Stoichiometry of nutrient recycling by vertebrates in a tropical stream: linking species identity and ecosystem processes

By M. Vanni, Alexander S. Flecker, J. Hood, Jenifer L. Headworth. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. James J. Elser
2. S. Hall
3. P. Frost
4. J. Benstead
5. W. Cross
6. M. Boersma
7. William F. Fagan
8. M. Evans‐White

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

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2. S. Hall
3. C. Vaughn
4. J. Benstead
5. W. Cross
6. James J. Elser
7. William F. Fagan
8. M. Vanni

Citations in the corpus

• Ecological Stoichiometry, Biogeochemical Cycling, Invasive Species, and Aquatic Food Webs: San Francisco Estuary and Comparative Systems (2011, positive): “Figure is modified and redrawn from Sterner and George (2000). ingest nutrient-poor food, their need to dissipate those nutrients ingested in excess increases (Vanni et al., 2002).”
• Nutritional Limitation Travels up the Food Chain (2008, background): “Furthermore, different fish species have different nutrient stoichiometry (VANNI et al., 2002; HENDRIXSON et al., 2007), and we expect those species with the highest P-demand to suffer first.”
• Ecological Stoichiometry as an Integrative Framework in Stream Fish Ecology (2010, background): “In Rio Las Marias, aggregate N excretion by the entire fish assemblage was equivalent to roughly 75% of dissolved inorganic N uptake (Vanni et al. 2002; McIntyre et al. 2008).”
• Consumer‐resource stoichiometry in detritus‐based streams (2003, background): “For example, little is known about relationships between phylogenetic position and nutrient content (but see Fagan et al. 2002; Vanni et al. 2002), or whether organisms adapt, via natural selection, to low or highnutrient food resources.”
• Stoichiometric tracking of soil nutrients by a desert insect herbivore (2003, positive): “The recent development of ecological stoichiometry, a relatively new body of theory concerning the balance of energy and multiple chemical elements in living systems (Reiners 1986; Elser et al. 1996; Elser et al. 2000a), has led to the development of testable hypotheses which have the potential to m”
• Elemental stoichiometry of freshwater fishes in relation to phylogeny, allometry and ecology (2007, background): “For example, 26 species of tropical stream fishes in Venezuela were found to vary little in C or N but greatly in P (Vanni et al., 2002).”
• Taxonomic and regional patterns in benthic macroinvertebrate elemental composition in streams (2005, background): “their role in biogeochemical cycling) as has been suggested for stream vertebrates (Vanni et al., 2002).”
• Biogeochemical hotspots: temporal and spatial scaling of the impact of freshwater mussels on ecosystem function (2015, positive): “…dynamics is influenced by the relative biomass of the focal taxa within a given community, taxon-specific nutrient remineralisation and storage rates, ambient nutrient concen- trations and other sources of nutrient regeneration (Vanni et al., 2002; Benstead et al., 2010; Capps & Flecker, 2013a).”
• Ontogeny, diet shifts, and nutrient stoichiometry in fish (2007, background): “Fish can be important in nutrient cycling (Vanni 2002), and in some cases excretion by young of the year is particularly important (Kraft 1992).”
• Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: emerging issues and their experimental test in aquatic environments (2004, positive): “Examples of strong effects of species identity in aquatic ecosystems include nutrient recycling by fish (Vanni et al. 2002), and the ecological engineering of beavers (Naiman et al. 1988).”
• Widespread intraspecific organismal stoichiometry among populations of the Trinidadian guppy (2012, background): “The elemental composition of animals, or their organismal stoichiometry, thus acts as a proxy for their nutritional demand and plays an important role in predicting the contribution of animals to ecosystem function [e.g. consumer-mediated nutrient recycling (Vanni et al. 2002)].”
• Dominant species maintain ecosystem function with non‐random species loss (2003, background): “From our results, we conclude that species identity and ecosystem function are strongly linked (Grime 1998; Vanni et al. 2002).”
• Are autochthonous foods more important than allochthonous resources to benthic consumers in tropical headwater streams? (2009, background): “Elemental compositions (e.g., C and N) of consumers and their foods control the rates and ratios of nutrient recycling in ecosystems and reflect the degree of nutrient constraints imposed upon consumers by their resources (Vanni et al. 2002, Dodds et al. 2004).”
• Ecological stoichiometry in freshwater benthic systems: recent progress and perspectives (2005, background): “In a study of nutrient recycling by tropical stream consumers, molar N : P ratios of nutrient excretions were negatively related to body N : P ratios and varied thirtyfold among 28 species of fish and amphibians (Vanni et al., 2002).”