A stoichiometric model relating growth substrate quality (C:N:P ratios) to N:P ratios in the products of heterotrophic release and excretion

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 139, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 265-291

  Touratier, Franck ^a   Field, John G ^b   Moloney, Coleen L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Carbon; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Stoichiometry; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROWTH MODELING; HETEROTROPHY; STOICHIOMETRY; SUBSTRATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPEPODA;

EID: 0035971403     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(01)00237-X     Document Type: Article

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