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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Halvor M. Halvorson

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Researcher

Also affiliated: Conway School of Landscape Design (2019–2025); University of Southern Mississippi (2017–2021)

Faculty Researcher

21 h-index 46 pubs 988 cited

  • Ecosystem
  • Animals
  • Carbon
  • Plant Leaves
  • Nitrogen
  • Ecology
  • Feeding Behavior
  • Insecta
  • Phosphorus
  • Invertebrates
  • Biomass
  • Food Chain
  • Rivers
  • Fungi
  • Poaceae

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Halvor M. Halvorson's research focuses on the ecological processes governing decomposition in freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. His work investigates the role of microbial communities, particularly fungi, in the breakdown of plant litter and the subsequent nutrient dynamics. Halvorson's publications explore how factors like land use, light, and nutrient availability influence the decomposition rate and the assimilation of nutrients by detritivores.

His research also examines the interactions between green and brown food webs, specifically how filter-feeders impact these systems and how detritivores utilize nutrients from leaf litter. Halvorson has co-authored publications with collaborators including Eli N. Wess, Felicia S. Osburn, and Tori A. Hebert, all from the University of Central Arkansas. He leads a research group and has an h-index of 20 with 45 total publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 21
  • Publications: 46
  • Citations: 988

Selected Publications

  • Nutrient and macroinvertebrate mediation of algal priming effects on leaf decomposition in three Nebraska, USA, streams (2026)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • Nutrient and macroinvertebrate mediation of algal priming effects on leaf decomposition in three Nebraska, USA, streams (2026)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • Limno‐ <scp>STOICH</scp> : A comprehensive database linking the elemental stoichiometry of organisms with inland aquatic habitats (2026)
    Limnology and Oceanography Letters DOI OpenAlex
  • Unpacking drivers of heterotrophic N2 fixation across aquatic redox gradients: A mathematical model with bioenergetic and stoichiometric constraints (2025)
    Ecological Modelling DOI OpenAlex
  • Nonlinear thinking in ecology and evolution: applying the threshold elemental ratio across levels of ecological organization (2025)
    Oecologia 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Stream macroinvertebrate associations with water chemistry and habitat in low-gradient basins with minimal anthropogenic land use (2025)
    Hydrobiologia 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Nonlinear thinking in ecology and evolution: The case for ecological scaling of the Threshold Elemental Ratio (2024)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • Species identity and diversity of filter‐feeding bivalves impact green and brown food webs (2024)
    Freshwater Biology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Nutrient and stoichiometric time series measurements of decomposing coarse detritus in freshwaters (2023)
    Ecology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Land use differentially alters microbial interactions and detritivore feeding during leaf decomposition in headwater streams (2023)
    Freshwater Biology 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Nutrient and stoichiometry dynamics of decomposing litter in stream ecosystems: A global synthesis (2023)
    Ecology 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Variable stoichiometric and macronutrient responses to lizard predation in Ozark glade grasshopper communities (2022)
    Oecologia 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Global Patterns and Controls of Nutrient Immobilization on Decomposing Cellulose in Riverine Ecosystems (2022)
    Global Biogeochemical Cycles 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ecological Stoichiometry in Streams (2021)
    Elsevier eBooks 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Algal-driven priming of cellulose decomposition along a phosphorus gradient in stream mesocosms (2021)
    Freshwater Science 5 citations DOI OpenAlex

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