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Limnology

the finding that consumer growth can fall when food has too much as well as too little of a nutrient, not only when it is scarce.

In limnology, stoichiometric knife edge refers to the finding that consumer growth can fall when food has too much as well as too little of a nutrient, not only when it is scarce. This meaning comes from Boersma (2006) in Ecology.[1]

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Boersma, M., & Elser, J. J. (2006). Too Much of a Good Thing: on Stoichiometrically Balanced Diets and Maximal Growth. Ecology, 87(5), 1325-1330. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1325:tmoagt]2.0.co;2

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