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“I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science.”

– Charles Darwin. Letter to Asa Gray, 18 June [1857] (see the letter)

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Publications – 

2020

• Enquist, B.J., Andrew Abraham , Michael Harfoot , Yadvinder Malhi , Chris Doughty (2020) On the importance of the megabiota to the functioning of the biosphere. Nature Communications (In Press).
• Roberta E Martin, Gregory P. Asner, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Alexander Frederick Shenkin, Norma Salinas, Katherine Quispe Huaypar, Milenka Montoya Pillco, Flor Delis Ccori Alverez, Brian J Enquist, Sandra Diaz, Yadvinder Malhi (2020) Covariance of Sun and Shade Leaf Traits Along a Tropical Forest Elevation Gradient. Frontiers in Plant Science (In Press).
• Hannah, et al. 30% Land Conservation halves Extinction Risk from Climate Change. Ecography (In press).
• Gallagher, R., Falster, D. S., Maitner, B., Salguero-Gomez, R., Vandvik, V., Pearse, W., … Enquist, B. J. (2019, April 11). The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life. https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/kac45  Nature Ecology and Evolution (In Press). 

2019

• Enquist, B.J. et al. (2019) The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants. Science Advances, 5 (11), eaaz0414. 
• Vanessa Buzzard, Sean T. Michaletz, Ye Deng, Zhili He, Daliang Ning, Lina Shen, Qichao Tu, Joy Van Nostrand, James W. Voordeckers, Jianjun Wang, Michael D. Weiser, Michael Kaspari, Robert B. Waide, Jizhong Zhou, and Brian J. Enquist. Continental scale structuring of forest and soil diversity via functional traits. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3 (9), 1298-1308.
• Sandra M. Durán , Roberta E. Martin , Sandra Díaz , Brian S. Maitner , Yadvinder Malhi ,Norma Salinas, Alexander Shenkin, Miles R. Silman, Daniel J. Wieczynski, Gregory P. Asner, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Van M. Savage, and Brian J. Enquist. Informing trait-based ecology by assessing remotely-sensed functional diversity across a broad tropical temperature gradient. Science Advances 5 (12), eaaw8114.
• McFadden, I.R., Sandel, B., Tsirogiannis, C., Morueta‐Holme, N., Svenning, J.C., Enquist, B.J. and Kraft, N.J., (2019) Temperature shapes opposing latitudinal gradients of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic β diversity. Ecology Letters, 22:1126-1135.
• Chavana-Bryant, Cecilia, Yadvinder Malhi, Athanasios Anastasiou, Brian J. Enquist, Eric G. Cosio, Trevor F. Keenan, and France F. Gerard. Leaf age effects on the spectral predictability of leaf traits in Amazonian canopy trees. Science of the Total Environment 666 (2019): 1301-1315.
• Mia Vedel Sørensen, Bente Jessen Graae, Aimee Classen,  Brian J. Enquist, Richard Strimbeck. Biotic and abiotic drivers of C cycling in three arctic-alpine tundra plant communities:potential mechanisms. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 51(1), pp.128-147.
• Merow, Cory, Brian S. Maitner, Hannah L. Owens, Jamie M. Kass, Brian J. Enquist, Walter Jetz, and Rob Guralnick. (2019) RMMS: Species’ Range Model Metadata Standards. Global Ecology and Biogeography, DOI:10.1111/geb.12993
• Bruelheide, Helge, Jürgen Dengler, Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, Oliver Purschke, Stephan M. Hennekens, Milan Chytrý, Valério D. Pillar et al. sPlot–A new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science 30, no. 2 (2019): 161-186.
• Weiser, M.D., Ning. D., Buzzard, V., Michaletz, S.T., He., Z., Enquist, B.J., Waide, R.B., Zhou, J., and M. Kaspari. Thermal disruption of soil bacterial assemblages decreases diversity and assemblage similarity. Ecosphere, 10(2), p.e02598.
• Wieczynski, D., B. Boyle , V. Buzzard , S. Duran , A. Henderson , C. Hulshof , A. Kerkhoff , M. McCarthy , S. Michaletz , N. Swenson , G. Asner , L. Bentley , B. J. Enquist and V. Savage  Climate shapes and shifts functional biodiversity in forests worldwide. PNAS,116:587-592. 
• Aaron Hogan, J., Sean M. McMahon, Vanessa Buzzard, Sean T. Michaletz, Brian J. Enquist, Jill Thompson, Nathan G. Swenson, Jess K. Zimmerman. Drought and the interannual variability of stem growth in an aseasonal, everwet forest. Biotropica 51(2), pp.139-154.
• Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Imma Oliveras, Sami Rifai, Sophie Fauset, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Timothy R. Baker, Ted R. Feldpausch, Agne Gvozdevaite, Wannes Hubau, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Simon L. Lewis, Sam Moore, Ülo Niinemets, Theresa Peprah, Oliver L. Phillips, Kasia Ziemińska, Brian J. Enquist, and Yadvinder Malhi. Drier tropical forests are more susceptible to functional changes in response to a long term drought. Ecology Letters 22(5), pp.855-865.
• Steidinger et al. Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest tree symbioses. Nature 569(7756), p.404.
• Kelsey T. Dillon, Amanda N. Henderson, Alexandra G. Lodge, Nina I. Hamilton, Lindsey L. Sloat, Brian J. Enquist, Charles A. Price, and Andrew J. Kerkhoff. On the relationships between size and abundance in plants: beyond forest communities. Ecosphere (In Press).
• Barnett, David; Adler, Peter, Chemel, Benjamin; Duffy, Paul; Enquist, Brian; Grace, James; Harrison, Susan; Peet, Robert; Schimel, David; Stohlgren, Thomas; Vellend, Mark. The plant diversity sampling design for The National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere 10(9).
• Šímová, Irena, Brody Sandel, Brian J. Enquist, Sean T. Michaletz, Jens Kattge, Cyrille Violle, Brian J. McGill et al. The relationship of woody plant size and leaf nutrient content to large‐scale productivity for forests across the Americas. Journal of Ecology (2019). (In Press).

