List of works by James J. Elser

A common temperature dependence of nutritional demands in ectotherms

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

A stoichiometric analysis of the zooplankton–phytoplankton interaction in marine and freshwater ecosystems

scientific article published in Nature

A stoichiometric producer-grazer model incorporating the effects of excess food-nutrient content on consumer dynamics

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

A transgenic approach to enhance phosphorus use efficiency in crops as part of a comprehensive strategy for sustainable agriculture

scientific article published on March 2011

Absorption and storage of phosphorus by larval Manduca sexta.

scientific article published in May 2002

Accelerate Synthesis in Ecology and Environmental Sciences

article

Algal Nutrient Deficiency: Growth Bioassays versus Physiological Indicators

An endangered oasis of aquatic microbial biodiversity in the Chihuahuan desert

scientific article

Are color or high rearing density related to migratory polyphenism in the band-winged grasshopper, Oedaleus asiaticus?

scientific article published on 8 June 2010

Assessment of 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' forces as determinants of rotifer distribution among lakes in Ontario, Canada

scientific article published in November 2003

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition influences denitrification and nitrous oxide production in lakes

scientific article published in February 2010

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition is associated with elevated phosphorus limitation of lake zooplankton

scientific article

Bacterial Communities in Stream Biofilms in a Degrading Grassland Watershed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model: Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession

article

Biological stoichiometry in human cancer

scientific article

Biological stoichiometry of growth in Drosophila melanogaster.

scientific article published on 28 November 2005

Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling and ecological response to global change.

scientific article

Biological stoichiometry: a chemical bridge between ecosystem ecology and evolutionary biology

scientific article published on December 2006

C:N:P stoichiometry in six distinct habitats of a glacier terminus in the Yangtze River Source Area

Carbon:Nitrogen:Phosphorus Stoichiometry in Fungi: A Meta-Analysis

scientific article

Cascading influences of grassland degradation on nutrient limitation in a high mountain lake and its inflow streams

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Community structure and biogeochemical impacts of microbial life on floating pumice

scientific article

Competition and stoichiometry: coexistence of two predators on one prey

scientific article published in February 2004

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

scientific article

Consumption explains intraspecific variation in nutrient recycling stoichiometry in a desert fish

scientific article published on 08 June 2018

Corrigendum to Van de Waal et al. 2014: stoichiometric regulation of phytoplankton toxins.

scientific article published in September 2015

Coupling of growth rate and body stoichiometry in Daphnia: a role for maintenance processes?

Daphnia species invasion, competitive exclusion, and chaotic coexistence

article

Denitrification kinetics and denitrifier abundances in sediments of lakes receiving atmospheric nitrogen deposition (Colorado, USA)

article

Diet composition affects the rate and N:P ratio of fish excretion

article

Dietary phosphate affects food selection, post-ingestive phosphorus fate, and performance of a polyphagous herbivore.

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Dietary phosphorus affects the growth of larval Manduca sexta

scientific article

Do phosphorus requirements for RNA limit genome size in crustacean zooplankton?

scientific article published in September 2008

Does the stoichiometric carbon:phosphorus knife edge apply for predaceous copepods?

scientific article

Down-regulation of tissue N:P ratios in terrestrial plants by elevated CO2.

scientific article

Dynamics of Stoichiometric Bacteria-Algae Interactions in the Epilimnion

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Dynamics of a stoichiometric discrete producer-grazer model

article

Early Cambrian food webs on a trophic knife-edge? A hypothesis and preliminary data from a modern stromatolite-based ecosystem

scientific article published in March 2006

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Ecological Stoichiometry in Plankton Communities

scientific article published in July 2018

Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry at the extremes: How microbes cope in an ultra-oligotrophic desert soil

article

Ecological nitrogen limitation shapes the DNA composition of plant genomes

scientific article published on 2 March 2009

Ecological stoichiometry: An elementary approach using basic principles

scientific article published in November 2013

Editorial: Progress in Ecological Stoichiometry

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Effect of volcanic eruption on nutrients, light, and phytoplankton in oligotrophic lakes

