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Elizabeth Taft Borer
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
ThesisHow do resource specialists coexist? : Evidence from a biological control community (2002)

Elizabeth T. Borer is an American ecologist and a professor of ecology, Evolution and Behavior in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota.[1]

Early life and education

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Born in Pennsylvania, Borer graduated from Oberlin College in 1991,[2] spent several years working outside academia, then returned to earn her Ph.D. in ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002 (advised by William W. Murdoch and Allan Stewart-Oaten).[3] She went on to do postdoctoral training in the Integrative Biology Department at University of California, Berkeley with Cheryl Briggs,[2] then a second postdoc at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.[4] She was an assistant professor in the Zoology Department at Oregon State University (2004-2009) and an Associate and Full Professor at the University of Minnesota (2010–present).[2]

Research

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Elizabeth Borer studies how ecological communities are impacted by large environmental changes such as nitrogen deposition, carbon dioxide emissions, invasive species or extinction of species. She is an empiricist and experimentalist, but uses mathematical modeling to guide her hypotheses. In 2006, she was among the scientists who conceived the Nutrient Network, a collaborative research project studying global change in grasslands by replicating experiments at 140 sites in 27 different countries on 6 continents.[5] In 2019, she helped launch DRAGNet (Disturbance and Resources Across Global Grasslands), a collaborative global research project to assess the impact of human activity on ecosystems.[6]

Honors and awards

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Representative publications

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  1. Pell, B., Kendig, A. E., Borer, E. & Kuang, Y., Jan 1 2019. Modeling nutrient and disease dynamics in a plant-pathogen system. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. 16, 1, p. 234-26431[12]
  2. Kohli, M., Borer, E., Kinkel, L. L. & Seabloom, E., Jan 1 2019, Stability of grassland production is robust to changes in the consumer food web. Ecology Letters.[13]
  3. Hillebrand, H., Blasius, B., Borer, E. T., Chase, J. M., Downing, J. A., Eriksson, B. K., Filstrup, C. T., Harpole, W. S., Hodapp, D., Larsen, S., Lewandowska, A. M., Seabloom, E. W., Van de Waal, D. B. & Ryabov, A. B., Jan 1 2018, In : Journal of Applied Ecology. 55, 1, p. 169-180[14]
  4. Mortensen, B., Danielson, B., Harpole, W. S., Alberti, J., Arnillas, C. A., Biederman, L., Borer, E., Cadotte, M. W., Dwyer, J. M., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Peri, P. L. & Seabloom, E., Jan 1 2018. Herbivores safeguard plant diversity by reducing variability in dominance. Journal of Ecology. 106, 1, p. 101-112[15]
  5. Anderson, T. M., Griffith, D. M., Grace, J. B., Lind, E. M., Adler, P. B., Biederman, L. A., Blumenthal, D. M., Daleo, P., Firn, J., Hagenah, N., Harpole, W. S., MacDougall, A. S., McCulley, R. L., Prober, S. M., Risch, A. C., Sankaran, M., Schütz, M., Seabloom, E. W., Stevens, C. J., Sullivan, L. L. & 2 others, Apr 1 2018. Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient. Ecology. 99, 4, p. 822-831[16]
  6. Borer, E.T. et al. (54 Nutrient Network coauthors). 2014.  Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature 508, 517–520[17]
  7. Borer, E.T., W.S. Harpole, P.B. Adler, E.M. Lind, J.L. Orrock, E.W. Seabloom, M.D. Smith. 2014.  Finding generality in ecology: A model for globally distributed experiments.  Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5(1): 65–73.
  8. Borer, E.T., E.W. Seabloom, and D. Tilman. 2012.  Plant diversity controls arthropod biomass and temporal stability.  Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.12006[18]
  9. Borer, E.T., J. Antonovics, L.L. Kinkel, P.J. Hudson, P. Daszak, M.J. Ferrari, K.A. Garrett, C.R. Parrish, A.F. Read, D.M. Rizzo. 2011. Bridging taxonomic and disciplinary divides in infectious disease. EcoHealth 8(3):261-267.[19]
  10. Adler, P.B., E.W. Seabloom, E.T. Borer (and 55 Nutrient Network coauthors). 2011. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science 333:1750-1753.[20]
  11. Borer, E. T., C. E. Mitchell, A. G. Power, and E. W. Seabloom. 2009. Consumers indirectly increase infection risk in grassland food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(2):503-506.[21]
  12. Borer, E. T., C. J. Briggs, and R. D. Holt. 2007. Predators, parasitoids, and pathogens: a cross-cutting examination of intraguild predation theory. Ecology 88(11): 2681–2688.[22]
  13. Borer, E. T., P. R. Hosseini, E. W. Seabloom, A. P. Dobson. 2007. Pathogen-induced reversal of native perennial dominance in a grassland community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(13): 5473–5478.[23]
  14. Borer, E. T., E. W. Seabloom, J. B. Shurin, K. E. Anderson, C. A. Blanchette, B. Broitman, S. D. Cooper, B. S. Halpern. 2005. What determines the strength of a trophic cascade? Ecology 86(2):528-537.[24]

