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  • 2010 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Elsa E. Cleland is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions spanning several interconnected subfields.

Their work covers topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant and animal studies, rangeland and wildlife management, forest management and policy, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and peatlands and wetlands ecology.

Elsa E. Cleland has published extensively in notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Recent representative papers demonstrate the breadth and focus of their scientific contributions:

  • "Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Climate and local environment structure asynchrony and the stability of primary production in grasslands" (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • "Nitrogen increases early-stage and slows late-stage decomposition across diverse grasslands" (2022, Journal of Ecology)
  • "Nutrient addition drives declines in grassland species richness primarily via enhanced species loss" (2022, Journal of Ecology)
  • "Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s" (2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

Key collaborators who frequently co-author with Elsa E. Cleland include:

  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Jonathan D. Bakker
  • Andrew S. MacDougall
  • Rebecca L. McCulley

The main fields of study identified in Cleland's research portfolio are Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Important subfields elaborated in their work are Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

In recognition of research contributions, Elsa E. Cleland was awarded the Hellman Fellow award in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

    James J. Elser;Matthew E.S. Bracken;Elsa E. Cleland;Daniel S. Gruner

  • Shifting plant phenology in response to global change

    Elsa E. Cleland;Isabelle Chuine;Annette Menzel;Harold A. Mooney

  • The evolutionary impact of invasive species.

    H. A. Mooney;E. E. Cleland

  • Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California

    Katharine Hayhoe;Daniel Cayan;Christopher B. Field;Peter C. Frumhoff

  • Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization.

    Katharine N. Suding;Scott L. Collins;Laura Gough;Christopher Clark

  • Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities

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

  • Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

    E. M. Wolkovich;B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;J. M. Allen;T. M. Crimmins

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

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

  • Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

    Jennifer L. Funk;Elsa E. Cleland;Katherine N. Suding;Erika S. Zavaleta

  • 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

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

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

  • Grassland responses to global environmental changes suppressed by elevated CO2.

    M. Rebecca Shaw;Erika S. Zavaleta;Erika S. Zavaleta;Nona R. Chiariello;Elsa E. Cleland;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Diverse responses of phenology to global changes in a grassland ecosystem.

    Elsa E. Cleland;Nona R. Chiariello;Scott R. Loarie;Harold A. Mooney

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

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

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

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

  • Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science

    Stephanie Pau;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Benjamin I. Cook;T. Jonathan Davies

  • The phenology of plant invasions: a community ecology perspective

    Elizabeth M Wolkovich;Elsa E Cleland

  • The current biodiversity extinction event: Scenarios for mitigation and recovery

    Michael J. Novacek;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Phylogenetic diversity metrics for ecological communities: integrating species richness, abundance and evolutionary history

    Marc W. Cadotte;T. Jonathan Davies;James Regetz;Steven W. Kembel;Steven W. Kembel

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Elizabeth M. Wolkovich
Elizabeth M. Wolkovich University of British Columbia
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph

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