article

Effects of functional diversity loss on ecosystem functions are influenced by compensation

scientific article

Effects of grassland degradation on ecological stoichiometry of soil ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Effects of light and nutrients on plankton stoichiometry and biomass in a P-limited lake

scientific article published in 2002

Effects of phosphorus enrichment and grazing snails on modern stromatolitic microbial communities

article

Effects of plant functional group loss on soil biota and net ecosystem exchange: a plant removal experiment in the Mongolian grassland

article

Effects of simulated nitrogen deposition on soil respiration components and their temperature sensitivities in a semiarid grassland

scholarly article by Chunping Zhang et al published August 2014 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Effects of stoichiometric dietary mixing on Daphnia growth and reproduction

scientific article

Elemental Composition of Littoral Invertebrates from Oligotrophic and Eutrophic Canadian Lakes

article

Enrichment experiment changes microbial interactions in an ultra-oligotrophic environment

scientific article

Evidence of a general 2/3-power law of scaling leaf nitrogen to phosphorus among major plant groups and biomes.

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Evidence of phosphorus-limited individual and population growth of Daphnia in a Canadian Shield lake

scientific article published in February 2002

Extreme ecological stoichiometry of a bark beetle–fungus mutualism

scientific article

Functional and ecological significance of rDNA intergenic spacer variation in a clonal organism under divergent selection for production rate

scientific article published in November 2002

GRASP [Genomic Resource Access for Stoichioproteomics]: comparative explorations of the atomic content of 12 Drosophila proteomes.

scientific article

Genetic manipulation of a "vacuolar" H(+)-PPase: from salt tolerance to yield enhancement under phosphorus-deficient soils

scientific article (publication date: May 2012)

Genomic adaptations in information processing underpin trophic strategy in a whole-ecosystem nutrient enrichment experiment

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Genotype x environment interactions, stoichiometric food quality effects, and clonal coexistence in Daphnia pulex

scientific article published on 24 March 2005

Geochemistry. A world awash with nitrogen

scientific article

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

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Global biogeography of autotroph chemistry: is insolation a driving force?

article

Grasshoppers regulate N:p stoichiometric homeostasis by changing phosphorus contents in their frass

scientific article

Greening the global phosphorus cycle: how green chemistry can help achieve planetary P sustainability

article by Paul J. A. Withers et al published 2015 in Green Chemistry

Heavy livestock grazing promotes locust outbreaks by lowering plant nitrogen content

scientific article published in January 2012

Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

Herbivorous animals can mitigate unfavourable ratios of energy and material supplies by enhancing nutrient recycling

scientific article published in March 2002

High-frequency fire alters C : N : P stoichiometry in forest litter

scientific article published on 19 April 2014

High-frequency fire alters soil and plant chemistry but does not lead to nitrogen-limited growth of Eucalyptus pilularis seedlings

article

How To Live with Phosphorus Scarcity in Soil and Sediment: Lessons from Bacteria.

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

Human perturbation on phosphorus cycles in one of China’s most eutrophicated lakes

scientific article

Imbalanced atmospheric nitrogen and phosphorus depositions in China: Implications for nutrient limitation

scientific article

Impacts of Nitrogen and Phosphorus: From Genomes to Natural Ecosystems and Agriculture

scientific article published in 2017

Importance of Exogenous Selection in a Fish Hybrid Zone: Insights from Reciprocal Transplant Experiments

Improvement in municipal wastewater treatment alters lake nitrogen to phosphorus ratios in populated regions

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Ingestion and egestion of polyethylene microplastics by goldfish (Carassius auratus): influence of color and morphological features

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Intensification of phosphorus cycling in China since the 1600s

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Joint effect of phosphorus limitation and temperature on alkaline phosphatase activity and somatic growth in Daphnia magna

scientific article

Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: impacts in alpine lakes and streams

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Linking stoichiometric homoeostasis with ecosystem structure, functioning and stability.

