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Karl J. Niklas's Degrees
- PhD Botany University of California, Davis
- Masters Botany University of California, Davis
- Bachelors Botany University of California, Davis
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karl Joseph Niklas is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor emeritus in the Section of Plant Biology, School of Integrative Plant Science, at Cornell University. He is best known for his work on plant biomechanics, allometry, and functional morphology, and for his long-standing contributions to understanding plant evolutionary biology, particularly early land plant evolutionary diversification patterns and morphospaces.
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Published Works
- Plant Biomechanics: An Engineering Approach to Plant Form and Function (1993) (665)
- Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities (2001) (553)
- Global Allocation Rules for Patterns of Biomass Partitioning in Seed Plants (2002) (541)
- Botanical Scaling. (Book Reviews: Plant Allometry. The Scaling of Form and Process.) (1994) (471)
- The evolution and functional significance of leaf shape in the angiosperms. (2011) (370)
- The evolutionary biology of plants (1997) (314)
- Plant allometry: is there a grand unifying theory? (2004) (290)
- Patterns in vascular land plant diversification (1983) (274)
- A mechanical perspective on foliage leaf form and function (1999) (256)
- Size-dependent Allometry of Tree Height, Diameter and Trunk-taper (1995) (248)
- The modern theory of biological evolution: an expanded synthesis (2004) (246)
- Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use (2003) (231)
- Growth and hydraulic (not mechanical) constraints govern the scaling of tree height and mass. (2004) (227)
- Nitrogen/phosphorus leaf stoichiometry and the scaling of plant growth (2005) (222)
- On the Vegetative Biomass Partitioning of Seed Plant Leaves, Stems, and Roots (2002) (213)
- Similarity of Mammalian Body Size across the Taxonomic Hierarchy and across Space and Time (2004) (198)
- The aerodynamics of wind pollination (1985) (194)
- The role of Quaternary environmental change in plant macroevolution: the exception or the rule? (2004) (187)
- “Diminishing returns” in the scaling of functional leaf traits across and within species groups (2007) (184)
- Darwin's second 'abominable mystery': Why are there so many angiosperm species? (2009) (184)
- The epidermal-growth-control theory of stem elongation: an old and a new perspective. (2007) (176)
- Testing the metabolic theory of ecology. (2012) (168)
- Theories of optimization, form and function in branching architecture in plants (1995) (167)
- The Evolution of Plant Body Plans—A Biomechanical Perspective (2000) (149)
- Canonical rules for plant organ biomass partitioning and annual allocation. (2002) (148)
- Plant allometry, leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry, and interspecific trends in annual growth rates. (2006) (146)
- The evolution of the land plant life cycle. (2010) (146)
- The origins of multicellular organisms (2013) (139)
- Worldwide correlations of mechanical properties and green wood density. (2010) (138)
- Morphological evolution through complex domains of fitness. (1994) (136)
- Tree size frequency distributions, plant density, age and community disturbance (2003) (135)
- Endosymbiosis, cell evolution, and speciation (2005) (134)
- Modelling below- and above-ground biomass for non-woody and woody plants. (2005) (129)
- Influence of Tissue Density-specific Mechanical Properties on the Scaling of Plant Height (1993) (124)
- THE ROLE OF PHYLLOTACTIC PATTERN AS A “DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINT” ON THE INTERCEPTION OF LIGHT BY LEAF SURFACES (1988) (119)
- Biological scaling: Does the exception prove the rule? (2007) (118)
- Mechanical behaviour of plant tissues: composite materials or structures? (1999) (115)
- Paleobotany, paleoecology, and evolution (1981) (108)
- The Role of Beetles in the Pollination of Zamia furfuracea L. fil. (Zamiaceae) (1986) (107)
- A phyletic perspective on the allometry of plant biomass-partitioning patterns and functionally equivalent organ-categories. (2006) (106)
- Above- and below-ground biomass relationships across 1534 forested communities. (2007) (102)
- Predicting the height of fossil plant remains: an allometric approach to an old problem (1994) (102)
- The evolutionary-developmental origins of multicellularity. (2014) (101)
- Clonal growth in land plants: a paleobotanical perspective (1985) (99)
- Differences between Acer saccharum Leaves from Open and Wind-Protected Sites (1996) (98)
- Character diversification and patterns of evolution in early vascular plants (1984) (97)
- Effects of Vibration on Mechanical Properties and Biomass Allocation Pattern ofCapsella bursa-pastoris(Cruciferae) (1998) (96)
- Rethinking gene regulatory networks in light of alternative splicing, intrinsically disordered protein domains, and post-translational modifications (2015) (96)
- Mechanical and photosynthetic constraints on the evolution of plant shape (1984) (95)
