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Sun X, Yu M, Tang Q, Sun Y. Assessing the Ecological Conversion Efficiency of Chub Mackerel, Somber japonicus, in Wild Conditions Based on an In Situ Enriched Simulation Method. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:3159. [PMID: 37893883 PMCID: PMC10603723 DOI: 10.3390/ani13203159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Understanding the ecological conversion efficiency of a fish species can be used to estimate the potential impact of the marine food web and accordingly provides scientific advice to ecosystem-based fishery management. However, only laboratory experiments may limit the accuracy of determining this index. In this study, food ingestion and ecological conversion efficiency of wild chub mackerel (Somber japonicus), a typical marine pelagic fish, were determined with gastric evacuation method in laboratory and in situ enriched simulation conditions. Additionally, the effect of temperature and body weight on ecological conversion efficiency was further estimated based on the 2D interpolation method. The results showed that, at 25.1 °C, the ecological conversion efficiency determined in-lab (35.31%) was significantly higher than in situ (23.85%). Moreover, the interpolation model estimated that with an increase in temperature (10-27 °C), the ecological conversion efficiency initially decreased, followed by an increase when the temperature reached 18 °C, but the ecological conversion efficiency generally decreased against the body weight at each temperature. The findings of this study enhanced the understanding of the energy budget of chub mackerel and also provided an efficient method for the determination of wild fishes that are difficult to sample in situ and domesticate in the laboratory.
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- Xin Sun
- Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Marine Fisheries Resources of Ministry of Agriculture, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS, 106 Nanjing Road, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Marine Fisheries Resources of Ministry of Agriculture, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS, 106 Nanjing Road, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Marine Fisheries Resources of Ministry of Agriculture, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS, 106 Nanjing Road, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Marine Fisheries Resources of Ministry of Agriculture, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS, 106 Nanjing Road, Qingdao 266071, China
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Peace A, Frost PC, Wagner ND, Danger M, Accolla C, Antczak P, Brooks BW, Costello DM, Everett RA, Flores KB, Heggerud CM, Karimi R, Kang Y, Kuang Y, Larson JH, Mathews T, Mayer GD, Murdock JN, Murphy CA, Nisbet RM, Pecquerie L, Pollesch N, Rutter EM, Schulz KL, Scott JT, Stevenson L, Wang H. Stoichiometric Ecotoxicology for a Multisubstance World. Bioscience 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaa160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Nutritional and contaminant stressors influence organismal physiology, trophic interactions, community structure, and ecosystem-level processes; however, the interactions between toxicity and elemental imbalance in food resources have been examined in only a few ecotoxicity studies. Integrating well-developed ecological theories that cross all levels of biological organization can enhance our understanding of ecotoxicology. In the present article, we underline the opportunity to couple concepts and approaches used in the theory of ecological stoichiometry (ES) to ask ecotoxicological questions and introduce stoichiometric ecotoxicology, a subfield in ecology that examines how contaminant stress, nutrient supply, and elemental constraints interact throughout all levels of biological organization. This conceptual framework unifying ecotoxicology with ES offers potential for both empirical and theoretical studies to deepen our mechanistic understanding of the adverse outcomes of chemicals across ecological scales and improve the predictive powers of ecotoxicology.
