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Brian J. Enquist
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Biodiversity | Ecology | Physiology | Theory | Climate Change | Macroecology | Scaling | biendata.org; Prof. EEB Univ of Arizona, External Prof Santa Fe Institute, Assoc Res Oxford Univ UK; Proud father, ๐ŸŒต๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐ŸŒฒ Gift med en svensk .. more

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Brian Joseph Enquist is an American biologist and academic. Enquist is a professor of biology at the University of Arizona. He is also external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a biologist, plant biologist and an ecologist. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012 and the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2018. .. more

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท May 9
In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿฆ‹ 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 6h
Naturalized and Invasive Species Integrate Differently in the Trait Space of Local Plant Communities๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒพ๐ŸŒ #FunctionalTraits onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Naturalized and Invasive Species Integrate Differently in the Trait Space of Local Plant Communities
We investigated the relative positions of native, non-invasive naturalized and invasive plant species in the functional trait space of local communities in six different habitat types. We show that n...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 6h
Cool new work by Storch, Ridder, and Okie - Cradles, museums, and disequilibria: reconciling biodiversity dynamics using equilibrium theory #macroecology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒ
Cradles, museums, and disequilibria: reconciling biodiversity dynamics using equilibrium theory
Historical nonequilibrium processes are often considered the main drivers of global biodiversity patterns. We argue that while biodiversity is often oโ€ฆ
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Julie L. Lockwood

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org ยท 7h
Honoring James A. Estes, a pioneering ecologist whose research on sea otters in Alaska revealed how predators shape entire ecosystems. His work helped define the concept of trophic cascades and inspired generations of ecologists. Read the PNAS Retrospective: https://ow.ly/leKs50XrKBH
Honoring the life of James A. Estes, a pioneering ecologist.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 9h
Up there amongst the most amazing museum exhibits Iโ€™ve seen - so worth a visit
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Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors

Thatโ€™s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS โ€” a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
An overview shot of a portion of the collection: a long window box with wooden frames filled with glass models of plants carefully arranged and labeled on white backgrounds, as though part of a 3D herbarium. From this distance, they are indistinguishable from real plants. Glass model of maple leaves, featuring blended molten glass that mimics the red hues of autumn foliage A glass model of a Columbine (Aquilegia) with parsley-like leaves and pendulous, faintly red and yellow flowers that look like swans huddled together, necks touching and wings flared out. Glass model of a Potentilla with almost ferny foliage and simple, open-faced yellow flowers with fuzzy centers.

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social ยท 9h
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors

Thatโ€™s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS โ€” a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
An overview shot of a portion of the collection: a long window box with wooden frames filled with glass models of plants carefully arranged and labeled on white backgrounds, as though part of a 3D herbarium. From this distance, they are indistinguishable from real plants. Glass model of maple leaves, featuring blended molten glass that mimics the red hues of autumn foliage A glass model of a Columbine (Aquilegia) with parsley-like leaves and pendulous, faintly red and yellow flowers that look like swans huddled together, necks touching and wings flared out. Glass model of a Potentilla with almost ferny foliage and simple, open-faced yellow flowers with fuzzy centers.

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social ยท 19h
๐ŸšจJob opportunity๐Ÿšจ

We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
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www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk

Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Brian J. Enquist, Nicholas A. Christakis , and 27 more

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social ยท 1d
โ€œThe prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.โ€
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Jussi T. Eronen, Dennis Rรถdder

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social ยท 1d
Biological accommodation of climatic variability is a first order factor enabling success of species. An excellent study of temperature niche breadth and geographical ranges of terrestrial plants.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
๐Ÿงช โš’๏ธ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Macroecology
Global map of species (A) geographic range size, and (B) niche breadth.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 2d
Hint of the #aurora way down here in #Tucson

Reposted by Jensโ€Christian Svenning, Brian J. Enquist, Ingolf Kรผhn

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Gabriel M. Moulatlet @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social ยท 2d
in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into speciesโ€™ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales.