- Maximum plant height and the biophysical factors that limit it. (2007) (94)
- The mechanical role of bark. (1999) (92)
- MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF PLANT TISSUES AS INFERRED FROM THE THEORY OF PRESSURIZED CELLULAR SOLIDS (1989) (90)
- Wind-induced stresses in cherry trees: evidence against the hypothesis of constant stress levels (2000) (88)
- The metabolic theory of ecology: prospects and challenges for plant biology. (2010) (88)
- The Cell Walls that Bind the Tree of Life (2004) (82)
- PLANT HEIGHT AND THE PROPERTIES OF SOME HERBACEOUS STEMS (1995) (80)
- Apparent Changes in the Diversity of Fossil Plants (1980) (78)
- N, P, and C stoichiometry of Eranthis hyemalis (Ranunculaceae) and the allometry of plant growth. (2005) (78)
- Mechanical Properties of Black Locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia L.) Wood. Size- and Age-dependent Variations in Sap- and Heartwood (1997) (75)
- The Scaling of Plant Height: A Comparison Among Major Plant Clades and Anatomical Grades (1993) (72)
- The allometry of safety‐factors for plant height (1994) (71)
- A general model for mass-growth-density relations across tree-dominated communities (2003) (71)
- THE ALLOMETRY OF PLANT REPRODUCTIVE BIOMASS AND STEM DIAMETER (1993) (71)
- An allometric model for seed plant reproduction (2003) (70)
- Adaptation, plant evolution, and the fossil record. (1987) (70)
- Evolutionary walks through a land plant morphospace (1999) (67)
- A REEVALUATION OF THE ZOSTEROPHYLLOPHYTINA WITH COMMENTS ON THE ORIGIN OF LYCOPODS. (1990) (66)
- The role of the epidermis as a stiffening agent in Tulipa (Liliaceae) stems. (1997) (66)
- The evolutionary development of plant body plans. (2009) (65)
- Chapter 3. Patterns in Vascular Land Plant Diversification: An Analysis at the Species Level (1986) (64)
- The influence of gravity and wind on land plant evolution. (1998) (64)
- Plant biomechanics: an overview and prospectus. (2006) (64)
- The motion of windborne pollen grains around conifer ovulate cones : implications on wind pollination. (1984) (63)
- Insights into plant size-density relationships from models and agricultural crops (2012) (63)
- COMPUTER MODELS OF EARLY LAND PLANT EVOLUTION (2004) (62)
- A Synopsis of North American Desmids: Part II. Desmidiaceae: Placodermae. Section 2 (1975) (60)
- Phanerozoic Land-Plant Diversity in North America (1979) (57)
- Computing factors of safety against wind-induced tree stem damage. (2000) (56)
- Computer-simulated plant evolution (1986) (56)
- The Influence of Rays on the Transverse Elastic Anisotropy in Green Wood of Deciduous Trees (2001) (56)
- A comparison between the record height-to-stem diameter allometries of Pachycaulis and Leptocaulis species. (2006) (56)
- Cell division and turgor-driven stem elongation in juvenile plants: a synthesis. (2013) (56)
- The evolution of hydrophobic cell wall biopolymers: from algae to angiosperms. (2017) (56)
- Biomass partitioning and leaf N,P - stoichiometry: comparisons between tree and herbaceous current-year shoots. (2006) (54)
- GROWTH PATTERNS OF PLANTS THAT MAXIMIZE VERTICAL GROWTH AND MINIMIZE INTERNAL STRESSES (1982) (54)
- Interspecific allometries of critical buckling height and actual plant height (1994) (53)
- FLEXURAL STIFFNESS AND MODULUS OF ELASTICITY OF FLOWER STALKS FROM ALLIUM SATIVUM AS MEASURED BY MULTIPLE RESONANCE FREQUENCY SPECTRA (1988) (52)
- The allometry of saguaro height (1994) (51)
- Adaptive walks through fitness landscapes for early vascular land plants (1997) (50)
- Evidence for Lignin-Like Constituents in Early Silurian (Llandoverian) Plant Fossils (1980) (50)
- The elastic moduli and mechanics of Populus tremuloides (Salicaceae) petioles in bending and torsion (1991) (49)
- Size‐dependent variations in plant growth rates and the “¾‐power rule” (1994) (49)
- THE EVOLUTION OF TRACHEID DIAMETER IN EARLY VASCULAR PLANTS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON THE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTANCE OF THE PRIMARY XYLEM STRAND (1985) (49)
- Size- and Age-dependent Variation in the Properties of Sap- and Heartwood in Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) (1997) (49)
- Flavonoids and Other Chemical Constituents of Fossil Miocene Zelkova (Ulmaceae) (1977) (48)
- Evolutionary trends in safety factors against wind-induced stem failure. (2001) (48)
- Size‐dependent species richness: trends within plant communities and across latitude (2003) (48)
- DEPENDENCY OF THE TENSILE MODULUS ON TRANSVERSE DIMENSIONS, WATER POTENTIAL, AND CELL NUMBER OF PITH PARENCHYMA (1988) (45)
- Simulated and empiric wind pollination patterns of conifer ovulate cones. (1982) (45)
- THE SCALING OF PLANT AND ANIMAL BODY MASS, LENGTH, AND DIAMETER (1994) (43)
- Pollen capture and wind-induced movement of compact and diffuse grass panicles: implications for pollination efficiency (1987) (43)
- Mechanical Properties of Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) Wood: Correlations among Elastic and Rupture Moduli, Proportional Limit, and Tissue Density and Specific Gravity (1997) (43)
