Ecological Stoichiometry: The Biology Of Elements From Molecules To The Biosphere

Inspired by the work of Alfred Redfield in the 1950s and 1960s, marine ecologists and geochemists have used stoichiometric principles to guide their studies of nutrient limitation and nutrient cycling in the oceans for almost half a century. Indeed, many of us used 'Redfield ratios' for marine algae as the basis for our work on fresh water throughout the 1970s and 1980s.