2018

• Doughty, C.E., Santos-Andrade, P.E., Shenkin, A., Goldsmith, G.R., Bentley, L.P., Blonder, B., Díaz, S., Salinas, N., Enquist, B.J., Martin, R.E. Asner, G.P. and Y. Malhi (2018) Predicted changes to tropical forest LMA, leaf albedo, and their impact on cloud cover and climate. Nature Climate Change, 2:1918–1924.
• Bjorkman, A.D. et al. (50+ international authors)  Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome Nature, 562:57–62.
• Echeverría-Londoño, S., Enquist, B.J., Neves, D.M., Violle, C., Boyle, B., Nathan J.B. Kraft, N.J.B., Maitner, B.S., McGill, B., Peet, R.K., Sandel, B., Smith, S.A., Svenning, J. Wiser, S.K., and Kerkhoff, A.J.,  Plant functional diversity and the biogeography of biomes in North and South America. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6:219.
• Henn, J.J., B. J. Enquist, A. H. Halbritter, K. Klanderud, B.S. Maitner, L. Patterson, C. Pöstch,  R.Telford, Y.Yang, and V.Vandvik. The role of intraspecific trait variation and plasticity in mediating alpine plant response to climate change. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9:1548.
• Blonder, B., Enquist, B.J., Graae, B.J., Kattge, J., Maitner, B.S., Morueta‐Holme, N., Ordonez, A., Šímová, I., Singarayer, J., Svenning, J.C. and Valdes, P.J.  Late Quaternary climate legacies in contemporary plant functional composition. Global Change Biology, 24:4827-4840.
• Babst, F., Bodesheim, P., Charney, N., Friend, A.D., Girardin, M.P., Klesse, S., Moore, D.J., Seftigen, K., Björklund, J., Bouriaud, O., Dawson, A.,  DeRose, R.J., Dietze, M.C., Eckes, A., Enquist, B.J., Frank, D.C., Mahecha, M.D., Poulter, B., Record, S., Trouet, V., Turton, R., Zhang, Z., & M.E.K. Evans. When tree rings go global: challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight. Quaternary Science Reviews 197:1-20.
• Messier, J., Violle, C., Enquist, B.J., Lechowicz, M.J., and B.J. McGill. Similarities and differences in intrapopulation trait correlations of co‐occurring tree species: consistent water‐use relationships amid widely different correlation patterns. American Journal of Botany, 9:1477-1490.
• Taylor, T., McMahon, S., Smith, M., Boyle, B.,Violle, C., van Haren, Joost, Simova, I., Meir, P., Ferreira, L., de Camargo, P., da Costa, A., Enquist, BJ., and S. Saleska  Isoprene emission structures tropical tree biogeography and community assembly responses to climate. New Phytologist 220:435-446.
• Eiserhardt, W.L., Antonelli, A., Bennett, D.J., Botigué, L.R., Burleigh, J.G., Dodsworth, S., Enquist, B.J., Forest, F., Kim, J.T., Kozlov, A.M., Leitch, I.J., Maitner, B.S., Mirarab, S., Piel, W.H.,  Pérez‐Escobar, O.A., Pokorny, L., Rahbek, C., Sandel, B., Smith, S.A. Stamatakis, A., Vos, R.A, Warnow, T., and W.J. Baker (2018) A roadmap for global synthesis of the plant tree of life. American Journal of Botany, 105:614-622.
• Vasseur, F., Exposito-Alonso, M., Ayala-Garay, O., Wang, G., Enquist, B.J., Violle, C. Vile, D. and D. Weigel (2018) Adaptive diversification of plant allometry in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,115: 3416-3421.
• Maitner, B.S., B. Boyle, N. Casler, R. Condit, J. Donoghue II, S. M. Durán, D. Guaderrama, C. E Hinchliff, P. M. Jørgensen, N. J. B. Kraft, B. McGill, C. Merow, N. Morueta-Holme, R. K. Peet, B. Sandel, M. Schildhauer, S. A. Smith, Jens-Christian Svenning, B. Thiers, C. Violle, S. Wiser, and B. J. Enquist. (2018) The BIEN R package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) Database. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9:373-379.
• Michaletz ST, AJ Kerkhoff & BJ Enquist (2018) Drivers of terrestrial plant production across broad geographic gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:166-174.
• Blonder, B., Salinas, N., Patrick Bentley, L., Shenkin, A., Chambi Porroa, P.O., Valdez Tejeira, Y., Boza Espinoza, T.E., Goldsmith, G.R., Enrico, L., Martin, R., Asner, G.P., Díaz, S., Enquist, B.J., and Y. Malhi. (2018) Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes‐Amazon elevation gradient. Journal of Ecology 106:1683-1699.
• Poorter, L., van der Sande, M.T., Arets, E.J., Ascarrunz, N., Enquist, B., Finegan, B., Carlos Licona, J., Martínez‐Ramos, M., Mazzei, L., Meave, J.A. and Muñoz, R. (2018) Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27:389-390.
• Šímová I, Violle C, Svenning JC, Kattge J, Engemann K, Sandel B, Peet RK, Wiser SK, Blonder B, McGill BJ, Boyle B and B.J. Enquist (2018)  Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species. Journal of Biogeography, 45:895-916.
• Serra-Diaz JM, Enquist B.J., Maitner B., Merow C., and Svenning J.C. (2018) Big data of tree species distributions: how big and how good?  Forest Ecosystems 1:30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40663-017-0120-0.
• Oliveras, I., Román‐Cuesta, R.M., Urquiaga‐Flores, E., Quintano Loayza, J.A., Kala, J., Huamán, V., Lizárraga, N., Sans, G., Quispe, K., Lopez, E., Lopez, D., Torres, I.C. Enquist, B.J. and Y. Malhi (2018) Fire effects and ecological recovery pathways of tropical montane cloud forests along a time chronosequence. Global Change Biology, 24:758-77.

2017

• Enquist, B.J., L.P. Bentley, A. Shenkin, B. Maitner, V. Savage,  S. Michaletz, B. Blonder, V. Buzzard, T. E. Boza Espinoza, W. Farfan-Rios, C. Doughty, G. R. Goldsmith, R. E. Martin, N. Salinas, M. Silman, S. Díaz, G. P. Asner, & Y. Malhi (2017) Assessing trait-based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26:1357-137
• Blonder, B., Morrow, C.B., Maitner, B., Harris, D.J., Lamanna, C., Violle, C., Enquist, B.J. and Kerkhoff, A.J., 2018. New approaches for delineating n-dimensional hypervolumes. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9:305-319. 
• Doughty CE, Santos‐Andrade PE, Goldsmith GR, Blonder B, Shenkin A, Bentley LP, Chavana‐Bryant C, Huaraca‐Huasco W, Díaz S, Salinas N, Enquist BJ et al. (2017) Can Leaf Spectroscopy Predict Leaf and Forest Traits Along a Peruvian Tropical Forest Elevation Gradient? Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122:2952-65.
• Willis, K.J., Carretero, J., Enquist, B.J., Kuhn, N., Tovar, C. and V. Vandvik (2017) Climate change – which plants will be the winners? In: Willis, K.J. (ed.) State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN: 978-1-84246-647-6.Which traits are favored under climate change? https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/2017/climate- change.html
• Blonder, B., Lamanna, C., Violle, C. and Enquist, B.J., 2017. Using n‐dimensional hypervolumes for species distribution modelling: A response to Qiao et al.(). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26:1071-1075.
• Weiser MD, Michaletz ST, Buzzard V, Deng Y, He Z, Shen L, Enquist BJ, Waide RB, Zhou J, and Kaspari M. (2018) Toward a theory for diversity gradients: the Abundance-Adaptation Hypothesis. Ecography 41:255-64.
• Brummer, A.B., Savage, V.M., and B. J. Enquist (2017) A General Model for Metabolic Scaling in Self-Similar Asymmetric Networks. PLoS Computational Biology, 13: e1005394.
• Stark, J., Lehman, R., Crawford, L., Enquist, B.J. and B. Blonder (2017) Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows. Oikos 126:1650-1659.
• Messier J, Lechowicz MJ, McGill BJ, Violle C, and B.J. Enquist (2017) Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: The plant phenotype as an integrated network. Journal of Ecology, 105:1775-90. 
• Fyllas, N.M., Patrick Bentley, L., Shenkin, A., Asner, G.P., Atkin, O.K.,  Díaz, S., Enquist, B.J., Farfan-Rios, W.,  Gloor, E.,  Guerrieri, R.,  Huaraca Huasco, W.,  Ishida, Y.,  Martin, R.E.,  Meir, P.,  Phillips, O.,  Salinas, N., Silman, M.,  Weerasinghe, L.K.,   Zaragoza-Castells, J., and Y. Malhi. (2017) Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient. Ecology Letters, 20:730-740.
• Blonder, B., Moulton, D.E., Blois, J., Enquist, B.J., Graae, B.J., Macias-Fauria, M., McGill, B.J., Nogué, S., Ordonez, A., Sandel, B., and J. Svenning (2017).  Predictability in community dynamics. Ecology Letters, 20: 293–306.
• Weiser, M. D., Swenson, N.G., Enquist, B.J., Michaletz, S.T.,  Waide, R.B., Zhou, J., and M. Kaspari (2017) Taxonomic Decomposition of the Latitudinal Gradient in Species Diversity of North American Floras.  Journal of Biogeography, 45:418-428.
• Csergo, A.M., Salguero-Gomez, R.,  Broennimann, O., Coutts, S.R.,Guisan, A., Angert, A.L.,  Welk, E., Stott, I.,  Enquist, B.J.,  McGill, B., Svenning, J., Violle, C.,  and Y. M. Buckley (2017)  Less favourable climates constrain demographic strategies in plants.  Ecology Letters, 20(8), pp.969-980.
• Kaspari, M., J. Bujan, D. Ning, S.T. Michaletz, Z. He, B.J. Enquist, R.B. Waide, J. Zhou, M.D. Weiser, B. Turner and S.J. Wright (2017). Biogeochemistry drives abundance and diversity in the prokaryotes, fungi, and invertebrates of a Panama forest. Ecology, 98:2019–2028.
• María Natalia Umaña, X. Mi, Min Cao, B.J. Enquist, Z. Ha, R. Howe, Y. Iida, D. Johnson, L. Lin, X. Liu, K. Ma , I-Fang Sun , J. Thompson , M. Uriarte , X. Wang , A. Wolf , J. Yang, J. K. Zimmerman, and N. G. Swenson (2017). The role of functional uniqueness and spatial aggregation in explaining rarity in trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26:777-786.
• Sørensen, M., Strimbeck, R., Nystuen, K., Kapas R., Enquist, B.J. and B. Graae (2017) Draining the pool? Carbon storage and fluxes in three alpine plant communities. Ecosystems, 21:316-330.
• Blonder, B., Salinas, N., Patrick Bentley, L., Shenkin, A., Chambi Porroa P.O., Valdez Tejeria, Y., Violle, C., Fyllas, N.M., Goldsmith, G.R., Martin, R., Asner, G.P., Diaz, S., Enquist, B.J. and Y. Malhi (2017) Predicting trait-environment relationships for venation networks along an Andes-Amazon elevation gradient. Ecology, 98:1239-1255.
• Gallet, R.M, Violle, C., Fromin, N., Zahab, R., Enquist, B.J., and T. Lenormand (2017). The evolution of bacterial cell size: the internal diffusion- constraint hypothesis. The ISME Journal, 11:1559—1568.
• Asner, G.P., R. E. Martin, C. B. Anderson, K. Kryston, N. Vaughn, D. E. Knapp, L. P. Bentley, A. Shenkin, N. Salinas, F. Sinca, R. Tupayachi, K. Q. Huaypar, M. M. Pillco, F. D. Ccori Álvarez, S. Diaz, B.J. Enquist, Y. Malhi. (2016) Scale-dependence of Canopy Trait Distributions Along a Tropical Forest Elevation Gradient. New Phytologist, 214: 973-988.

