PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES (*undergraduate co-authors)

1. 1.Jiangshan, L., Y. Bo, L. Dunmei, A.J. Kerkhoff, and M. Keping. 2013. The allometry of coarse root biomass: log-transformed linear regression or nonlinear regression? PLOS One. In Press.
   

2. 2.Borer, E.T., M.E.S. Bracken, E.W. Seabloom, J.E. Smith, J. Cebrian, E.E. Cleland, J.J. Elser, W.F. Fagan, D.S. Gruner, W.S. Harpole, H. Hillebrand, A.J. Kerkhoff, and J.T. Ngai. 2013. Global biogeography of autotroph chemistry: is insolation a driving force? Oikos 122:1121-1130.
   

3. 3.Price, C.A., J.S. Weitz, V. Savage, J. Stegen, A. Clarke, D.A. Coomes, P.S. Dodds, R.S. Etienne, A.J. Kerkhoff, K. McCulloh, K.J. Niklas, H. Olff, and N.G. Swenson. Critical tests of the metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology Letters 15:1465-1474.
   

4. 4.Sears, K.E.*, A.J. Kerkhoff, A. Messerman*, and H. Itagaki. 2012. Ontogenetic scaling of metabolism, growth, and assimilation: Testing metabolic scaling theory with Manduca sexta larvae. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 85:159-173.
   

5. 5. Swenson, N.G., B.J. Enquist, J. Pither, A.J. Kerkhoff, B. Boyle, M.D. Weiser, J.J. Elser, W.F. Fagan, J. Forero-Montana, N. Fyllas, N.J.B. Kraft, J.K. Lake, A.T. Moles, S. Patino, O.L. Phillips, C.A. Price, P.B. Reich, C.A. Quesada, J.C. Stegen, R. Valencia, I.J. Wright, S.J. Wright, S. Andelman, P.M. Jorgensen, T.E. Lacher Jr., A. Monteagudo, P. Nunez-Vargas, R. Vasquez, and K.M. Nolting. 2012. The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21:798-808.
   

6. 6. Kerkhoff, A.J. 2012. Modeling metazoan growth and ontogeny. In Metabolic Ecology (Sibly, R.M., J.H. Brown, and A. Kodric-Brown, eds.) Cambridge University Press.
   

7. 7. Kerkhoff, A.J. 2012. Allometry and growth. In The Sourcebook of Theoretical Ecology (Gross, L. and A. Hastings, eds.) University of California Press.
   

8. 8. Kattge, J. and the TRY Database authors (128 co-authors, including A.J. Kerkhoff). 2011. TRY – A global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935.
   

9. 9. Elser, J.J., W.F. Fagan, A.J. Kerkhoff, and B.J. Enquist. 2010. Tansley Review: Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling, and ecological response to global change. New Phytologist. PDF Kerkhoff, A.J. and B.J. Enquist. 2009. Multiplicative by nature: why log-transformation is necessary for allometry. Journal of Theoretical Biology 257:519-521. PDF
   

10. 10.Bryant, J., C. Lamanna, H. Morlon, A.J. Kerkhoff, B.J. Enquist, and J.L. Green. 2008. Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105-suppl. 1: 11505-11511. PDF
    

11. 11.Enquist, B.J., A.J. Kerkhoff, S.C. Stark, N.G. Swenson, M.C. McCarthy, and C.A. Price. 2007. A general integrative model for scaling plant growth and functional trait spectra. Nature 449:218-222. PDF
    

12. 12.Decker, E.H., M.E. Moses, and A.J. Kerkhoff. 2007. Global patterns of city size distributions and their fundamental drivers. Public Library of Science (PLoS)-One 2:e934. PDF
    

13. 13.Kerkhoff, A.J., and B.J. Enquist. 2007. Implications of scaling approaches for understanding resilience and reorganization in ecosystems. BioScience 57:489-499. PDF
    

