Georg Steinert
marine ecology and systematics
Redfield stoichiometry in phytoplankton (2010 - 2011)
The focus of this project was the relationship between the redfield ratio and growth rates of phytoplankton. My contribution to this work was the data collection from an enormous amount of literature and subsequently re-digitize the data for further analysis. For further information, please see this publication:
Hillebrand H, Steinert G, Boersma M, Mahlzahn A, Meunier C, Plum C, Ptacnik R. 'Phytoplankton growth and N:P stoichiometry'. Limnol. Oceanogr., 58(6), 2013, 2076-2088, DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.6.2076
Nevertheless, a little background for the interested readers can be found here:
- Klausmeier, C. a., Litchman, E., Daufresne, T. & Levin, S. a. Phytoplankton stoichiometry. Ecological Research 23, 479-485 (2008)
- Loladze, I. & Elser, J.J. The origins of the Redfield nitrogen-to-phosphorus ratio are in a homoeostatic protein-to-rRNA ratio. Ecology letters 14, 244-50 (2011)
