TY - JOUR
T1 - Think ratio! A stoichiometric view on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research
AU - Hillebrand, Helmut
AU - Cowles, Jane M.
AU - Lewandowska, Aleksandra
AU - Van de Waal, Dedmer B.
AU - Plum, Christoph
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014.
PY - 2014/9/1
Y1 - 2014/9/1
N2 - Ecological stoichiometry (ES) has become one of the most pervasive theoretical frameworks in environmental sciences and biology in the last two decades. ES allows predicting processes on all organizational levels from subcellular structures to ecosystems by relating the elemental composition and demand of organisms to the relative availability of resources. However, ES has been rarely used to understand and predict the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF), although ES would be ideally suited as it makes predictions on both population processes underlying biodiversity as well as on matter transformations underlying ecosystem processes. Here, we propose to link the two fields of research on ES and BEF relationships and highlight a number of potential avenues for further research. First, we cast a stoichiometric view on drivers of biodiversity change. Second, we address the stoichiometric underpinning of biodiversity-productivity relationships. Third, we discuss potential interactions between stoichiometry and diversity in a food web context.
AB - Ecological stoichiometry (ES) has become one of the most pervasive theoretical frameworks in environmental sciences and biology in the last two decades. ES allows predicting processes on all organizational levels from subcellular structures to ecosystems by relating the elemental composition and demand of organisms to the relative availability of resources. However, ES has been rarely used to understand and predict the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF), although ES would be ideally suited as it makes predictions on both population processes underlying biodiversity as well as on matter transformations underlying ecosystem processes. Here, we propose to link the two fields of research on ES and BEF relationships and highlight a number of potential avenues for further research. First, we cast a stoichiometric view on drivers of biodiversity change. Second, we address the stoichiometric underpinning of biodiversity-productivity relationships. Third, we discuss potential interactions between stoichiometry and diversity in a food web context.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Coexistence
KW - Ecological stoichiometry
KW - Ecosystem functioning
KW - Eutrophication
KW - Productivity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.baae.2014.06.003
DO - 10.1016/j.baae.2014.06.003
M3 - Short survey
AN - SCOPUS:84908024504
SN - 1439-1791
VL - 15
SP - 465
EP - 474
JO - Basic and Applied Ecology
JF - Basic and Applied Ecology
IS - 6
ER -