Abstract:
:There has been important progress in understanding ecological dynamics through the development of the theory of ecological stoichiometry. For example, modeling under this framework allows food quality to affect consumer dynamics. While the effects of nutrient deficiency on consumer growth are well understood, recent discoveries in ecological stoichiometry suggest that consumer dynamics are not only affected by insufficient food nutrient content (low phosphorus (P): carbon (C) ratio) but also by excess food nutrient content (high P:C). This phenomenon is known as the stoichiometric knife edge, in which animal growth is reduced not only by food with low P content but also by food with high P content, and needs to be incorporated into mathematical models. Here we present a Lotka-Volterra type model to investigate the growth response of Daphnia to algae of varying P:C ratios capturing the mechanism of the stoichiometric knife edge.
journal_name
Math Bioscijournal_title
Mathematical biosciencesauthors
Peace A,Zhao Y,Loladze I,Elser JJ,Kuang Ydoi
10.1016/j.mbs.2013.04.011subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-08-01 00:00:00pages
107-15issue
2eissn
0025-5564issn
1879-3134pii
S0025-5564(13)00121-1journal_volume
244pub_type
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