Nutritional Limitation Travels up the Food Chain

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Ecological Stoichiometry, Biogeochemical Cycling, Invasive Species, and Aquatic Food Webs: San Francisco Estuary and Comparative Systems (2011, background): “Yet, homeostasis comes at a cost, typically as a reduction in the rates of growth or reproduction (Boersma, 2000; Boersma and Kreutzer, 2002; Boersma et al., 2008).”
Increased carbon dioxide availability alters phytoplankton stoichiometry and affects carbon cycling and growth of a marine planktonic herbivore (2012, background): “Algae with a high carbon-to-nutrient ratio are known to often be of inferior food quality for herbivorous consumers (Boersma et al. 2008; Malzahn et al. 2007; Sterner and Elser 2002; Schoo et al. 2012).”
Widespread intraspecific organismal stoichiometry among populations of the Trinidadian guppy (2012, methodology): “We limited this analysis to C : P because P supply varied significantly between streams and because fish in general are thought to be more vulnerable to P limitation than N limitation (Boersma et al. 2008).”
Stoichiometrically Explicit Food Webs: Feedbacks between Resource Supply, Elemental Constraints, and Species Diversity (2009, background): “Changes in autotroph stoichiometry can shape density, species composition, and nutrient content of grazers [i.e., prey quantity and quality for predators (Boersma et al. 2008, Fagan & Denno 2004)].”