Elena Litchman

14.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
99 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Elena Litchman is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Elena Litchman has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Oceanography, 46 papers in Ecology and 46 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Elena Litchman's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (70 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (45 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers). Elena Litchman is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (70 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (45 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers). Elena Litchman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Elena Litchman's co-authors include Christopher A. Klausmeier, Mridul K. Thomas, Kyle F. Edwards, Simon A. Levin, Colin T. Kremer, Tanguy Daufresne, Paul G. Falkowski, Oscar Schofield, Kohei Yoshiyama 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

Elena Litchman

97 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton

2008 934 citations Elena Litchman, Christopher A. Klausmeier profile →
Optimal nitrogen-to-phosphorus stoichiometry of phytoplankton

2004 724 citations Christopher A. Klausmeier, Elena Litchman et al. profile →
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 →
A Global Pattern of Thermal Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton

2012 622 citations Colin T. Kremer, Christopher A. Klausmeier et al. profile →
Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from Polar to Tropical Waters – Outcome of a Scientific Community-Wide Study

2013 342 citations Philip W. Boyd, Tatiana A. Rynearson et al. profile →
Trait-based approaches to zooplankton communities

2013 340 citations Elena Litchman et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elena Litchman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Elena Litchman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Elena Litchman based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Elena Litchman. Elena Litchman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Climate change effects on the human gut microbiome: complex mechanisms and global inequities 2025 ·The Lancet Planetary Health ·Elena Litchman	9
2	Ideas and perspectives: How sediment archives can improve model projections of marine ecosystem change 2025 ·Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Ben A. Ward, Anke Kremp, (unknown), (unknown), Miklós Bálint, Lutz Becks, Jérôme Kaiser, Helge W. Arz, (unknown), Laura S. Epp, Markus Pfenninger, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Elena Litchman, (unknown)	2
3	Using neural ordinary differential equations to predict complex ecological dynamics from population density data 2024 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·(unknown), Christopher A. Klausmeier, Elena Litchman	2
4	Refocusing the microbial rare biosphere concept through a functional lens 2024 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Elena Litchman, Sébastien Villéger, Lucie Zinger, Jean‐Christophe Auguet, Wilfried Thuiller, (unknown), Nathan J. B. Kraft, Laurent Philippot, Cyrille Violle	11
5	Dual thermal ecotypes coexist within a nearly genetically identical population of the unicellular marine cyanobacteriumSynechococcus 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Michael Lee, Nathan G. Walworth, Eric A. Webb, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Fei‐Xue Fu, Colin T. Kremer, Elena Litchman, Tatiana A. Rynearson, David A. Hutchins	8
6	The interactive effects of temperature and nutrients on a spring phytoplankton community 2022 ·Limnology and Oceanography ·(unknown), Gayantonia Franzé, (unknown), (unknown), Colin T. Kremer, Susanne Menden‐Deuer, Elena Litchman, David A. Hutchins, Tatiana A. Rynearson	35
7	Interactive effects of nutrients and temperature on herbivorous predation in a coastal plankton community 2022 ·Limnology and Oceanography ·Gayantonia Franzé, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David A. Hutchins, Elena Litchman, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Susanne Menden‐Deuer	11
8	Potential of microbiome-based solutions for agrifood systems 2022 ·Nature Food ·Stephanie D. Jurburg, Nico Eisenhauer, François Buscot, Antonis Chatzinotas, Narendrakumar M. Chaudhari, Anna Heintz‐Buschart, René Kallies, Kirsten Küsel, Elena Litchman, Catriona A. Macdonald, Susann Müller, Rine Christopher Reuben, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, Gianni Panagiotou, Matthias C. Rillig, Brajesh K. Singh	24
9	Toward trait‐based food webs: Universal traits and trait matching in planktonic predator–prey and host–parasite relationships 2021 ·Limnology and Oceanography ·Elena Litchman, Kyle F. Edwards, Philip W. Boyd	19
10	Multiple global change stressor effects on phytoplankton nutrient acquisition in a future ocean 2020 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Dedmer B. Van de Waal, Elena Litchman	69
11	Ecological limits to evolutionary rescue 2020 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Christopher A. Klausmeier, Matthew M. Osmond, Colin T. Kremer, Elena Litchman	24
12	Community Ecology of Algal Biofuels: Complementarity and Trait-Based Approaches 2014 ·Industrial Biotechnology ·(unknown), Maria Stockenreiter, Elena Litchman	41
13	Large-scale biodiversity patterns in freshwater phytoplankton 2011 ·Ecology ·Maayke Stomp, Jef Huisman, Gary G. Mittelbach, Elena Litchman, Christopher A. Klausmeier	183
14	Invisible invaders: non‐pathogenic invasive microbes in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems 2010 ·Ecology Letters ·Elena Litchman	200
15	Phytoplankton Competition for Nutrients and Light in a Stratified Water Column 2009 ·The American Naturalist ·Kohei Yoshiyama, Jarad P. Mellard, Elena Litchman, Christopher A. Klausmeier	92
16	Periodically forced food‐chain dynamics: model predictions and experimental validation 2009 ·Ecology ·Christopher F. Steiner, A. S. Schwaderer, Veronika Huber, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Elena Litchman	19
17	A model of flexible uptake of two essential resources 2007 ·Journal of Theoretical Biology ·Christopher A. Klausmeier, Elena Litchman, Simon A. Levin	70
18	The role of functional traits and trade‐offs in structuring phytoplankton communities: scaling from cellular to ecosystem level breakdown → 2007 ·Ecology Letters ·Elena Litchman, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Oscar Schofield, Paul G. Falkowski	696
19	Multi-nutrient, multi-group model of present and future oceanic phytoplankton communities 2006 ·Biogeosciences ·Elena Litchman, Christopher A. Klausmeier, (unknown), Oscar Schofield, Paul G. Falkowski	148
20	Population and community responses of phytoplankton to fluctuating light 1998 ·Oecologia ·Elena Litchman	87

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