2016

• Enquist, B. J., Condit, R., Peet, R. K., Schildhauer, M., & Thiers, B. M. (2016). Cyberinfrastructure for an integrated botanical information network to investigate the ecological impacts of global climate change on plant biodiversity (No. e2615v1). PeerJ Preprints.
• Michaletz, S.T., M.D. Weiser,N.G. McDowell, J. Zhou, M. Kaspari, B.R. Helliker, and B. J. Enquist (2016). The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation. Nature Plants, 2:16129.
• Evans, M., Merow, C., Record, S., McMahon, S. and B.J. Enquist (2016) Towards process-based range modeling of many species. Trends In Ecology and Evolution, 31: 860-871.
• Asner, G.P., R. E. Martin, C. B. Anderson, K. Kryston, N. Vaughn, D. E. Knapp, L. P. Bentley, A. Shenkin, N. Salinas, F. Sinca, R. Tupayachi, K. Q. Huaypar, M. M. Pillco, F. D. Ccori Álvarez, S. Diaz, B.J. Enquist, Y. Malhi. (2016) Scale-dependence of Canopy Trait Distributions Along a Tropical Forest Elevation Gradient. New Phytologist.
• Charney, N.D., Babst, F., Poulter, B., Record, S., Trouet, V.M., Frank, D., Enquist, B.J. and M. E. K. Evans. (2016) Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth. Ecology Letters, 19:1119-1128.
• Carey, Joanna C., Jianwu Tang, Pamela H. Templer, Kevin D. Kroeger, Thomas W. Crowther, Andrew J. Burton, Jeffrey S. Dukes et al. Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming (2016). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 13797-13802.
• Zhou, J.  Y.Deng, L. Shen, C. Wen, Q.Yan, D.Ning, Y.Qin, K. Xue, L.Wu, Z.He, J. Voordeckers, J.V. Nostrand, V.Buzzard, S. Michaletz, B. J. Enquist, M. Weiser, M. Kaspari, R.Waide, Y.Yang, and J.H.Brown. (2016) Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils. Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/ncomms12083.
• Garnier, E., U.Stahl, M. Laporte, J. Kattge, I. Mougenot, I. Kühn, B. Laporte, B. Amiaud, F. S. Arrestant, G. Bönisch, D. E. Bunker, J. H. C. Cornelissen, S. Díaz, B. J. Enquist, S. Machet, P. Jaureguiberry, M. Kleber, S. Lavorel, L. Mancher, N. Pérez-Harguindeguy, H. Poorter, M. Schildhauer, B. Shipley, C. Violle, E. Weiher, C. Wirth, I. J. Wright, S. Klotz. (2016) Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution. Journal of Ecology, 10.1111/1365-2745.12698
• Neyret, M., Bentley, L.P., I. Oliveras, B.S. Marimon, B.H. Marimon-Junior, E. Almeida de Oliveira, Fábio Barbosa Passos, R. Castro Ccoscco, J. dos Santos, S.M. Reis, P. Morandi, G.R. Paucar, A. R. Cáceres, Y.Valdez Tejeira, Y. Yllanes, Choque, Norma Salinas, A. Shenkin, G.P. Asner, S. Díaz, B. J. Enquist and Y.Malhi. (2016) Examining variation in the leaf mass per area of dominant species across two contrasting tropical gradients in light of community assembly. Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1002/ece3.2281
• Messier, J., McGill, B.J., Enquist, B.J., and M. Lechowicz (2016) Trait variation and integration across scales: Is the leaf economic spectrum present at local scales? Ecography
• Feakins, S.J, T. Peters, M.S. Wu, A. Shenkin, N. Salinas, C.A.J. Girardin, L. P. Bentley, B. Blonder, B. J. Enquist, R.E. Martin, G. P. Asner, Y. Malhi (2016) Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect. Organic Geochemistry
• Feakins, S.J., Bentley, L.P., Salinas, N., Shenkin, A., Blonder, B., Goldsmith, G.R., Ponton, C., Arvina, L.J., Sin Wua, M., Peters, T., West, A.J., Martin, R.E., Enquist, B.J., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. (2016) Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 182: 155-172.
• Goldsmith, G.R., L.P. Bentley, A.Shenkin, N. Salinas, B. Blonder, R. E. Martin, R. Castro-Ccossco, P. Chambi-Porroa, S. Diaz, B. J. Enquist, G. P. Asner and Y. Malhi (2016) Variation in leaf wettability traits along a tropical montane elevation gradient. New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.14121.
• Chavana-Bryant, C., Malhi, Y., Wu, J., Asner, G.P., Anastasiou, A., Enquist, B.J., E.G. Cosio Caravasi, C. E. Doughty, S.R. Saleska, Martin, R.E., and F. F. Gerard (2016) Leaf aging of Amazonian canopy trees as revealed by spectral and physiochemical measurements. New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.13853
• Morueta-Holme, N., Blonder, B., Sandel, B., McGill, B.J., Peet, R.K., Ott, J., Violle, C., Enquist, B.J., Jorgensen, P. M., and J. Svenning. (2016) A network approach for inferring species associations from co-occurrence data. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/ecog.01892.
• Goldsmith, G.R., Morueta-Holme, N., Sandel, B. Fitz, E.D., Fitz, S.D., Boyle, B., Casler,N. Engemann, K., Jorgensen, P.M., Kraft, N.J.B., McGill, B., Peet, R.K., Piel, W.H., Spencer, N., Svenning, J.C., Thiers, B.M., Violle, C., Wiser, S.K., and B.J. Enquist. (2016) Plant-O-Matic: A dynamic and mobile guide to all plants of the Americas. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12548.
• Enquist, B.J., Michaletz S.T., and A.J. Kerhkoff (2016) Toward a General Scaling Theory for Linking Traits, Stoichiometry, and Body Size to Ecosystem Function. In: Ecosystems: A Biogeoscience Approach. E. A. Johnson and Y.E. Martin (editors), Cambridge University Press.
• Buzzard, V., Hulshof, C.M., Birt, T., Violle, C., and B.J. Enquist (2016) Re-growing a tropical dry forest: Functional plant trait diversity and community assembly during succession. Functional Ecology, 30: 1006–1013.
• Qichao Tu, Ye Deng, Qingyun Yan, Lina Shen,Lu Lin, Zhili He, Liyou Wu, Joy Van Nostrand, Vanessa Buzzard, Sean T. Michaletz, Brian J. Enquist, Michael D. Weiser, Michael Kaspari, Robert Waide, James H. Brown, Jizhong Zho (2016) Biogeographic Patterns of Soil Diazotrophic Communities across Six Forests in North America. Molecular Ecology, 10.1111/mec.13651
• Enquist, B.J. (2016) Biology Distilled. Nature, 531:34.
• Blonder, B.W., Baldwin, B.G., Enquist, B.J. and Robichaux, R.H. (2016) Variation and macroevolution in leaf functional traits in the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae). Journal of Ecology, 104:219-28.
• Doughty, C., A. Wolf, N. Morueta-Holme, P.M. Jørgensen, B. Sandel, C. Violle, B. Boyle, N.J.B. Kraft, R.K. Peet, B. Enquist, J.-C. Svenning, S. Blake, M. Galetti. (2016). Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests. Ecography, 39: 194–203.
• Engemann, K., Sandel, B., Morueta-Holme, N., Enquist, B.J., Peet, R.K., Wiser, S. and J.C. Svenning (2016) Patterns and drivers of plant functional group dominance across the Western Hemisphere – a macroecological re-assessment based on a massive botanical dataset. Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society, 180:141-60.

