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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
143
Citations
106281
World Ranking
44
National Ranking
20

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
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1991 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

James H. Brown is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with an emphasis on ecology, electrical and electronic engineering, genetics, renewable energy, sustainability, and ecological modeling.

Their recent publications include:

  • Universal rules of life: metabolic rates, biological times and the equal fitness paradigm (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • Energy use and the sustainability of intensifying food production (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • The Pace of Life: Metabolic Energy, Biological Time, and Life History (2022, Integrative and Comparative Biology)
  • White Paper: An Integrated Perspective on the Causes of Hypometric Metabolic Scaling in Animals (2022, Integrative and Comparative Biology)
  • Abundant-core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant-center distribution pattern (2022, Ecography)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • S. K. Morgan Ernest
  • Glenda M. Yenni
  • Ginger Allington
  • Ellen K. Bledsoe
  • Erica M. Christensen

Most publications by James H. Brown appear in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecography
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology

Their main subfields of study are:

  • Ecology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Genetics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Ecological Modeling

James H. Brown's work covers research topics such as:

  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Smart Grid Energy Management

Throughout their career, James H. Brown has received multiple recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2012
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1991
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1988

Best Publications

  • Toward a metabolic theory of ecology

    James H. Brown;James H. Brown;James F. Gillooly;Andrew P. Allen;Van M. Savage;Van M. Savage

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

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

  • Effects of Size and Temperature on Metabolic Rate

    James F. Gillooly;James H. Brown;James H. Brown;Geoffrey B. West;Geoffrey B. West;Van M. Savage;Van M. Savage

  • On the Relationship between Abundance and Distribution of Species

    James H. Brown

  • Turnover Rates in Insular Biogeography: Effect of Immigration on Extinction

    James H. Brown;Astrid Kodric-Brown

  • Microbial biogeography : putting microorganisms on the map

    Jennifer B.Hughes Martiny;Brendan J.M. Bohannan;James H. Brown;Robert K. Colwell

  • Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Jordi Bascompte;Eric L. Berlow

  • The Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Management

    Norman L. Christensen;Ann M. Bartuska;James H Brown;Stephen M Carpenter

  • THE GEOGRAPHIC RANGE: Size, Shape, Boundaries, and Internal Structure

    James H. Brown;and George C. Stevens;Dawn M. Kaufman

  • 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

  • A general model for ontogenetic growth

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

  • Don't judge species on their origins

    Mark A. Davis;Matthew K. Chew;Richard J. Hobbs;Ariel E. Lugo

  • MAMMALS ON MOUNTAINTOPS: NONEQUILIBRIUM INSULAR BIOGEOGRAPHY

    James H. Brown

  • Effects of size and temperature on developmental time

    James. F. Gillooly;Eric L. Charnov;Geoffrey B. West;Geoffrey B. West;Van M. Savage;Van M. Savage;Van M. Savage

  • Allometric Scaling of Plant Energetics and Population Density

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

  • Effects of Body Size and Temperature on Population Growth

    Van M. Savage;James F. Gillooly;James H. Brown;Geoffrey B. West

  • Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions

    Dov F. Sax;John J. Stachowicz;James H. Brown;John F. Bruno

  • Global Biodiversity, Biochemical Kinetics, and the Energetic-Equivalence Rule

    Andrew P. Allen;James H. Brown;James F. Gillooly

  • The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization

    Geoffrey B. West;James H. Brown;James H. Brown

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

    James H. Brown;Brian A. Maurer

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
James F. Gillooly
James F. Gillooly University of Florida
Richard M. Sibly
Richard M. Sibly University of Reading
Van M. Savage
Van M. Savage University of California, Los Angeles
S. K. Morgan Ernest
S. K. Morgan Ernest University of Florida
Astrid Kodric-Brown
Astrid Kodric-Brown University of New Mexico
Felisa A. Smith
Felisa A. Smith University of New Mexico
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Andrew P. Allen
Andrew P. Allen Macquarie University
Thomas J. Valone
Thomas J. Valone Saint Louis University

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