scientific article published on 16 September 2010

Living With Locusts: Connecting Soil Nitrogen, Locust Outbreaks, Livelihoods, and Livestock Markets

Lotka re-loaded: Modeling trophic interactions under stoichiometric constraints

scientific article published in 2012

Metabolic stoichiometry and the fate of excess carbon and nutrients in consumers

scientific article

Microbial endemism: does phosphorus limitation enhance speciation?

scientific article published in 2008

Microbial functional genes elucidate environmental drivers of biofilm metabolism in glacier-fed streams

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Modeling and analysis of stoichiometric two-patch consumer-resource systems.

scientific article published in June 2004

Molybdenum-nitrogen co-limitation in freshwater and coastal heterocystous cyanobacteria

scholarly article by Jennifer B. Glass et al published 2010 in Limnology and Oceanography

Mutualism is not restricted to tree‐killing bark beetles and fungi: the ecological stoichiometry of secondary bark beetles, fungi, and a scavenger

scientific article

NUTRIENT LIMITATION REDUCES FOOD QUALITY FOR ZOOPLANKTON:DAPHNIARESPONSE TO SESTON PHOSPHORUS ENRICHMENT

scientific article published in 2001

Nitrogen in insects: implications for trophic complexity and species diversification

scientific article published on December 2002

Nutrient Limitation Reduces Food Quality for Zooplankton: Daphnia Response to Seston Phosphorus Enrichment

article

Nutrient Stoichiometry Shapes Microbial Community Structure in an Evaporitic Shallow Pond

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Nutrient availability and phytoplankton nutrient limitation across a gradient of atmospheric nitrogen deposition.

scientific article published in November 2009

Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities.

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Nutritional imbalance suppresses migratory phenotypes of the Mongolian locust (Oedaleus asiaticus)

scientific article

Obligate herbivory in an ancestrally carnivorous lineage: the giant panda and bamboo from the perspective of nutritional geometry

article published in 2014

Occurrence and fate of microplastic debris in middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River - From inland to the sea

scientific article published on 22 December 2018

On the “strict homeostasis” assumption in ecological stoichiometry

article

POPULATION STRUCTURE AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE CRAYFISH PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS IN CASTLE LAKE, CALIFORNIA

scholarly article published in 1994

Phosphorus accumulates faster than nitrogen globally in freshwater ecosystems under anthropogenic impacts

scientific article published on 8 August 2016

Phosphorus cycle: A broken biogeochemical cycle

scientific article

Phosphorus is a key component of the resource demands for meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States

scientific article published on 10 November 2014

Phosphorus mitigation remains critical in water protection: A review and meta-analysis from one of China's most eutrophicated lakes

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Phosphorus: a limiting nutrient for humanity?

scientific article published on 30 March 2012

Phylogenetic and growth form variation in the scaling of nitrogen and phosphorus in the seed plants

scientific article published on 6 September 2006

Plankton dynamics under different climate conditions in tropical freshwater systems (a reply to the comment by Sarmento, Amado & Descy, )

Plant allometry, stoichiometry and the temperature-dependence of primary productivity

article

Predation-driven dynamics of zooplankton and phytoplankton communities in a whole-lake experiment

scientific article

Prokaryotic cells separated from sediments are suitable for elemental composition analysis

article

Rapid top-down regulation of plant C:N:P stoichiometry by grasshoppers in an Inner Mongolia grassland ecosystem

scientific article

Regime shift in fertilizer commodities indicates more turbulence ahead for food security

scientific article

Response of a stoichiometrically imbalanced ecosystem to manipulation of nutrient supplies and ratios

scientific article

Response of grazing snails to phosphorus enrichment of modern stromatolitic microbial communities

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Response of the abundance of key soil microbial nitrogen-cycling genes to multi-factorial global changes

scientific article

Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in May 2008

Shifts in lake N:P stoichiometry and nutrient limitation driven by atmospheric nitrogen deposition

scientific article

Shifts in leaf N:P stoichiometry during rehabilitation in highly alkaline bauxite processing residue sand

scientific article

Signalling and phosphorus: correlations between mate signalling effort and body elemental composition in crickets

