LEADER 03075nam 2200421z- 450 001 9910346759203321 005 20231214132848.0 035 $a(CKB)4920000000094122 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57157 035 $a(EXLCZ)994920000000094122 100 $a20202102d2018 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aProgress in Ecological Stoichiometry 210 $cFrontiers Media SA$d2018 215 $a1 electronic resource (382 p.) 225 1 $aFrontiers Research Topics 311 $a2-88945-621-8 330 $aEcological stoichiometry concerns the way that the elemental composition of organisms shapes their ecology. It deals with the balance or imbalance of elemental ratios and how that affects organism growth, nutrient cycling, and the interactions with the biotic and abiotic worlds. The elemental composition of organisms is a set of constraints through which all the Earth?s biogeochemical cycles must pass. All organisms consume nutrients and acquire compounds from the environment proportional to their needs. Organismal elemental needs are determined in turn by the energy required to live and grow, the physical and chemical constraints of their environment, and their requirements for relatively large polymeric biomolecules such as RNA, DNA, lipids, and proteins, as well as for structural needs including stems, bones, shells, etc. These materials together constitute most of the biomass of living organisms. Although there may be little variability in elemental ratios of many of these biomolecules, changing the proportions of different biomolecules can have important effects on organismal elemental composition. Consequently, the variation in elemental composition both within and across organisms can be tremendous, which has important implications for Earth?s biogeochemical cycles. It has been over a decade since the publication of Sterner and Elser?s book, Ecological Stoichiometry (2002). In the intervening years, hundreds of papers on stoichiometric topics ranging from evolution and regulation of nutrient content in organisms, to the role of stoichiometry in populations, communities, ecosystems and global biogeochemical dynamics have been published. Here, we present a collection of contributions from the broad scientific community to highlight recent insights in the field of Ecological Stoichiometry. 610 $aecological scaling 610 $aBiological stoichiometry 610 $aecological theory 610 $aC:N:P 610 $aHomeostasis 610 $aElemental composition 610 $aNutrient recycling 700 $aJames J. Elser$4auth$01331928 702 $aJames B. Cotner$4auth 702 $aDedmer B. Van de Waal$4auth 702 $aRobert W. Sterner$4auth 702 $aAdam C. Martiny$4auth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910346759203321 996 $aProgress in Ecological Stoichiometry$93040660 997 $aUNINA