Cool tadpoles from Arctic environments waste fewer nutrients – high gross growth efficiencies lead to low consumer‐mediated nutrient recycling in the North

• Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology
• Main Authors: Liess, Antonia, Guo, Junwen, Lind, Martin I., Rowe, Owen
• Other Authors: Hambäck, Peter, Vetenskapsrådet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Tadpole; Climate change
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12426; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2F1365-2656.12426; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.12426

Summary Endothermic organisms can adapt to short growing seasons, low temperatures and nutrient limitation by developing high growth rates and high gross growth efficiencies ( GGE s). Animals with high GGE s are better at assimilating limiting nutrients and thus should recycle (or lose) fewer nutrie...