2015

• Enquist, B.J., Norberg, J., Bonsor, S.P., Violle, C., Webb, C.T., Henderson, A., Sloat, L.L., and V.M. Savage (2015) Scaling from traits to ecosystems: Developing a general Trait Driver Theory via integrating trait-based and metabolic scaling theories. Advances in Ecological Research, 52 DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.02.001.
• Michaletz, S.T., M. D. Weiser, J.Zhou, M.Kaspari, B. R. Helliker, and B. J. Enquist (2015).  Plant thermoregulation: Energetics, trait-environment interactions, and carbon economics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 30:714-724.
• Duncanson, L.I., Dubayah, R.O, and  B. J. Enquist  Assessing the general patterns of forest structure: Quantifying tree and forest allometric scaling relationships in the United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/geb.12371 (In Press).
• Blonder, B., Vasseur, F., Violle, C., Shipley, B., Enquist, B.J. and D. Vile. Testing models for the leaf economics spectrum with leaf and whole-plant traits in Arabidopsis thaliana. AoB PLANTS (2015) : plv049 doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plv049. Selected as an Editor’s Choice publication!
• Stark, S.C., Enquist, B.J., Saleska, S.R., Leitold, V., Schietti, J.,  Longo, M.,  Alves, L.F., Camargo, P.B., and R. C. Oliveira (2015) Linking canopy leaf area and light environments with tree size distributions to explain Amazon forest demography. Ecology Letters, 18:636-45.
• Poorter, L., M.T. van der Sande, J. Thompson, E.J.M.M. Arets, A. Alarcón, J. Álvarez-Sánchez, N. Ascarrunz, P. Balvanera, G. Barajas-Guzmán, A. Boit, F. Bongers, F.A. Carvalho, F. Casanoves, G. Cornejo-Tenorio, F.R.C. Costa, C.V. de Castilho, J.F. Duivenvoorden, L.P. Dutrieux, B.J. Enquist, F. Fernández-Méndez, B. Finegan, L.H.L. Gormley, J.R. Healey, M.R. Hoosbeek, G. Ibarra-Manríquez, A.B. Junqueira, C. Levis, J.C. Licona, L.S. Lisboa, W.E. Magnusson, M. Martínez-Ramos, A. Martínez-Yrizar, L.G. Martorano, L.C. Maskell, L. Mazzei, J.A. Meave, F. Mora, R. Muñoz, C. Nytch, M.P. Pansonato, T.W. Parr, H. Paz, M. Simoes Penello, E.A. Pérez-García, L.Y. Rentería, J. Rodríguez-Velazquez, D.M.A. Rozendaal, A.R. Ruschel, B. Sakschewski, B. Salgado Negret, J. Schietti, F.L. Sinclair, P.F. Souza, F.C. Souza, J. Stropp, H. ter Steege, N.G. Swenson, K. Thonicke, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, P. van der Hout, P. Walker, N. Zamora, and M. Peña-Claros. (2015). Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24: 1314-1328.
• Grady, J.M., Enquist,B.J., Dettweiler-Robinson, E., Wright, N. A.,  and F. A. Smith (2015)  TECHNICAL COMMENTS: Response to Comments on “Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs. Science, 348: 982.
• Sloat, L.L., Henserson, A.N., Lamanna, C.A., and B.J. Enquist (2015) The effect of the foresummer drought on carbon exchange in subalpine meadows. Ecosystems.18: 533-545.
• Blonder, B., Nogués-Bravo, D., Borregaard, M.K., Donoghue II, J.C., Jørgensen, P.M., Kraft, N.J.B., Lessard, J-P., Morueta-Holme, N., Sandel, B., Svenning, J.C., Violle, C., Rahbek, C. and B.J. Enquist (2015) Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework. Ecology, 96:972–985.
• Li, Y., Dlugosch, K., Enquist, B.J. (2015) Novel spatial analysis methods reveal scale-dependent spread and its limiting factors in invasive Sahara mustard. Ecography 38:311-320.
• Engemann, Kristine, Brian J. Enquist, Brody Sandel, Brad Boyle, Peter M. Jørgensen, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Robert K. Peet, Cyrille Violle, and Jens‐Christian Svenning. (2015) Limited sampling hampers “big data” estimation of species richness in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Ecology and Evolution, 5:807-820.
• Marquet, P.A., A.P. Allen, J.H. Brown, J.A. Dunne, B.J. Enquist, J.F.Gillooly, P.A. Gowaty, J.Harte, S.P. Hubbell, J.G. Okie, A. Ostling, M.Ritchie, D.Storch, and G.B.West (2015) On the Importance of First Principles in Ecological Theory Development. BioScience, 65: 342-343 doi:10.1093/biosci/biv015.
• Šímová, I., C..Violle, C.,  N. J. B. Kraft, D. Storch, J. C. Svenning, B. Boyle, J. Donoghue, P. Jørgensen, B. J. McGill,  N. Morueta-Holme, W. H. Piel,  R. K. Peet,  J. Regetz, M. Schildhauer, N. Spencer, B. Thiers, S.  Wiser and B. J. Enquist (2015) Shifts in trait means and variances in North American tree assemblages: species richness patterns are loosely related to the functional space. Ecography 38: 649–658. Selected as an Editor’s Choice publication!

