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bo Dalsgaard
Bo Dalsgaard University of Copenhagen
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Susan K. Wiser
Susan K. Wiser Landcare Research
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge

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