C:N:P stoichiometry in soil: is there a “Redfield ratio” for the microbial biomass?

By C. Cleveland, D. Liptzin. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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Ecoenzymatic Stoichiometry and Ecological Theory (2012, background): “Using mean values for LC/N (14.3), LC/P (186), BC/N (8.6), and BC/P (60) presented by Cleveland & Liptzin (2007), the estimated mean values of SC/N and SC/P are 0.42 and 0.52, respectively.”
Tree species mixing affects soil microbial functioning indirectly via root and litter traits and soil parameters in European forests (2021, background): “570 The soil C:N ratio (related to Soil PC2), a potential indicator of soil fertility or nutrient 571 limitation (Cleveland & Liptzin, 2007), did not affect microbial biomass, activity (Sum15 or 572 DEA), or metabolic diversity (H’).”
Plant nitrogen uptake drives rhizosphere bacterial community assembly during plant growth (2015, background): “This may reveal that these soil bacterial communities exhibited non-homeostatic relationships within the rhizosphere, and are thus constrained by the environmental nutrient conditions imposed by plants (McGroddy et al., 2004; Cleveland and Liptzin, 2007; Bell et al., 2014a).”
Decreased soil organic P fraction associated with ectomycorrhizal fungal activity to meet increased P demand under N application in a subtropical forest ecosystem (2017, background): “The stoichiometry of microbial biomass can be useful for assessing nutrient limitation of ecosystem processes in terrestrial ecosystems (Cleveland and Liptzin 2007; Griffiths et al. 2012).”
Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils (2016, result): “This formulation is consistent with Michaelis-Menten kinetics and metabolic control analysis (Cornish-Bowden 2012).”
Eco-enzymatic stoichiometry and enzymatic vectors reveal differential C, N, P dynamics in decaying litter along a land-use gradient (2016, background): “:P stoichiometry compared to that of their own biomass (Cleveland and Liptzin 2007; Mooshammer et al. 2014a), changes in relative abundances of extracellular enzymatic activities (EEA) involved in C, N, and P cycling should reflect relative resource acquisition by these communities (Sinsabaugh et…”
Stoichiometric imbalances between terrestrial decomposer communities and their resources: mechanisms and implications of microbial adaptations to their resources (2014, methodology): “:P ratios were not (Cleveland and Liptzin, 2007; Hartman and Richardson, 2013), or only weakly, positively related to the respective soil element ratios (Xu et al., 2013; Table 2), indicating a large degree of stoichiometric homeostasis of soil microbial communities.”
Soil acidity, ecological stoichiometry and allometric scaling in grassland food webs (2009, background): “Biologically available P is thought to increase within a pH range of 5–6 (Chapin & Eviner, 2003; Sims & Pierzynski, 2005; Cleveland & Liptzin, 2007), as in our managed grasslands where fertilization and liming occurred regularly.”
Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter (2019, background): “Such an approach may be justified as microbes are reported to constrain their average carbon:nitrogen (C/N) ratio to a relatively narrow range (Cleveland & Liptzin, 2007; Mooshammer, Wanek, Zechmeister‐Boltenstern, & Richter, 2014), although it may sig‐ nificantly vary among different ecosystems…”