Reduced light increases herbivore production due to stoichiometric effects of light/nutrient balance

By Jotaro Urabe, M. Kyle, Wataru Makino, Takehito Yoshida, T. Andersen, James J. Elser. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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Recent advances in ecological stoichiometry: insights for population and community ecology (2005, result): “These theoretical results are supported by the study of Urabe et al. (2002a), which showed that low food quality (P:C) promotes coexistence of two Daphnia species.”
Ecological stoichiometry: An elementary approach using basic principles (2013, background): “…(Loladze et al. 2004; Hall 2009), a prediction supported by experimental evidence in which improved stoichiometric food quality via nutrient recycling by consumers subsequently promoted coexistence of two consumer species rather than competitive exclusion of inferior species (Urabe et al. 2002).”
Elemental composition of marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus: Implications for the ecological stoichiometry of the sea (2003, unknown): “In nature it is likely that other environmental variables, such as light quality and quantity, might also affect the ecological stoichiometry of marine seston (Urabe et al. 2002); in our laboratory studies, we applied a constant light flux of 30–40 mmol quanta m22 s21, so this remains to be tested.”
The elemental stoichiometry of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and its relationships with organismic lifestyle and ecosystem structure and function: a review and perspectives (2011, background): “:P ratios in grazed than in ungrazed algae, thus improving algal nutritional quality (Urabe et al. 2002a; Hillebrand et al. 2008, 2009) and generating a faster cycling of N and P.”
Stoichiometrically Explicit Food Webs: Feedbacks between Resource Supply, Elemental Constraints, and Species Diversity (2009, background): “For instance, in a mesocosm experiment, Daphnia dominated high-nutrient environments where the stoichiometric quality of autotrophs was higher (Hall et al. 2004; see also Urabe et al. 2002b).”
Life at the edge: Is food quality really of minor importance at low quantities? (2002, result): “…to explain the differences in food quality, but the results of our supplementation treatment and of similar experiments reported in the literature (Urabe et al. 1997, 2002, DeMott et al. 1998, Boersma 2000, Elser et al. 2001, Plath and Boersma 2001) show that adding phosphorus to low-P algae…”
Phosphorus and light colimit periphyton growth at subsaturating irradiances (2007, background): “In any case, the evidence so far does not indicate that an ‘excess’ of light will seriously affect the food quality of stream algae and the growth of lotic grazers, as has been suggested for lakes (e.g. Urabe et al., 2002).”
Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate (2010, background): “For example Urabe et al. (2002, 2003) and Hessen et al. (2002) have shown that growth rates of herbivorous Daphnia decline markedly when fed on high C”
Herbivorous animals can mitigate unfavourable ratios of energy and material supplies by enhancing nutrient recycling (2002, methodology): “…P-limited lakes have shown that herbivore abundance is not enhanced by reduction of planktivorous fish (Elser et al. 1998), but instead is increased by shading despite decreased overall algal production because lower light intensity raises the nutrient content of the algal food (Urabe et al. 2002).”