Brian Enquist
Professor at Conservation International
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Enquist is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona whose research blends theory, big data, and fieldwork to reveal general scaling laws that link organismal traits to biodiversity and ecosystem function. He leads a lab that develops trait-based, quantitative frameworks to scale physiological and anatomical constraints from individuals to global patterns, with extensive work across tropical forests, elevational gradients, and alpine systems. A prolific researcher with over 300 publications and honors including an NSF CAREER, a Fulbright, ESA and AAAS fellowships, he also serves as external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and has held prestigious fellowships in Prague, Montpellier, and Oxford. His work uniquely integrates informatics infrastructure with empirical trait measurement to make biology more predictive, and has directly informed large-scale conservation planning efforts such as SPARC.
11 years of coding experience
B.A., Biology, B.A., Biology at Colorado CollegePhD, Biology, PhD, Biology at The University of New Mexico
Spanish
Github Skills (14)
traits7
phylogeny7
biodiversity6
ecology5
open-science4
open-data4
nmf3
r3
bioinformatics3
database2
data-set2
taxonomy2
ckan2
javascript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benquist/Peru_Analyses
Oct 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 10 months
benquist/ECOL586
Jan 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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