2014

• Michaletz, S.T., Cheng, D., Kerkhoff, A.J., and B.J. Enquist (2014). Convergence of woody plant production across global climate gradients. Nature, 512: 39-43. Corrigendum Nature (2016) doi:10.1038/nature18269
• Grady, J.M., Enquist, B.J., Dettweiler-Robinson, E., Wright, N.A. and F.A. Smith. (2014) Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs. Science, 344:1268-1272.
• Lamanna, C. A., Blonder, B., Violle, C. Kraft, N. J. B., Sandel, B. Simova, I. Donoghue, J., Svenning, J.C., McGill, B.J. Boyle, B. Dolins, S. Jørgensen Marcuse-Kubitza, , P. M. A., Morueta-Holme, N., Peet, R.K., Piel, W., Regetz, J., Schildhauer, M., Spencer, N. Theirs, M., Wiser, S. K., and B. J. Enquist (2014). Testing theories for the latitudinal diversity gradient in functional trait space. PNAS (Special Issue on ‘Functional Biogeography’) 111:13745-13750.
• Violle, C., Reich, P. B., Pacala, S. W., Enquist, B.J., and J. Kattge. (2014) The Emergence and Promise of Functional Biogeography. PNAS (Introductory paper for PNAS special Issue on ‘Functional Biogeography’) 111: 13690–13696.
• Marquet,P.A., A.P. Allen, , J. H. Brown, J. Dunne, B.J. Enquist, J. Gillooly, P.A. Gowaty, J. L. Green, D. Storch, J. Harte, S. P. Hubbell, J. O´Dwyer, J. Okie, M. Ritchie, A. Ostling, and G. B. West. (2014) On theory in ecology. BioScience, 4: 701-710.
• Blonder, B., Royer, D.L., Johnson, K. R., Miller, I., and B.J. Enquist (2014) Plant ecological strategies shift across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary PLoS Biology, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001949  Click here for PLoS Biology access.  News and View article, A Plant’s Guide to Surviving the Chicxulub Impact by J. M. Chase
• Blonder B, Sloat L, Enquist B.J., McGill B (2014) Separating Macroecological Pattern and Process: Comparing Ecological, Economic, and Geological Systems. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112850. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112850
• Barnagaud, J., Kissling,W.D., Sandel, B, Eiserhardt, L., Sekercioglu, C.H., Enquist^, B.J., Tsirogiannis,^, C., and J. Svenning (2014) Ecological traits influence the phylogenetic structure of bird species co-occurrences worldwide. Ecology Letters, DOI: 10.1111/ele.12285
• Blonder, B., Lamanna, C., Violle, C, and B.J. Enquist (2014) The n-dimensional hypervolume. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23:595-609.
• Blonder, B. and B.J. Enquist. (2014) Inferring climate from angiosperm leaf venation network geometry. New Phytologist, 204: 116-126.
• Blonder, B., Violle, C., Patrick Bentley, L., and B.J. Enquist (2014) Inclusion of vein traits improves predictive power for the leaf economic spectrum: A response to Sack et al. (2013). Journal of Experimental Botany, DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru143
• Sides, C. B., Enquist, B. J., Ebersole, J. J., Smith, M. N., Henderson, A. N., & Sloat, L. L. (2014). Revisiting Darwin’s hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species’ ecological breadth? American Journal of Botany, 101: 56-62.
• Smith, D. D., Sperry, J. S., Enquist, B. J., Savage, V. M., McCulloh, K. A., & Bentley, L. P. (2014). Deviation from symmetrically self-similar branching in trees predicts altered hydraulics, mechanics, light interception and metabolic scaling. New Phytologist, 201: 217-229.
• Hulshof, C.M., Martínez-Yrízar, A., Burquez, A., Boyle, B., and B.J. Enquist (2014) Plant functional trait variation in tropical dry forests: A review and synthesis. In: Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas, (Editors Jennifer Powers and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa), Pp 129-140, CRC Press.

2013

• Morueta-Holme, N., Enquist, B.J., McGill, B.J., Boyle, B., Jørgensen, P. M., Ott, J. E., Peet, R. K., Simova, I., Sloat, L., Thiers, B., Violle, C. Wiser, S. K., Dolins, S., Donoghue, J. C. II, Kraft, N.J.B., Regetz, J., Schildhauer, M., Spencer, N, and J.C., Svenning. (2013) Habitat area and climate stability determine geographical variation in plant species range sizes. Ecology Letters, 16:1446-1454.
• Blonder, B., Violle, C. and B.J. Enquist. (2013) Assessing the causes and scales of the leaf economics spectrum using 
venation networks in Populus tremuloides. Journal of Ecology, 101: 981-989.
• Boyle, B., Lu. Z., Hopkins, N., Piel, W., Antonio, J., Garay, R., Gregory, S., Lowry, S., Matasci, N., Mckay, S.J., Narro, M.L., Skidmore, E. and B.J. Enquist (2013) The Taxonomic Name Resolution Service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names. BMC Bioinformatics, 14:16(http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/16).
• Hulshof, C.M., Violle, C., Spasojevic, M., McGill, B., Damschen, E., Harrison, S., and B.J. Enquist. (2013) Intra-specific and inter-specific variation in specific leaf area reveal the importance of abiotic and biotic drivers of species diversity across elevation and latitude. Journal of Vegetation Science, 24: 921-931.
• Bentley, L., Stegen, J., Savage, V., Smith, D., von Allmen, E., Sperry, J., P. Reich, and B.J. Enquist (2013). An empirical assessment of tree branching networks and implications for plant allometric scaling models. Ecology Letters, 16: 1069-1078.
• Moles, A.T., et al. (2013) Correlations between physical and chemical defenses in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat? New Phytologist, 198:252-263.

2012

• Blonder, B., Buzzard, V., Simova, I., Sloat, L., Boyle, B. (and 49 middle school students) and B.J. Enquist (2012) The leaf area shrinkage effect can bias paleoclimate and ecology research. American Journal of Botany, 99:1756-1763.
• Blonder, B., De Carlo, F., Rivers, M. and B.J. Enquist (2012) Synchrotron x-ray imaging of leaf venation networks. New Phytologist, 196:1274-1282.
• Violle, C., Enquist, B.J., McGill, B.J., Jian, L., Albert, C.H., Hulshof, C., Jung, V, and J. Messier (2012). Viva la variance! Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 27:475-476.
• Enquist, B. J., Boyle, B. (2012): SALVIAS – the SALVIAS vegetation inventory database. – In: Dengler, J., Oldeland, J., Jansen, F., Chytrý, M., Ewald, J., Finckh, M., Glöckler, F., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Peet, R.K., Schaminée, J.H.J. [Eds.]: Vegetation databases for the 21st century. – Biodiversity & Ecology 4: 288–288. DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00086.
• Vasseur, F., Violle, C., Enquist, B.J., Granier, C. and D. Vile (2012) A common genetic basis to the origin of the leaf economics spectrum and metabolic scaling allometry. Ecology Letters, 15:1149-1157.
• Sperry, J., Smith, D., Savage, V.M., Enquist, B.J., McCulloh, K., Reich, P.B., Bentley, L.P.,von Allmen, E. (2012) A species’ specific model of the hydraulic and metabolic allometry of trees I: model description, predictions across functional types, and implications for inter-specific scaling. Functional Ecology, 5:1054-1065.
• von Allmen, E., Sperry, J., Smith, D., Savage, V.M., Enquist, B.J., Reich, P.B., Bentley, L.P. (2012) A species’ specific model of the hydraulic and metabolic allometry of trees II: testing predictions of water use and growth scaling in ring- and diffuse-porous species. Functional Ecology, 5:1066-1076.
• Stegen, J., B.J. Enquist, and R. Ferriere (2012) Eco-Evolutionary community dynamics: Covariation between diversity and invisibility across temperature gradients. American Naturalist, 180:E110-E126.
• Violle, C., Enquist, B.J., McGill, B.J. Jiang, L., Albert, C.H., Hulshof, C., Jung, V., Messier, J. (2012) The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 27:244-252.
• Stegen, J.C., Ferriere , R. and B.J. Enquist (2012) Evolving ecological networks and the emergence of biodiversity patterns across temperature gradients. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 279:1051-1060.
• Enquist, B.J. and L. Patrick Bentley (2012) Metabolic scaling in land plants: new theoretical directions and empirical prospects. In: Metabolic Theory of Ecology, pp 164-187. JH. Brown, A. Kodric-Brown, R. Sibley Eds. Oxford University Press.
• Swenson, N.G., Enquist, B.J., Pither, J., Kerkhoff, A.J., Boyle^, , Weiser, M.D., Elser, J.J., Fagan, W.F., N. J.B. Kraft, A. T. Moles, O. L. Phillips, Price,^, C.A., Reich, P.B., Stegen, J.C., Valencia^, R., Wright, I.J., Andelman, S., Hulshof, C.F., Jørgensen, P.M., Lacher Jr., T.E., Abel Monteagudo, M. Percy Núñez Vargas, Vasquez, R. (2012). The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21:798-808.
• Hulshof, C.M., Swenson, N.G., Stegen, J.C. Enquist, C.A.F., and B.J. Enquist. (2012) Interannual variability of growth and reproduction in Bursera simaruba: The role of allometry and climatic variability. Ecology 93:180-190.
• Fuller, M. and B.J. Enquist (2012) Accounting for spatial autocorrelation in null models of tree species association. Ecography 35:510-518.

