@misc{SperfeldRaubenheimerWacker2016,
  author    = {Sperfeld, Erik and Raubenheimer, David and Wacker, Alexander},
  title     = {Bridging factorial and gradient concepts of resource co-limitation: towards a general framework applied to consumers},
  series = {Ecology letters},
  volume    = {19},
  journal   = {Ecology letters},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {1461-023X},
  doi       = {10.1111/ele.12554},
  pages     = {201 -- 215},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Organism growth can be limited either by a single resource or by multiple resources simultaneously (co-limitation). Efforts to characterise co-limitation have generated two influential approaches. One approach uses limitation scenarios of factorial growth assays to distinguish specific types of co-limitation; the other uses growth responses spanned over a continuous, multi-dimensional resource space to characterise different types of response surfaces. Both approaches have been useful in investigating particular aspects of co-limitation, but a synthesis is needed to stimulate development of this recent research area. We address this gap by integrating the two approaches, thereby presenting a more general framework of co-limitation. We found that various factorial (co-)limitation scenarios can emerge in different response surface types based on continuous availabilities of essential or substitutable resources. We tested our conceptual co-limitation framework on data sets of published and unpublished studies examining the limitation of two herbivorous consumers in a two-dimensional resource space. The experimental data corroborate the predictions, suggesting a general applicability of our co-limitation framework to generalist consumers and potentially also to other organisms. The presented framework might give insight into mechanisms that underlie co-limitation responses and thus can be a seminal starting point for evaluating co-limitation patterns in experiments and nature.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{SommerAdrianDomisetal.2012,
  author    = {Sommer, Ulrich and Adrian, Rita and Domis, Lisette Nicole de Senerpont and Elser, James J. and Gaedke, Ursula and Ibelings, Bas and Jeppesen, Erik and Lurling, Miquel and Molinero, Juan Carlos and Mooij, Wolf M. and van Donk, Ellen and Winder, Monika},
  title     = {Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model mechanisms driving plankton succession},
  series = {Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics},
  volume    = {43},
  journal   = {Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics},
  number    = {2-4},
  editor    = {Futuyma, DJ},
  publisher = {Annual Reviews},
  address   = {Palo Alto},
  isbn      = {978-0-8243-1443-9},
  issn      = {1543-592X},
  doi       = {10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110411-160251},
  pages     = {429 -- 448},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {The seasonal succession of plankton is an annually repeated process of community assembly during which all major external factors and internal interactions shaping communities can be studied. A quarter of a century ago, the state of this understanding was described by the verbal plankton ecology group (PEG) model. It emphasized the role of physical factors, grazing and nutrient limitation for phytoplankton, and the role of food limitation and fish predation for zooplankton. Although originally targeted at lake ecosystems, it was also adopted by marine plankton ecologists. Since then, a suite of ecological interactions previously underestimated in importance have become research foci: overwintering of key organisms, the microbial food web, parasitism, and food quality as a limiting factor and an extended role of higher order predators. A review of the impact of these novel interactions on plankton seasonal succession reveals limited effects on gross seasonal biomass patterns, but strong effects on species replacements.},
  language  = {en}
}