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- Angela Peace
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Department of Mathematics and the Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
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- Arizona State University, Mesa, Arizona, United States
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- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
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- US Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
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- Environmental Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
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- Department of Environmental Toxicology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States
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- Department of Biology, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States
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- Université de Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR, Plouzane, France
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- University of Wisconsin's Aquatic Sciences Center and with the US Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division, Duluth, Minnesota, United States
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York, United States
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- Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States
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- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; with the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; and with the Department of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States
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- Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Kearney MR. What is the status of metabolic theory one century after Pütter invented the von Bertalanffy growth curve? Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2020; 96:557-575. [PMID: 33205617 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Metabolic theory aims to tackle ecological and evolutionary problems by explicitly including physical principles of energy and mass exchange, thereby increasing generality and deductive power. Individual growth models (IGMs) are the fundamental basis of metabolic theory because they represent the organisational level at which energy and mass exchange processes are most tightly integrated and from which scaling patterns emerge. Unfortunately, IGMs remain a topic of great confusion and controversy about the origins of the ideas, their domain and breadth of application, their logical consistency and whether they can sufficiently capture reality. It is now 100 years since the first theoretical model of individual growth was put forward by Pütter. His insights were deep, but his model ended up being attributed to von Bertalanffy and his ideas largely forgotten. Here I review Pütter's ideas and trace their influence on existing theoretical models for growth and other aspects of metabolism, including those of von Bertalanffy, the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory, the Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT) and the Ontogenetic Growth Model (OGM). I show that the von Bertalanffy and GOLT models are minor modifications of Pütter's original model. I then synthesise, compare and critique the ideas of the two most-developed theories, DEB theory and the OGM, in relation to Pütter's original ideas. I formulate the Pütter, DEB and OGM models in the same structure and with the same notation to illustrate the major similarities and differences among them. I trace the confusion and controversy regarding these theories to the notions of anabolism, catabolism, assimilation and maintenance, the connections to respiration rate, and the number of parameters and state variables their models require. The OGM model has significant inconsistencies that stem from the interpretation of growth as the difference between anabolism and maintenance, and these issues seriously challenge its ability to incorporate development, reproduction and assimilation. The DEB theory is a direct extension of Pütter's ideas but with growth being the difference between assimilation and maintenance rather than anabolism and catabolism. The DEB theory makes the dynamics of Pütter's 'nutritive material' explicit as well as extending the scheme to include reproduction and development. I discuss how these three major theories for individual growth have been used to explain 'macrometabolic' patterns including the scaling of respiration, the temperature-size rule (first modelled by Pütter), and the connection to life history. Future research on the connections between theory and data in these macrometabolic topics have the greatest potential to advance the status of metabolic theory and its value for pure and applied problems in ecology and evolution.
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- Michael R Kearney
- BioSciences4, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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Ledder G, Russo SE, Muller EB, Peace A, Nisbet RM. Local control of resource allocation is sufficient to model optimal dynamics in syntrophic systems. THEOR ECOL-NETH 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s12080-020-00464-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Foraging strategy of a carnivorous-insectivorous raptor species based on prey size, capturability and nutritional components. Sci Rep 2020; 10:7583. [PMID: 32372048 PMCID: PMC7200729 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64504-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Optimal foraging theory has typically paid little attention to species feeding on mobile prey and has emphasised energy intake rather than the nutritional contribution of food. The difficulty of capturing food has rarely been included in foraging models, even when it is a potentially important modulator of time devoted to foraging. From the central place foraging and provisioning perspectives, it is posited that at high levels of prey selectivity, the time spent to capture prey is longer than at low levels of prey selectivity. Furthermore, in the case of carnivorous predators, it is thought that nutritional composition does not influence foraging strategies. To explore these issues, we investigated the influence of abundance, size, difficulty of capture, gross energy and nutritional composition (fat, protein, protein-fat ratio and amino acid contents) of prey species on the foraging behaviour of a predator species, the common kestrel Falco tinnunculus, in a region of high diversity of prey species. Our results show that capturability index and load-size explain the foraging behaviour of kestrels. Preferred prey take longer to be provisioned, both selectivity and capturability might explain this result. It is also shown that specific nutritional components, such as protein and amino acid contents, are likely to explain food preference in this carnivorous-insectivorous species.
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Hodapp D, Hillebrand H, Striebel M. “Unifying” the Concept of Resource Use Efficiency in Ecology. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Machovsky‐Capuska GE, Coogan SCP, Simpson SJ, Raubenheimer D. Motive for Killing: What Drives Prey Choice in Wild Predators? Ethology 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Gabriel E. Machovsky‐Capuska
- The Charles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
- Faculty of Veterinary Science The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
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- The Charles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
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- The Charles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
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- The Charles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
- Faculty of Veterinary Science The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
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Interannual variability of the phytoplankton community by the changes in vertical mixing and atmospheric deposition in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea: A modelling study. Ecol Modell 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Peace A. Effects of light, nutrients, and food chain length on trophic efficiencies in simple stoichiometric aquatic food chain models. Ecol Modell 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Kim YS, Lee YH, Kwon JN, Choi HG. The effect of low oxygen conditions on biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in a shallow seasonally stratified bay in southeast Korea (Jinhae Bay). MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2015; 95:333-341. [PMID: 25892080 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.03.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2014] [Revised: 03/13/2015] [Accepted: 03/15/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The formation and distribution of oxygen-deficient water mass (ODW) in Jinhae Bay exhibited seasonal patterns similar to those of the summer thermocline, indicating a close mutual relationship, and the influence of ODW formation conditions appeared prominently in the bottom water. The principal factors analysis indicate that dissolved oxygen and NO2 in the bottom water during the time of ODW formation were highly correlated with NH3 and dissolved inorganic phosphorus. The findings clearly illustrate the effects on ODW of seasonal physical and chemical changes. ODW that formed in the bottom water of Jinhae Bay during summer produced high concentrations of nutrients in the bottom water; since the growth of phytoplankton was limited by the strong stratification and low concentrations of dissolved oxygen (<3mg/L) in the bottom layer, these nutrients (especially NH3 and DIP) were retained and accumulated, serving as a major source of nutrients during the dry winter.
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- Young-Sug Kim
- National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Marine Environment Research Division, 216, GijangHaean-ro, Gijang-Up, Busan 619-705, Republic of Korea.
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- East Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Resources and Environment Division, 1194, Haean-ro, yeongok-myeon, Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do 210-861, Republic of Korea
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- National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Marine Environment Research Division, 216, GijangHaean-ro, Gijang-Up, Busan 619-705, Republic of Korea
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- National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Marine Environment Research Division, 216, GijangHaean-ro, Gijang-Up, Busan 619-705, Republic of Korea
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Kohl KD, Coogan SCP, Raubenheimer D. Do wild carnivores forage for prey or for nutrients? Bioessays 2015; 37:701-9. [DOI: 10.1002/bies.201400171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Kevin D. Kohl
- Department of Biology; University of Utah; Salt Lake City UT USA
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- Charles Perkins Centre and School of Biological Sciences; University of Sydney; Sydney Australia
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- Faculty of Veterinary Science and School of Biological Sciences; Charles Perkins Centre; University of Sydney; Sydney Australia
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Multiple resource limitation: nonequilibrium coexistence of species in a competition model using a synthesizing unit. THEOR ECOL-NETH 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s12080-014-0228-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Li Y, Waite AM, Gal G, Hipsey MR. An analysis of the relationship between phytoplankton internal stoichiometry and water column N:P ratios in a dynamic lake environment. Ecol Modell 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kooijman SALM. Waste to hurry: dynamic energy budgets explain the need of wasting to fully exploit blooming resources. OIKOS 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00098.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Iwabuchi T, Urabe J. Food quality and food threshold: implications of food stoichiometry to competitive ability of herbivore plankton. Ecosphere 2012. [DOI: 10.1890/es12-00098.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Stech H, Peckham B, Pastor J. Enrichment in a general class of stoichiometric producer–consumer population growth models. Theor Popul Biol 2012; 81:210-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2011] [Revised: 01/02/2012] [Accepted: 01/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Poggiale JC, Baklouti M, Queguiner B, Kooijman SALM. How far details are important in ecosystem modelling: the case of multi-limiting nutrients in phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2011; 365:3495-507. [PMID: 20921048 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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We try to answer the question of to what extent details in nutrient uptake and phytoplankton physiology matter for population and community dynamics. To this end, we study how two nutrients interact in limiting phytoplankton growth. A popular formulation uses a product-rule for nutrient uptake, which we compare with that on the basis of synthesizing units. We first fit different nutrient uptake models to a dataset and conclude that the quantitative differences between the models are small. Then we study the sensitivity of phytoplankton growth and zooplankton-phytoplankton interactions (ZPi) models to uptake formulations. Two population models are compared; they are based on different assumptions on the relation between nutrient uptake and phytoplankton growth. We find that the population and community models are sensitive to uptake formulations. According to the uptake formulation used in the ZPi models, qualitative differences can be observed. Indeed, although two models based on functions with similar shapes have close equilibria, these can differ in stability properties. Since stability involves the derivatives of formulas, even if two formulas provide close values, large numerical differences in the stability criterion may occur after derivation. We conclude that mechanistic details can be of importance for community modelling.
