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Nathan J. B. Kraft

University of California System · US
Area of research
Nature and Landscape Conservation · Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Research interest
Research interests include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Forest ecology and management.
h-index
67
citations
27,431
works
204
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Latitudinal scaling of aggregation with abundance and coexistence in forests
Nature 2025cited by 20position: middledoi
Simplification of woody plant trait networks among communities along a climatic aridity gradient
Journal of Ecology 2025cited by 18position: middledoi
Arbuscular mycorrhizal association regulates global root–seed coordination
Nature Plants 2025cited by 6position: middledoi
Refocusing the microbial rare biosphere concept through a functional lens
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2024cited by 26position: middledoi
Why ecologists struggle to predict coexistence from functional traits
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2024cited by 25position: middledoi
Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change
Science Advances 2023cited by 53position: middledoi
The ecological causes of functional distinctiveness in communities
Ecology Letters 2023cited by 29position: lastdoi
The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Scientific Data 2022cited by 114position: middledoi
A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2022cited by 96position: middledoi
Small rainfall changes drive substantial changes in plant coexistence
Nature 2022cited by 93position: lastdoi
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities
Ecology Letters 2022cited by 61position: middledoi
High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022cited by 45position: middledoi
Functional traits predict species responses to environmental variation in a California grassland annual plant community
Journal of Ecology 2022cited by 39position: lastdoi
Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2021cited by 339position: middledoi
Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2020cited by 95position: middledoi
The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants
Science Advances 2019cited by 331position: middledoi
Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology
Ecology 2019cited by 218position: middledoi
Robustness of trait connections across environmental gradients and growth forms
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2019cited by 137position: middledoi
<i>Anacapa Toolkit</i> : An environmental DNA toolkit for processing multilocus metabarcode datasets
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2019cited by 137position: middledoi
Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long‐term drought
Ecology Letters 2019cited by 129position: middledoi
Winning and losing with microbes: how microbially mediated fitness differences influence plant diversity
Ecology Letters 2019cited by 104position: middledoi
Temperature shapes opposing latitudinal gradients of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic β diversity
Ecology Letters 2019cited by 87position: lastdoi
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
ranacapa: An R package and Shiny web app to explore environmental DNA data with exploratory statistics and interactive visualizations
F1000Research 2018cited by 219position: middledoi
Divergent drivers of leaf trait variation within species, among species, and among functional groups
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018cited by 159position: 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
Topography and neighborhood crowding can interact to shape species growth and distribution in a diverse Amazonian forest
Ecology 2018cited by 108position: lastdoi
Plant Functional Diversity and the Biogeography of Biomes in North and South America
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2018cited by 70position: middledoi
A competition–defence trade‐off both promotes and weakens coexistence in an annual plant community
Journal of Ecology 2018cited by 63position: middledoi
Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area
Ecology Letters 2017cited by 539position: middledoi

Grants

Collaborative Research: Higher order interactions, functional trait changes, and species coexistence in an annual plant community
NSF2022810$626,6652020–2025PIRePORTER
Functional traits and the mechanisms of species coexistence in an annual plant community
NSF1644641$526,4592016–2020PIRePORTER
Functional traits and the mechanisms of species coexistence in an annual plant community
NSF1456246$530,0002015–2016PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Brian J. Enquist · University of Arizona12 papers (2013–2023)Cyrille Violle · University of Arizona12 papers (2013–2024)Jens‐Christian Svenning · Aarhus University10 papers (2013–2019) · 9 papers (2012–2019)Naia Morueta‐Holme · University of Copenhagen9 papers (2013–2019)Brody Sandel · Aarhus University8 papers (2015–2019)Robert K. Peet · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill8 papers (2013–2019) · 7 papers (2013–2019)Brad Boyle · University of Arizona7 papers (2013–2019)Jonathan M. Levine · Princeton University7 papers (2017–2024)Gaurav S. Kandlikar · Louisiana State University6 papers (2018–2023) · 6 papers (2013–2017)Jim Regetz · University of California, Santa Barbara4 papers (2012–2014)Irena Šímová · University of Arizona4 papers (2013–2019)John C. Donoghue · University of Arizona4 papers (2013–2017)Theresa M. Crimmins · University of Arizona3 papers (2012–2013)Benjamin I. Cook · New York University3 papers (2012–2013)Kristine Engemann · Aarhus University3 papers (2015–2019)Mark Schildhauer · University of California, Santa Barbara3 papers (2013–2017)Kjell Bolmgren · Lund University3 papers (2012–2013)