team
Members and alumni of the Enquist Macroecology Lab
Principal Investigator
Brian J. Enquist
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute.
Graduate Students
Jocelyn Navarro
PhD Student
Plant ecologist specializing in plant-water relations.
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
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.
Lab Team & Technical Staff
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
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
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
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
Andrew Kerkhoff
University of Puget Sound
Brad Boyle
University of Arizona
Jason Pither
University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada
Ethan White
University of Florida
Lisa Patrick
Sonoma State University
Cyrille Violle
CNRS, University of Montpeller, France
2010s
Sean Michaletz
University of British Columbia, Canada
Naia Morueta-Holme
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Noah Charney
University of Maine Orono
Sandra Duran
Colorado State University
Danilo Neves
University of Minas Gerais, Botany Department, Brazil
Daniel Park
Purdue University
Xiao Feng
University of North Carolina
Rachael Gallagher
Western Sydney University, Australia
Robbie Burger
University of Kentucky
2020s
Julia Chacón-Labella
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Teresa Bohner
USGS
Cesar Hinojo Hinojo
Universidad de Sonora, Mexico
Gabriel Moulatlet
Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.
Former Graduate Students
19 doctoral, master's, and thesis-track alumni organized by training era.
2001–2009
Charles Price
Associate Professor position at the University of Western Australia
Michael Weiser
University of Oklahoma
Megan McCarthy
Nathan Swenson
University of Notre Dame
James Stegen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Christine Lamanna
The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry
Scott Stark
Michigan State University
Catherine Hulshof
Virginia Commonwealth University
Lindsey Sloat
World Resources Institute
Benjamin Blonder
University of California at Berkeley
2010–2019
Julie Messier
University of Waterloo, Canada
Alex Brummer
College of Charleston
Vanessa Buzzard
University of Arizona
Brian Maitner
University of South Florida
Lorah Seltzer
University of Reno
Adam Chmurzynski
John Donoghue
Amanda Henderson
Rocky Mountain Biological Lab
Matiss Castorena Salaks
Notable Undergraduate Researchers
Early-career researchers who contributed important work during undergraduate training.
Evan Economo
University of Maryland
John Grady
Rachael Mitchell
University of Arizona
Peter Gaube
University of Washington