Clay Prater

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Research Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: Oklahoma State University (2020–2024); Loughborough University (2018–2023); Oklahoma State University Medical Center (2021); Trent University (2015–2021); University of Oklahoma (2022)

14 h-index 44 pubs 573 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

Links

ORCID Lab Website

OverviewAI-generated summary

Clay Prater's research investigates elemental stoichiometry and its influence on ecological dynamics, particularly in freshwater ecosystems. His work examines how the ratios of key elements like carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus affect organismal growth, consumer-producer interactions, and overall ecosystem health. Prater has studied the stoichiometric thresholds required for the growth of aquatic organisms such as *Daphnia* and explored how factors like calcium and phosphorus availability impact their nutritional ecophysiology.

His research also addresses broader environmental concerns, including the responses of Arctic freshwater systems to climate change and the variation in elemental composition within the Lake Erie watershed. Prater has a publication record of 44 works, with 566 citations, and an h-index of 14. He has collaborated with researchers from the University of Central Arkansas and within the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

h-index: 14
Publications: 44
Citations: 573

Positions

Research Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences publications 2013–2026

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Institution web page

Selected Publications

A generalized resource-allocation growth law reveals mechanisms of differential responses to intermittent androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer (2026)

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
Tradeoffs between elemental homeostasis and growth govern freshwater phytoplankton responses to salinization (2025)

Limnology and Oceanography 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Current and Historical Resource Nitrogen Supply Affects the Eco‐Physiological Traits and the Ionome of a Diazotrophic Cyanobacterium (2024)

Ecology Letters 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Charting achievements: a two-year retrospective of the society for environmental geochemistry and health (SEGH) and the evolving strategies (2024)

Environmental Geochemistry and Health DOI OpenAlex
Diurnal and seasonal source‐proximal dust concentrations in complex terrain, West Greenland (2023)

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Predicting Habitat and Distribution of an Interior Highlands Regional Endemic Winter Stonefly (Allocapnia mohri) in Arkansas Using Random Forest Models (2023)

Hydrobiology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Relationships among nutrient enrichment, detritus quality and quantity, and large-bodied shredding insect community structure (2015)

Hydrobiologia 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
Leaf-litter stoichiometry is affected by streamwater phosphorus concentrations and litter type (2013)

Freshwater Science 33 citations DOI OpenAlex