- A general review of the biomechanics of root anchorage. (2019) (42)
- Evolutionary plant physiology: Charles Darwin’s forgotten synthesis (2009) (42)
- The evolutionary origins of cell type diversification and the role of intrinsically disordered proteins (2018) (42)
- Evidence for "diminishing returns" from the scaling of stem diameter and specific leaf area. (2008) (42)
- Metabolic Scaling and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Plant Size, Form, and Diversity: Toward a Synthesis of Ecology, Evolution, and Paleontology (2007) (42)
- Flavonoid and other chemical constituents of fossil miocene celtis and ulmus (succor creek flora). (1977) (41)
- Evidence for a Strong Correlation Between Transcription Factor Protein Disorder and Organismic Complexity (2017) (41)
- Predicting the allometry of leaf surface area and dry mass. (2009) (41)
- Allometric theory and the mechanical stability of large trees: proof and conjecture. (2006) (41)
- Ultrastructure and cytochemistry of Miocene angiosperm leaf tissues. (1978) (41)
- Flexural rigidity of chive and its response to water potential (1987) (40)
- A morphometric analysis of the phloem-unloading pathway in developing tobacco leaves (1988) (39)
- ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND PALEOBIOCHEMICAL CORRELATIONS AMONG FOSSIL LEAF TISSUES FROM THE ST. MARIES RIVER (CLARKIA) AREA, NORTHERN IDAHO, USA' (1981) (39)
- Pollination and Airflow Patterns Around Conifer Ovulate Cones (1982) (39)
- Dynamical patterning modules in plant development and evolution. (2012) (39)
- Aerodynamics and Pollen Grain Depositional Patterns on Cycad Megastrobili: Implications on the Reproduction of Three Cycad Genera (Cycas, Dioon, and Zamia) (1984) (39)
- The Quantification of Plant Biodiversity through Time (1994) (39)
- THE AERODYNAMICS OF POLLEN CAPTURE IN TWO SYMPATRIC EPHEDRA SPECIES (1987) (38)
- COMPARATIVE PALEOBIOCHEMISTRY OF SOME FOSSIL AND EXTANT FAGACEAE (1981) (38)
- ANGIOSPERM PALEOBIOCHEMISTRY OF THE SUCCOR CREEK FLORA (MIOCENE) OREGON, USA' (1978) (38)
- Ethology of the trace fossil Chondrites: Form, function and environment (2020) (37)
- MORPHOLOGY OF PROTOSALVINIA FROM THE UPPER DEVONIAN OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY (1976) (37)
- Chemotaxonomy of some problematic palaeozoic plants (1976) (37)
- Evidence for a conducting strand in early Silurian (Llandoverian) plants: implications for the evolution of the land plants (1983) (37)
- Wood biomechanics and anatomy of PACHYCEREUS PRINGLEI. (2000) (36)
- AIRFLOW PATTERNS AROUND SOME EARLY SEED PLANT OVULES AND CUPULES: IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING EFFICIENCY IN WIND POLLINATION (1981) (36)
- Lamina shape does not correlate with lamina surface area: An analysis based on the simplified Gielis equation (2019) (35)
- NODAL SEPTA AND THE RIGIDITY OF AERIAL SHOOTS OF EQUISETUM HYEMALE (1989) (35)
- Aerodynamics and pollen ultrastructure in Ephedra. (2015) (35)
- The biomechanics of Pachycereus pringlei root systems. (2002) (34)
- The Mechanical Significance of Clasping Leaf Sheaths in Grasses: Evidence from Two Cultivars of Avena sativa (1990) (34)
- Comparisons among biomass allocation and spatial distribution patterns of some vine, pteridophyte, and gymnosperm shoots (1994) (34)
- FLEXURAL STIFFNESS ALLOMETRIES OF ANGIOSPERM AND FERN PETIOLES AND RACHISES: EVIDENCE FOR BIOMECHANICAL CONVERGENCE (1991) (34)
- Chemotaxonomy of Prototaxites and evidence for possible terrestrial adaptation (1976) (34)
- Biomechanics of the columnar cactus Pachycereus pringlei. (1999) (34)
- Preferential states of longitudinal tension in the outer tissues of Taraxcum officinale (Asteraceae) peduncles. (1998) (34)
- Petiole mechanics, light interception by Lamina, and “Economy in Design” (1992) (33)
- BIOMECHANICS OF PSILOTUM NUDUM AND SOME EARLY PALEOZOIC VASCULAR SPOROPHYTES (1990) (33)
- Functional adaptation and phenotypic plasticity at the cellular and whole plant level (2009) (32)
- AERODYNAMICS OF EPHEDRA TRIFURCA: I. POLLEN GRAIN VELOCITY FIELDS AROUND STEMS BEARING OVULES (1986) (32)
- Computer simulations of early land plant branching morphologies: canalization of patterns during evolution? (1982) (32)
- Macroevolution via secondary endosymbiosis: a Neo-Goldschmidtian view of unicellular hopeful monsters and Darwin’s primordial intermediate form (2008) (32)
- Aerodynamics of Ephedra trifurca. III. Selective Pollen Capture by Pollination Droplets (1989) (31)
- Simulations of the Ontogeny of Spongiophyton, a Devonian Plant (1976) (31)
- Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates (2004) (31)
- Nondestructive estimation of leaf area for 15 species of vines with different leaf shapes. (2020) (31)
- Applications of Finite Element Analyses to Problems in Plant Morphology (1977) (31)
- Dynamical Patterning Modules, Biogeneric Materials, and the Evolution of Multicellular Plants (2018) (30)
- Large-Scale Changes in Animal and Plant Terrestrial Communities (1986) (30)
- Size-dependent leaf area ratio in plant twigs: implication for leaf size optimization. (2010) (30)