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Signatures of ecological resource availability in the animal and plant proteomes

scientific article published on 26 July 2006

Signatures of nitrogen limitation in the elemental composition of the proteins involved in the metabolic apparatus.

scientific article published on 15 April 2009

Signatures of nutrient limitation and co-limitation: responses of autotroph internal nutrient concentrations to nitrogen and phosphorus additions

article

Soil acidity, ecological stoichiometry and allometric scaling in grassland food webs

Species invasion progressively disrupts the trophic structure of native food webs

article by Charles A. Wainright et al published 1 November 2021 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Stoichiogenomics: the evolutionary ecology of macromolecular elemental composition

scientific article

Stoichiometric Plant-Herbivore Models and Their Interpretation

scientific article published in July 2004

Stoichiometric homeostasis of vascular plants in the Inner Mongolia grassland

scientific article

Stoichiometric plant-herbivore models and their interpretation.

scientific article published in September 2004

Stoichiometric regulation of phytoplankton toxins

scientific article published on 08 April 2014

Stoichiometric response of nitrogen-fixing and non-fixing dicots to manipulations of CO2, nitrogen, and diversity

scientific article

Stoichiometry and population dynamics

article

Stoichiometry and the new biology: the future is now.

scientific article

Sustainability Challenges of Phosphorus and Food: Solutions from Closing the Human Phosphorus Cycle

scientific article from 2011

Sustainable Phosphorus Management and the Need for a Long-Term Perspective: The Legacy Hypothesis

scientific article published on 08 July 2014

Sustained stoichiometric imbalance and its ecological consequences in a large oligotrophic lake

scientific article published in 2022

THE STOICHIOMETRY OF CONSUMER-DRIVEN NUTRIENT RECYCLING: THEORY, OBSERVATIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES

scientific article published in April 1999

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taxonomic and Functional Differences between Microbial Communities in Qinghai Lake and Its Input Streams.

scientific article

Terrigenous subsidies in lakes support zooplankton production mainly via a green food chain and not the brown food chain

scientific article published in 2022

Testing the growth rate hypothesis in vascular plants with above- and below-ground biomass

scientific article published on 13 March 2012

The Cuatro Ciénegas Basin in Coahuila, Mexico: an astrobiological Precambrian Park

scientific article (publication date: July 2012)

The Functional Significance of Ribosomal (r)DNA Variation: Impacts on the Evolutionary Ecology of Organisms

scientific article published in 2005

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

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The effect of hostChlorella NC64Acarbon : phosphorus ratio on the production ofParamecium bursaria Chlorella Virus-1

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The evolution of biological stoichiometry under global change

scientific article published on 20 April 2010

The impact of nitrogen enrichment on grassland ecosystem stability depends on nitrogen addition level.

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content

scientific article

The origins of the Redfield nitrogen-to-phosphorus ratio are in a homoeostatic protein-to-rRNA ratio

scientific article

The phosphorus-rich signature of fire in the soil-plant system: a global meta-analysis

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

The role of diet in phosphorus demand

article by Geneviève S. Metson et al published 1 December 2012 in Environmental Research Letters

The stoichiometric legacy of fire regime regulates the roles of micro-organisms and invertebrates in decomposition

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

The stoichiometric signature of high‐frequency fire in forest floor food webs

scientific article

Too much of a good thing: on stoichiometrically balanced diets and maximal growth.

scientific article published in May 2006

Travel, sex, and food: what's speciation got to do with it?

scientific article

Understanding mountain lakes in a changing world: introduction to the topical collection

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Variability of rRNA Operon Copy Number and Growth Rate Dynamics of Bacillus Isolated from an Extremely Oligotrophic Aquatic Ecosystem

scientific article

Water Depth Underpins the Relative Roles and Fates of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Lakes

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Zooplankton effects on phytoplankton in lakes of contrasting trophic status

scientific article published in January 1991

Zooplankton-mediated transitions between N- and P-limited algal growth1

scientific article published on 07 April 2010