The Enquist Lab
Functional Evolutionary Ecology and Macroecology
Principle Investigator
Brian J. Enquist
Post Doctoral Associates
Brad Boyle , Jason Pither , Ethan White
Graduate Students
Megan McCarthy , Charles Price , Michael Weiser , Nate Swenson , Christine Lamanna , James Stegen, Scott Stark
Technicians, Research Associates, and Programmers
Lara Crumbacher , Melisa Wilson , Joy Shifflet, Matt Cole
Recent propagules
Andrew Kerkhoff, Evan Economo , David VanDyken, Hanna Coy, Peter Gaube
Lab Members
Dr. Brian J.
Enquist
Principal
Investigator
Dr. Brad "Braulio"
Boyle
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr. Boyle is interested in patterns of diversity - including biogeography, and macroecology and plant systematics within and across plant assemblages. Brad is an instructor for the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) and studies tropical tree diversity especialy montane forests.
Laura Crumbacher
Undergraduate Research Technician
Laura is a junior EEB major and is interested in soil-plant interactions in desert legumes. She is an assistant to the lab's projects on plant stoichiometry and energetics and she enjoys a good day out in the field. Laura is also a reaserch assistant with the lab's work on plant functional traits and ecosystem energetics at the Rockly Mountain Biological Lab in Gothic Colorado
Dr. Andrew
Kerkhoff
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr. Kerkhoff studies the macroecology of plant distibution, life history, and physiology. He is especially interested in connecting plant stoichiometry, allometric scaling and ecosystem dynamics. Drew's work includes quantifying the variability in plant functional traits and ecosystem attributes across elevational gradients in Colorado and tropical Latin America. As of fall 2005 Drew has now landed a real job as an Assistant Professor at Kenyon College. He has a joint position in the departments of Biology and Mathematics. Way to go Drew! But we sure do miss you! You can visit Drew at his new website
Christine Lamanna
Doctoral Student
Christine comes to our lab with a background in physics and astonomy. She is interested in
macroecology, scaling and spatial patterns in ecosystems - especially arid ecosystems.
Megan McCarthy
Doctoral Student 
Megan studies how phylogeny, physiology and life-history differences affect whole plant energetics and
biomass allocation
Dr. Jason Pither
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Jason comes to our lab from Dr. Lonnie Aarssen's lab at Queen's University.
Jason's current research uses an eco-informatics and computational approach to
more accurately describe macroecological (continental to global extent)
patterns in plant systems. He utilizes spatial null-modelling methods to evaluate
alternative explanatory hypotheses for the patterns observed.
Jason is also a proud member of the southern outpost of Canadian citizens co-founded by Jason and Brad
Boyle.
Chuck
Price
Doctoral Student
Chuck studies plant allometry, morphology and architecture. He is interested in allometric scaling models and understanding the diversity of plant form in linking the scaling of abundance, size, and diversity within and across plant communities.
Joy Shifflette
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Joy is working on the Ecosystem Stochimetry project, aiding in training new lab members, data management and phosphorus analysis
Scott is interested in how growth constraints shared by all trees interact with
ecological processes, specifically competition mediated by light availability,
to influence the evolution of life-history traits in tropical forests.
Doctoral
Student
James is interested in linking metabolic theory with food web/trophic
dynamics, and specifically in terms of the effects of climate change on food
web properties via the effects on plant stoichiometry.
Doctoral
Student 
Nate is interested in the phylogenetic structure and functional trait
composition of tropical plant communities. He is also interested in plant
functional trait evolution
Doctoral Student
Mike is interested in theoretical ecology,
specifically with understanding how continental scale patterns and processes (e.g., regional diversity)
combine with local processes (ecological interactions) to structure biotic assemblages
Undergraduate EEB Major 
Melisa is a research assistant with the plant functional trait and ecosystem flux study at Rocky Mountain
Biological Lab. She is also interested in ecological stoichiometry especially in Marine Ecosystems
Dr. Ethan White
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ethan is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics. He splits his time between the Enquist lab at the University of Arizona & Dr. Jessica Green's
lab at the University of California - Merced. His
research interests are primarily macroecological, combining theory with empirical analysis to address questions about emergent spatiotemporal patterns of biomass spectra, species diversity & abundance -
especially questions focusing on the processes that drive these patterns. In addition, he is actively involved in studying emergent properties in the structure and dynamics of
communities, with the goal of understanding community wide constraints on factors such as abundance, biomass, and species richness.
Emeriti
Evan P. Economo
Research
Technician Emeritus
Evan started in our lab as an undergraduate interested in scaling theory and macroecology.
He quickly became a Theory and Computational Technician. He is currently a graduate student in the Section of Integrative Biology at the University of
Texas, Austin. Evan still visits the lab from time to time and is involved in several lab collaborations
Pete Gaube
Research Technician Emeritus
Peter was our stellar Lab Technician overseeing the processing
and management of the ecosystem stoichiometry data. His interest include the application of macroecology and scaling to
the conservation and management of pelagic fisheries, the biodiversity and biogeography of
reef fish. Pete spends as much time as possible in the field and is an avid diver, hiker and naturalist. He is the only
one I know who can drink german schnapps at 14,000ft., rewire a LiCor-7500, and measure CO2 flux in the same day. Pete
is currently in the Master program in Oceanography at
Nova southeastern
university
Hanna Coy
Research
Technician Emeritus
Hanna is interested in quantifying energy and material fluxes through plants and ecosystems. She is also interested in theoretical models of speciation and diversity
Srinivas Reddy
Computer Tech/Programmer Emeritus
Srinivas is the lab's computer technician and is currently working on programs to assemble global distrubtion data from herbaria across the New World Latitudinal gradient