- BRANCHING PATTERNS OF SALICORNIA EUROPAEA (CHENOPODIACEAE) AT DIFFERENT SUCCESSIONAL STAGES: A COMPARISON OF THEORETICAL AND REAL PLANTS (1988) (30)
- Responses of Hollow, Septate Stems to Vibrations: Biomechanical Evidence that Nodes Can Act Mechanically as Spring-like Joints (1997) (30)
- Size-related changes in the primary xylem anatomy of some early tracheophytes (1984) (30)
- Modes of failure in tubular plant organs. (2013) (29)
- The chemotaxonomy of Parka decipiens from the lower old red sandstone, Scotland (U.K.) (1976) (29)
- The scaling of the hydraulic architecture in poplar leaves. (2017) (29)
- Sensitivity of growth and biomass allocation patterns to increasing nitrogen: a comparison between ephemerals and annuals in the Gurbantunggut Desert, north-western China. (2014) (29)
- Life Forms, Plants (2008) (29)
- THE INFLUENCE OF PALEOZOIC OVULE AND CUPULE MORPHOLOGIES ON WIND POLLINATION (1983) (29)
- Biophysical effects on plant competition and coexistence (2013) (28)
- Traditional grazing regimes promote biodiversity and increase nectar production in Tibetan alpine meadows (2016) (28)
- 21.—Morphological and Ontogenetic Reconstructions of Parka decipiens Fleming and Pachytheca Hooker from the Lower Old Red Sandstone, Scotland (1976) (28)
- Geochemistry and Thermolysis of Flavonoids (1977) (28)
- Leaf shape influences the scaling of leaf dry mass vs. area: a test case using bamboos (2020) (28)
- CONIFER OVULATE CONE MORPHOLOGY: IMPLICATIONS ON POLLEN IMPACTION PATTERNS (1983) (28)
- The Mechanical Roles of Clasping Leaf Sheaths: Evidence fromArundinaria técta(Poaceae) Shoots Subjected to Bending and Twisting Forces (1998) (28)
- The scaling relationships of leaf biomass vs. leaf surface area of 12 bamboo species (2019) (26)
- Simulated wind pollination and airflow around ovules of some early seed plants. (1981) (26)
- Stem biomechanics of three columnar cacti from the Sonoran Desert. (1998) (25)
- Variations of the mechanical properties of Acer saccharum roots (1999) (25)
- Darwin-Wallace Demons: survival of the fastest in populations of duckweeds and the evolutionary history of an enigmatic group of angiosperms. (2015) (25)
- Plant Development, Auxin, and the Subsystem Incompleteness Theorem (2012) (25)
- Flexural Stiffness and Modulus of Elasticity of Flower Stalks from Allium Stalks from Allium sativum as Measured by Multiple Resonance Frequency Spectra (1988) (25)
- Assessing Scaling Relationships: Uses, Abuses, and Alternatives (2014) (25)
- Morphology and vertical distribution of protosalvinia (Foerstia) from the new Albany shale (Upper Devonian) (1972) (24)
- Changes in the factor of safety within the superstructure of a dicot tree. (1999) (23)
- The effects of domestication on the scaling of below- vs. aboveground biomass in four selected wheat (Triticum; Poaceae) genotypes. (2012) (23)
- Effects of hypothetical developmental barriers and abrupt environmental changes on adaptive walks in a computer-generated domain for early vascular land plants (1997) (23)
- Modes of Mechanical Failure of Hollow, Septate Stems (1998) (23)
- The effect of leaf-lobing on the interception of direct solar radiation (1989) (23)
- BENDING STIFFNESS OF CYLINDRICAL PLANT ORGANS WITH A ‘CORE‐RIND’ CONSTRUCTION: EVIDENCE FROM JUNCUS EFFUSUS LEAVES (1991) (22)
- AERODYNAMICS OF WIND POLLINATION IN SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS (LINK) SCHNEIDER (1985) (22)
- The Bio-Logic and machinery of plant morphogenesis. (2003) (22)
- The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. The Virtual Laboratory.Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz , Aristid Lindenmayer , James S. Hanan , F. David Fracchia , Deborah R. Fowler , Martin J. M. de Boer, Lynn Mercer (1996) (22)
- Effects of tissue volume and location on the mechanical consequences of dehydration of petioles (1991) (22)
- Plant type dominates fine‐root C:N:P stoichiometry across China: A meta‐analysis (2020) (22)
- Identifying Morphological and Mechanical Traits Associated with Stem Lodging in Bioenergy Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) (2017) (21)
- Wind, Size, and Tree Safety (2002) (21)
- On the Interpretation of the Normalization Constant in the Scaling Equation (2019) (21)
- BIOMECHANICAL RESPONSES OF CHAMAEDOREA AND SPATHIPHYLLUM PETIOLES TO TISSUE DEHYDRATION (1991) (21)
- Patterns of Vascular Plant Diversification in the Fossil Record: Proof and Conjecture (1988) (21)
- Linking ecomechanical models and functional traits to understand phenotypic diversity. (2021) (21)
- SIMULATIONS OF CELL DIMENSIONS IN SHOOT APICAL MERISTEMS: IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING ZONATE APICES (1980) (21)
- Aerodynamics of Ephedra trifurca (1986) (21)
- Morphometric Relationships and Rates of Evolution among Paleozoic Vascular Plants (1978) (21)
- Effects of biotic and abiotic factors on forest biomass fractions (2021) (20)
- Plant Evolution: An Introduction to the History of Life (2016) (20)
- ORGANELLE PRESERVATION AND PROTOPLAST PARTITIONING IN FOSSIL ANGIOSPERM LEAF TISSUES (1983) (20)
- Did meiosis evolve before sex and the evolution of eukaryotic life cycles? (2014) (19)
