The evolution of ecosystem processes: growth rate and elemental stoichiometry of a key herbivore in temperate and arctic habitats

By Elser, O’Brien, Dobberfuhl, Dowling. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Plant allometry, stoichiometry and the temperature-dependence of primary productivity (2005, background): “These two alternatives can be reconciled by the ‘growth rate hypothesis’ (GRH) (Elser et al., 2000; Sterner & Elser, 2002; Elser et al., 2003; Agren, 2004), which predicts that selection for rapid growth (i.e. high YG) increases tissue P-content disproportionately (and thus decreases N : P) due to i”
From Elements to Function: Toward Unifying Ecological Stoichiometry and Trait-Based Ecology (2017, background): “Since autotrophs are usually more C-rich than animals, herbivores typically ingest a diet rich in C but deficient in nutrients (Sterner and Elser, 2002), which has implications for herbivore and detritivore performance and subsequent trophic dynamics (Elser et al., 2000b; Hessen et al., 2013).”
A conceptual framework for ecosystem stoichiometry: balancing resource supply and demand (2005, background): “In addition, Elser et al. (2000) show higher P in Daphnia pulex in response to a shorter growing season.”
Thresholds in macroinvertebrate biodiversity and stoichiometry across water-quality gradients in Central Plains (USA) streams (2009, background): “Body P content is positively linked to organismal growth rates (Elser et al. 2000, 2003), and the trade-off for exploiting these low-quality food resources efficiently might be slower growth (Cross et al. 2003, Frost et al. 2006).”
Growth rate–stoichiometry couplings in diverse biota (2003, methodology): “…of energy and multiple chemical elements in ecological interactions (Sterner & Elser 2002); its extension to biological phenomena at other levels of organization (individual metabolism, cellular allocation and genetic change) can be referred to as biological stoichiometry (Elser et al. 2000c).”
Stoichiometric variation in C:N, C:P, and N:P ratios of littoral benthic invertebrates (2005, methodology): “In the Elser et al. (2000a) and our data sets, median N: P ratios for periphyton and invertebrates were much more similar than median C”
The Functional Significance of Ribosomal (r)DNA Variation: Impacts on the Evolutionary Ecology of Organisms (2005, methodology): “For example, the P content of the ubiquitous crustacean zooplankter, Daphnia, varies between only 1.2 and 2%, with variation largely due to the stage of development (juveniles have somewhat higher P content than adults).”
FUNDAMENTAL CONNECTIONS AMONG ORGANISM C:N:P STOICHIOMETRY, MACROMOLECULAR COMPOSITION, AND GROWTH (2004, background): “In combination with the observations in Elser et al. (2000a), these calculations indicate that the average leaf in nature must not have an allocation to rubisco of more than ;10%, as the resulting C:N of such an allocation is 36 (assuming conservatively that all non-rubisco biomass is carbohydrate).”