The utility of stoichiometric and metabolic theory for understanding the foraging habitat and excretion of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

摘要

Background: Recent extensions to ecological stoichiometry theory propose that the evolution of an organism's elemental content plays an important role in shaping the structure and function of ecosystems. Other work has shown that the elemental content of sticklebacks is meaningfully altered by genetic differences in armour.