PUBLICATIONS FROM THE GENES TO ECOSYSTEMS PROJECT

Elser, J.J., R.W. Sterner, E. Gorokhova, W.F. Fagan, T.A. Markow, J.B. Cotner, J.F. Harrison, S.E. Hobbie, G.M. Odell, L.J. Weider. 2000. Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems. Ecology Letters 3: 540-550. PDF (Ecology Letters note: This is an electronic version of an article published in Ecology Letters: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Ecology Letters, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via thejournal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/ele    or    http://www.blackwell-synergy.com)

Elser, J.J. 2000. From sea to lake to land: ecological stoichiometry and the flow of energy and matter in ecosystems. Trends Ecol. Evol. (meeting summary) 15: 393-394. PDF

Elser, J.J., W.F. Fagan, R.F. Denno, D.R. Dobberfuhl, A. Folarin, A. Huberty,
S. Interlandi, S.S. Kilham, E. McCauley, K.L. Schulz, E.H. Siemann, and
R.W. Sterner. 2000. Nutritional constraints in terrestrial and freshwater food webs. Nature  408: 578-580.  PDF

Woods, H.A., M.C. Perkins, J.J Elser, and J.P. Harrison. 2002. Absorption and storage of phosphorus by larval Manduca sexta. J.Insect Phys. 48: 555-564.  PDF

Gorokhova, E., M. Kyle. 2002. Analysis of nucleic acids in Daphnia: development of methods and ontogenetic variations in RNA-DNA content. Journal of Plankton Research 24(5): 511-522. PDF

Fagan, W.F., E.H. Siemann, R.F. Denno, C. Mitter, A. Huberty, H.A. Woods, and J.J Elser. 2002. Nitrogen in insects: implications for trophic complexity and species diversification. The American Naturalist  160(6): 784-802. PDF

Villar-Argaiz, M., and R. Sterner. 2002. Phosphorus limited algae induced life history bottlenecks in Diaptomus clavipes. Limnology and Oceanography 47: 1229-1233.

Gorokova, E., T.A. Dowling, T. Crease, L.J. Weider, and J.J. Elser. 2002. Functional and ecological significance of rDNA IGS variation in a clonal organism under divergent selection for production rate. Proc. R. Soc. Lond B.  269: 2373-2379.  PDF

Makino, W., J.B. Cotner, R.W. Sterner, J.J. Elser. 2003. Are bacteria more like animals than plants? Growth rate and resource dependence of bacterial C:N:P stoichiometry. Functional Ecology 17:121-130.  PDF

Markow, T., A. Coppola, T. Watts. 2001. How Drosophila males make eggs: it is elemental. Proc. R. Soc. Long. B.  268:1527-1532. PDF

Schade, J., M. Kyle, S. Hobbie, W. Fagan, and J.J. Elser.  2003.  Stoichiometric tracking of soil nutrients by a desert insect herbivore.  Ecology Letters 6: 96-101.  PDF (Ecology Letters note: This is an electronic version of an article published in Ecology Letters: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Ecology Letters, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via thejournal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/ele
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Kyle, M., T. Watts, J. Schade, J.J. Elser. 2003.  A microfluorometric method for quantifying RNA and DNA in terrestrial insects.  Journal of Insect Science 3.1:1-7. Available online: insectscience.org/3.1.  PDF

Jaenike, J., and T.A. Markow. 2003. Comparative elemental stoichiometry of ecological diverse Drosophila. Functional Ecology 17(1): 115-120. PDF

Weider, L.J. and A. Hobak. 2003. Glacial refugia, haplotype distributions, and clonal richness of Daphnia pulex complex in arctic Canada. Molecular Ecology 12: 463-473.  PDF

Loladze, I., Y.Kuang, J.Elser. 2000. Stoichiometry in producer-grazer systems: linking energ flow with element cycling. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 62: 1137-1162. PDF

