Geometric stoichiometry model yields relevant insights for assessing nutrient-related environmental impacts of aquaculture.

ABSTRACT: Aquaculture plays a crucial role in global food security and is being increasingly used to aid species and ecosystem conservation. However, concerns over environmental impact of aquaculture expansion are driving research into ecosystem approaches to aquaculture. Ecosystem approaches to aquaculture require understanding of the relationship between aquafeeds and aquaculture species to maximize consumer growth, quantify elemental flow of nutrients and minimize waste output. Conventional bioenergetic models typically assume fixed elemental ratios to quantify metabolic processes and do not consider an organism's nutrient demand. A new bridging framework, Geometric Stoichiometry (GS), unifies nutritional geometry and ecological stoichiometry disciplines using macromolecules as currencies and die

SUBMITTER: Prasad SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12448620 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature