Are you what you eat? Physiological constraints on organismal stoichiometry in an elementally imbalanced world

Oikos

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 18-28

  Frost, Paul C ^a   Evans White, Michelle A ^a   Finkel, Zoe V ^b   Jensen, Thomas C ^c   Matzek, Virginia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 17144374102     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.14049.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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