Book ID: 84738
Sterner, Robert W. and James J. Elsner
Ecological Stoichiometry. The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere. With a foreword by Peter Vitousek. 2002. 21 tab. 2 pls. 94 line figs. 584 p. Hardcover.
Presentation of Stoichiometry, the study of the balance of chemicalelements in ecological interactions, as a unifying force in ecology andevolution.The authors show how an understanding of the biochemicaldeployment of elements in microroganisms from microbes to metazoaprovides the key for making sense of both aquatic and terrestrialecosystems.