2026 Elena Litchman: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	61	2160	2070	778	733	115	16266

Overview

Elena Litchman is a researcher affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions to subfields such as ecology, oceanography, molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and environmental chemistry.

The main topics of research explored by Litchman include:

Marine and coastal ecosystems
Microbial community ecology and physiology
Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
Evolution and genetic dynamics
Gut microbiota and health
Physiological and biochemical adaptations
Marine bivalve and aquaculture studies

Litchman has published extensively in various academic venues, frequently contributing to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Limnology and Oceanography
Journal of Plankton Research
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Recent publications include the following papers:

"Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait-based framework," 2022, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
"Cell size, genome size, and maximum growth rate are near-independent dimensions of ecological variation across bacteria and archaea," 2021, Ecology and Evolution
"A synthesis of bacterial and archaeal phenotypic trait data," 2020, Scientific Data
"Multiple global change stressor effects on phytoplankton nutrient acquisition in a future ocean," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
"Ecological limits to evolutionary rescue," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The researcher collaborates frequently with a number of peers, including:

Christopher A. Klausmeier
Colin T. Kremer
Paul Wilburn
Stephanie I. Anderson
Joshua D. Kling

Best Publications

Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton

Elena Litchman;Christopher A. Klausmeier

1438
Citations
Optimal nitrogen-to-phosphorus stoichiometry of phytoplankton

Christopher A. Klausmeier;Elena Litchman;Elena Litchman;Tanguy Daufresne;Simon A. Levin

1079
Citations
The role of functional traits and trade‐offs in structuring phytoplankton communities: scaling from cellular to ecosystem level

Elena Litchman;Christopher A. Klausmeier;Oscar M. Schofield;Paul G. Falkowski

996
Citations
A global pattern of thermal adaptation in marine phytoplankton.

Mridul K. Thomas;Colin T. Kremer;Christopher A. Klausmeier;Elena Litchman

884
Citations
Trait-based approaches to zooplankton communities

Elena Litchman;Elena Litchman;Mark D. Ohman;Thomas Kiørboe

488
Citations
Allometric scaling and taxonomic variation in nutrient utilization traits and maximum growth rate of phytoplankton

Kyle F. Edwards;Mridul K. Thomas;Christopher A. Klausmeier;Elena Litchman

452
Citations
Phytoplankton growth and stoichiometry under multiple nutrient limitation

Christopher A. Klausmeier;Elena Litchman;Simon A. Levin

432
Citations
Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from Polar to Tropical Waters – Outcome of a Scientific Community-Wide Study

Philip W. Boyd;Philip W. Boyd;Tatiana A. Rynearson;Evelyn A. Armstrong;Feixue Fu

392
Citations
Linking traits to species diversity and community structure in phytoplankton

Elena Litchman;Paula de Tezanos Pinto;Christopher A. Klausmeier;Mridul K. Thomas

388
Citations
Algal games: The vertical distribution of phytoplankton in poorly mixed water columns

Christopher A. Klausmeier;Elena Litchman

383
Citations
The biogeography of marine plankton traits.

Andrew D. Barton;Andrew D. Barton;Andrew J. Pershing;Elena Litchman;Elena Litchman;Nicholas R. Record;Nicholas R. Record

366
Citations
Invisible invaders: non-pathogenic invasive microbes in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Elena Litchman

312
Citations
Competition of phytoplankton under fluctuating light.

Elena Litchman;Christopher A. Klausmeier

309
Citations
Contrasting size evolution in marine and freshwater diatoms

E. Litchman;C. A. Klausmeier;K. Yoshiyama

302
Citations
Temperature‐nutrient interactions exacerbate sensitivity to warming in phytoplankton

Mridul K. Thomas;María Aranguren-Gassis;María Aranguren-Gassis;Colin T. Kremer;Colin T. Kremer;Marilyn R. Gould

296
Citations
Phytoplankton growth and the interaction of light and temperature: A synthesis at the species and community level

Kyle F. Edwards;Mridul K. Thomas;Christopher A. Klausmeier;Elena Litchman

295
Citations
Global biogeochemical impacts of phytoplankton: a trait‐based perspective

Elena Litchman;Paula de Tezanos Pinto;Kyle F. Edwards;Christopher A. Klausmeier

277
Citations
Large-scale biodiversity patterns in freshwater phytoplankton

Maayke Stomp;Maayke Stomp;Jef Huisman;Gary G. Mittelbach;Elena Litchman

264
Citations
Increased sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation in nitrogen-limited dinoflagellates: Photoprotection and repair

Elena Litchman;Patrick J. Neale;Anastazia T. Banaszak

249
Citations
Industrial-strength ecology: trade-offs and opportunities in algal biofuel production

Jonathan B. Shurin;Rachel L. Abbott;Rachel L. Abbott;Michael S. Deal;Garfield T. Kwan

224
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher A. Klausmeier Michigan State University

Alberto Basset University of Salento

Patrick J. Neale Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Simon A. Levin Princeton University

Xiaobo Tan Michigan State University

Dedmer B. Van de Waal University of Amsterdam

David A. Hutchins University of Southern California

Philip W. Boyd University of Tasmania

Paul G. Falkowski Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

External Links

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