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2519

Overview

Stephen Porder is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on soil and ecological processes.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including Soil Science, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change. These areas reflect a strong emphasis on understanding the interactions within ecosystems and how soil and plant dynamics influence environmental outcomes.

Major topics within Stephen Porder's research include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Forest Ecology and Management, and Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology. These topics highlight a broad approach to studying nutrient cycles and ecological relationships, with particular attention to nitrogen fixation and soil nutrient heterogeneity.

Recent publications by the scientist include:

  • Leaf litter inputs reinforce islands of nitrogen fertility in a lowland tropical forest, 2020, Biogeochemistry
  • Litter inputs drive patterns of soil nitrogen heterogeneity in a diverse tropical forest: Results from a litter manipulation experiment, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Light fuels while nitrogen suppresses symbiotic nitrogen fixation hotspots in neotropical canopy gap seedlings, 2021, New Phytologist
  • N and P constrain C in ecosystems under climate change: Role of nutrient redistribution, accumulation, and stoichiometry, 2022, Ecological Applications
  • Drought and soil nutrients effects on symbiotic nitrogen fixation in seedlings from eight Neotropical legume species, 2021, Biotropica

Stephen Porder frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Lindsay A. McCulloch, Brooke B. Osborne, Megan K. Nasto, Fiona M. Soper, and Gregory P. Asner. These collaborations span multiple publications and reflect interconnected research interests in ecological nutrient dynamics and tropical forest systems.

The scientist has published books with Princeton University Press, notably the book titled Elemental published in 2023, appearing twice in the records.

Prominent publication venues where Stephen Porder's work appears include Biogeochemistry, Biotropica, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, New Phytologist, and Ecological Applications. These journals reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research, bridging biogeochemical cycles and ecological science.

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions

    Peter M. Vitousek;Stephen Porder;Benjamin Z. Houlton;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis

    Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend;Philip Taylor;Silvia Alvarez-Clare

  • Understanding ecosystem retrogression

    Duane A. Peltzer;David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle;Victoria J. Allison;W. Troy Baisden

  • The phosphorus cost of agricultural intensification in the tropics

    Eric D. Roy;Eric D. Roy;Peter D. Richards;Peter D. Richards;Luiz A. Martinelli;Luciana Della Coletta

  • The phosphorus concentration of common rocks—a potential driver of ecosystem P status

    Stephen Porder;Sohini Ramachandran

  • Uplift, Erosion, and Phosphorus Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems

    Stephen Porder;Peter M. Vitousek;Oliver A. Chadwick;C. Page Chamberlain

  • Erosion and the Rejuvenation of Weathering-derived Nutrient Supply in an Old Tropical Landscape

    Peter Vitousek;Oliver Chadwick;Pamela Matson;Steven Allison

  • Competition between erosion and reaction kinetics in controlling silicate-weathering rates

    G.E. Hilley;C.P. Chamberlain;S. Moon;S. Porder

  • Chemical weathering, mass loss, and dust inputs across a climate by time matrix in the Hawaiian Islands

    Stephen Porder;George E. Hilley;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Topographic controls on soil nitrogen availability in a lowland tropical forest

    Samantha R. Weintraub;Philip G. Taylor;Stephen Porder;Cory C. Cleveland

  • A framework for predicting global silicate weathering and CO2 drawdown rates over geologic time-scales.

    George E. Hilley;Stephen Porder

  • Climate and soil-age constraints on nutrient uplift and retention by plants

    Stephen Porder;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Assessing nutrient limitation in complex forested ecosystems: alternatives to large-scale fertilization experiments

    Benjamin W. Sullivan;Silvia Alvarez-Clare;Sarah C. Castle;Stephen Porder

  • Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics

    Shelby J. Hayhoe;Shelby J. Hayhoe;Christopher Neill;Christopher Neill;Stephen Porder;Richard McHorney

  • Ground-based and remotely sensed nutrient availability across a tropical landscape

    Stephen Porder;Gregory P. Asner;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Watershed responses to Amazon soya bean cropland expansion and intensification

    Christopher Neill;Michael T. Coe;Shelby H. Riskin;Alex V. Krusche

  • Parent Material and Topography Determine Soil Phosphorus Status in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico

    Susanna M. Mage;Stephen Porder

  • Erosion and landscape development affect plant nutrient status in the Hawaiian Islands

    Stephen Porder;Adina Paytan;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Nutrient acquisition, soil phosphorus partitioning and competition among trees in a lowland tropical rain forest

    Megan K. Nasto;Brooke B. Osborne;Ylva Lekberg;Gregory P. Asner

  • The fate of phosphorus fertilizer in Amazon soya bean fields.

    Shelby H. Riskin;Shelby H. Riskin;Stephen Porder;Christopher Neill;Adelaine Michela e Silva Figueira

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Neill
Christopher Neill Woods Hole Research Center
Alan R. Townsend
Alan R. Townsend University of Montana
Cory C. Cleveland
Cory C. Cleveland University of Montana
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Peter M. Vitousek
Peter M. Vitousek Stanford University
Oliver A. Chadwick
Oliver A. Chadwick University of California, Santa Barbara
George E. Hilley
George E. Hilley Stanford University
Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Luiz Antonio Martinelli Universidade de São Paulo
Helmut Elsenbeer
Helmut Elsenbeer University of Potsdam
Alex V. Krusche
Alex V. Krusche Universidade de São Paulo

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