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Brian J. Enquist

ORCID: 0000-0002-6124-7096

Works: 23 total (17 publications, 6 datasets, 0 documents)

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Assessing drivers of vegetation functional change

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Rare species do not disproportionately contribute to phylogenetic diversity in a subalpine plant community

2025American Journal of BotanyDOI: 10.1002/ajb2.70061Cited 2 times

Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control

2020Environmental Research LettersDOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab8fd0Cited 35 times

Challenges in Building an End-to-End System for Acquisition, Management, and Integration of Diverse Data From Sensor Networks in Watersheds: Lessons From a Mountainous Community Observatory in East River, Colorado

2019IEEE AccessDOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2957793Cited 36 times

Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species

2018Journal of Biogeography

Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows

2017OikosDOI: 10.1111/oik.04311Cited 106 times

Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

2016Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesDOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605365113Cited 502 times

The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation

2016Nature PlantsDOI: 10.1038/nplants.2016.129Cited 253 times

Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth

2016Ecology LettersDOI: 10.1111/ele.12650Cited 205 times

Scaling from traits to ecosystems: Developing a general trait driver theory via integrating trait-based and metabolic scaling theories

2015Advances in Ecological Research

The effect of the foresummer drought on carbon exchange in subalpine meadows

2015EcosystemsDOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9845-1Cited 68 times

Inferring climate from angiosperm leaf venation networks

2014New PhytologistDOI: 10.1111/nph.12780Cited 54 times

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

2014PNASDOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317722111Cited 421 times

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

2014American Journal of BotanyDOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300284Cited 110 times

Assessing the causes and scales of the leaf economics spectrum using venation networks in <i>Populus tremuloides</i>

2013Journal of EcologyDOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12102Cited 84 times

X-ray imaging of leaf venation networks

2012New PhytologistDOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04355.xCited 81 times

Controls on radial growth of mountain big sagebrush and implications for climate change

2009Western North American NaturalistDOI: 10.3398/064.069.0416Cited 22 times

Microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

2008PNASDOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801920105Cited 891 times