14. 14.White, E.P., S.K.M. Ernest, A.J. Kerkhoff, and B.J. Enquist. 2007. The relationship between size and abundance in ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:323-330. PDF
    

15. 15.McCarthy, M.C., B.J. Enquist, and A.J. Kerkhoff. 2007. Organ partitioning and allocation across the seed plants: Assessing the relative importance of phylogeny and function. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168:751-761. PDF
    

16. 16.Weiser, M.D., B.J. Enquist, B. Boyle, T.J. Killeen, P.M. Jorgensen, G. Fonseca, M. Jennings, A.J. Kerkhoff, T. Lacher, A. Monteagudo, M.P. Nunez Vargas, O.L. Phillips, N.G. Swenson, and R. Vasquez Martinez. 2007. Latitudinal patterns of range size and species richness in New World woody plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16:679-688. PDF
    

17. 17.Enquist, B.J., A.P. Allen, J.H. Brown, J.F. Gillooly, A.J. Kerkhoff, K.J. Niklas, C.A. Price, and G.B. West. 2007. Metabolic scaling in seedlings: Does the exception prove the rule? Nature 445:E9-E10. PDF
    

18. 18. Ballantyne, F. and A.J. Kerkhoff. 2007. The observed range for mean-variance scaling exponents can be explained by reproductive correlation. Oikos 116:174-180. PDF
    

19. 19. Enquist, B.J., A.J. Kerkhoff, T.E. Huxman, and E.P. Economo. 2007. Adaptive differences in plant physiology and ecosystem invariants: Insights from a metabolic scaling model. Global Change Biology 13:591-609. PDF
    

20. 20. Kerkhoff, A.J., W.F. Fagan, J.J. Elser, and B.J. Enquist. 2006. Phylogenetic and functional variation in the scaling of nitrogen and phosphorus in the seed plants. American Naturalist 168:E103-E122. PDF
    

21. 21. Kerkhoff, A.J. and B.J. Enquist. 2006. Ecosystem allometry: the scaling of nutrient stocks and primary productivity across plant communities. Ecology Letters 9:419-427. PDF
    

22. 22. Kerkhoff, A.J., B.J. Enquist, W.F. Fagan, and J.J. Elser. 2005. Plant allometry, ecological stoichiometry and the temperature-dependence of terrestrial primary productivity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14:585-598. PDF
    

23. 23. Ballantyne, F. and A.J. Kerkhoff. 2005. Synchronous reproduction and mean-variance scaling in model forest stands. Journal of Theoretical Biology 235:373-380. PDF
    

24. 24. Economo, E.P., A.J. Kerkhoff, and B.J. Enquist. 2005. Allometric growth, life history invariants and population energetics. Ecology Letters 8:353-360. PDF
    

25. 25. Kay, A.D., Ashton, I., Gorokhova, E., Kerkhoff, A.J., Leiss, A., and Litchman, E. 2005. Toward a stoichiometric framework for evolutionary biology. Oikos 109:6-17. PDF
    

26. 26. Kerkhoff, A.J. 2004. Expectation, explanation, and masting. Evoutionary Ecology Research 6:1003-1020. PDF
    

27. 27. Kerkhoff, A.J., S.N. Martens, and B.T. Milne. 2004. An ecological test of Eagleson’s optimality hypotheses. Functional Ecology 18:404-413. PDF
    

28. 28. Kerkhoff, A.J., S.N. Martens, G.A. Shore, and B.T. Milne. 2004. Contingent effects of water balance variation on tree cover density in semiarid woodlands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13:237-246. PDF
    

29. 29. Kerkhoff, A.J. and F. Ballantyne. 2003. The scaling of reproductive variability in trees. Ecology Letters 6:850-856. PDF
    

30. 30. Kerkhoff, A.J., B.T. Milne, and D.S. Maehr. 2000. Toward a panther-centered view of the forests of South Florida. Conservation Ecology 4(1):1 PDF