Lessons from linking bio- and ecological traits to stoichiometric traits in stream macroinvertebrates.

ABSTRACT: Ecologists rely on various functional traits when investigating the functioning of ecological systems and its responses to global changes. Changing nutrient levels, for example, can affect taxa expressing different trait combinations in various ways, e.g., favoring small, fast-growing species under high phosphorus conditions. Stoichiometric traits, describing the elemental composition of organism body tissues, can help in understanding the mechanisms behind such functional shifts. So far, mainly life-history traits have been related to body stoichiometry (e.g., the growth rate hypothesis) on a limited number of taxa, and there is little knowledge of the general link between stoichiometric and other functional traits on a taxonomically large scale. Here, we highlight this link in the freshw

SUBMITTER: Beck M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9731919 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature