Ecological Stoichiometry: The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere

Contents\nList of Figures\nList of Tables\nForeword\nPreface\n1. Stoichiometry and Homeostasis\n	Scope\n	Stoichiometry and Homeostasis\n	Yield\n	The Redfield Ratio\n	Conventions and Concerns about Element Ratios\n	Some Conventions about Growth Rate\n	A Logical Framework\n	The Structure of This Book\n	Summary and Synthesis\n	Key Definitions\n2. Biological Chemistry: Building Cells from Elements\n	The Basis for Selection of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in Biochemical Evolution\n	The Elemental Composition of Major Biochemicals\n	Cell Components: The Elemental Composition of Cellular Structures\n	Summary and Synthesis\n3. The Stoichiometry of Autotroph Growth: Variation at the Base of Food Webs\n	Cellular and Physiological Bases\n	C:N:P Stoichiometry of Entire Higher Plants\n	Autotrophs in Captivity\n	Theories of Autotroph Stoichiometry\n	Autotrophs in the Wild: Oceans, Lakes, and Land\n	Causes of Variation in Autotroph C:N:P in Nature\n	Catalysts for Ecological Stoichiometry\n	Summary and Synthesis\n4. How to Build an Animal: The Stoichiometry of Metazoans\n	Biochemical and Biological Determinants of Body Elemental Composition\n	Invertebrate Stoichiometry: C:N:P in Zooplankton and Insects\n	Determinants of C:N:P in Invertebrates: The Growth Rate Hypothesis\n	Molecular Biology and the C:N:P Stoichiometry of Growth, or Ecosystem Scientists Go Astray\n	A Simple Molecular-Kinetic Model of the Growth Rate–C:N:P Connection\n	Structural Investment and the Stoichiometry of Vertebrates\n	Elemental Composition and Body Size\n	Catalysts for Ecological Stoichiometry\n	Summary and Synthesis\n5. Imbalanced Resources and Animal Growth\n	Mass Balance in Growth Processes\n	Maximizing Yield in Chemistry and in Ecology\n	Limiting Factors for Heterotroph Growth: Development of Threshold Element Ratio Theory\n	A New Minimal Model of the Stoichiometry of Secondary Production\n	Some Real World Problems in Stoichiometric Balance\n	Growth Efficiency\n	Catalysts for Ecological Stoichiometry\n	Summary and Synthesis\n6. The Stoichiometry of Consumer-Driven Nutrient Recycling\n	A Brief History of Studies of Consumer-Driven Nutrient Recycling\n	Stoichiometric Theories of Consumer-Driven Nutrient Recycling\n	Evidence That Consumers Differentially Recycle Nitrogen and Phosphorus\n	Microbial Mineralization\n	The Stoichiometry of Consumer-Driven Nutrient Recycling by Vertebrates\n	Catalysts for Ecological Stoichiometry\n	Summary and Synthesis\n7. Stoichiometry in Communities: Dynamics and Interactions\n	Species Interactions\n	Positive Feedbacks and Multiple Stable States\n	Trophic Cascades\n	Light:Nutrient Effects at the Community Level\n	Feedbacks Owing to the “Constraints of Stuff”: C:N Ratios in Tall-Grass Prairie\n	Catalysts for Ecological Stoichiometry\n	Summary and Synthesis\n8. Big-Scale Stoichiometry: Ecosystems in Space and Time\n	Empirical Patterns in Ecosystem Stoichiometry\n	Linkages in the Stoichiometry of Biomass Yield: Using One Substance to Obtain Another\n	Nutrient Use Efficiency at the Ecosystem Level\n	The Stoichiometry of Food-Chain Production: A New Term, Carbon Use Efficiency\n	The Fate of Primary Production\n	Global Change\n	Catalysts for Ecological Stoichiometry\n	Summary and Synthesis\n9. Recapitulation and Integration\n	Recapitulation\n	Integration: Toward a Biological Stoichiometry of Living Systems\nAppendix\nLiterature Cited\nIndex