Loladze, I., Y. Kuang, J. Elser and W. Fagan. 2004. Coexistence of two predators on one prey mediated by stoichiometry. Theoretical Population Biology. 65(1): 1-15.  PDF

Kuang, Y., W. Fagan and I. Loladze. 2003. Biodiversity, habitat area, resource growth rate and interference competition. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 65: 497-518.PDF 

Sterner, R.W., J.J. Elser. 2002. Ecological Stoichiometry: The Biology of Elements from Molecules to Biosphere. Princeton University Press. Princeton, N.J.
Schade, J.D., R. Sponseller, S.L. Collins, A. Stiles. 2003. The influence of Mesquite canopies on understory vegetation: effects of landscape position. Journal of Vegetation Science. 14(5): 743-750.  PDF 


Hendrixson, H. 2002. Stoichiometry of Freshwater fish in relation to allometry and phylogeny, and role of skeleton in fish stoichiometry. Master's thesis. University of Minnesota.

Kuang, Y., J. Nagy and J. Elser. 2004. Biological stoichiometry of tumor dynamics: mathematical models and analysis.  Disc. Cont. Dyn. Sys. series B.  4:  221-240.  PDF

Woods, H.A., W. Makino,  J.B. Cotner,  S.E. Hobbie,  J.F. Harrison,  K. Acharya, and J.J. Elser. 2003. Temperature and the chemical composition of poikilothermic organisms. Functional Ecology. 17:237-245.   PDF (Ecology Letters note: This is an electronic version of an article published in Ecology Letters: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in
the print edition of Ecology Letters, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via thejournal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/ele   or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com)

Urabe,  J., J. Togari, J. Elser. 2003. Stoichiometric impacts of increased carbon dioxide on a planktonic herbivore. Global Change Biology. 9:818-825.  PDF

J.J. Elser, K. Acharya, M. Kyle, J. Cotner, W. Makino, T. Markow, T. Watts, S. Hobbie, W. Fagan, J. Schade, J. Hood, R.W. Sterner.  2003.  Growth rate-stoichiometry couplings in diverse biota.  Ecology Letters.  6: 936-943. PDF (Ecology Letters note: This is an electronic version of an article published in Ecology Letters: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in
the print edition of Ecology Letters, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via thejournal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/ele   or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com)

Makino, W., J.B. Cotner.  2004.  Elemental stoichiometry of a heterotrophic bacterial community in a freshwater lake: implications for growth- and resource-dependent variations.  Aquatic Microbial Ecology.  34: 33-41.  PDF

Acharya, K.,  M. Kyle,  J.J. Elser. 2004. Effects of stoichiometric dietary mixing on Daphnia growth and reproduction. Oecologia. 138(3): 333-340. PDF


Acharya, K.,  M. Kyle,  J.J. Elser. 2004. Biological stoichiometry of Daphnia growth: An ecophysiological test of the growth rate hypothesis. Limnology and Oceanography. 49:656-665.  PDF


Elser, J.J., J.D. Nagy, Y. Kuang. 2003. Biological stoichiometry: and ecological perspective on tumor dynamics. BioScience. November 2003.  53(11): 1112-1120.  PDF


Weider, L.J., K.L. Glenn, M. Kyle, J.J. Elser. 2004. Associations among ribosomal (r)DNA intergenic spacer length, growth rate, and C:N:P stoichiometry in the genus Daphnia. Limnology and Oceanography.  49(4/2 part 2) (To download from the L&O website (www.aslo.org/lo/toc) 'click' on the issue that this paper appeared in (Volume 49, issue 4/2 part 2). Then 'click' on the FAP icon (an open padlock) beneath the page range of this paper.
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Elser, J.J., and D.O. Hessen. 200X. Biosimplicity via stoichiometry: the evolution of food-web structure and processes. in Belgrano, A., U.Scharler, J. Dunne, and R. Ulanowicz, Editors. in press. Aquatic Food Webs: An Ecosystem Approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Mateos, M. and T.A.Markow.  2005.  Ribosomal intergenic spacer (IGS) length variation across the Drosophilinae (Diptera: Drosophilidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 5:46.

