Elizabeth T. Borer

23.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
144 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Elizabeth T. Borer is a scholar working on Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth T. Borer has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Plant Science, 55 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 43 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth T. Borer's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (52 papers), Plant and animal studies (38 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (26 papers). Elizabeth T. Borer is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (52 papers), Plant and animal studies (38 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (26 papers). Elizabeth T. Borer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Elizabeth T. Borer's co-authors include Eric W. Seabloom, W. Stanley Harpole, Jonathan B. Shurin, Helmut Hillebrand, Benjamin S. Halpern, David Tilman, Jacqueline T. Ngai, Daniel S. Gruner, Elsa E. Cleland and Kurt E. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Elizabeth T. Borer

139 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

Consistent responses of soil microbial ... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2015 2011 2002 2015 2017 250 500 750 1000
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. Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe
    2015 1.0k citations Jonathan Leff, Stuart E. Jones et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Nutrient co‐limitation of primary producer communities
    2011 776 citations W. Stanley Harpole, Jacqueline T. Ngai et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  3. A cross‐ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades
    2002 741 citations Jonathan B. Shurin, Elizabeth T. Borer et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  4. Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity
    2015 570 citations Yann Hautier, David Tilman et al. profile →
  5. Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring
    2017 483 citations Helmut Hillebrand, Elizabeth T. Borer et al. profile →
  6. Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils
    2021 214 citations Elizabeth T. Borer, Noah Fierer et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Elizabeth T. Borer United States 50 4.4k 3.5k 3.0k 2.3k 2.0k 144 10.5k
Peter C. de Ruiter Netherlands 53 5.4k 1.2× 3.8k 1.1× 3.4k 1.1× 3.3k 1.4× 3.5k 1.7× 106 13.1k
Lin Jiang United States 53 3.8k 0.9× 3.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.7× 2.5k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 187 9.2k
Mark E. Ritchie United States 43 5.5k 1.3× 6.0k 1.7× 2.1k 0.7× 3.2k 1.4× 1.4k 0.7× 103 11.5k
Forest Isbell United States 51 4.6k 1.0× 6.6k 1.9× 2.5k 0.8× 3.2k 1.4× 2.1k 1.0× 99 13.0k
Shahid Naeem United States 16 3.7k 0.8× 4.9k 1.4× 2.2k 0.7× 2.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.6× 25 9.7k
Béla Tóthmérész Hungary 52 3.7k 0.8× 4.0k 1.1× 2.2k 0.7× 2.0k 0.9× 754 0.4× 256 8.6k
Jari Oksanen Finland 39 4.7k 1.1× 3.6k 1.0× 2.4k 0.8× 2.6k 1.1× 569 0.3× 108 10.6k
Joan G. Ehrenfeld United States 44 4.4k 1.0× 4.3k 1.2× 3.2k 1.1× 2.1k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 106 10.3k
Martı́n Oesterheld Argentina 41 6.1k 1.4× 5.9k 1.7× 2.2k 0.7× 2.8k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 103 13.1k
Pablo Inchausti France 29 6.0k 1.4× 6.0k 1.7× 1.6k 0.5× 3.3k 1.4× 992 0.5× 61 12.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Martina, Jason P., Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, et al.. (2025). Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand. Ecology Letters. 28(1). e70015–e70015. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Chong, et al.. (2025). Resin‐coated urea effectively simulates the chronic dynamics of natural nitrogen deposition. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(7). 1397–1403. 1 indexed citations
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Borer, Elizabeth T., Amy E. Kendig, & Robert D. Holt. (2023). Feeding the fever: Complex host‐pathogen dynamics along continuous resource gradients. Ecology and Evolution. 13(7). e10315–e10315. 3 indexed citations
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Seabloom, Eric W., Maria C. Caldeira, Kendi F. Davies, et al.. (2023). Globally consistent response of plant microbiome diversity across hosts and continents to soil nutrients and herbivores. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3516–3516. 13 indexed citations
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Vázquez, Eduardo, Elizabeth T. Borer, Miguel N. Bugalho, et al.. (2023). The synergistic response of primary production in grasslands to combined nitrogen and phosphorus addition is caused by increased nutrient uptake and retention. Plant and Soil. 490(1-2). 371–385. 9 indexed citations
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Rocci, Katherine S., Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, et al.. (2022). Impacts of nutrient addition on soil carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and stability in globally-distributed grasslands. Biogeochemistry. 159(3). 353–370. 19 indexed citations
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Borer, Elizabeth T., Angela Peace, Rebecca A. Everett, et al.. (2022). Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host–pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy. Ecological Monographs. 92(2). 13 indexed citations
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Hobbie, Sarah E., et al.. (2022). Realistic rates of nitrogen addition increase carbon flux rates but do not change soil carbon stocks in a temperate grassland. Global Change Biology. 28(16). 4819–4831. 34 indexed citations
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Frenken, Thijs, Angélica L. González, Eric W. Seabloom, et al.. (2021). Changing elemental cycles, stoichiometric mismatches, and consequences for pathogens of primary producers. Oikos. 130(7). 1046–1055. 12 indexed citations
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Strauss, Alexander T., et al.. (2021). Pitfalls and pointers: An accessible guide to marker gene amplicon sequencing in ecological applications. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(2). 266–277. 8 indexed citations
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Seabloom, Eric W., Elizabeth T. Borer, Sarah E. Hobbie, & Andrew S. MacDougall. (2021). Soil nutrients increase long‐term soil carbon gains threefold on retired farmland. Global Change Biology. 27(19). 4909–4920. 36 indexed citations
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Henning, Jeremiah A., et al.. (2020). Foliar fungi and plant diversity drive ecosystem carbon fluxes in experimental prairies. Ecology Letters. 24(3). 487–497. 21 indexed citations
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Ebeling, Anne, Eric M. Lind, Sebastian T. Meyer, et al.. (2020). Contrasting effects of plant diversity on β‐ and γ‐diversity of grassland invertebrates. Ecology. 101(7). e03057–e03057. 4 indexed citations
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Barnes, Andrew D., Christoph Scherber, Ulrich Brose, et al.. (2020). Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory. Science Advances. 6(45). 89 indexed citations
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Borer, Elizabeth T., Lori Biederman, Dana M. Blumenthal, et al.. (2020). Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts. Ecology. 101(5). e02981–e02981. 54 indexed citations
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Borer, Elizabeth T., Rebecca A. Everett, Thijs Frenken, et al.. (2020). Elements of disease in a changing world: modelling feedbacks between infectious disease and ecosystems. Ecology Letters. 24(1). 6–19. 16 indexed citations
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Leff, Jonathan, Stuart E. Jones, Suzanne M. Prober, et al.. (2015). Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(35). 10967–10972. 1045 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harpole, W. Stanley, Jacqueline T. Ngai, Elsa E. Cleland, et al.. (2011). Nutrient co‐limitation of primary producer communities. Ecology Letters. 14(9). 852–862. 776 indexed citations breakdown →
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Borer, Elizabeth T., Parviez R. Hosseini, Eric W. Seabloom, & Andrew P. Dobson. (2007). Pathogen-induced reversal of native dominance in a grassland community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(13). 5473–5478. 158 indexed citations
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Hillebrand, Helmut, Daniel S. Gruner, Elizabeth T. Borer, et al.. (2007). Consumer versus resource control of producer diversity depends on ecosystem type and producer community structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(26). 10904–10909. 279 indexed citations

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