2011

• A. Goff, M. Vaughn, S. McKay, E. Lyons, A. E. Stapleton, D. Gessler, N. Matasci, L. Wang, M. Hanlon, A. Lenards, A. Muir, N. Merchant, S. Lowry, S. Mock, M. Helmke, A. Kubach, M. Narro, N. Hopkins1, D. Micklos, U. Hilgert, M. Gonzales, C. Jordan, E. Skidmore, R. Dooley, J. Cazes, R. McLay, Z. Lu, S. Pasternak, L. Koesterke, W. H. Piel, R. Grene, C. Noutsos, K. Gendler, X. Feng, C. Tang, M. Lent, S. Kim, K. Kvilekval, B. S. Manjunath, V. Tannen, A. Stamatakis, M. Sanderson, S. M. Welch, K. Cranston, P. Soltis, D. Soltis, B. O’Meara, C. Ane, T. Brutnell, D. J. Kleibenstein, J. W. White, J. Leebens-Mack, M. J. Donoghue, E. P. Spalding, T. J. Vision, C. R. Myers, D. Lowenthal, B. J. Enquist, B. Boyle, A. Akoglu, G. Andrews, S. Ram, D. Ware, L. Stein, and D. Stanzione (2011) The iPlant collaborative: cyberinfrastructure for plant biology. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2:1-16.
• Enquist, B.J. (2011) Forest annual carbon cost: comment. Ecology, 92:1994-1998.
• Kattge, J., Díaz, S., Lavorel S. et al. (2011) TRY – a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology, 17:2905-2935.
• Moles, A.T., I.R. Wallis, W.J. Foley, et al. (2011) Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes. New Phytologist, 191:777-788.
• Blonder, B., Violle, C., Bently, L.P., and B.J. Enquist (2011) Leaf venation networks and the origin of the leaf economic spectrum. Ecology Letters, 14:91-100.
• Símová, I., Storch, D., Keil, P., Boyle, B., Phillips, O.L., and B.J. Enquist (2011) Global species-energy relationship in forest plots: role of abundance, temperature and species’ climatic tolerances. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14:91-100.
• Riveros, A.J., and B.J. Enquist (2011) Metabolic scaling in insects supports predictions of the WBE model. Journal of Insect Physiology, 57: 688-693.
• Stegen, J.C., Swenson, N.G., Enquist, B.J., White, E.P., Phillips, O.L., Jørgensen, P.M., Weiser, M.D., Monteagudo, A., and P.N. Vargas. (2011) Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20:744-754.
• Stark, S.C., Bentley, L. P., and B.J. Enquist (2011) Response to Coomes & Allen (2009) ‘Testing the metabolic scaling theory of tree growth’. Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01719.x
• Enquist, B.J. and C.A.F. Enquist (2011) Long-term change within a Neotropical forest: Assessing differential functional and floristic responses to drought and past disturbance. Global Change Biology, 17:1408-1424.

2010

• Savage, V. M., Bentley, L. P., Enquist, B. J., Sperry, J. S., Smith, D. D., Reich, P. B. and E. I. von Allmen (2010) Hydraulic tradeoffs and space-filling enable predictions of vascular structure and function in plants. PNAS 107, 22722-22727.
• Enquist, B.J. (2010) Wanted: A General and Predictive Theory for Trait-based Plant Ecology. BioScience, 60:854-855. See also journal link here
• Elser, J. J., Fagan, W. F., Kerkhoff, A. J., Swenson, N.G., and J. Enquist (2010) Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling, and ecosystem response to global change. New Phytologist (Invited Tansley Review) 186, 593-608.

2009

• Price, C. A. and J. Enquist (2009) Comment on Coomes et al. “Scaling of xylem vessels and veins within the leaves of oak species”. Biology Letters. 5, 380.
• Stegen, J.C., Enquist, B.J. and R. Ferriere. (2009) Advancing metabolic theory of diversity by unifying ecology and evolution. Ecology Letters 12, 1001-1015.
• Swenson, N.G. and J. Enquist (2009) Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology. Ecology 90:2161-2170.
• Poore, B., Lamanna, C., Ebersole, J.J., and J. Enquist. (2009) Controls on radial growth of Mountain Big Sagebrush and implications for climate change. Western North American Naturalist, 69(4):556-562.
• Morlon, H., White, E.P., Etienne, R.S., Green, J.L. Ostling, A., Alonso, D., Enquist, B.J., He, F., Hulbert, A., Magurran, A.E., Maurer, B.A., McGill, B.J., Olff, H., Storch, D., and T. Zillo. (2009) Taking abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters 12:488-501.
• West, G.B., Enquist, B.J. and J. H. Brown (2009) Metabolic scaling of forest structure and dynamics: A general theory PNAS, 106:7040-7045. Supplemental Document 
• Enquist, B.J., G.B.West, and J.H. Brown (2009) Metabolic scaling of forest structure and dynamics: Theoretical extensions and empirical evaluations. PNAS, 106:7046-7051. Supplemental Document
• Kerkhoff, A.J. and J. Enquist (2009) Multiplicative by nature: Why logarithmic transformation is necessary in allometry. Journal of Theoretical Biology 257:519-521.
• Stegen, J.C., Swenson, N.G. Enquist, B.J. and J.K. Zimmerman (2009) Above‐ground forest biomass is not consistently related to wood density in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 5:617-625.
• Conlisk, E., Conlisk, J., Enquist, B.J., Thompson, J. and J. Harte (2009) Improved abundance prediction from presence-absence data. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18, 1-10.

2008

• Bryant, J., Lamanna, C., Morlon, H., Kerkhoff, A.J., Enquist, B.J. and J. L. Green (2008) Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity. PNAS 105:11505-11511.
• Swenson, N.G. and J. Enquist (2008) The relationship between stem and branch wood specific gravity and the ability of each measure to predict leaf area. American Journal of Botany, 95:515-519.
• White, E.P., Enquist, B.J. and J. L. Green (2008). On estimating the exponent of power-law frequency distributions. Ecology, 89:905-912.
• Fuller, M.M., Enquist, B.J. and A. Wagner (2008). Using network analysis to characterize forest structure.  Natural Resource Modeling, 21:225-247.
• Boyle, B., Meyer, H.W., Enquist, B.J., and Salas, S. (2008) Higher taxa as paleoecological and paleoclimatic indicators: A search for the modern analog of the Florissant fossil flora, in Meyer, H.W. and Smith, D.M. eds. Paleontology of the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado: Geological Society of America Special Paper 435, p. 33-51, doi:10.1130/2008.2435(03).