Perkins, M.C., H.A. Woods, J.F. Harrison, and J.J. Elser.  2004.  Dietary phosphorus affects the growth of larval Manduca sesta.  Arch, Insect Biochem. 55:153-168. PDF

Woods, H.A., W.F. Fagan, J.J. Elser, and J.F. Harrison.  2004.  Allometric and phylogenetic variation in insect phosphorus content.  Functional Ecology. 18: 103-109. PDF

Miller, C.R., Y.Kuang, W.F. Fagan and J.J. Elser.  2004.  Modeling and analysis of stoichiometric two-patch consumer-resource systems.  Mathematical Biosciences 189(2): 153-184.   PDF

Andersen, T., J.J. Elser,  D.O. Hessen.  2004.  Stoichiometry and population dynamics.  Ecology Letters. 7: 884-900.  PDF

Kay, A.D., S.E. Scott, J.D. Schade, S.E. Hobbie.  2004.  Stoichiometric relations in an ant-treehopper mutualism.  Ecology Letters 7: 1024-1028.  PDF

Hood, J.M., S. Brovold, R.W. Sterner, M. Vilar-Argaiz, K.D. Zimmer. 2004. Near-infrared spectrometry (NIRS) for the analysis of seston carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus from diverse sources.  Limnology and Oceanography: Methods.  4:96-104.

Gillooly, J.F., A.P. Allen, J.H. Brown, J.J. Elser, C. Martinez del Rio, V.M. Savage, G.B. West, W.H. Woodruff, H.A. Woods.  2005. The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content.  PNAS.  102:11923-11927. 
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Jeyasingh, P.D. and L. J. Weider.  2005.  Phosphorus availability mediates plasticity in life-history traits and  predator-pre interactions in Daphnia. Ecology Letters. 8: 1021-1028. PDF

Kay, A.D.,  Schade, J.D., Ogdahl, M., Wesserle, E.O., Hobbie, S.E.  200X.  Fire effects on insect herbivores in an oak savanna: the role of nutrients and light. in prep.

Watts, T., Woods,  H.A., Hargand, S., Elser, J.J., Markow, T.A.  2005.  Biological stoichiometry of growth in Drosophila melanogaster.  Journal of Insect Physiology.  52(2):187-193. PDF

Weider, L.J., J.J. Elser,  T.J. Crease, M. Mateos, J.B. Cotner, T.A. Markow.  2005. The functional significance of ribosomal (r)DNA variation: impacts on the evolutionary ecology of organisms.  Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 36: 219-241.

Kay, A.D., S. Rostampour and R.W. Sterner.  2006.  Ant stoichiometry: elemental homeostasis in stage-structured colonies.  Functional Ecology.  20:1037-1044. PDF

Elser, J.J., T.Watts, B. Bitler and T.A. Markow.  2006. Ontogenetic coupling of growth rate with RNA and P contents in five species of Drosophila.  Functional Ecology.  20:846-856. PDF

Kyle, M., K. Acharya, L.J. Weider, K.Looper and J.J. Elser.  2006.  Coupling of growth rate and body stoichiometry in Daphnia: a role for maintenance processes?  Freshwater Biology.  51: 2087-2095. PDF

Clasen, J.L. and J.J. Elser.  2007.  The effect of host Chlorella NC64A carbon: phosphorus ratio on the production of Paramecium bursaria Chlorella.  Freshwater Biology.  52: 112-122.  PDF


A PRIMER ON ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY


If you want to get mostly the highlights of the main ideas in ecological stoichiometry and see how they have evolved, read the following series of papers. These consist largely of review / overview papers.

1. Reiners, W. A. 1986. Complementary models for ecosystems. Am. Nat. 127:59-73.

2. Sterner, R. W., J. J. Elser, and D. O. Hessen. 1992. Stoichiometric relationships among producers, consumers, and nutrient cycling in pelagic ecosystems. Biogeochemistry 17:49-67.

