Multi-Dimensional Plant Element Stoichiometry-Looking Beyond Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus.

ABSTRACT: Nutrient elements are important for plant growth. Element stoichiometry considers the balance between different nutrients and how this balance is affected by the environment. So far, focus of plant stoichiometry has mainly been on the three elements carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P), but many additional elements are essential for proper plant growth. Our overall aim is to test the scaling relations of various additional elements (K, Ca, Mg, S, Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn), by using ten data sets from a range of plant functional types and environmental conditions. To simultaneously handle more than one element, we define a stoichiometric niche volume as the volume of an abstract multidimensional shape in n dimensions, with the n sides of this shape defined by the plant properties in question,

SUBMITTER: Agren GI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7020196 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature