Extending the growth rate hypothesis to species development: Can stoichiometric traits help to explain the composition of macroinvertebrate communities?

Oikos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Beck ◽  
Cédric P. Mondy ◽  
Michael Danger ◽  
Elise Billoir ◽  
Philippe Usseglio‐Polatera
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Macroinvertebrate Communities ◽  
Growth Rate Hypothesis ◽  
Stoichiometric Traits

scholarly journals Testing the Growth Rate Hypothesis in Vascular Plants with Above- and Below-Ground Biomass

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. e32162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Yu ◽  
Honghui Wu ◽  
Nianpeng He ◽  
Xiaotao Lü ◽  
Zhiping Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Ground Biomass ◽  
Growth Rate Hypothesis ◽  
Below Ground

Does the growth rate hypothesis apply to aquatic hyphomycetes?

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 493-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.J. Grimmett ◽  
K.N. Shipp ◽  
A. Macneil ◽  
F. Bärlocher
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Aquatic Hyphomycetes ◽  
Growth Rate Hypothesis

scholarly journals Biological stoichiometry of Daphnia growth: An ecophysiological test of the growth rate hypothesis

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 656-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumud Acharya ◽  
Marcia Kyle ◽  
James J. Elser
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Growth Rate Hypothesis

Aphid fitness on 13 grass species: a test of plant defence theory

2000 ◽  
Vol 77 (12) ◽  
pp. 1783-1789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauchlan H Fraser ◽  
J Philip Grime
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Aboveground Biomass ◽  
Plant Defence ◽  
Grass Species ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Grain Aphid ◽  
Growth Rate Hypothesis ◽  
Aphid Feeding ◽  
Grass Growth ◽  
Slow Growing

The growth rate hypothesis, which states that fast-growing plants support more herbivores than slow-growing plants, was tested with 12 native and 1 naturalized British grasses using the grain aphid (Sitobion avenae). Five aphids were enclosed with grasses for two weeks in a growth chamber. After 2 weeks, fast-growing plants had 38 aphids, whilst slow-growing plants had 6, which supports the growth-rate hypothesis. When aphid numbers were analysed on plants according to "CSR" theory (Grime 1977, 1979), ruderals (R) had 54, competitors (C) had 18, and stress tolerators (S) had 6. This supports the predictions of CSR theory. Furthermore, aphid numbers increased significantly with grass growth rates and a mollusc palatability index, although this largely resulted from a single outlier, Poa annua. Aphid number was not affected by hairs on grasses. Finally, the effect of aphid feeding on grasses was tested. Generally, the greatest change in total and aboveground biomass of the grasses was found in the ruderals, whilst stress tolerators had the least amount of change.

Collembolan reproduction in soils from a long-term fertilisation experiment opposes the Growth Rate Hypothesis

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 56-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birthe Schröder ◽  
Natalie Steiner ◽  
Ines Merbach ◽  
Martin Schädler ◽  
Juliane Filser
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Growth Rate Hypothesis
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