Does Liebig's law of the minimum scale up from species to communities?

By M. Danger, T. Daufresne, F. Lucas, S. Pissard, Gérard Lacroix. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Global and Planetary Change

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Goldman revisited: Faster‐growing phytoplankton has lower N : P and lower stoichiometric flexibility (2013, background): “Autotrophs frequently experience multiple nutrient limitation (Harpole et al. 2011), which can occur at different levels of biological organization within individuals, populations, and communities (Danger et al. 2008).”
Carbon use efficiency of microbial communities: stoichiometry, methodology and modelling. (2013, background): “The need to allocate cellular resources to optimise the acquisition of multiple essential nutrients imposes additional limits on microbial growth and growth efficiency (Chen & Christensen 1985; Zinn et al. 2004; Cherif & Loreau 2007; Danger et al. 2008; Franklin et al. 2011).”
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of stream sediments with comparison to terrestrial soils (2011, background): “These process responses to manipulations of C, N and P availability reflect the functional organization of microbial communities, which are under constant selection to optimize growth while acquiring multiple resources from the environment (Danger et al. 2008).”
Patterns and Mechanisms of Nutrient Resorption in Plants (2015, background): “Stoichiometry is becoming a more important aspect of plant nutrition because of the inherent relationships between essential elements and plant growth (Elser et al., 2003), making Liebig’s classical Law of the Minimum (Danger et al., 2008) practically obsolete.”
Ecoenzymatic Stoichiometry and Ecological Theory (2012, background): “…102–104 populations and multiple resource requirements moved microbial ecology beyond the single limiting-nutrient approach of the Monod (1949) and Droop (1977) models and moved EEA studies closer to the field of ecological stoichiometry (Zinn et al. 2004, Cherif & Loreau 2007, Danger et al. 2008).”
Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities. (2011, background): “Liebig!s Law of the Minimum was developed to describe the constraints on the production of individual crop plants, but not the biologically diverse communities of plants and ecosystems to which Liebig!s Law has been extended (Danger et al. 2008).”
Increase in microbial biomass and phosphorus availability in the rhizosphere of intercropped cereal and legumes under field conditions (2014, background): “At community scale, bacteria may exhibit flexible stoichiometry as a result of species sorting, lower C:P ratio in the environment selecting for bacteria with lower biomass C:P ratio (Danger et al., 2008).”
Stoichiometrically Explicit Food Webs: Feedbacks between Resource Supply, Elemental Constraints, and Species Diversity (2009, background): “For instance, because aggregate assemblages seem more stoichiometrically plastic than single species of bacteria (Danger et al. 2008, Makino et al. 2003, Makino & Cotner 2004), one could incorporate smooth changes in stoichiometry of decomposer assemblages (Danger et al. 2008, Schade et al. 2005).”