Ecological Stoichiometry: The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere

By R. Sterner, James J. Elser. 2002

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Subfields: Electrochemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Molecular Biology

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Warming advances top-down control and reduces producer biomass in a freshwater plankton community (2017, background): “Warming in concert with changes in nutrient availability may alter the elemental composition of phytoplankton (Rhee and Gotham 1981, De Senerpont Domis et al. 2014) and thereby affect their nutritional quality for higher trophic levels (Sterner and Elser 2002, Biermann et al. 2015).”
Rapid evolution and the convergence of ecological and evolutionary time (2005, background): “…to support population growth of grazers and the amount of phosphorus that they release back to the environment in excretion and feces (reviewed by Sterner & Elser 2002), these investigators proposed that natural selection acting on Daphnia growth rate could influence nutrient limitation of…”
Elemental stoichiometry of freshwater fishes in relation to phylogeny, allometry and ecology (2007, background): “Elemental composition, or the stoichiometry of individual organisms, is a taxon-dependent trait, ultimately arising from evolutionary pressures on form and function (Williams & Fraústo da Silva, 1996; Sterner & Elser, 2002).”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “…and growth rate require particular supply (i.e. high food C:N with low N:P, extremely low food levels), the close correlation between RNA and P contents indicates that ecosystem processes influence the expression of rRNA synthesising genes (Elser et al., 2000a, 2003; Sterner and Elser, 2002).”
The geological consequences of evolution (2003, background): “Biological participation in the Earth system may be governed by photosynthesis, but photosynthesis itself is modulated by the availability of fixed nitrogen, phosphorus and trace nutrients (Sterner & Elser, 2002).”
Ecological stoichiometry: An elementary approach using basic principles (2013, methodology): “—ES theory, as described by Sterner and Elser (2002), considered the disposal of elements in excess but did not take into account any costs associated with that disposal.”
Toward a metabolic theory of ecology (2004, background): “Far from being distinct ecological currencies, as some authors have implied (e.g., Reiners 1986, Sterner and Elser 2002), the currencies of energy and materials are inextricably linked by the chemical equations of metabolism.”
C:N:P stoichiometry of Artemisia species and close relatives across northern China: unravelling effects of climate, soil and taxonomy (2015, background): “…topography and soil environment at the regional (or even global) scale and (ii) even related species still differ strongly in their stoichiometry owing to their genetic make-up that satisfies the stoichiometric demands of the plant body to adapt to those environments (Sterner & Elser 2002).”
A conceptual framework for ecosystem stoichiometry: balancing resource supply and demand (2005, background): “Ecological stoichiometry theory provides an integrative framework that links biogeochemical patterns at a global scale to physiological constraints that operate at cellular and organismal levels (Sterner and Elser 2002).”
The Multidimensional Stoichiometric Niche (2017, background): “Ecological stoichiometry (henceforth ES: Sterner and Elser, 2002) studies the balance of energy and multiple chemical elements in ecological interactions, and assumes that the elemental composition of living organisms reflects their demands for chemical elements and the degree of elemental…”
Stoichiometry constrains microbial response to root exudation- insights from a model and a field experiment in a temperate forest (2012, background): “Thus, rhizosphere microbes are apparently able to acquire enough N to support the synthesis of additional biomass and exoenzymes, which have a low C : N ratio and thus a high N requirement (Elser et al., 2000; Sterner and Elser, 2002; Cleveland and Liptzin, 2007).”
An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle (2008, background): “This coupling occurs with specific elemental stoichiometries, whose values and flexibilities determine not only the relative speed at which the different cycles are coupled, but also how tight the coupling i”
Isotopic ecology ten years after a call for more laboratory experiments (2009, methodology): “…by more than an order of magnitude among species depending on a variety of factors including metabolic rate (Steyermark 2002 and references therein), food’s stoichiometric composition (C:N ratios, see Chapter 5 in Sterner & Elser 2002), and life history characteristics (Rochette et al. 2000).”