Nitrogen (N) and/or phosphorus (P) availability can limit growth of primary producers across
most of the world's aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. These constraints are commonly …

Abstract C, N and P are three of the most important elements used to build living beings, and
their uptake from the environment is consequently essential for all organisms. We have …

Zooplankton are major primary consumers and predators in most aquatic ecosystems. They
exhibit tremendous diversity of traits, ecological strategies and, consequently, impacts on …

The traditional view of the planktonic food web describes consumption of inorganic nutrients
by photoautotrophic phytoplankton, which in turn supports zooplankton and ultimately higher …

Global change impacts on biogeochemical cycles have been widely studied, but our
understanding of whether the responses of plant elemental composition to global change …

Homeostasis of element composition is one of the central concepts of ecological
stoichiometry. In this context, homeostasis is the resistance to change of consumer body …

Population dynamics theory forms the quantitative core from which most ecologists have
developed their intuition about how species interactions, heterogeneity, and biodiversity …

Conventional theories of population and community dynamics are based on a single
currency such as number of individuals, biomass, carbon or energy. However, organisms …

Animals encountering nutritionally imbalanced foods should release elements in excess of
requirements in order to maintain overall homeostasis. Quantifying these excesses and …

All species within ecosystems contribute to regulating carbon cycling because of their
functional integration into food webs. Yet carbon modeling and accounting still assumes that …