Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems.

By James J. Elser, R. Sterner, E. Gorokhova, William F. Fagan, T. Markow, J. Cotner, J. Harrison, S. Hobbie, G. Odell, L. Weider. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics

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The hare, the tortoise and the crocodile: the ecology of angiosperm dominance, conifer persistence and fern filtering (2005, positive): “P depletion contributed to the substantial changes in the stoichiometry of C : N : P in plants and soils (Tables 1 & 2), and the resulting increase in P limitation is likely to have had major consequences (Koerselman & Meuleman 1996; Elser et al. 2000; Tessier & Raynal 2003; Wardle et al. 2004).”
Temperature and the chemical composition of poikilothermic organisms (2003, background): “Thus, rapidly growing organisms often have high N and P content ( Elser et al . 2000b ).”
The central role of grazing in seagrass ecology (2007, background): “While the C/N ratio has been correlated with growth of some pelagic freshwater herbivores (Elser et al. 2003), it has not been clearly linked to performance of marine herbivores (cf.”
Who is who in litter decomposition? Metaproteomics reveals major microbial players and their biogeochemical functions (2012, background): “Phosphorous is needed for DNA replication and transcription and, therefore, fast growing bacteria are particularly affected under P-limiting conditions (Elser et al., 2000, 2003).”
Ecological stoichiometry: An elementary approach using basic principles (2013, background): “It was also later proposed that maintaining high rates of ribosome synthesis would entail necessary changes in the genes that code for ribosomal RNA (rRNA; Elser et al. 2000b).”
Physiological responses to stoichiometric constraints: nutrient limitation and compensatory feeding in a freshwater snail (2006, background): “A major assertion of the ecological stoichiometry theory (Elser et al. 2000a) is the growth rate hypothesis, which states that organisms with a higher specific growth rate have a high content of RNA with a P content higher than in slower-growing organisms.”
Growth rate–stoichiometry couplings in diverse biota (2003, methodology): “…of energy and multiple chemical elements in ecological interactions (Sterner & Elser 2002); its extension to biological phenomena at other levels of organization (individual metabolism, cellular allocation and genetic change) can be referred to as biological stoichiometry (Elser et al. 2000c).”
Nutritional Limitation Travels up the Food Chain (2008, background): “P-demand is usually high in organisms that have high growth rates (ELSER, 2002), such as larval fish.”
Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use (2003, background): “Field studies have demonstrated how the physiology of a species can influence ecosystem properties such as nutrient cycling, productivity and species richness (e.g. Vitousek 1990; Elser et al. 2000).”
Litter N:P ratios indicate whether N or P limits the decomposability of graminoid leaf litter (2006, background): “…Biology, CH–8092 Zürich, Switzerland e-mail: sabine.guesewell@env.ethz.ch J. T. A. Verhoeven Æ S. Güsewell Department of Biology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80084, NL-3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands proportional to the needs of these consumers (Elser et al. 2000a; Moe et al. 2005; Smith 2002).”
Growth responses of littoral mayflies to the phosphorus content of their food (2002, background): “:P stoichiometry in terrestrial insects exhibits similar patterns of variation (Elser et al. 2000a).”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “…and growth rate require particular supply (i.e. high food C:N with low N:P, extremely low food levels), the close correlation between RNA and P contents indicates that ecosystem processes influence the expression of rRNA synthesising genes (Elser et al., 2000a, 2003; Sterner and Elser, 2002).”