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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Clay Prater

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Researcher

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

Faculty Researcher

14 h-index 42 pubs 544 cited

  • Phosphorus
  • Nitrogen
  • Animals
  • Carbon
  • Daphnia
  • Ecosystem
  • Biomass
  • COVID-19
  • Environmental Health
  • Genotype
  • Zooplankton
  • Rivers
  • Adaptation, Physiological
  • Gene Expression
  • Proteome

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Clay Prater's research investigates elemental imbalances and their effects on growth and ecosystem dynamics. His work examines stoichiometric constraints on growth, drawing connections to resource use efficiency and the mitigation of multiple elemental imbalances within organisms. Prater's publications also address broader ecological topics, including the influence of landscape nutrient stoichiometry on primary production in Arctic freshwater systems and climate-related responses in these environments. He has also studied dust deposition in West Greenland, analyzing its variability and sources. His research network includes collaborations with Felicia S. Osburn, Michelle A. Evans‐White, Ashley P. G. Dowling, and Daniel D. Magoulick. Prater's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 14, with 41 publications and 501 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 14
  • Publications: 42
  • Citations: 544

Selected Publications

  • 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 2 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 6 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

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42 Collaborators 33 Institutions 16 Countries

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