3. Sterner, R. W., and D. O. Hessen. 1994. Algal nutrient limitation and the nutrition of aquatic herbivores. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 25:1-29.

4. Elser, J. J., D. Dobberfuhl, N. A. MacKay, and J. H. Schampel. 1996. Organism size, life history, and N:P stoichiometry: towards a unified view of cellular and ecosystem processes. BioScience 46:674-684.

5. Sterner, R. W., J. J. Elser, E. J. Fee, S. J. Guildford, and T. H. Chrzanowski. 1997. The light:nutrient ratio in lakes: the balance of energy and materials affects ecosystem structure and process. Am. Nat. 150:663-684.

6. Hessen, D. O. 1997. Stoichiometry in food webs - Lotka revisited. Oikos 79:195-200.

7. Elser, J. J., and J. Urabe. 1999. The stoichiometry of consumer-driven nutrient cycling: theory, observations, and consequences. Ecology 80:735-751.

8. Elser, J. J., R. W. Sterner, E. Gorokhova, W. F. Fagan, T. A. Markow, J. B. Cotner, J. F. Harrison, S. E. Hobbie, G. M. Odell, and L. J. Weider. 2000. Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems. Ecology Letters 3:540-550.


If you want more of the gory detail, especially in the plankton world, consider the following as well:


1. Elser, J. J., M. M. Elser, N. A. MacKay, and S. R. Carpenter. 1988. Zooplankton-mediated transitions between N and P limited algal growth. Limnol. Oceanogr. 33:1-14.

2. Sterner, R. W. 1990. The ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus resupplied by herbivores: zooplankton and the algal competitive arena. Am. Nat. 136:209-229.

3. Andersen, T., and D. O. Hessen. 1991. Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content of freshwater zooplankton. Limnol. Oceanogr. 36:807-814.

4. Hessen, D. O. 1992. Nutrient element limitation of zooplankton production. Am. Nat. 140:799-814.

5. Urabe, J., and Y. Watanabe. 1992. Possibility of N or P limitation for planktonic cladocerans: an experimental test. Limnol. Oceanogr. 37:244-251.

6. Sterner, R. W. 1993. Daphnia growth on varying quality of Scenedesmus: mineral limitation of zooplankton. Ecology 74:2351-2360.

7. Elser, J. J., and R. P. Hassett. 1994. A stoichiometric analysis of the zooplankton-phytoplankton interaction in marine and freshwater ecosystems. Nature 370:211-213.

8. Urabe, J., and R. W. Sterner. 1996. Regulation of herbivore growth by the balance of light and nutrients. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93:8465-8469

9. Urabe, J., J. Clasen, and R. W. Sterner. 1997. Phosphorus-limitation of Daphnia: is it real? Limnol. Oceanogr. 42:1436-1443.

10. Elser, J. J., T. H. Chrzanowski, R. W. Sterner, and K. H. Mills. 1998. Stoichiometric constraints on food-web dynamics: a whole-lake experiment on the Canadian Shield. Ecosystems 1:120-136.

11. Sterner, R. W., J. Clasen, W. Lampert, and T. Weisse. 1998. Carbon:phosphorus stoichiometry and food chain production. Ecology Letters 1:146-150.

12. Elser, J. J., T. Dowling, D. A. Dobberfuhl, and J. OBrien. 2000. The evolution of ecosystem processes: ecological stoichiometry of a key herbivore in temperate and arctic habitats. J. Evol. Biol. 13:845-853.

13. Elser, J. J., W. F. Fagan, R. F. Denno, D. R. Dobberfuhl, A. Folarin, A. Huberty, S. Interlandi, S. S. Kilham, E. McCauley, K. L. Schulz, E. H. Siemann, and R. W. Sterner. 2000. Nutritional constraints in terrestrial and freshwater food webs. Nature 408:578-580.