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- J-C Poggiale
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie, de Géochimie et d'Ecologie Marines (UMR CNRS 6117), Marseille Cedex, France.
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Stiefs D, van Voorn G, Kooi B, Feudel U, Gross T. Food Quality in Producer‐Grazer Models: A Generalized Analysis. Am Nat 2010; 176:367-80. [DOI: 10.1086/655429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Hülsmann S, Rinke K, Mooij WM. Size‐selective predation and predator‐induced life‐history shifts alter the outcome of competition between planktonic grazers. Funct Ecol 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01768.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Stephan Hülsmann
- Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Hydrobiology, 01062 Dresden, and Technische Universität Dresden, Neunzehnhain Ecological Station, Neunzehnhainer Str. 14, 09514 Lengefeld, Germany
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- Institute of Limnology, University of Konstanz, Mainaustr. 252, 78464 Konstanz, and UFZ, Brückstrasse 3a, D‐39114 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW), Rijksstraatweg 6, 3631 AC Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands
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Crane KW, Grover JP. Coexistence of mixotrophs, autotrophs, and heterotrophs in planktonic microbial communities. J Theor Biol 2009; 262:517-27. [PMID: 19878684 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2009] [Revised: 10/14/2009] [Accepted: 10/20/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We examine what circumstances allow the coexistence of microorganisms following different nutritional strategies, using a mathematical model. This model incorporates four nutritional types commonly found in planktonic ecosystems: (1) heterotrophic bacteria that consume dissolved organic matter and are prey to some of the other organisms; (2) heterotrophic zooflagellates that depend entirely on bacterial prey; (3) phototrophic algae that depend only on light and inorganic nutrients, and (4) mixotrophs that photosynthesize, take up inorganic nutrients, and consume bacterial prey. Mixotrophs are characterized by a parameter representing proportional mixing of phototrophic and heterotrophic nutritional strategies. Varying this parameter, a range of mixotrophic strategies was examined in hypothetical habitats differing in supplies of light, dissolved organic carbon, and dissolved inorganic phosphorous. Mixotrophs expressing a wide range of mixotrophic strategies persisted in model habitats with low phosphorus supply, but only those with a strategy that is mostly autotrophic persisted with high nutrient supply, and then only when light supply was also high. Organisms representing all four nutritional strategies were predicted to coexist in habitats with high phosphorus and light supplies. Coexistence involves predation by zooflagellates and mixotrophs balancing the high competitive ability of bacteria for phosphorus, the partitioning of partially overlapping resources between all populations, and possibly nonequlibrium dynamics. In most habitats, the strategy predicted to maximize the abundance of mixotrophs is to be mostly photosynthetic and supplement nutritional needs by consuming bacteria.
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- Kenneth W Crane
- University of Texas at Arlington, Biology Department Box 19498, Arlington, TX 76019-0498, USA.
