Stoichiometric food quality and herbivore dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 519-529

  Muller, Erik B ^a   Nisbet, Roger M ^a   Kooijman, Sebastiaan A L M ^b   Elser, James J ^c   McCauley, Edward ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Droop model; Food quality; Growth model; Monod model; Multiple limitation; Stoichiometric requirements; Synthesizing unit

Indexed keywords

FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH MODELING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; STOICHIOMETRY;

ALGAE; DAPHNIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035200880     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00240.x     Document Type: Article

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