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Robert W. Sterner is affiliated with the University of Minnesota, Duluth in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Biomaterials, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work centers around topics including Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Diatoms and Algae Research, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology, and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert W. Sterner include:

  • A first assessment of cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic Lake Superior, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Need for harmonized long-term multi-lake monitoring of African Great Lakes, 2022, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Fluvial seeding of cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic Lake Superior, 2020, Harmful Algae
  • The Laurentian Great Lakes: A Biogeochemical Test Bed, 2020, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Seasonality and physical drivers of deep chlorophyll layers in Lake Superior, with implications for a rapidly warming lake, 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research

Robert W. Sterner frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Sandra Brovold, Kaitlin L. Reinl, Brenda Moraska Lafrançois, Ryan D. Bergstrom, and Lucinda B. Johnson.

The scientist's work appears in several publication venues, with multiple contributions to the Journal of Great Lakes Research. Other venues that have featured their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Limnology and Oceanography, Harmful Algae, and the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Ecological Stoichiometry: The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere

    Robert Warner Sterner;James J. Elser

  • Nutritional constraints in terrestrial and freshwater food webs

    James J. Elser;William F. Fagan;Robert F. Denno;Dean R. Dobberfuhl;Dean R. Dobberfuhl

  • Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems.

    James Elser;R. W. Sterner;E. Gorokhova;W. F. Fagan

  • Growth rate–stoichiometry couplings in diverse biota

    J. J. Elser;K. Acharya;M. Kyle;James B Cotner

  • Algal nutrient limitation and the nutrition of aquatic herbivores

    Robert W. Sterner;Dag O. Hessen

  • The effect of dietary nitrogen content on trophic level 15N enrichment

    Thomas S. Adams;Robert W. Sterner

  • The Light: Nutrient Ratio in Lakes: The Balance of Energy and Materials Affects Ecosystem Structure and Process

    Robert W. Sterner;James J. Elser;Everett J. Fee;Stephanie J. Guildford

  • Green, bluegreen and diatom algae: taxonomic differences in competitive ability for phosphorus, silicon and nitrogen

    D Tilman;R Kiesling;R Sterner;S. S Kilham

  • Are bacteria more like plants or animals? Growth rate and resource dependence of bacterial C : N : P stoichiometry

    W. Makino;J. B. Cotner;R. W. Sterner;James Elser

  • Ecology under lake ice

    Stephanie E. Hampton;Aaron W.E. Galloway;Stephen M. Powers;Ted Ozersky

  • The Role of Grazers in Phytoplankton Succession

    Robert W. Sterner

  • THE RATIO OF NITROGEN TO PHOSPHORUS RESUPPLIED BY HERBIVORES: ZOOPLANKTON AND THE ALGAL COMPETITIVE ARENA

    Robert W. Sterner

  • Human Influences on Nitrogen Removal in Lakes

    Jacques C. Finlay;Gaston E. Small;Robert W. Sterner

  • On the Phosphorus Limitation Paradigm for Lakes

    Robert W. Sterner

  • Ecological stoichiometry: An elementary approach using basic principles

    Dag O. Hessen;James J. Elser;Robert W. Sterner;Jotaro Urabe

  • Stoichiometric relationships among producers, consumers and nutrient cycling in pelagic ecosystems

    Robert W. Sterner;James J. Elser;Dag O. Hessen

  • Phytoplankton nutrient limitation and food quality for Daphnia

    Robert W. Sterner;Douglas D. Hagemeier;William L. Smith;Robert F. Smith

  • Zooplankton nutrition: recent progress and a reality check

    Robert W. Sterner;Kimberly L. Schulz

  • Scale-dependent carbon:nitrogen:phosphorus seston stoichiometry in marine and freshwaters

    Robert W. Sterner;Tom Andersen;James J. Elser;Dag O. Hessen

  • Testing for life historical changes in spatial patterns of four tropical tree species.

    Robert W. Sterner;Christine A. Ribic;George E. Schatz

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
Jacques C. Finlay
Jacques C. Finlay University of Minnesota
Jotaro Urabe
Jotaro Urabe Tohoku University
James B. Cotner
James B. Cotner University of Minnesota
Dag O. Hessen
Dag O. Hessen University of Oslo
Robert M. Sherrell
Robert M. Sherrell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sarah E. Hobbie
Sarah E. Hobbie University of Minnesota
Erik T. Brown
Erik T. Brown University of Minnesota
William F. Fagan
William F. Fagan University of Maryland, College Park
James P. Grover
James P. Grover The University of Texas at Arlington

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