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ArticleScientific reports2018

The threshold elemental ratio of carbon and phosphorus of Daphnia magna and its connection to animal growth.

Hamza K Khattak, Clay Prater, Nicole D Wagner, Paul C Frost

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Hamza K KhattakDepartment of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, K9L 0G2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6729-2058
Clay PraterEnvironmental and Life Science Graduate Program, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, K9L 0G2, Canada.
Nicole D WagnerEnvironmental and Life Science Graduate Program, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, K9L 0G2, Canada.
Paul C FrostDepartment of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, K9L 0G2, Canada. paulfrost@trentu.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-8267-1726

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growth of animal consumers is affected by the balance of elements in their diet with the transition between limitation by one element to another known as the threshold elemental ratio (TER). Precise estimates of TERs with known levels of uncertainty have yet to be generated for most zooplankton consumers. We determined the TER for carbon (C) and phosphorus (P) in for a common lake zooplankter, Daphnia magna, using experimental measurements and theoretical considerations. Daphnia growth responses to food C:P ratios across a relatively narrow range (80-350) generated an empirical estimate of TER

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AnimalsCarbonDaphniaPhosphorusZooplanktonCarbonPhosphorus

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PMID29946166
PMCPMC6018670

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