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- Ecological_stoichiometry abstract "Ecological stoichiometry considers how the balance of energy and elements affects and is affected by organisms and their interactions in ecosystems. Ecological stoichiometry has a long history in ecology with early references to the constraints of mass balance made by Liebig, Lotka, and Redfield, and has recently gained momentum by explicitly linking the elemental physiology of organisms to their food web interactions and ecosystem function.Most work in ecological stoichiometry focuses on the interface between a consumer and its food. This interface, whether it is between plants and their resources or large herbivores and grasses, is often characterized by dramatic differences in the elemental composition of each participant. Consider termites which have a body C:N of about 5 but consume wood with a C:N ratio of 300-1000. Ecological stoichiometry primarily asks: why do elemental imbalances arise in nature? how is consumer physiology and life-history affected by elemental imbalances? and what are the subsequent effects on ecosystem processes?Elemental imbalances are a mismatch between the elemental demands of a consumer and that present in its resources. Elemental imbalances arise between grazers and their food whose foods vary considerably in their elemental composition more often than in animals who have less elemental flexibility. For example, carbon to phosphorus ratios in the suspended organic matter in lakes (i.e., algae, bacteria, and detritus) can vary between 100 and 1000 whereas C:P ratios of Daphnia, a crustacean zooplankton, remain nearly constant at 80:1. There are a number of physiological and evolutionary explanations for these differences in elemental composition that are related to the types of needed resources, their relative availability in time and space, and how they are acquired. The degree to which organisms maintain a constant chemical composition in the face of variations in their environment, particularly in the chemical composition and availability of their resources, is referred to as "stoichiometric homeostasis". Like the general biological notion of homeostasis, elemental homeostasis refers to the maintenance of elemental composition within some biologically ordered range. Photoautotrophic organisms, such as algae and vascular plants, can exhibit a very wide range of physiological plasticity in elemental composition and thus have relatively weak stoichiometric homeostasis. In contrast, other organisms, multicellular animals for example, have close to strict homeostasis and they can be thought of as having distinct chemical composition. Ecological stoichiometry seeks to discover how the chemical content of organisms shapes their ecology. Ecological stoichiometry has been applied to studies of nutrient recycling, resource competition, animal growth, and nutrient limitation patterns in whole ecosystems. The Redfield ratio of the world's oceans is one very famous application of stoichiometric principles to ecology. Ecological stoichiometry also considers phenomena at the sub-cellular level, such as the P-content of a ribosome, as well as phenomena at the whole biosphere level, such as the oxygen content of Earth's atmosphere.".
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- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Alfred_C._Redfield.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Alfred_J._Lotka.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Algae.
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- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Carbon.
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- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Chemical_composition.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Competitive_exclusion_principle.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Consumer.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Crustacean.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Daphnia.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Detritus.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Earths_atmosphere.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Ecology.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Ecosystem.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Ecosystems.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Energy_balance.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Energy_flow_(ecology).
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Energy_homeostasis.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Evolution.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Food_web.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Grass.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Herbivore.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Herbivores.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Homeostasis.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Justus_von_Liebig.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Lake.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Lotka.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Mass_balance.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Nitrogen.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Nutrient_cycle.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Organism.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Phosphorus.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Photoautotrophic.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Phototroph.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Physiology.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Ratio.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Redfield_ratio.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Ribosome.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Stoichiometry.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Termite.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Termites.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Vascular_plant.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Vascular_plants.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Wood.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLink Zooplankton.
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ecological Stoichiometry".
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ecological stoichiometry".
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLinkText "ecological stoichiometry".
- Ecological_stoichiometry wikiPageWikiLinkText "nutrient availability and balance".
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- Ecological_stoichiometry subject Category:Ecology.
- Ecological_stoichiometry comment "Ecological stoichiometry considers how the balance of energy and elements affects and is affected by organisms and their interactions in ecosystems.".
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