The vertebrate bone hypothesis: Understanding the impact of bone on vertebrate stoichiometry
Emily M. May,
Rana W. El‐Sabaawi
Abstract:Understanding how animals store and recycle nutrients is a major question in ecological stoichiometry, a field that applies mass‐balance to ecological and physiological processes. However, ecological stoichiometry has thus far failed to accurately predict elemental demand and release in vertebrates.
Because they invest in bone, a tissue mineralized with calcium phosphate, vertebrates are phosphorus (P) rich, allowing them to uniquely impact P cycling. Nonetheless, bone's impact goes further than merely changi… Show more
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