Press & Media
Research in the lab has been featured in several documentaries, seminar series, and public talks . . . watch us and read about us via several of these links!
| LAB DOCUMENTARIES| LAB PRESS | B.J. Enquist – Various seminars, public lectures, and interviews
Lab Documentaries
- PBS NOVA – Hunting the Hidden Dimension. Watch many in the lab in action here, most of our footage and interviews start at 41:00 minutes into the show. There is a clip of just the part of the feature with my lab and collaborators which you can watch here. Features us in tropical forests of Costa Rica and Brian and colleagues at the Santa Fe Institute.
- National Geographic – X-Ray Earth – watch the lab in action in the mountains of Colorado making physiological and ecosystem measurements. Looks like NatGeo is good at taking down copies from YouTube but you can at least watch us here at about 50minutes in.
- “In the Beat of a Heart“ For a year we had a book author and reporter travel with us on various field excursions and stay with us in the lab to go through theory. The end result is a science featuring many in the lab. It is a popular press book entitled “In the Beat of a Heart” by Nature news writer John Whitfield and was reviewed in Nature here. The book “combines biography, history, science and nature writing to capture the exciting advances— and the people who are making them—that are triggering a revolution as potentially important to biology as Newton’s insights were to physics.” You can find reviews here on Amazon.com and read most of the book via google here.
Various Lab Press
- Arizona plant researchers laying groundwork for species forecasts
- UA Part of ‘A-Team’ to Reduce Climate Change Extinctions
- North American forests unlikely to save us from climate change, study finds. Our 2016 publication received much international attention in print and radio, see here for a complete listing.
- A Big Database and Big Models Pave the Way for Big Questions in Ecology – Methods in Ecology
- Of Life’s Laws And Unity – National Public Radio
- Form Follows Function in Plant Temperatures – Researchers at the UA have found that, despite popular belief, plants are built to regulate their own temperature.
- Supercomputing Helps Ecologists Overturn Popular Theory – High Performance Computing (HPC) wire.
- Biodiversity Is More Than Just a Numbers Game, A new approach to biodiversity resurrects old questions.
- Life is more than a roll of the dice
- Meteorite That Doomed Dinosaurs Remade Forests, National Science Foundation Press here, Science Daily Press here, PLoS BIOLOGY press A Plant’s Guide to Surviving the Chicxulub Impact
- What Will The World Look Like 50 Years From Now? – Huffington Post (VIDEO)
- Size and Age of Plants Impact Their Productivity More Than Climate, UA Study Shows
- Visualizing Forests of the Future
- Were Dinosaurs Cold-Blooded or Warm-Blooded? Neither, Study Finds – Our Science paper was picked up by numerous press outlets, read them here
- One Tree’s Architecture Reveals Secrets of a Forest, Study Finds
- Four UA Professors Elected as AAAS Fellows
- Dry Leaves Make for Juicy Science, Dry Leaves Reveal Past Climate Conditions see video from Inside Science here!
- What’s so Unique About the Tropics?
- Seeing the Forest Through the Trees
- The Lifeblood of Leaves: Vein Networks Control Plant Patterns
- Nature Blog – Using fossil leaf veins to reconstruct past climates
- Nature Book Review – Biology’s Big Idea
- Forests Around the Globe Follow Same Biological ‘Scaling’ Laws, UA Ecologist Reports in April 5 Nature
- New York Times – Science Times – A Matter of Scale
- Nature News & Views – All creatures great and small
Brian Enquist – Various seminars, public lectures, and interviews
Climate change, predicting the fate of our forests, & tropical ecology
- UA Researchers Study Climate Change Effects In Amazon Trees – Radio Interview, local NPR station KUAZ, Tucson – Nov. 2013, Scientists from the University of Arizona are part of an international research team looking at how climate change is affecting trees in the Amazon. Listen and read more here. Note, in the interview I was just coming down with some Peruvian flu!
- Climate change and the fate of our forests – 2014 Aspen Ideas festival via Huffington Post. A higher quality video is available here.
Scaling and Biology
- Life on Earth: By Chance or By Law? Feb, 2015 My largest public talk yet, ~ 3,000 came out to hear. Is life on earth and diversity governed by chance or are there deeper rules at work yielding a more predictive biology? This public talk was one of many and part of the ‘Life in the Universe‘ series organized by the College of Science at the University of Arizona. You can watch my talk here or download it for free from iTunes here.
- “Professional Models” interview – filmed in-between sessions at the 2014 Ecological Society of America meeting in Sacramento, CA – a #mathematical #biology interview series discussing the role of math in biology and inspiration for conducting science as well as an overview of metabolic scaling theory and “what is 3/4 scaling all about?”.
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Experimental Allometry & Evolution of Allometry – Homage to James H. Brown. Talk given at BrownFest – a homage to Jim Brown and Astrid Kodric-Brown
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“Biological Networks and the Scaling of Plant Form, Function, Diversity, and Ecology” – Harvard University Center for the Environment. A higher quality feed may be found here
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Extending Metabolic Scaling Theory by Incorporating the Diversity of Network Geometries in Biology – The Santa Fe Institute symposium on: Simplicity, Complexity, and Unity.
- In the age of Darwin, are there general laws in biology and should we even care? Talk part of a symposium at the University of New England. Available via Apple iTunes store here.
Macroecology
- Big Data meets Darwin’s “entangled bank”: The macroecology of botanical diversity. Part one is here and part two is here – Oct. 2014, Biology Seminar McGill University, Montreal Canada.
- Better Forecasting Our Ecological Future: Taming Big Data with Big Theory – The 2014 Santa Fe Institute Science Board Meeting.
