Christopher A. Klausmeier

13.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
84 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Christopher A. Klausmeier is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher A. Klausmeier has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Oceanography, 35 papers in Ecology and 35 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Christopher A. Klausmeier's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (35 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (34 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (23 papers). Christopher A. Klausmeier is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (35 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (34 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (23 papers). Christopher A. Klausmeier collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and France. Christopher A. Klausmeier's co-authors include Elena Litchman, Mridul K. Thomas, Simon A. Levin, Kyle F. Edwards, Colin T. Kremer, Tanguy Daufresne, Oscar Schofield, Kohei Yoshiyama, Paul G. Falkowski and Paula de Tezanos Pinto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher A. Klausmeier

81 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton 1999 2026 2008 2017 2008 2004 1999 2007 2012 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton
    2008 934 citations Elena Litchman, Christopher A. Klausmeier profile →
  2. Optimal nitrogen-to-phosphorus stoichiometry of phytoplankton
    2004 724 citations Christopher A. Klausmeier, Elena Litchman et al. profile →
  3. Regular and Irregular Patterns in Semiarid Vegetation
    1999 712 citations Christopher A. Klausmeier profile →
  4. The role of functional traits and trade‐offs in structuring phytoplankton communities: scaling from cellular to ecosystem level
    2007 696 citations Elena Litchman, Christopher A. Klausmeier et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  5. A Global Pattern of Thermal Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton
    2012 622 citations Colin T. Kremer, Christopher A. Klausmeier et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher A. Klausmeier United States 41 4.9k 4.0k 2.7k 1.7k 1.6k 84 9.2k
Elena Litchman United States 49 6.5k 1.3× 4.6k 1.2× 3.7k 1.4× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 99 10.3k
Ursula Gaedke Germany 37 2.1k 0.4× 2.5k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 672 0.4× 1.2k 0.7× 129 4.8k
James P. Grover United States 40 2.1k 0.4× 2.0k 0.5× 2.0k 0.7× 525 0.3× 1.2k 0.7× 102 5.1k
Jonathan B. Shurin United States 46 3.2k 0.7× 9.0k 2.3× 4.0k 1.5× 2.8k 1.6× 6.6k 4.1× 116 16.3k
Ellen van Donk Netherlands 62 5.6k 1.1× 6.7k 1.7× 8.4k 3.1× 1.4k 0.8× 2.6k 1.6× 213 14.0k
Edward McCauley Canada 42 1.9k 0.4× 3.4k 0.9× 3.2k 1.2× 1.2k 0.7× 2.3k 1.5× 76 7.7k
Thomas Kiørboe Denmark 71 9.8k 2.0× 6.7k 1.7× 2.6k 1.0× 5.3k 3.1× 1.6k 1.0× 239 15.4k
S.A.L.M. Kooijman Netherlands 54 1.6k 0.3× 4.4k 1.1× 663 0.2× 3.5k 2.0× 2.3k 1.4× 219 10.9k
Craig E. Williamson United States 55 4.9k 1.0× 4.4k 1.1× 5.0k 1.8× 1.6k 0.9× 2.2k 1.4× 157 10.6k
Sebastian Diehl Germany 42 1.7k 0.4× 3.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 2.9k 1.8× 75 6.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Klausmeier, Christopher A., et al.. (2025). Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8919–8919.
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Ward, Ben A., Anke Kremp, Miklós Bálint, et al.. (2025). Ideas and perspectives: How sediment archives can improve model projections of marine ecosystem change. Biogeosciences. 22(10). 2363–2380. 2 indexed citations
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Klausmeier, Christopher A., et al.. (2024). Using neural ordinary differential equations to predict complex ecological dynamics from population density data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 21(214). 20230604–20230604. 2 indexed citations
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Koffel, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Connecting local and regional scales with stochastic metacommunity models: Competition, ecological drift, and dispersal. Ecological Monographs. 93(4). 9 indexed citations
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Klausmeier, Christopher A., et al.. (2022). How the resource supply distribution structures competitive communities. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 538. 111054–111054. 4 indexed citations
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Klausmeier, Christopher A., Matthew M. Osmond, Colin T. Kremer, & Elena Litchman. (2020). Ecological limits to evolutionary rescue. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1814). 20190453–20190453. 24 indexed citations
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Leibold, Mathew A., Mark C. Urban, Luc De Meester, Christopher A. Klausmeier, & Joost Vanoverbeke. (2019). Regional neutrality evolves through local adaptive niche evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(7). 2612–2617. 40 indexed citations
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Koffel, Thomas, et al.. (2019). Microbial cross-feeding promotes multiple stable states and species coexistence, but also susceptibility to cheaters. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 465. 63–77. 24 indexed citations
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Stump, Simon Maccracken, et al.. (2018). How leaking and overproducing resources affect the evolutionary robustness of cooperative cross-feeding. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 454. 278–291. 4 indexed citations
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Stump, Simon Maccracken & Christopher A. Klausmeier. (2016). Competition and coexistence between a syntrophic consortium and a metabolic generalist, and its effect on productivity. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 404. 348–360. 11 indexed citations
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Koffel, Thomas, Tanguy Daufresne, François Massol, & Christopher A. Klausmeier. (2016). Geometrical envelopes: Extending graphical contemporary niche theory to communities and eco-evolutionary dynamics. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 407. 271–289. 13 indexed citations
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Kremer, Colin T. & Christopher A. Klausmeier. (2013). Coexistence in a variable environment: Eco-evolutionary perspectives. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 339. 14–25. 58 indexed citations
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Stomp, Maayke, Jef Huisman, Gary G. Mittelbach, Elena Litchman, & Christopher A. Klausmeier. (2011). Large-scale biodiversity patterns in freshwater phytoplankton. Ecology. 92(11). 2096–2107. 183 indexed citations
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Klausmeier, Christopher A., et al.. (2010). Control in mutualisms: Combined implications of partner choice and bargaining roles. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 267(4). 535–545. 13 indexed citations
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Yoshiyama, Kohei, Jarad P. Mellard, Elena Litchman, & Christopher A. Klausmeier. (2009). Phytoplankton Competition for Nutrients and Light in a Stratified Water Column. The American Naturalist. 174(2). 190–203. 92 indexed citations
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Steiner, Christopher F., A. S. Schwaderer, Veronika Huber, Christopher A. Klausmeier, & Elena Litchman. (2009). Periodically forced food‐chain dynamics: model predictions and experimental validation. Ecology. 90(11). 3099–3107. 19 indexed citations
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Klausmeier, Christopher A., Elena Litchman, & Simon A. Levin. (2007). A model of flexible uptake of two essential resources. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 246(2). 278–289. 70 indexed citations
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Litchman, Elena, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Oscar Schofield, & Paul G. Falkowski. (2007). The role of functional traits and trade‐offs in structuring phytoplankton communities: scaling from cellular to ecosystem level. Ecology Letters. 10(12). 1170–1181. 696 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lenton, Timothy M. & Christopher A. Klausmeier. (2007). Biotic stoichiometric controls on the deep ocean N:P ratio. Biogeosciences. 4(3). 353–367. 38 indexed citations
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Litchman, Elena, et al.. (2006). Multi-nutrient, multi-group model of present and future oceanic phytoplankton communities. Biogeosciences. 3(4). 585–606. 148 indexed citations

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