Karl J. Niklas

Research.com Recognitions

• 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control

  Hendrik Poorter;Karl J. Niklas;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn

  3232
  Citations

• Plant Biomechanics: An Engineering Approach to Plant Form and Function

  Karl J. Niklas

  1626
  Citations

• Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process

  Karl J. Niklas

  1261
  Citations

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

  Brian J. Enquist;Karl J. Niklas

  967
  Citations

• Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities

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

  764
  Citations

• The evolutionary biology of plants

  Karl J. Niklas

  635
  Citations

• The evolution and functional significance of leaf shape in the angiosperms

  Adrienne B. Nicotra;Andrea Leigh;C. Kevin Boyce;Cynthia S. Jones

  582
  Citations

• Invariant scaling relationships for interspecific plant biomass production rates and body size

  Karl J. Niklas;Brian J. Enquist

  545
  Citations

• A Reevaluation of the Key Factors That Influence Tomato Fruit Softening and Integrity

  Montserrat Saladié;Antonio J. Matas;Tal Isaacson;Matthew A. Jenks

  517
  Citations

• Plant allometry: is there a grand unifying theory?

  Karl J. Niklas

  478
  Citations

• The modern theory of biological evolution: an expanded synthesis.

  Ulrich Kutschera;Karl J. Niklas

  467
  Citations

• The aerodynamics of wind pollination

  Karl J. Niklas

  405
  Citations

• A mechanical perspective on foliage leaf form and function

  Karl J. Niklas

  385
  Citations

• Patterns in vascular land plant diversification

  Karl J. Niklas;Brace H. Tiffney;Andrew H. Knoll

  366
  Citations

• Size-dependent Allometry of Tree Height, Diameter and Trunk-taper

  Karl J. Niklas

  363
  Citations

• Nitrogen/phosphorus leaf stoichiometry and the scaling of plant growth

  Karl J. Niklas;Thomas Owens;Peter B. Reich;Edward D. Cobb

  335
  Citations

• Growth and hydraulic (not mechanical) constraints govern the scaling of tree height and mass

  Karl J. Niklas;Hanns Christof Spatz

  323
  Citations

• On the vegetative biomass partitioning of seed plant leaves, stems, and roots.

  Karl J. Niklas;Brian J. Enquist

  306
  Citations

• 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

  293
  Citations

• The epidermal-growth-control theory of stem elongation: An old and a new perspective

  U. Kutschera;K.J. Niklas

  291
  Citations

• Darwin’s second “abominable mystery”: Why are there so many angiosperm species?

  William L. Crepet;Karl J. Niklas

  275
  Citations

• The role of Quaternary environmental change in plant macroevolution: the exception or the rule?

  Katherine J. Willis;Karl J. Niklas

  270
  Citations

• “Diminishing returns” in the scaling of functional leaf traits across and within species groups

  Karl J. Niklas;Edward D. Cobb;Ülo Niinemets;Peter B. Reich

  263
  Citations

• 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

  245
  Citations

• The evolution of the land plant life cycle

  Karl J. Niklas;Ulrich Kutschera

  230
  Citations

• Introduction to the Algae: Structure and Reproduction.

  Karl J. Niklas;Harold C. Bold;Michael J. Wynne

  5
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