- Differences in the scaling of area and mass of Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgoaceae) leaves and their relevance to the study of specific leaf area. (2011) (19)
- PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL MODIFICATIONS OF PLANTAGO MAJOR (PLANTAGINACEAE) IN RESPONSE TO LIGHT CONDITIONS (1989) (19)
- Relative Resistance of Hollow, Septate Internodes to Twisting and Bending (1997) (19)
- Biophysical and size-dependent perspectives on plant evolution. (2013) (19)
- LIGHT HARVESTING “FITNESS LANDSCAPES” FOR VERTICAL SHOOTS WITH DIFFERENT PHYLLOTACTIC PATTERNS (1998) (18)
- Turning over an old leaf (1990) (18)
- Methods for calculating factors of safety for plant stems. (1999) (18)
- Aerobiology of symplocarpus foetidus: interactions between the spathe and spadix (1984) (18)
- Does disturbance prevent total basal area and biomass in indigenous forests from being at equilibrium with the local environment? (2004) (18)
- The Cellular Mechanics of Plants (1989) (18)
- The hydraulic architecture of Ginkgo leaves. (2017) (18)
- EVIDENCE FOR XYLEM CONSTRICTIONS IN THE PRIMARY VASCULATURE OF PSILOPHYTON DAWSONII, AN EMSIAN TRIMEROPHYTE (1985) (17)
- The number of cell types, information content, and the evolution of complex multicellularity (2014) (17)
- Important foliar traits depend on species-grouping: analysis of a remnant temperate forest at the Keerqin Sandy Lands, China (2011) (17)
- Organ-specific rates of cellular respiration in developing sunflower seedlings and their bearing on metabolic scaling theory (2012) (17)
- Comparison of the Scaling Relationships of Leaf Biomass versus Surface Area between Spring and Summer for Two Deciduous Tree Species (2020) (17)
- Multicellularity: Origins and Evolution (2016) (17)
- The many roads to and from multicellularity (2019) (17)
- Water content quantitatively affects metabolic rates over the course of plant ontogeny. (2020) (17)
- Evolution of Cellular Differentiation: From Hypotheses to Models. (2020) (17)
- Kleiber's Law: How the Fire of Life ignited debate, fueled theory, and neglected plants as model organisms (2015) (16)
- EXTRACELLULAR FREEZING IN EQUISETUM HYEMALE (1989) (16)
- COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THREE‐DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTIONS AND NUMERICAL ANALYSES OF PLANT ORGANS FROM SERIAL SECTIONS (1987) (16)
- A theoretical framework for whole-plant carbon assimilation efficiency based on metabolic scaling theory: a test case using Picea seedlings. (2015) (16)
- Emergent properties of plants competing in silico for space and light: Seeing the tree from the forest. (2009) (16)
- Biophysical limitations on plant form and evolution (1988) (16)
- Corrigendum: Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities (2003) (16)
- Ontogenetic changes in the scaling of cellular respiration with respect to size among sunflower seedlings (2011) (16)
- The evolutionary ecology (evo-eco) of plant asexual reproduction (2017) (16)
- Testing 'Economy in Design' in Plants: are the Petioles and Rachises of Leaves 'Designed' According to the Principle of Uniform Strength? (1993) (16)
- Plant biomechanics in the 21st century (2019) (15)
- Mechanical properties of wood disproportionately increase with increasing density. (2012) (15)
- The Role of Morphological Biochemical Reciprocity in Early Land Plant Evolution (1976) (15)
- Ecogeographical variation of 12 morphological traits within Pinus tabulaeformis: the effects of environmental factors and demographic histories (2016) (15)
- Leaf Bilateral Symmetry and the Scaling of the Perimeter vs. the Surface Area in 15 Vine Species (2020) (15)
- Paleobiochemistry of North American fossil Liriodendron sp. (1985) (15)
- Reexamination of a canonical model for plant organ biomass partitioning. (2003) (15)
- On the mechanical properties of the rare endemic cactus Stenocereus eruca and the related species S. gummosus. (2003) (15)
- A phyletic perspective on cell growth. (2015) (15)
- Ontogenetic changes in the numbers of short- vs. long-shoots account for decreasing specific leaf area in Acer rubrum (Aceraceae) as trees increase in size. (2010) (14)
- Modeling fossil plant form-function relationships: a critique (2000) (14)
- Leaping lizards landing on leaves: escape-induced jumps in the rainforest canopy challenge the adhesive limits of geckos (2017) (14)
- Temperature and water content effects on the viscoelastic behavior of Tilia americana (Tiliaceae) sapwood (2004) (14)
- DIFFERENTIAL PRESERVATION OF PROTOPLASM IN FOSSIL ANGIOSPERM LEAF TISSUES (1982) (14)
- Voigt and Reuss models for predicting changes in Young's modulus of dehydrating plant organs (1992) (14)
- CONSTANCY OF RELATIVE VOLUMES OF ZONES IN SHOOT APICAL MERISTEMS IN CACTACEAE: IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING MERISTEM SIZE, SHAPE, AND METABOLISM (1979) (14)
- Life history strategies drive size‐dependent biomass allocation patterns of dryland ephemerals and shrubs (2019) (14)
- AEROBIOLOGY AND POLLEN CAPTURE OF ORCHARD‐GROWN PISTACIA VERA (ANACARDIACEAE) (1988) (14)
