Ecological Stoichiometry (eBook)

The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere

Robert W. Sterner, James J. Elser (Autoren)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400885695 (ISBN)

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Robert W. Sterner is Professor and Head of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. James J. Elser is Professor of Biology at Arizona State University. Peter Vitousek, one of the world's leading ecosystem ecologists, is Morrison Professor of Population and Resources at Stanford University.

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All life is chemical. That fact underpins the developing field of ecological stoichiometry, the study of the balance of chemical elements in ecological interactions. This long-awaited book brings this field into its own as a unifying force in ecology and evolution. Synthesizing a wide range of knowledge, Robert Sterner and Jim Elser show how an understanding of the biochemical deployment of elements in organisms from microbes to metazoa provides the key to making sense of both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. After summarizing the chemistry of elements and their relative abundance in Earth's environment, the authors proceed along a line of increasing complexity and scale from molecules to cells, individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems. The book examines fundamental chemical constraints on ecological phenomena such as competition, herbivory, symbiosis, energy flow in food webs, and organic matter sequestration. In accessible prose and with clear mathematical models, the authors show how ecological stoichiometry can illuminate diverse fields of study, from metabolism to global change. Set to be a classic in the field, Ecological Stoichiometry is an indispensable resource for researchers, instructors, and students of ecology, evolution, physiology, and biogeochemistry. From the foreword by Peter Vitousek: ? "e;[T]his book represents a significant milestone in the history of ecology. . . . Love it or argue with it--and I do both--most ecologists will be influenced by the framework developed in this book. . . . There are points to question here, and many more to test . . . And if we are both lucky and good, this questioning and testing will advance our field beyond the level achieved in this book. I can't wait to get on with it."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2017
• Vorwort: Peter M. Vitousek
• Zusatzinfo: 21 tables. 92 line illus. 4 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Amylase • arginine • Autotroph • Bacillus subtilis • Bacteria • Bacterivore • biochemistry • biodiversity • Biological Organisation • Biomass (ecology) • Carbohydrate • cellular respiration • Chemostat • Chitin • Chlorophyll • Chloroplast • Compensatory growth (organism) • Competition • Copy-number variation • Cryptomonas • Daphnia • Decomposer • Density dependence • Detritus • diagenesis • Ecological pyramid • Ecological Stoichiometry • Ecology • ecosystem • Escherichia coli • Essential fatty acid • Essential nutrient • eutrophication • Evolution • Evolutionary pressure • Evolution of biological complexity • Excretion • gaia hypothesis • glycerol • Glycogen • Hemicellulose • Herbivore • heterotroph • homeostasis • Human impact on the nitrogen cycle • Input and output (medicine) • Ionization energy • Isotope Analysis • keystone species • Liebig's law of the minimum • Lipid • macroevolution • Macrophage (ecology) • mass balance • Metabolism • Michaelis–Menten kinetics • Micronutrient • model organism • Natural selection • negative feedback • nitrogen balance • Nucleic acid • nutrient • nutrient cycle • Nutrient systems • organism • palatability • Paradox of enrichment • Phenotypic plasticity • phosphatidylcholine • Phospholipid • Phylum • Phytoplankton • Plant nutrition • Primary production • Primary succession • Protein • Protein synthesis inhibitor • Proximate • Rate of evolution • Redfield ratio • Reforestation • Resource Depletion • Rubisco • Saprotrophic nutrition • Scenedesmus • Secondary succession • Seston • Soil • sterol • stoichiometry • Sulfur assimilation • Total Organic Carbon • trace metal • trophic cascade • Trophic state index • Turgor pressure • Uric acid • Vascular plant • Zooplankton
• ISBN-13: 9781400885695 / 9781400885695