James M. Hood

James M. Hood studies freshwater ecosystems, focusing on how nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus cycle through streams and lakes, and how factors such as warming temperatures affect food webs, algae, and zooplankton communities. Much of the recent work centers on Lake Erie and its tributaries, combining field data, large collaborative datasets, and ecological modeling to understand nutrient dynamics and organism chemistry (stoichiometry) across scales. This research is relevant to students interested in aquatic ecology, biogeochemistry, and freshwater ecosystem responses to environmental change.

Publication output grew from a modest pace in the late 2010s to a peak around 2021-2022 and has since remained fairly steady at about 6 papers per year.

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