- Morphological and chemical examination of Courvoisiella ctenomorpha gen. and sp. nov., a siphonous alga from the upper devonian, West Virginia, U.S.A. (1976) (14)
- A Superellipse with Deformation and Its Application in Describing the Cross-Sectional Shapes of a Square Bamboo (2020) (14)
- Comment on "Critical wind speed at which trees break". (2016) (13)
- Global Data Analysis Shows That Soil Nutrient Levels Dominate Foliar Nutrient Resorption Efficiency in Herbaceous Species (2018) (13)
- Scaling the paths of resistance. (2006) (13)
- Branching Patterns and Mechanical Design in Palaeozoic Plants: a Theoretic Assessment (1978) (13)
- Organic chemistry of Protosalvinia (Foerstia) from the Chattanooga and New Albany Shales (1976) (13)
- Amphimixis and the individual in evolving populations: does Weismann’s Doctrine apply to all, most or a few organisms? (2014) (13)
- Biomechanical Attributes of the Leaves of Pine Species (1991) (13)
- Julius Sachs (1868): The father of plant physiology. (2018) (13)
- Evolution of plant shape: Design constraints. (1986) (13)
- Chemical examinations of some non-vascular Paleozoic plants (2008) (12)
- COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF PLANT BIODIVERSITY IN STABLE AND UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENTS: A TEST OF THE NEUTRAL BIODIVERSITY THEORY (2011) (12)
- Determinate growth of Allium sativum peduncles: evidence of determinate growth as a design factor for biomechanical safety. (1990) (12)
- A Biophysical Perspective on the Pollination Biology of Ephedra nevadensis and E. trifurca (2015) (12)
- Patterns of diversity in leaves from canopies of Ginkgo biloba are revealed using Specific Leaf Area as a morphological character. (2011) (12)
- SAFETY FACTORS IN VERTICAL STEMS: EVIDENCE FROM EQUISETUM HYEMALE (1989) (11)
- Boron and the evolutionary development of roots (2017) (11)
- Gravity-induced effects on material properties and size of leaves on horizontal shoots of Acer saccharum (Aceraceae) (1992) (11)
- Climbing Plants: Attachment and the Ascent for Light (2011) (11)
- Chemotaxonomy of some Paleozoic vascular plants. Part I: Chemical compositions and preliminary cluster analyses (1976) (11)
- Haeckel's Biogenetic Law and the Land Plant Phylotypic Stage (2016) (11)
- RELATIONSHIPS AMONG SHOOT APICAL MERISTEM ONTOGENIC FEATURES IN TRICHOCEREUS PACHANOI AND MELOCACTUS MATANZANUS (CACTACEAE) (1981) (11)
- Carbon/nitrogen/phosphorus allometric relations across species (2008) (11)
- Biomass Allocation and Growth Data of Seeded Plants (2004) (11)
- Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots (2020) (10)
- ‘biogeom’: An R package for simulating and fitting natural shapes (2022) (10)
- Self-thinning and community persistence in a simple size-structured dynamical model of plant growth (2005) (10)
- Chemotaxonomy of some Paleozoic vascular plants. Part II: Chemical characterization of major plant groups (2008) (10)
- Simulation of organic shape: The roles of phenomenology and mechanism (1994) (10)
- On the allometry of biomass partitioning and light harvesting for plants with leafless stems. (2002) (10)
- Photosynthesis research on yellowtops: Macroevolutionn in progress (2006) (10)
- A statistical approach to biological factors of safety: bending and shearing in Psilotum axes (1998) (9)
- Taxing Debate for Taxonomists (2001) (9)
- EQUATIONS FOR THE MOTION OF AIRBORNE POLLEN GRAINS NEAR THE OVULATE ORGANS OF WIND‐POLLINATED PLANTS (1988) (9)
- The Neontologico-Paleontological Interface of Community Evolution: How Do the Pieces in the Kaleidoscopic Biosphere Move? (1986) (9)
- Pollinator preference and pollen viability mediated by flower color synergistically determine seed set in an Alpine annual herb (2017) (9)
- Global synthesis for the scaling of soil microbial nitrogen to phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems (2021) (9)
- From Goethe’s plant archetype via Haeckel’s biogenetic law to plant evo-devo 2016 (2017) (9)
- Influence of the physical dimension of leaf size measures on the goodness of fit for Taylor's power law using 101 bamboo taxa (2019) (8)
- Aerodynamics of wind pollination (1987) (8)
- The Life of a Leaf. (2013) (8)
- Biomechanical and morphometric differences in Triticum aestivum seedlings differing in Rht gene dosage. (1990) (8)
- Some Problematic Algae of the Paleozoic (1974) (8)
- Polarity, planes of cell division, and the evolution of plant multicellularity (2018) (8)
- Xylem vascular anatomy and water transport of Salicornia europaea (1993) (8)
- Computer simulations support a core prediction of a contentious plant model. (2012) (8)
- Comparison of a universal (but complex) model for avian egg shape with a simpler model (2022) (8)
- Form and Function in Developmental Evolution: Deducing plant function from organic form: challenges and pitfalls (2009) (8)
- A General Model for Seed and Seedling Respiratory Metabolism (2020) (8)
- The Evolution of Early Vascular Plant Complexity (2019) (7)
- WIND POLLINATION OF TAXUS CUSPIDATA (1985) (7)
- Allocation Strategies for Seed Nitrogen and Phosphorus in an Alpine Meadow Along an Altitudinal Gradient on the Tibetan Plateau (2020) (7)