References

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  1. ^ "Elizabeth Borer | College of Biological Sciences". cbs.umn.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  2. ^ a b c ORCID. "Elizabeth Borer (0000-0003-2259-5853)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  3. ^ "Elizabeth T. Borer dissertation". search.library.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  4. ^ "NCEAS | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis". www.nceas.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  5. ^ "Welcome to the Nutrient Network! | Nutrient Network: A Global Research Cooperative". www.nutnet.org. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  6. ^ "UMN researchers lead global study on human impact on ecosystems". The Minnesota Daily. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  7. ^ "Past Lancaster Awardees | Graduate Division". www.graddiv.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  8. ^ "Fellows Directory | Leopold Leadership Program". leopoldleadership.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  9. ^ "Faculty Leadership Council". Institute on the Environment. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  10. ^ "Ecological Society of America announces 2019 Fellows". Ecological Society of America. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  11. ^ "2020 Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  12. ^ Pell, Bruce; E. Kendig, Amy; T. Borer, Elizabeth; Kuang, Yang (2019). "Modeling nutrient and disease dynamics in a plant-pathogen system". Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. 16 (1): 234–264. doi:10.3934/mbe.2019013. ISSN 1547-1063. PMID 30674119.
  13. ^ Kohli, Mayank; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Kinkel, Linda; Seabloom, Eric W. (2019-02-12). "Stability of grassland production is robust to changes in the consumer food web". Ecology Letters. 22 (4): 707–716. Bibcode:2019EcolL..22..707K. doi:10.1111/ele.13232. ISSN 1461-023X. PMID 30747475. S2CID 73444992.
  14. ^ "Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring". Applied Soil Ecology. 61: 169–170. 2012. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2012.08.006. ISSN 0929-1393.
  15. ^ Mortensen, Brent; Danielson, Brent; Harpole, W. Stanley; Alberti, Juan; Arnillas, Carlos Alberto; Biederman, Lori; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Cadotte, Marc W.; Dwyer, John M. (2017-07-17). "Herbivores safeguard plant diversity by reducing variability in dominance". Journal of Ecology. 106 (1): 101–112. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12821. hdl:11336/90540. ISSN 0022-0477.
  16. ^ Anderson, T. Michael; Griffith, Daniel M.; Grace, James B.; Lind, Eric M.; Adler, Peter B.; Biederman, Lori A.; Blumenthal, Dana M.; Daleo, Pedro; Firn, Jennifer (2018-03-31). "Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient". Ecology. 99 (4): 822–831. Bibcode:2018Ecol...99..822A. doi:10.1002/ecy.2175. hdl:2263/65003. ISSN 0012-9658. PMID 29603733.
  17. ^ Borer, Elizabeth T.; Seabloom, Eric W.; Mitchell, Charles E.; Cronin, James P. (2013-10-15). "Multiple nutrients and herbivores interact to govern diversity, productivity, composition, and infection in a successional grassland". Oikos. 123 (2): 214–224. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00680.x. ISSN 0030-1299.
  18. ^ Borer, Elizabeth T.; Seabloom, Eric W.; Tilman, David (2012). Novotny, Vojtech (ed.). "Plant diversity controls arthropod biomass and temporal stability". Ecology Letters. 15 (12): 1457–1464. Bibcode:2012EcolL..15.1457B. doi:10.1111/ele.12006. PMID 23020194.
  19. ^ Borer, Elizabeth T.; Antonovics, Janis; Kinkel, Linda L.; Hudson, Peter J.; Daszak, Peter; Ferrari, Matthew J.; Garrett, Karen A.; Parrish, Colin R.; Read, Andrew F. (2011). "Bridging Taxonomic and Disciplinary Divides in Infectious Disease". EcoHealth. 8 (3): 261–267. doi:10.1007/s10393-011-0718-6. ISSN 1612-9202. PMC 3292718. PMID 22086388.
  20. ^ Chisholm, Ryan (2011-11-21). "Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness". doi:10.3410/f.13335979.14742068. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  21. ^ Borer, E. T.; Mitchell, C. E.; Power, A. G.; Seabloom, E. W. (2009-01-06). "Consumers indirectly increase infection risk in grassland food webs". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (2): 503–506. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106..503B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0808778106. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2626732. PMID 19126681.
  22. ^ Borer, Elizabeth T.; Briggs, Cheryl J.; Holt, Robert D. (2007). "Predators, Parasitoids, and Pathogens: A Cross-Cutting Examination of Intraguild Predation Theory". Ecology. 88 (11): 2681–2688. Bibcode:2007Ecol...88.2681B. doi:10.1890/06-1707.1. ISSN 0012-9658. PMID 18051634.
  23. ^ Borer, E. T.; Hosseini, P. R.; Seabloom, E. W.; Dobson, A. P. (2007-03-19). "Pathogen-induced reversal of native dominance in a grassland community". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (13): 5473–5478. Bibcode:2007PNAS..104.5473B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608573104. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1838473. PMID 17372211.
  24. ^ Borer, E. T.; Seabloom, E. W.; Shurin, J. B.; Anderson, K. E.; Blanchette, C. A.; Broitman, B.; Cooper, S. D.; Halpern, B. S. (2005). "What Determines the Strength of a Trophic Cascade?". Ecology. 86 (2): 528–537. Bibcode:2005Ecol...86..528B. doi:10.1890/03-0816. ISSN 0012-9658.
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