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Jennifer A. Lau

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1976
Plant and animal studiesEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesPlant Parasitism and ResistanceLegume Nitrogen Fixing SymbiosisMycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Publications

139

Citations

7,165

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

51

Publishing since 1976

Research summary
AI-generated

Jennifer A. Lau studies how plants interact with soil microbes and other partners, and how these relationships shape plant ecology and evolution. Much of her work focuses on beneficial partnerships (mutualisms), such as those between legumes and nitrogen-fixing bacteria (rhizobia), and how environmental stresses like drought, nitrogen enrichment, and climate change affect plants and their microbial partners. She combines field experiments, evolutionary biology, and microbial ecology to understand plant adaptation to changing environments.

Plant-microbe mutualismsLegume-rhizobia symbiosisPlant adaptation to environmental stressEcology and evolution of species interactionsEffects of climate and nitrogen change on plant communities

Publication activity has been steady over the past decade, averaging roughly seven papers per year with no clear increase or decline.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

Current awards run through December 2027 — about 1 year of funding on record from today. Awards are often renewed, so this is what is currently public, not a forecast.

  • ActiveNSF 2224853through Dec 2027 · $310k awarded

    Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Biodiversity and stability on a changing planet: plant traits and interactions that stabilize or destabilize ecosystems and populations

9 earlier awards
  • NSF 2009125Jan 2021 – Aug 2026 · $1.4M awarded

    CNH2-L: Resilience to drought or a drought of resilience? The potential for interactions and feedbacks between human adaptation and ecological adaptation

  • NSF 2133270Jul 2021 – Sep 2023 · $182k awarded

    RAPID: Cicadas as catalysts: Quantifying the population, community, and evolutionary effects of a periodic resource pulse.

  • NSF 1701791Jun 2017 – Aug 2019 · $20k awarded

    DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The role of rapid adaptation in population establishment

  • NSF 1257756Mar 2013 – Dec 2017 · $355k awarded

    Collaborative Research: Evolution in LTER Experiments: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Long-Term Nitrogen Addition for the Legume-Rhizobium Mutualism

  • NSF 1445633Aug 2014 – Jul 2017 · $41k awarded

    COLLABORATIVE: WORKSHOP: Identifying and prioritizing research questions for long-term ecological experiments

  • NSF 1547961Aug 2015 – Jul 2017 · $105k awarded

    Collaborative Research: RAPID: Linking Population and Community Ecology in Restored Communities: Interactions Between Species Diversity and Genetic Diversity

  • NSF 1401582Jun 2014 – May 2017 · $20k awarded

    DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The role of resource mutualisms in plant adaptation to abiotic environments

  • NSF 1210436May 2012 – Apr 2015 · $15k awarded

    DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The dynamic role of natural enemies during plant invasions

  • NSF 0918963Aug 2009 – Jul 2014 · $631k awarded

    The community context of genotype-by-genotype interactions: implications for biological invasions

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 526 established Agricultural and Biological Sciences PIs within our index
Citations: 7,165cohort median 2,147
h-index: 37cohort median 23
Publications / year (recent): 6.8cohort median 2.8

Typically publishes in teams of ~3 · 59% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 30 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.8/year recently
2017: 8 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 7 publications192020: 7 publications202021: 8 publications212022: 10 publications10222023: 3 publications232024: 8 publications242025: 6 publications252026: 7 publications26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 1 collaborator at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Figshare×17
  • Ecology×7
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×7
  • Oecologia×6
  • American Journal of Botany×5
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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