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1738
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633

Overview

Nathan J. B. Kraft is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily intersects Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

Their work spans several interconnected research topics, notably Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Forest Ecology and Management, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.

Nathan J. B. Kraft has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with recent papers including:

  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset (2022, Scientific Data)
  • Small rainfall changes drive substantial changes in plant coexistence (2022, Nature)
  • Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness (2020, 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)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nathan J. B. Kraft include:

  • Brian J. Enquist
  • Cyrille Violle
  • Jens Kattge
  • Ülo Niinemets
  • Vanessa Minden

Their publications appear in several venues repeatedly, suggesting a consistent presence and engagement with leading journals in their field. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Nature
  • Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

    Marti J. Anderson;Thomas O. Crist;Jonathan M. Chase;Mark Vellend

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Peter B. Adler;Oscar Godoy;Emily C. James

  • Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Renato Valencia;David D. Ackerly

  • Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

    S. Joseph Wright;Kaoru Kitajima;Kaoru Kitajima;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Peter B. Reich

  • Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

    E. M. Wolkovich;B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;J. M. Allen;T. M. Crimmins

  • Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Oscar Godoy;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity

    Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Kevin G. Smith;Mark Vellend

  • Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders

  • Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities.

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;William K. Cornwell;Campbell O. Webb;David D. Ackerly

  • The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography

    D. D. Ackerly;S. R. Loarie;W. K. Cornwell;S. B. Weiss

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

    Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

  • Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;David D. Ackerly

  • Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: Global patterns and paleoclimatic applications

    Daniel J. Peppe;Daniel J. Peppe;Dana L. Royer;Bárbara Cariglino;Sofia Y. Oliver

  • Trait‐based tests of coexistence mechanisms

    Peter B. Adler;Alex Fajardo;Andrew R. Kleinhesselink;Nathan J. B. Kraft

  • Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area

    Sarah Greenwood;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Francisco Lloret

  • Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

    Mark Vellend;Diane S. Srivastava;Kathryn M. Anderson;Carissa D. Brown

  • Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science

    Stephanie Pau;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Benjamin I. Cook;T. Jonathan Davies

  • Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

    Cyrille Violle;Wilfried Thuiller;Nicolas Mouquet;Nicolas Mouquet;François Munoz;François Munoz

  • Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient.

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Brody Sandel
Brody Sandel Santa Clara University
Robert K. Peet
Robert K. Peet University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan M. Levine
Jonathan M. Levine Princeton University
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley
Susan K. Wiser
Susan K. Wiser Landcare Research
Peter M. Jørgensen
Peter M. Jørgensen Missouri Botanical Garden

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