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Ecology and Evolution

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75
Citations
25666
World Ranking
1046
National Ranking
391

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Elizabeth T. Borer is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions across related subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, Soil Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist has published extensively on topics involving Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecology
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecology Letters
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Global Change Biology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Elizabeth T. Borer include:

  • "Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils" (2021), Nature Communications
  • "Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people" (2022), Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on microbial community composition and element cycling in a grassland soil" (2020), Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time" (2020), Ecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Elizabeth T. Borer include:

  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Anita C. Risch
  • Carly J. Stevens
  • Andrew S. MacDougall
  • Yann Hautier

Awards received by the scientist include fellowships from prominent scientific associations:

  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), 2019
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2020

Best Publications

  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

    Jonathan W. Leff;Stuart E. Jones;Suzanne M. Prober;Albert Barberán

  • Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities

    W. Stanley Harpole;Jacqueline T. Ngai;Elsa E. Cleland;Eric W. Seabloom

  • A cross-ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades

    Jonathan B. Shurin;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Kurt Anderson

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

    Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;David Tilman;Forest Isbell;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring

    Helmut Hillebrand;Bernd Blasius;Elizabeth Borer;Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan M. Chase

  • WHAT DETERMINES THE STRENGTH OF A TROPHIC CASCADE

    E. T. Borer;E. W. Seabloom;J. B. Shurin;K. E. Anderson

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

  • A New Urban Ecology

    James P. Collins;Ann Kinzig;Nancy B. Grimm;William F. Fagan

  • Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

    Elizabeth T. Borer;W. Stanley Harpole;Peter B. Adler;Eric M. Lind

  • A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass

    Daniel S. Gruner;Jennifer E. Smith;Eric W. Seabloom;Stuart A. Sandin

  • Consumer versus resource control of producer diversity depends on ecosystem type and producer community structure.

    Helmut Hillebrand;Daniel S. Gruner;Elizabeth T. Borer;Matthew E. S. Bracken;Matthew E. S. Bracken

  • Genesis, goals and achievements of Long-Term Ecological Research at the global scale: A critical review of ILTER and future directions.

    M. Mirtl;M. Mirtl;E. T. Borer;I. Djukic;M. Forsius

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils

    Ylva Lekberg;Carlos A. Arnillas;Elizabeth T. Borer;Lorinda S. Bullington

  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

    Unknown

  • Competition, seed limitation, disturbance, and reestablishment of California native annual forbs

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Virginia L. Boucher;Rebecca S. Burton

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington
Suzanne M. Prober
Suzanne M. Prober Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University

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