team

Members and alumni of the Enquist Macroecology Lab

Brian J. Enquist, February 2020
Brian J. Enquist
Avery Ridge landscape
Avery Ridge

Principal Investigator

Brian J. Enquist

Brian J. Enquist

Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute.

Google Scholar · GitHub · Lab GitHub · benquist@arizona.edu



Graduate Students

Jocelyn Navarro

Jocelyn Navarro

PhD Student

Plant ecologist specializing in plant-water relations.

Connor J. Wilson

Connor J. Wilson

PhD Student

I am a biologist interested in how constraints and characteristics at small scales produce emergent macroevolutionary and macroecological patterns. For example, I am studying how plant genome structure and functional traits scale up to produce produce distributional patterns and control Earth's climate over deep time.

Michael P. Mustri

Michael P. Mustri

PhD Student

I started out my career in physics and briefly worked as a systems engineer before I discovring a passion for theoretical ecology. While my research interests are broad, they revolve around the role biophysical constraints have in shaping functional trait distributions in both plants and microbes. Conversely, I'm focused on modeling the relationship between the large-scale interaction structure of organisms and the preponderance of life history strategies in an ecosystem.

Maryela Celaya R

Maryela Celaya R

PhD Student

Biologist interested in plant ecology and physiology. I’m currently studying tree demography and forest resilience to environmental stress.


Lab Team & Technical Staff

Michiel (Mich) Pillet

Michiel (Mich) Pillet

Designated Campus Colleague

Conservation ecologist specializing in climate change impacts on biodiversity, with a focus on cacti and succulents. My research integrates ecological theory, species distribution modeling, and quantitative methods to inform conservation planning and policy.

Gabriel M. Moulatlet

Gabriel M. Moulatlet

Designated Campus Colleague

Biologist with a broad interest in tropical ecology and macroecology, with experience in Amazonian upland forests in Brazil and the Andes of Ecuador. I am focused on remote sensing, biogeography, and environmental mapping to understand large-scale species distribution.

Maria Agustina Rosati

Maria Agustina Rosati

Lab Manager

Field and lab biologist who manages the lab field campaigns, the plant and trait stoichiometry lab, and all keeping the lab running

Deborah Goldberg

Deborah Goldberg

Sabatarian emeritas

My research investigates the processes that underlie patterns in plant community dynamics, structure, and function, combining experiments in the field, mesocosms, and greenhouse, field surveys at scales from centimeters to kilometers, and modeling to integrate results across approaches and scales.


Extended Lab Network

Visitors, sabbatarians, and collaborators have included Alberto Burquez, Bente Graae, Deborah Goldberg, Jens-Christian Svenning, Yadvinder Malhi, Cory Merow, Henry Horn, Angelina Martinez-Yrizar, Ruben Milla, Choy Huang, Van Savage, Richard Strimbeck, and Vigdis Vandvik.


Alumni

Former Lab Graduate Students, Notable Undergraduates & Postdocs

Former Postdoctoral Researchers

19 researchers whose work shaped the lab's theory, synthesis, and field programs.

2000s

Brad Boyle

Postdoc 2002-2006, 2010-2013

University of Arizona

Jason Pither

Postdoc 2004-2007

University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada

Lisa Patrick

Postdoc 2008 – 2013

Sonoma State University

Cyrille Violle

Postdoc 2009 – 2012

CNRS, University of Montpeller, France

2010s

Sean Michaletz

Postdoc 2013 - 2017

University of British Columbia, Canada

Sandra Duran

Postdoc 2016 - 2020

Colorado State University

Danilo Neves

Postdoc 2016 - 2018

University of Minas Gerais, Botany Department, Brazil

Xiao Feng

Postdoc 2019-2020

University of North Carolina

2020s

Former Graduate Students

19 doctoral, master's, and thesis-track alumni organized by training era.

2001–2009

Charles Price

(PhD EEB: 2001 – 2006)

Associate Professor position at the University of Western Australia

Megan McCarthy

(PhD EEB:2002 – 2006)

James Stegen

(PhD 2004 – 2009)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Christine Lamanna

(PhD EEB:2006 –2012)

The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry

Scott Stark

(PhD EEB:2006 – 2012)

Michigan State University

Lindsey Sloat

(PhD EEB:2009 – 2015)

World Resources Institute

2010–2019

Julie Messier

(PhD EEB:2010 – 2015)

University of Waterloo, Canada

Alex Brummer

(PhD Physics:2012 – 2017)

College of Charleston

Brian Maitner

(PhD EEB:2014 – 2021)

University of South Florida

Lorah Seltzer

(PhD EEB:2016 – 2025);

University of Reno

Adam Chmurzynski

(PhD EEB:2017 – 2025);

John Donoghue

(Masters:2010 – 2014).

Amanda Henderson

(Masters:2013 – 2016).

Rocky Mountain Biological Lab

Matiss Castorena Salaks

Masters: 2017 – 2022)

Notable Undergraduate Researchers

Early-career researchers who contributed important work during undergraduate training.

Evan Economo

Notable Undergraduate Lab Researcher

University of Maryland

Peter Gaube

Notable Undergraduate Lab Researcher

University of Washington