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General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS
A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...
www.pnas.org

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Gabriel M. Moulatlet @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social ยท 2d
We are glad to share our recent article pulbished in @pnas.org, where we we demonstrate that plant species that occupy larger geographic ranges tend to have broader climatic niches and are more likely to achieve high local abundances.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 4d
I am striving for such a statement from my teaching evaluations

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 4d
Seeing these pop-up climate and #clearnenergy protests more often now here in #Tucson #climatestripes #ShowYourStripes
photo of several climate change and clean energy protestors holding signs- out monday morning in downtown Tucson Arizona

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 4d
Only in base R so you are in luck

Reposted by Jensโ€Christian Svenning, Brian J. Enquist, Julie L. Lockwood , and 4 more

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Milan Chytrรฝ @milanchytry.bsky.social ยท 4d
Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divรญลกek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Reposted by Maximilian Hanusch

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 4d
Is this a thing? hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io

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Maike Morrison @maikemorrison.bsky.social ยท 5d
My little brother made the coolest thing you'll see all day www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULpN...
Procedurally Generating Infinite Marble Runs โ€” Marble Fountain
YouTube video by Will Morrison
www.youtube.com

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Max Hellicar @birdingtothemax.bsky.social ยท 5d
White-crowned Sparrow experienced a record year at Rocky Point, with 537 ringed (2000-2024 mean of 160). This individual, whoโ€™d clearly been feasting on berries, was one of our oldest recaptures, having been ringed in 2019. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿชถ๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒŽ
White-crowned Sparrow. Rocky Point, British Columbia, Canada. 15 September 2025. White-crowned Sparrow. Rocky Point, British Columbia, Canada. 15 September 2025.

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Anne-Laure D ๐ŸŒฟ @aldpaleo.bsky.social ยท 6d
Fall colours that are not angiosperm leaves ๐Ÿค“๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒฟ
#botany
Bright red arils on a green yew branch Yellow sporangia on a green fern leaf

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Monica G. Turner, Jason Stajich , and 5 more

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social ยท 7d
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

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AC Vasquez - ๅฎ‰ๅจœ @criskotsu.bsky.social ยท 9d
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Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period - Nature Geoscience
Low carbon dioxide levels during the last glacial period enhanced photorespiration in trees across North America, indicating a decline in land plant productivity, according to measurements of clumped ...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Nancyยญ Knowltonยญ, Neil Pederson , and 6 more

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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social ยท 9d
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which theyโ€™d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com ยท 9d
Very pleased to be part of this super cool new paper led by William Hagan Brown in @globalchangebio.bsky.social looking at the impact of elevated CO2 on canopy temperatures in an oak woodland at the BIFor-FACE experiment

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Elevated CO2 Increases the Canopy Temperature of Mature Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
We investigated the impact of high atmospheric CO2, similar to that predicted for 2050, on tree canopy temperature dynamics of mature pedunculate oak using long-term, high-frequency thermal infrared ...
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Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Brian J. Enquist, Jesse M. Shapiro , and 4 more

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social ยท 9d
If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...
Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Schwarzman College of Computing - cee.mit.edu
The Department of Civilย and Environmentalย Engineering (CEE),ย togetherย with the Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyย (MIT) in Cambridge MA, seeks candidate...
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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social ยท 9d
Night blooming cactus on my evening walk in Tucson tonight!
A tall columnar cactus with multiple ribbed stems blooming with cream and peach-colored flowers at night in Tucson. The cactus stands in a desert garden with purple flowering plants, gravel pathways, and a palm tree visible against a dark blue night sky. Close-up of a night-blooming cactus flower with ruffled white petals edged in coral-red, revealing a green center with yellow stamens. The delicate bloom is photographed at night against the ribbed, spiny stems of a columnar cactus in Tucson.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 10d
apply to other fields in ecology? agree that some cultures are more dominant than others and other cultures may not be prevalent or the norm. Also agree that being aware of which culture one was trained/ collaborate in can help be aware of creative new directions for scientific transculuralism

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 10d
Thank you for the kind words. The temporal aspect is interesting - we did discuss this quite a bit. Variance culture likely is the first step but a case could be made that the other cultures are also present early on depending on the field. An important follow up!

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social ยท 11d
Hope it sparks discussion!

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social ยท 12d
NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there!

*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.

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Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution
Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social ยท 13d
Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿชด #ecoevo #wildfire
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social ยท Sep 24
Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿชด @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire