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Benjamin Blonder

Norwegian University of Science and Technology · NO
Area of research
Nature and Landscape Conservation · Ecological Modeling
Research interest
Research interests include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and animal studies, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.
h-index
48
citations
14,030
works
162
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure
Science 2025cited by 36position: middledoi
Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change
Functional Ecology 2025cited by 12position: middledoi
High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem <scp>II</scp> in land plants
New Phytologist 2025cited by 9position: middledoi
Intensive leaf cooling promotes tree survival during a record heatwave
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024cited by 31position: middledoi
The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Scientific Data 2022cited by 114position: middledoi
Logging alters tropical forest structure, while conversion to agriculture reduces biodiversity and functioning
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2022cited by 1position: middledoi
Global maps of soil temperature
Global Change Biology 2021cited by 307position: middledoi
Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome
Nature Communications 2020cited by 110position: middledoi
The Influence of Ecosystem and Phylogeny on Tropical Tree Crown Size and Shape
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2020cited by 40position: middledoi
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access
Global Change Biology 2019cited by 2,046position: middledoi
The relationship of woody plant size and leaf nutrient content to large‐scale productivity for forests across the Americas
Journal of Ecology 2019cited by 42position: middledoi
Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2018cited by 709position: middledoi
Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species
Journal of Biogeography 2018cited by 141position: middledoi
Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2018cited by 77position: middledoi
Late Quaternary climate legacies in contemporary plant functional composition
Global Change Biology 2018cited by 60position: firstdoi
Tropical forest leaves may darken in response to climate change
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2018cited by 39position: middledoi
New approaches for delineating <i>n</i>‐dimensional hypervolumes
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2017cited by 350position: firstdoi
Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017cited by 293position: middledoi
Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows
Oikos 2017cited by 109position: lastdoi
Predictability in community dynamics
Ecology Letters 2017cited by 85position: firstdoi
Assessing trait‐based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2017cited by 83position: middledoi
Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits
Journal of Vegetation Science 2017cited by 50position: middledoi
Predicting trait‐environment relationships for venation networks along an Andes‐Amazon elevation gradient
Ecology 2017cited by 38position: firstdoi
Using <i>n</i>‐dimensional hypervolumes for species distribution modelling: A response to Qiao et al. ()
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2017cited by 21position: firstdoi
Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2016cited by 131position: middledoi
Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect
Organic Geochemistry 2016cited by 101position: middledoi
Variation in leaf wettability traits along a tropical montane elevation gradient
New Phytologist 2016cited by 75position: middledoi
A network approach for inferring species associations from co‐occurrence data
Ecography 2015cited by 138position: middledoi
Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework
Ecology 2015cited by 87position: firstdoi
Variation and macroevolution in leaf functional traits in the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae)
Journal of Ecology 2015cited by 70position: firstdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Brian J. Enquist · University of Arizona23 papers (2012–2020)Cyrille Violle · University of Arizona11 papers (2013–2019)Gregory P. Asner · University of Leicester7 papers (2016–2020) · 7 papers (2016–2020)Alexander Shenkin · University of Florida7 papers (2016–2020)Lisa Patrick Bentley · University of Arizona7 papers (2016–2020)Yadvinder Malhi · Leverhulme Trust7 papers (2016–2020)Jens‐Christian Svenning · Aarhus University6 papers (2015–2019)Roberta E. Martin · Arizona State University6 papers (2016–2018)Gregory R. Goldsmith · University of California, Berkeley5 papers (2016–2018)Brody Sandel · Aarhus University5 papers (2015–2019)Naia Morueta‐Holme · University of Copenhagen5 papers (2015–2019) · 4 papers (2017–2025)Jens Kattge · German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research4 papers (2017–2019) · 4 papers (2015–2019)Sandra Dı́az · Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas4 papers (2016–2018)Brian Maitner · University of Arizona3 papers (2017–2018)Robert K. Peet · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill3 papers (2015–2019)Sean T. Michaletz · University of British Columbia3 papers (2017–2025) · 3 papers (2014–2017)