- Ontogenetic constructions of some fossil plants (1977) (7)
- An elliptical blade is not a true ellipse, but a superellipse–Evidence from two Michelia species (2021) (7)
- Metabolic scaling theory in plant biology and the three oxygen paradoxa of aerobic life (2013) (7)
- Tree Biomechanics with Special Reference to Tropical Trees (2016) (7)
- Effects of Rht‐dosage on the breaking strength of wheat seedling leaves (1996) (7)
- Evolution of Protein Ductility in Duplicated Genes of Plants (2018) (7)
- Next-Generation EU DataGrid Data Management Services (2003) (7)
- Plant Evolution and the Reciprocity Model (1976) (7)
- Morphological (and not anatomical or reproductive) features define early vascular plant phylogenetic relationships. (2020) (6)
- The chemistry of an isolable azomethine ylide (1984) (6)
- Simulations of Apical Developmental Sequences in Bryophytes (1979) (6)
- Size-dependent variation in plant form (2017) (6)
- The Challenges of Inferring Organic Function from Structure and Its Emulation in Biomechanics and Biomimetics (2021) (6)
- Sizing up life and death (2007) (5)
- AN ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICAL FEATURES FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF PLANT FOSSILS (1979) (5)
- A Macroecological Analysis of SERA Derived Forest Heights and Implications for Forest Volume Remote Sensing (2012) (5)
- Julius von Sachs’ forgotten 1897-article: sexuality and gender in plants vs. humans (2018) (5)
- Preservation of unsaturated fatty acids in Palaeogene angiosperm fruits and seeds (1982) (5)
- The evolution of the plant genome-to-morphology auxin circuit (2016) (5)
- Orchid biology (2008) (5)
- Theoretical evolutionary rates in plant groups and the fossil record (1977) (5)
- Seedling Ecology and Evolution: Embryo morphology and seedling evolution (2008) (5)
- How to build a tree (1996) (5)
- Genetic effects on the biomass partitioning and growth of Pisum and Lycopersicon. (2008) (4)
- The Chemistry of Fossil Plants (1981) (4)
- Biophysical Effects on the Scaling of Plant Growth, Form, and Ecology. (2019) (4)
- Chemotaxonomy of some Paleozoic vascular plants. Part III. Cluster configurations and their bearing on taxonomic relationships (1978) (4)
- The genetic architecture of biomechanical traits in sorghum (2020) (4)
- Response to Klaus Mattheck’s letter (2000) (4)
- Ecosystem organic carbon storage and their drivers across the drylands of China (2022) (3)
- Identification of approximate symmetries in biological development (2021) (3)
- Modeling Forest Self-Assembly Dynamics using Allometric and Physical First Principles (2011) (3)
- On the economy and safety of hollow non-septate peduncles. (2003) (3)
- Divergent scaling of fine-root nitrogen and phosphorus in different root diameters, orders and functional categories: A meta-analysis (2021) (3)
- 14. The Morphological Tradition in German Paleontology: Otto Jaekel, Walter Zimmermann, and Otto Schindewolf (2019) (3)
- Coupled evolutionary rates and the fossil record (1978) (3)
- Structure and Classification of Paleocommunities. Edited by Robert W. Scott and Ronald R. West (2008) (3)
- Measuring the tempo of plant death and birth. (2015) (2)
- Historical revisionism and the inheritance theories of Darwin and Weismann (2015) (2)
- PLANT BODY PLANS: UNITY OF TYPE OR CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE? (2007) (2)
- One giant step for life (1994) (2)
- The 2/3 scaling of twig nitrogen to phosphorus in woody plants (2022) (2)
- Taper of some Early Palaeozoic plants (1992) (2)
- Environmental-Biomechanical Reciprocity and the Evolution of Plant Material Properties. (2021) (2)
- Thinking Outside the HOX (2006) (2)
- Some Chemophysical Factors Attending Fossilization (1981) (2)
- Early Plant History: Something Borrowed, Something New? (1999) (2)
- Early Tracheophyte Phylogeny (2018) (2)
- Influence of Leaf Age on the Scaling Relationships of Lamina Mass vs. Area (2022) (2)
- Paleophytochemistry: Implications Concerning Plant Evolution (1981) (2)
- Computer simulations of early land plant branching (1982) (2)
- EARLY SEED PLANT WIND POLLINATION STUDIES: A REPLY (1983) (2)
- Dynamical Patterning Modules Link Genotypes to Morphological Phenotypes in Multicellular Evolution (2018) (2)
- Allocation of Organ Biomass in Perfect and Imperfect Flowers (1993) (2)
- The seaweed handbook (1987) (2)
- Evolution of Plant Body Plans and Allometry (2006) (1)
- MORPHOLOGIES ON WIND POLLINATION (1983) (1)
- :Theories on the Origin of Alternation: History of Conflict and Convergence (2008) (1)
- Unity and Disunity in Biology (2013) (1)
- [Gastritis. Cause and significance]. (1976) (1)
- Information, entropy, and the evolution of living systems (1979) (1)
- WIND-INDUCED STEM FAILURE' (2001) (1)
- Adaptive Aspects of Development: A 30-Year Perspective on the Relevance of Biomechanical and Allometric Analyses (2015) (1)
- Alternation of Generations and Vascular Plant Features (2016) (1)
- PLANT BIOMECHANICS : AN OVERVIEW AND PROSPECTUS 1 (2006) (1)
- Global patterns of leaf nutrient resorption in herbaceous plants (2018) (1)
