Nutritional constraints in terrestrial and freshwater food webs

By James J. Elser, William F. Fagan, R. Denno, D. Dobberfuhl, A. Folarin, Andrea F. Huberty, S. Interlandi, S. Kilham, E. Mccauley, K. Schulz and 2 more. Nature, 2000

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WHAT DETERMINES THE STRENGTH OF A TROPHIC CASCADE (2005, background): “Phytoplankton growth rates and nitrogen content are both substantially greater than those of terrestrial plants (Cebrian 1999, Elser et al. 2000).”
Soil acidity, ecological stoichiometry and allometric scaling in grassland food webs (2009, background): “A central idea of biological stoichiometry is the growth rate hypothesis (GRH), which proposes that variation in C : N : P ratios among organisms reflects differential allocation to P-rich ribosomal RNA in support of rapid growth rate.”
ROSEMARY MACKAY FUND ARTICLE: Ecological stoichiometry of trophic interactions in the benthos: understanding the role of C:N:P ratios in lentic and lotic habitats (2002, background): “Snails are large relative to the depth of an average biofilm, so nutrients released by these consumers may immediately be advectively transported in stream currents outside of the biofilm.”
LIGHT, NUTRIENTS, AND P:C RATIOS IN ALGAE: GRAZER PERFORMANCE RELATED TO FOOD QUALITY AND QUANTITY (2002, background): “…to be more important than food quality limitation in most localities, the latter may pose additional constraints not only for zooplankton secondary production, but also for a wide diversity of terrestrial grazers ranging from insects to mammals (McNaughton 1990, White 1993, Elser et al. 2000a).”
Stoichiometry of actual vs. potential predator–prey interactions: insights into nitrogen limitation for arthropod predators (2004, background): “In actuality, both GGEN and GGEC for a particular predatory arthropod could be functions of resource nutrient content (Sterner & Elser 2002), as is true for some herbivores (Urabe and Watanabe 1992, Elser et al. 2000).”
Genetic differences in growth of an invasive tree species (2001, background): “Although the range of C : N values in our study is probably too small to reflect ecologically significant differences in nitrogen limitation or nutritive value to herbivores ( Elser et al. 2000 ), it does suggest that native genotypes are constructing tissues higher in proteins and/or nitrogen-based”
Stoichiometric food quality and herbivore dynamics (2001, background): “... and ‘‘structure’’ that differ in elemental composition, and parameterized our models for Daphnia subsisting on phosphorus-limited phytoplankton, but the formalism is general and could be equally well applied to any consumer feeding on a food source with variable nutrient content, for example, to”
Stoichiometry of nutrient recycling by vertebrates in a tropical stream: linking species identity and ecosystem processes (2002, background): “For example, the mean P content of fish bodies in our study is about 2.5 · higher, and the C : P and N : P ratios about 2.5 · lower, than the bodies of herbivorous zooplankton or terrestrial insect herbivores (Elser et al. 2000).”
Ecological Stoichiometry, Biogeochemical Cycling, Invasive Species, and Aquatic Food Webs: San Francisco Estuary and Comparative Systems (2011, background): “In contrast, phytoplankton species that can sustain their metabolism when resources are low—ie, more slowly growing cells—have a higher proportion of pigments and proteins with proportionately higher N:P ratio (Sterner and Elser, 2002 ; Elser et al, 2000 , Elser, 2006 ; Arrigo, 2005 ; Finkel et ”