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Muller EB, Kooijman SALM, Edmunds PJ, Doyle FJ, Nisbet RM. Dynamic energy budgets in syntrophic symbiotic relationships between heterotrophic hosts and photoautotrophic symbionts. J Theor Biol 2009; 259:44-57. [PMID: 19285512 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2008] [Revised: 02/13/2009] [Accepted: 03/03/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In this paper we develop and investigate a dynamic energy budget (DEB) model describing the syntrophic symbiotic relationship between a heterotrophic host and an internal photoautotrophic symbiont. The model specifies the flows of matter and energy among host, symbiont and environment with minimal complexity and uses the concept of synthesizing units to describe smoothly the assimilation of multiple limiting factors, in particular inorganic carbon and nitrogen, and irradiance. The model has two passive regulation mechanisms: the symbiont shares only photosynthate that it cannot use itself, and the host delivers only excess nutrients to the symbiont. With parameter values plausible for scleractinian corals, we show that these two regulation mechanisms suffice to obtain a stable symbiotic relationship under constant ambient conditions, provided those conditions support sustenance of host and symbiont. Furthermore, the symbiont density in the host varies relatively little as a function of ambient food density, inorganic nitrogen and irradiance. This symbiont density tends to increase with light deprivation or nitrogen enrichment, either directly or via food. We also investigate the relative benefit each partner derives from the relationship and conclude that this relationship may shift from mutualism to parasitism as environmental conditions change.
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- Erik B Muller
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
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Martin-Creuzburg D, Sperfeld E, Wacker A. Colimitation of a freshwater herbivore by sterols and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Proc Biol Sci 2009; 276:1805-14. [PMID: 19324803 PMCID: PMC2674483 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Empirical data providing evidence for a colimitation of an herbivore by two or more essential nutrients are scarce, particularly in regard to biochemical resources. Here, a graphical model is presented, which describes the growth of an herbivore in a system with two potentially limiting resources. To verify this model, life-history experiments were conducted with the herbivore Daphnia magna feeding on the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus, which was supplemented with increasing amounts of cholesterol either in the presence or the absence of saturating amounts of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). For comparison, D. magna was raised on diets containing different proportions of S. elongatus and the cholesterol- and EPA-rich eukaryotic alga Nannochloropsis limnetica. Somatic and population growth of D. magna on a sterol- and EPA-deficient diet was initially constrained by the absence of sterols. With increased sterol availability, a colimitation by EPA became apparent and when the sterol requirements were met, the growth-limiting factor was shifted from a limitation by sterols to a limitation by EPA. These data imply that herbivores are frequently limited by two or more essential nutrients simultaneously. Hence, the concept of colimitation has to be incorporated into models assessing nutrient-limited growth kinetics of herbivores to accurately predict demographic changes and population dynamics.
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Kooijman SALM, Grasman J, Kooi BW. A new class of non-linear stochastic population models with mass conservation. Math Biosci 2007; 210:378-94. [PMID: 17659307 DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2007.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2007] [Revised: 05/15/2007] [Accepted: 05/18/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We study the effects of random feeding, growing and dying in a closed nutrient-limited producer/consumer system, in which nutrient is fully conserved, not only in the mean, but, most importantly, also across random events. More specifically, we relate these random effects to the closest deterministic models, and evaluate the importance of the various times scales that are involved. These stochastic models differ from deterministic ones not only in stochasticity, but they also have more details that involve shorter times scales. We tried to separate the effects of more detail from that of stochasticity. The producers have (nutrient) reserve and (body) structure, and so a variable chemical composition. The consumers have only structure, so a constant chemical composition. The conversion efficiency from producer to consumer, therefore, varies. The consumers use reserve and structure of the producers as complementary compounds, following the rules of Dynamic Energy Budget theory. Consumers die at constant specific rate and decompose instantaneously. Stochasticity is incorporated in the behaviour of the consumers, where the switches to handling and searching, as well as dying are Poissonian point events. We show that the stochastic model has one parameter more than the deterministic formulation without time scale separation for conversions between searching and handling consumers, which itself has one parameter more than the deterministic formulation with time scale separation for these conversions. These extra parameters are the contributions of a single individual producer and consumer to their densities, and the ratio of the two, respectively. The tendency to oscillate increases with the number of parameters. The focus bifurcation point has more relevance for the asymptotic behaviour of the stochastic model than the Hopf bifurcation point, since a randomly perturbed damped oscillation exhibits a behaviour similar to that of the stochastic limit cycle particularly near this bifurcation point. For total nutrient values below the focus bifurcation point, the system gradually becomes more confined to the direct neighbourhood of the isocline for which the producers do not change.