2007

• Enquist, B.J., Kerkhoff, A.J., Stark, S.C., Swenson, N.G., McCarthy, M.C. and C.A. Price (2007). A general integrative model for scaling plant growth, carbon flux, and functional trait spectra Nature 449:218-222.
• Enquist, B.J. (2007). Journal Club – An ecologist wonders how biotic feedback matters to global-change research. Nature 450:139.
• Price, C.A., J. Enquist and V.M. Savage (2007) A General Model for Allometric Covariation in Botanical Form and Function. PNAS 104:13204-13209.
• Enquist, B.J. and S.C. Stark (2007) Correspondence – Follow Thompson to make biology a capital-S Science. Nature 446:611.
• Savage, V.M., Enquist, B.J. and G.B. West (2007). Comment on Chaui-Berlinck (2006) A critical understanding of the fractal model of metabolic scaling. Journal of Experimental Biology 210:3873-3874.
• White, E.P., Ernest, S.K.M., Kerkhoff, A.J. and J. Enquist (2007) Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:323-330.
• Enquist, B.J., Kerkhokff, A.J., Huxman, T.E., and E.P. Economo (2007) Adaptive differences in plant physiology and ecosystem paradoxes: Insights from Metabolic Scaling Theory. Global Change Biology 13:591-609.
• McGill, B., Etienne, R., Gray, J., Alonso, D., Anderson, M., Benecha, H.; Dornelas, M., Enquist, B., Green, J., He, F., Hurlbert, A., Magurran, A., Marquet, P., Maurer, B., Ostling, A., Soykan, C., Ugland, K., White, E. (2007) Species Abundance Distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework Ecology Letters 10:995-1015.
• McCarthy, M.C. and J. Enquist (2007) Consistency between an allometric approach and optimal partitioning theory in global patterns of plant biomass allocation. Functional Ecology 21:713-720.
• Enquist, B.J., Tiffney, and K.J. Niklas (2007). Metabolic scaling and the evolutionary dynamics of plant size, form and diversity: Toward a synthesis of ecology, evolution, and paleontology. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168:729-749.
• McCarthy, M.C., Enquist, B.J., and A. J. Kerkhoff (2007). Assessing the relative importance of phylogenetic, life history, and leaf traits on plant biomass partitioning. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168:729-749.
• Swenson, N.G., Enquist, B.J., Thompson, J. and J.K. Zimmerman (2007). The scale dependency of competitive and neutral processes in tropical forest communities reveled by phylogenetic analyses. Ecology 87:2418-2424.
• Swenson, N.G. and J. Enquist (2007). Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: Wood density and its community-wide variation across latitude and elevation. American Journal of Botany 94:451-459.
• Price, C.P. and J. Enquist (2007). Scaling mass and morphology in leaves: An extension of the WBE model. Ecology 88:1132-1141.
• Weiser, M.D, Enquist, B.J., Boyle, B., Killeen, T.J., Jorgensen, P.M., Fonseca, G., Jennings, M.D., Kerkhoff, A.J., Larcher, T.E., Monteagudo, A., Nunez Vargus, M.P., Phillips, O.L., Swenson, N.G., and R. Vasquez Martinez (2007). Latitudinal patterns of range size and species richness of New World woody plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 679-688.
• Kerkhoff, A.J. and J. Enquist (2007). Implications of scaling approaches for understanding resilience and reorganization in ecosystems. BioScience 57:489-499.
• Conlisk, E, Bloxham, M, Conlisk, J., Enquist, B.J. and J. Harte (2007) A class of null models of spatial distribution. Ecological Monographs 77:269-284.
• Enquist, B.J., Allen, A.P., Brown, J.H., Gillooly, J.F., Kerkhoff, A.J., Niklas, K.J., Price, C.A., and G.B. West. (2007) Comment – Biological scaling: Does the exception prove the rule? Nature 445:E9-E10.

2006

• Kerkhoff, A.J. Fagan, W.F., Elser, J.J. and B.J. Enquist (2006) Phylogenetic and growth form variation in the scaling of nitrogen and phosphorus in the seed plants. American Naturalist 168:E103-E122.
• McGill, B., Enquist, B.J., Weiher, E. and M. Westoby (2006) Response to Kearney and Porter: Both functional and community ecologists need to do more for each other. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:482-483.
• Swenson, N.G., Enquist, B.J., Pither, J., Thompson, J. and J. Zimmerman (2006) The problem and promise of scale dependency in community phylogenetics. Ecology 87:2418-2424.
• Savage, V.M., White, E.P., Moses, M.E., Ernest, S.K.M., Enquist, B.J., Charnov, E.L. (2006) Comment on “The Illusion of Invariant Quantities in Life Histories”. Science, 312: 198b.
• Kerkhoff, A. and B.J. Enquist (2006) Ecosystem allometry: the scaling of nutrient stocks and primary productivity across plant communities. Ecology Letters, 9:419-427.
• McGill, B. Enquist, B.J., Weiher, E. and M. Westoby (2006) Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21:178-185.
• Price, C.A. and J. Enquist (2006) Scaling of mass and morphology in plants with minimal branching: An extension of the WBE model. Functional Ecology, 20: 11-20.
• Potts, D.L., Huxman, T.E., Enquist, B.J., Weltzin, J.F., and D.G. Williams (2006) Resilience and resistance of ecosystem functional response to a precipitation pulse in a semi-arid grassland. Journal of Ecology 94:23-30.

2005

• Kerkhoff, A.J., Enquist, J., W.F. Fagan, and J.J. Elser. (2005) Plant allometry, ecological stoichiometry and the temperature-dependence of terrestrial primary production. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14:585-598.
• Brown, J.H., West, G.B. and B.J. Enquist (2005) Yes, West, Brown and Enquist’s model of allometric scaling is both mathematically correct and biologically relevant. Functional Ecology 19:735-738.
• Economo, E, P., Kerkhoff, A.J. and Enquist, B.J. (2005) Allometric growth, life-history invariants and population energetics. Ecology Letters, 8:353-360.
• McCarthy, M.C. and B.J. Enquist. (2005) Organismal size, metabolism and the evolution of complexity in Metazoans. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 7:681-696.

2004

• Maurer, B.A., Alroy, J., Brown, J.H., Dayan, T, Enquist, B.J., Ernest, S.K.M., Hadly, E.A., Haskell, J.P., Jablonski, D., Jones, K.E., Kaufman, D.M., Lyons, S.K., Niklas, K.J., Porter, W.P., Roy, K., Smith, F.A., Tiffney, B. and M.R. Willig. (2004) Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6:783-797.
• Smith, F.A., Brown, J.H., Haskell, J.P., Lyons, S.K., Alroy, J., Charnov, E.L., Dayan, T., Enquist, B.J., Ernest, S.K.M., Hadly, E.A., Jablonski, D., Jones, K.E., Kaufman, D.M., Marquet, P.A., Maurer, B.A., Niklas, K.J., Porter, W.P., Roy, K., Tiffney, B., and M.R. Willig. (2004). Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time. American Naturalist, 163:672-691.
• Savage, V.M., J. F. Gillooly, W.H. Woodruff, G.B. West, A. P. Allen, B. J. Enquist, J. H. Brown. (2004). The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology. Functional Ecology, 18:257-282.
• West, G.B., Brown, J.H. and B. J. Enquist (2004) Growth models based on first principles or phenomonology? Functional Ecology, 18:188-196.
• Fuller, M.M., Enquist, B.J. and A. Wagner (2004). Neutrality is Size-Dependent in Tropical Understory Trees (2004). SFI WORKING PAPER: 2004-06-016
• Fuller, M.M., Enquist, B.J. and A. Wagner (2004). Species Association Networks of Tropical Trees Have a Non-neutral Structure. SFI WORKING PAPER: 2004-06-015
• Niklas, K. J., and J. Enquist. 2004. Biomass Allocation and Growth Data of Seeded Plants. Data set. Available on-line, <http://www.daac.ornl.gov&gt; from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.