- Reply to Waller (1984) (1)
- The Optimization of Seed Yield across the Flowering Season of Gentiana leucomelaena (Gentianaceae), an Herbaceous Tibetan Annual (2014) (1)
- INTERSPECIFIC ALLOMETRIES OF CRITICAL (1994) (1)
- Amphimixis and the individual in evolving populations: does Weismann’s Doctrine apply to all, most or a few organisms? (2014) (1)
- Polarity, planes of cell division, and the evolution of plant multicellularity (2018) (0)
- The Phylogenetic Placements of Psilophyton and the Psilotaceae (2022) (0)
- Ethology and palaeoenvironmental significance of Chondrites: Revising the fossil icon of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary (2018) (0)
- Chapter Eight. A Synthesis: The Properties of Selected Plant Materials, Cells, and Tissues (2019) (0)
- Design and Information in Biology: From Molecules to Systems.Design and Nature, Volume 2. Edited byJ. A. Bryant, M. A. Atherton,and, M. W. Collins. Southampton (United Kingdom) and Billerica (Massachusetts): WIT Press. $285.00. xxvi + 465 p.; ill.; index. 1‐85312‐853‐8. 2007. (2008) (0)
- Evolutionary implications of gene duplication events on ductile / disordered regions (IDRs) distribution in plant proteomes (2019) (0)
- Correction: A Macroecological Analysis of SERA Derived Forest Heights and Implications for Forest Volume Remote Sensing (2012) (0)
- Chapter One. An Introduction to Some Basic Concepts (2019) (0)
- Chapter Three. Plant Water Relations (2019) (0)
- Numerical Simulation of Biological Structures (2008) (0)
- Book review: Double Helix of Phyllotaxis: Analysis of the Geometric Model of Plant Morphogenesis by Boris Rozin (2021) (0)
- Chapter Seven. Plant Electrophysiology (2019) (0)
- Book review (1978) (0)
- Viridiplantae Body Plans Viewed Through the Lens of the Fossil Record and Molecular Biology. (2022) (0)
- Revisiting Julius Sachs’s “Physiological Notes: II. Contributions to the Theory of the Cell. a) Energids and Cells” (1892) (2022) (0)
- Chapter Nine. Experimental Tools (2019) (0)
- Can a Plant Really Think (2015) (0)
- WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT FLOWERS? THE SEEDS OF SEXUAL EVOLUTION (1999) (0)
- Boris M. Kozo-Polyansky, Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution (2010) (0)
- All Creatures, Great and Small (2007) (0)
- Chapter Ten. Theoretical Tools (2019) (0)
- Metabolic scaling theory in plant biology and the three oxygen paradoxa of aerobic life (2013) (0)
- Lamina shape correlates with lamina surface area (2019) (0)
- Historical revisionism and the inheritance theories of Darwin and Weismann (2015) (0)
- Organ-specific rates of cellular respiration in developing sunflower seedlings and their bearing on metabolic scaling theory (2011) (0)
- Plant Stems: Physiology and Functional Morphology, B.L. Gartner (Ed.). Academic Press (1995), ISBN: 0 122 76460 9 (1996) (0)
- Editorial: Leaf functional traits: Ecological and evolutionary implications (2023) (0)
- Book review (2008) (0)
- REV IEWS AND SYNTHES IS Testing the metabolic theory of ecology (2012) (0)
- Insulation and toroidal inductor (2005) (0)
- Ecological Mechanics: Principles of Life’s Physical Interactions. By Mark Denny. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $79.95. xxvii + 503 p.; ill.; symbol, author, and subject indexes. ISBN: 978-0-691-16315-4. 2016. (2017) (0)
- Chapter Five. The Effects of Geometry, Shape, and Size (2019) (0)
- Morphological and Microchemical Correlations of Living and FossilBotryococcus (1977) (0)
- Modeling branching patterns in early land plants; Niklas' simulations of branching in early land plants; canalization of parameters? Discussion and reply (1984) (0)
- Historical roots and current status of plant physiology (2018) (0)
- Book Review:Theoretical Morphology: The Concept and Its Applications George R. McGhee, Jr. (2000) (0)
- From Goethe’s plant archetype via Haeckel’s biogenetic law to plant evo-devo 2016 (2016) (0)
- Morphological evolution through complex domains of fitness (evolution/plants/fossils) (0)
- The allometry of vines (1994) (0)
- A ERODYNAMICS AND POLLEN ULTRASTRUCTURE IN E PHEDRA 1 (2015) (0)
- Chapter Four. The Mechanical Behavior of Materials (2019) (0)
- Plant Communities, Evolution of (2013) (0)
- Chapter Two. Environmental Biophysics (2019) (0)
- of Biology Unity and Disunity in Biology (2013) (0)
- The evolution of the plant genome-to-morphology auxin circuit (2016) (0)
- A simple way to calculate the volume and surface area of avian eggs. (2023) (0)
- A Biophysical Perspective on the Pollination Biology of Ephedra nevadensis and E. trifurca (2014) (0)
- Holding device, supporting device for a toroidal inductor and inductor (2005) (0)
- Book review (1978) (0)
- Fucus Arabidopsis Funaria Physcomitrella Polytrichum Chlamydomonas Caulerpa Fritschiella Spirogyra Ralfsia (2012) (0)
- What's So Special About Flowers?: Fertilization is so nice, they do it twice. (1999) (0)
- Comparison of Leaf Shape between a Photinia Hybrid and One of Its Parents (2022) (0)
- Allometry and body size (2014) (0)
- Chapter Six. Fluid Mechanics (2019) (0)
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