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- S A L M Kooijman
- Department of Theoretical Biology, Vrije Universiteit, de Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Schatz GS, McCauley E. Foraging behavior by Daphnia in stoichiometric gradients of food quality. Oecologia 2007; 153:1021-30. [PMID: 17624555 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0793-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2006] [Accepted: 06/06/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Mismatches in the elemental composition of herbivores and their resources can impact herbivore growth and reproduction. In aquatic systems, the ratio of elements, such as C, P, and N, is used to characterize the food quality of algal prey. For example, large increases in the C:P ratio of edible algae can decrease rates of growth and reproduction in Daphnia. Current theory emphasizes that Daphnia utilize only assimilation and respiration processes to maintain an optimal elemental composition, yet studies of terrestrial herbivores implicate behavioral processes in coping with local variation in food quality. We tested the ability of juvenile and adult Daphnia to locate regions of high-quality food within a spatial gradient of algal prey differing in C:P ratio, while holding food density constant over space. Both juveniles and adults demonstrated similar behavior by quickly locating (i.e., <10 min) the region of high food quality. Foraging paths were centred on regions of high food quality and these differed significantly from paths of individuals exposed to a homogeneous environment of both food density and food quality. Ingestion rate experiments on algal prey of differing stoichiometric ratio show that individuals can adjust their intake rate over fast behavioral time-scales, and we use these data to examine how individuals choose foraging locations when presented with a spatial gradient that trades off food quality and food quantity. Daphnia reared under low food quality conditions chose to forage in regions of high food quality even though they could attain the same C ingestion rate elsewhere along a spatial gradient. We argue that these aspects of foraging behavior by Daphnia have important implications for how these herbivores manage their elemental composition and our understanding of the dynamics of these herbivore-plant systems in lakes and ponds where spatial variation in food quality is present.
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- Greg S Schatz
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4.
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Stoks R, De Block M, McPeek MA. Alternative growth and energy storage responses to mortality threats in damselflies. Ecol Lett 2005. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00840.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Troost TA, Kooi BW, Kooijman SALM. Ecological Specialization of Mixotrophic Plankton in a Mixed Water Column. Am Nat 2005; 166:E45-61. [PMID: 16224684 DOI: 10.1086/432038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2004] [Accepted: 04/26/2005] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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In recent years, the population dynamics of plankton in light- or nutrient-limited environments have been studied extensively. Their evolutionary dynamics, however, have received much less attention. Here, we used a modeling approach to study the evolutionary behavior of a population of plankton living in a mixed water column. Initially, the organisms are mixotrophic and thus have both autotrophic and heterotrophic abilities. Through evolution of their trophic preferences, however, they can specialize into separate autotrophs and heterotrophs. It was found that the light intensity gradient enables evolutionary branching and thus may result in the ecological specialization of the mixotrophs. By affecting the gradient, other environmental properties also acquire influence on this evolutionary process. Intermediate mixing intensities, large mixing depths, and high nutrient densities were found to facilitate evolutionary branching and thus specialization. Later results may explain why mixotrophs are often more dominant in oligotrophic systems while specialist strategies are associated with eutrophic systems.
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- Tineke A Troost
- Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Department of Theoretical Biology, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Moe SJ, Stelzer RS, Forman MR, Harpole WS, Daufresne T, Yoshida T. Recent advances in ecological stoichiometry: insights for population and community ecology. OIKOS 2005. [DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.14056.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hessen DO, Ågren GI, Anderson TR, Elser JJ, de Ruiter PC. CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN ECOSYSTEMS: THE ROLE OF STOICHIOMETRY. Ecology 2004. [DOI: 10.1890/02-0251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 396] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Vrede T, Dobberfuhl DR, Kooijman SALM, Elser JJ. FUNDAMENTAL CONNECTIONS AMONG ORGANISM C:N:P STOICHIOMETRY, MACROMOLECULAR COMPOSITION, AND GROWTH. Ecology 2004. [DOI: 10.1890/02-0249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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