Journal of Plankton Research Vol.25 no.9 pp.1183, 2003
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Ecological Stoichiometry: Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere.
Sterner, R. W. and Elser, J. J. (2002) Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. $29.95. ISSN 0-691-07491-7.
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