2003

• Enquist, B.J., Economo, E.P., Huxman, T.E., Allen, A. P. Ignace, D. D. and J. F. Gillooly (2003) Scaling metabolism from organisms to ecosystems. Nature, 423:639-642.
• Ernest, S.K.M., Enquist, B.J., Brown, J.H., Charnov, E.L., Gillooly, J.F., Savage, V.M., White, E.P., Smith, F.A., Alroy, J., Dayan, T., Hadly, E.A., Haskell, J.P., Lyons, S.K., Maurer, B.A., Niklas, K.J., Porter, W., and B. Tiffney (2003) Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and abundance. Ecology Letters, 6:990-996.
• Enquist, B.J. (2003) Scaling the macroecological and evolutionary implications of size and metabolism within and across plant taxa. In: Macroecology: Pattern and Process, pp 321-341 (T. Blackburn and K. Gaston Eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• West, G.B., V. M. Savage, J. Gillooly, J. Enquist, William H. Woodruff and James H. Brown. (2003). Brief Communication – But Why Does Metabolic Rate Scale with Body Size? Nature 421: 713.
• Niklas, K.J., J.J. Midgley, and J. Enquist (2003) A general model for mass-growth-density relations across plant communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5:459-468.
• Enquist, B.J. (2003) Cope’s Rule and the evolution of long distance transport in vascular plants: Allometric scaling, biomass partitioning, and optimization. Plant Cell and Environment 26:151-161.
• Niklas, K.J. and J. Enquist (2003) The allometric scaling of seed plant reproduction. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5:79-88.

2002

• West, G.B. B.J. Enquist, J.H. Brown (2002) Ontogenetic growth: Modeling universality and scaling (Brief Communication) Nature 420: 626-627.
• Enquist, B.J., Haskell, J. P., and Tiffney, B. H. (2002). General patterns of taxonomic diversity and biomass partitioning across tree dominated communities. Nature 419:610-613.
• Enquist, B.J. (2002) Universal scaling in vascular plants: Toward a general quantitative theory for linking plant processes from leaves to ecosystems. Tree Physiology 22: 1045–1064.
• Belgrano, A. , Allen, A.A., .J. Enquist and J.F. Gillooly. (2002) Allometric scaling of maximum population density: a common rule for marine phytoplankton and terrestrial plants. Ecology Letters 5:611-613.
• Enquist, B.J. and K.J. Niklas (2002) Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning – Technical Comment Science 296:1923a
• Niklas, K.J. and B.J. Enquist (2002) Canonical rules for plant organ biomass partitioning and growth allocation. American Journal of Botany 89:812-819.
• Niklas, K.J. and B.J. Enquist (2002) On the vegetative biomass partitioning of seed plant leaves, stems, and roots. American Naturalist 159:482-497.
• Enquist, B.J., J. Sanderson, and M.D. Weiser (2002) Modeling macroscopic patterns in ecology.  Science 295:1517-1520.
• Enquist, B.J. and K.J. Niklas (2002) Global allocation rules for biomass partitioning in seed plants. Science 295:1517-1520.
• Leffler, A. J. & J. Enquist. (2002) Carbon isotope composition of tree leaves from dry tropical forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Comparison across tropical ecosystems and tree life history. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18:151-159.
• West, G.B., Savage, V.M., Gillooly, J., Enquist, B.J. Woodruff, W.H. and J.H. Brown (2002). Red herrings and rotten fish. arXiv:physics/0211058.

2001

• West, G.B., J.H. Brown, and B.J. Enquist (2001) A general allometric model of ontogenetic growth. Nature: 413: 628-631.
• Enquist, B.J. and K.J. Niklas (2001). Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities. Nature 410:655-660.
• Niklas, K. J. and B.J. Enquist (2001). Invariant scaling relationships for interspecific plant biomass production rates and body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA): 98:2922-2927.
• Enquist, B.J. & A. J. Leffler (2001). Long-term tree ring chronologies from sympatric tropical dry-forest trees: individualistic responses to climate variation. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17:41-60.
• Enquist, B.J., Haskell, J., Niklas, K.J., & B. H. Tiffney (2001). The evolution of plant communities: biodiversity and community structure through time. In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Pp 631-643. Levin (ed.). Academic Press.
• Enquist, B.J. and J.J. Sullivan (2001) Vegetative key and descriptions of tree species of tropical dry forests of upland Sector Santa Rosa, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Published on-line Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (acguanacaste.ac.cr/paginas_especie/plantae/magnoliophyta/ text_principal_plantae2.html).

2000

• Kiflawi, M., Enquist, B.J. & M.A. Jordan (2000). Developmental instability and relative position within the geographic range: an analysis of sympatric populations within Pleistocene and Contemporary Local Communities. Ecography 23, 539-546.
• Brown, J.H., West, G.B., & B.J. Enquist. (2000) Scaling in Biology: Patterns and processes, causes and consequences. In: Scaling in Biology J.H. Brown and G.B. West (eds.). Oxford University Press.
• Enquist , B.J., West, G.B. & J.H. Brown. (2000) The origin and ecological consequences of quarter-power allometric scaling in vascular plants. In: Scaling in Biology James H. Brown and G.B. West (eds.). Oxford University Press.
• West, G.B., Brown, J.H. & B.J. Enquist. (2000) The origin of universal scaling laws in biology. In: Scaling in Biology J.H. Brown and G.B. West (eds.). Oxford University Press.
• West, G.B., Brown, J.H. & B.J. Enquist (1999) The fourth dimension of life: Fractal geometry and allometric scaling of organisms. Science 284:1677-1679.

1999

• Enquist, B.J., West, G.B., Charnov, E.L., & J.H. Brown (1999) Allometric scaling of production and life history variation in vascular plants. Nature 401: 907-911. (This paper was awarded the 2001 Ecological Society of America Mercer Award:)
• West, G.B., Brown, J.H. & B.J. Enquist. (1999) A general model for the structure, and allometry of plant vascular systems. Nature 400: 664-667.
• Enquist, B.J., Brown, J.H. & West, G.B. (1999) Plant energetics and population density Response. Nature 398:572-573.
• Enquist, B.J. (1999) Deducing underlying principles of vascular plant structure and function. A review of: Schieving, Feike 1998. Plato’s Plant: On the Mathematical Structure of Simple Plants and Canopies. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, 360p. ISBN 90-5782-003-X. Ecology 80:2455-2456.

1998  

• Guo, Q, Brown, J.H. & B.J. Enquist (1998) Using constraint lines to characterize plant performance. Oikos 83:237-245.
• Enquist, B.J., Brown, J.H. & G.B. West. (1998) Allometric scaling of plant energetics and population density. Nature 395:163-166.
• Brown, J.H., Enquist, B.J., & G.B. West (1998) Allometric scaling in biology –Technical Comment. Science. 281: 751a
• Stevens, G.C., & B.J. Enquist (1998) Macroecological limits to the abundance and distribution of Pinus. In: Ecology and Biogeography of the genus Pinus. D.M. Richardson (ed.), pp 183-190. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

1997 – 

• Brown, J.H., Enquist, B.J. & G.B. West (1997) Allometric scaling laws in biology –Response. Science 278:372-373.
• West, G.B., Brown, J.H. & B.J.Enquist (1997) A general model for the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology. Science 276:122-126.
• Enquist, B.J., Jordan, M.A. & J.H. Brown (1995). Connections between ecology, biogeography and paleobiology: relationship between local abundance and geographic distribution in fossil and recent organisms. Evolutionary Ecology 9:586-604.
• Enquist, B.J. & J. J. Ebersole (1994) Effects of added water on photosynthesis of Bistorta vivipara: The importance of water relations and leaf nitrogen in two alpine communities, Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA. Arctic and Alpine Research 26:29-34.
• Enquist, B.J. , I.S. Cornel, and R. Thorstrom (1993). A preliminary multivariate analysis of nesting habitat of Barred and Collared Forest-Falcons (Micraster ruficollis and semitorquatus): The use of tree species composition and forest architecture to characterize favorable habitat. The Maya project: Use of Raptors as Environmental Indices for design and Management of Protected Areas and for Building Local Capacity for Conservation in Latin America. W.A. Burnham and D.F. Whitacre eds., The Peregrine Fund, Boise, Id.
• Mitchell, R, D. Bleakly, R. Cabin, R. Chan, B.J. Enquist , A. Evans, T. Lowrey, D. Marshall, S. Reed, G. Stevens, & N. Wasser (1993). Species concepts, response to Ernst Mayr: Speciation and hybridization in plants. Nature 364:20.