HUMAN IMPACTS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS FROM THE LENS OF ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY

• DOI: 10.4257/oeco.2022.2602.08
• Publication Date: 2022-07-08T20:18:30Z
• Authors: Layla Mayer Fonseca; Gabrielle Rabelo ...; José Paranaíba; Otávio Augusto La...; ; James Cotner; ; André Megali Amado
• Keywords: Ecological stoichiometry; Aquatic science; Biogeochemical Cycle

Aquatic ecosystems are under different anthropogenic pressures, such as climate change, eutrophication, chemical pollution, overfishing, and introducing exotic species. Human activities have accelerated biogeochemical cycles forcing organisms to adapt. Most ecological stoichiometry studies focused on carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, their relative proportions. Still, the possibilities for investigations using other elements better understand impacts of human pressures aquatic vast. Therefore, here we explore how influence ecosystem balance in terms nutrient composition stoichiometry. We conclude that interventions affected functioning energy flow due stoichiometric imbalances. also interplay between macro micronutrient might raise important axioms predict ecosystems.