Detritivory: stoichiometry of a neglected trophic level

By Holly M. Martinson, Katie Schneider, J. Gilbert, Jessica Hines, P. Hambäck, William F. Fagan. Ecological research, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Soil acidity, ecological stoichiometry and allometric scaling in grassland food webs (2009, background): “In contrast, in terrestrial ecosystems the connections between nutrient stoichiometry and size scaling are only now beginning to be considered (Schade et al., 2003; Kerkhoff et al., 2005; Meehan, 2006; Enquist et al., 2007; Martinson et al., 2008; Reuman et al., 2009).”
Functional Traits and Trait-Mediated Interactions: Connecting Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning (2015, background): “Like herbivores, detritivores and microbivores must meet homeostatic elemental balances determined by physiological processes that govern their element uptake and excretion (Martinson et al., 2008; Reiners, 1986; Sterner and Elser, 2002).”
Does variability in litter quality determine soil microbial respiration in an Amazonian rainforest (2011, background): “The theory of ecological stoichiometry (Sterner and Elser, 2002) predicts important constraints of C:nutrient ratios on decomposer communities because they have distinctively narrower C:nutrient ratios than the litter they consume (Cleveland and Liptzin, 2007; Martinson et al., 2008).”
Carbon quality rather than stoichiometry controls litter decomposition in a tropical rain forest (2010, background): “…might be expected to provide diverse substrates for a variety of soil organisms that were reported to differ considerably in their stoichiometry (Cleveland & Liptzin 2007; Martinson et al. 2008), resulting in more diverse soil communities with potentially more efficient substrate use overall.”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “Predatory arthropods tend to have a higher N content and a lower C:N ratio than their potential herbivorous prey (Martinson et al., 2008), as a negligible relationship of N content with the body size of herbivore arthropods—in contrast to a sharp inverse 106 Christian Mulder et al. relationship of…”
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 ratio (Dantas and Attayde 2007; Bertram et al. 2007; Martinson et al. 2008).”