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James P. Grover is affiliated with The University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on environmental science, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and social sciences. The work frequently intersects subfields such as ecology, molecular biology, education, oceanography, and environmental chemistry.

The main topics of Grover's research include genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, algal biology and biofuel production, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and molecular biology techniques and applications.

Grover has contributed to several publication venues, including Ecological Modelling, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Environmental Microbiology Reports, and Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Recent papers authored or co-authored by Grover are:

  • Competitive superiority of N-fixing cyanobacteria when fixed N is scarce: Reconsiderations based on a model with heterocyst differentiation, 2022, Ecological Modelling
  • Amazonian soil metagenomes indicate different physiological strategies of microbial communities in response to land use change, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Community-Level Metabolic Shifts Following Land Use Change in the Amazon Rainforest Identified by a Supervised Machine Learning Approach, 2025, Environmental Microbiology Reports
  • Broadening Participation in STEM Community College Teaching: Deliberately Preparing Graduate Students, 2025, Community College Journal of Research and Practice

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Grover include M.A. Wadud Khan, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Kyle Meyer, Ann M. Klein, and Klaus Nüsslein. These partnerships have contributed to interdisciplinary research output across multiple topics.

Best Publications

  • Simple rules for interspecific dominance in systems with exploitative and apparent competition

    Robert D. Holt;James Grover;David Tilman

  • The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis

    Jonathan M. Chase;Peter A. Abrams;James P. Grover;Sebastian Diehl

  • Resource Competition in a Variable Environment: Phytoplankton Growing According to the Variable-Internal-Stores Model

    James P. Grover

  • Competition, Herbivory, and Enrichment: Nutrient-Based Models for Edible and Inedible Plants

    James P. Grover

  • Resource Competition in a Variable Environment: Phytoplankton Growing According to Monod's Model

    James P. Grover

  • Phytoplankton species richness scales consistently from laboratory microcosms to the world's oceans.

    Val H. Smith;Bryan L. Foster;James P. Grover;Robert D. Holt

  • Phosphorus-dependent growth kinetics of 11 species of freshwater algae

    James P. Grover

  • Growth and toxicity of Prymnesium parvum (Haptophyta) as a function of salinity, light, and temperature

    Jason W. Baker;James P. Grover;Bryan W. Brooks;Fabiola Ureña-Boeck

  • Dynamics of competition among microalgae in variable environments: experimental tests of alternative models

    James P. Grover

  • Assembly Rules for Communities of Nutrient-Limited Plants and Specialist Herbivores

    James P. Grover

  • Disentangling Resource and Apparent Competition: Realistic Models for Plant-herbivore Communities

    James P. Grover;Robert D. Holt

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  • Dynamics of Competition in a Variable Environment: Experiments with Two Diatom Species

    James P. Grover

  • A decade of fish-killing Prymnesium parvum blooms in Texas: roles of inflow and salinity

    Daniel L. Roelke;James P. Grover;Bryan W. Brooks;Joan Glass

  • The impact of variable stoichiometry on predator-prey interactions: a multinutrient approach.

    James P. Grover

  • A chronicle of a killer alga in the west: ecology, assessment, and management of Prymnesium parvum blooms

    Daniel L. Roelke;Aaron Barkoh;Bryan W. Brooks;James P. Grover

  • Algal growth in warm temperate reservoirs: kinetic examination of nitrogen, temperature, light, and other nutrients

    Robert W. Sterner;James P. Grover

  • Resource competition and community structure in aquatic micro-organisms: experimental studies of algae and bacteria along a gradient of organic carbon to inorganic phosphorus supply

    James P. Grover

  • Effects of nutrient enrichment on Prymnesium parvum population dynamics and toxicity: results from field experiments, Lake Possum Kingdom, USA

    Daniel L. Roelke;Reagan M. Errera;Richard Kiesling;Bryan W. Brooks

  • Coexistence of mixotrophs, autotrophs, and heterotrophs in planktonic microbial communities

    Kenneth W. Crane;James P. Grover

  • Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs.

    Michael J. Crawley;D. L. DeAngelis

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan W. Brooks
Bryan W. Brooks Baylor University
Daniel L. Roelke
Daniel L. Roelke Texas A&M University
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
James L. Pinckney
James L. Pinckney University of South Carolina
Robert W. Sterner
Robert W. Sterner University of Minnesota, Duluth
Sze-Bi Hsu
Sze-Bi Hsu National Tsing Hua University
Brendan J. M. Bohannan
Brendan J. M. Bohannan University of Oregon
Bryan L. Foster
Bryan L. Foster University of Kansas
Donald L. DeAngelis
Donald L. DeAngelis United States Geological Survey
Mathew A. Leibold
Mathew A. Leibold University of Florida

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