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 …

Background Variation in microbial metabolism poses one of the greatest current
uncertainties in models of global carbon cycling, and is particularly poorly understood in …

Introduction The availability of essential nutrients, such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P),
can feedback on soil carbon (C) and the soil microbial biomass. Natural cycles can be …

摘要20 世纪以来, 生物科学的发展异军突起, 成为发展最快的学科, 不仅学科分类逐渐细化,
而且研究领域也逐渐深入, 然而, 这种分化和深入也可能会掩盖生物的一些最普遍特征 …

The relative supply of energy and elements available to organisms in the environment has
strong effects on their physiology, which, in turn, can alter important ecological processes …

We investigate the" macronutrient-access hypothesis", which states that the balance
between stoichiometric macronutrient demand and accessible macronutrients controls …

The growth‐rate hypothesis states that fast‐growing organisms need relatively more
phosphorus‐rich RNA to support rapid rates of protein synthesis, and therefore predicts …

Facilitation of plant growth and phosphorus (P) acquisition has recently been reported in
cereal–legume intercrop** systems. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that …

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

Liebig's law of the minimum, which states that only one element limits the growth of
organisms at any given time, is widely used in ecology. This principle is routinely applied to …