Karl J. Niklas

Cornell University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

75h-index27.5kcitations618works3.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(123), Tree Root and Stability Studies(118), Plant and animal studies(106), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(84), Plant Diversity and Evolution(84)

Publications618 total

Diminishing returns in flower-pedicel scaling: evidence from fresh mass of seven Magnoliaceae species
Trees·2025
Synchronicity in the timing of spring phenology within and across species in the same taxon: Evidence from the first flowering date data of 67 crabapple cultivars
Botany Letters·2025
Low size inequality in stomatal area distributions detected for 12 tree and shrub Magnoliaceae species: evidence of hydraulic optimization
Botany Letters·2025
Universal trade-off between vessel size and number and its implications for plant hydraulic function
Oecologia·2025· 1 cited
Plant Volatile and Nonvolatile Chemicals Defend against Seed Predators Using Different Strategies in an Alpine Plant–Seed Predator Network
International Journal of Plant Sciences·2025
Scaling Relationships Among the Floral Organs of Rosa chinensis var. minima: Implications for Reproductive Allocation and Floral Proportionalities
Plants·2025Open Access
Floral symmetry and scaling relationships between tepal mass and area in the daylily (Hemerocallis fulva)
Frontiers in Plant Science·2025Open Access
Scaling Relationships and Sexual Size Dimorphism Among the Body Parts of <i>Holotrichia oblita</i> (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Ecology and Evolution·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Introduction
Elsevier eBooks·2025
Transient variation of stem mass fraction in crop plants
Journal of Plant Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Characterizing symmetry transitions in systems with dynamic morphology
Mathematical Biosciences·2025
Multiplexed transcriptomic analyzes of the plant embryonic hourglass
Nature Communications·2025· 11 citedOpen Access
Testing the relationship among tepal area, length, and width using four Magnolia species
Trees·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Membranes and the Critical Role of Containment
Elsevier eBooks·2025
Abiotic Chemistry, Physicochemical Selection, and the First Steps Toward Life
Elsevier eBooks·2025
Controlling Chemistry: Metabolism and Systemic Time
Elsevier eBooks·2025
From the RNA World to the DNA Genetic Code
Elsevier eBooks·2025
Natural Selection and Major Evolutionary Transitions
Elsevier eBooks·2025
“Defeating” Chemical Equilibrium and the Rise of Chemical Complexity
Elsevier eBooks·2025
Genome Concatenation and Controlled Division: The Final Steps
Elsevier eBooks·2025
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Frequent Co-authors

Brian J. Enquist(7), Peter B. Reich(5), James H. Brown(3), Ian J. Wright(3), Charles A. Price(3), Jacek Oleksyn(2), U. Kutschera(2), Edward D. Cobb(2), S. K. Morgan Ernest(2), Eric L. Charnov(2), James F. Gillooly(2), Van M. Savage(2), Felisa A. Smith(2), Elizabeth A. Hadly(2), John P. Haskell(2), S. Kathleen Lyons(2), Brian A. Maurer(2), Bruce H. Tiffney(2), Hanns‐Christof Spatz(2), Joshua S. Weitz(2)