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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhou L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6900088 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ecology letters 20190911 12
Anthropogenic activities have reshaped the relative supply rates of essential elements to organisms. Recent studies suggested that consumer performance is strongly reduced by food that is either very high or very low in relative phosphorus content. However, the generality of such 'stoichiometric knife-edge' and its underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We studied the response of a planktonic rotifer to a 10-fold food carbon : phosphorus (C : P) gradient and confirmed the existence of the ...[more]