2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference

March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH

5/26/2021 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | BUILDING A BROAD-SCALE ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY DATABASE | Virtual Platform

BUILDING A BROAD-SCALE ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY DATABASE

The supply of elements and energy governs biological activity from cellular to ecosystem scales. Previous studies have used the ecological stoichiometry framework to examine how the relative supply of elements influences biogeochemistry and food webs in freshwater ecosystems. However, our ability to test stoichiometric theory at broad spatial scales across numerous lakes and streams has been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive stoichiometry database. Our group is using published data, individual investigator datasets, and data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to establish a public database for use toward the understanding of regional to continental-scale stoichiometric controls in inland aquatic ecosystems. We aim to engage community members in contributing to the database and using the database to understand the consequences of stoichiometry for ecosystems, communities, organisms, and evolution. In this poster, we detail our plans and our progress on data synthesis, and we seek feedback and data contributions from the freshwater science community. Ultimately, we hope that active engagement with the community will make the database a more useful and accessible resource for stoichiometry research.

Big data
Food webs
Biogeochemistry

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Casey Brucker (), University of Wyoming, brucker.casey@gmail.com;