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That’s the thing Randy, you looking at trying to calculate the particular needs of one living being inside a large system with several others, trace can be a issue for particular beings living inside our systems. This method or ideology not sure how to describe it, it’s aimed at the hole system needs of C N and P that can be read by shifts on the no3 and po4 concentration, giving you a indication of what’s being depleted or in abundance for the hole system, this includes all species of different bacteria nutrient needs that live in our systems, that in a way are the only reason we are able to keep a system running. Redfield ratio if looked with more detail is very similar to the rate that bacteria in collective deplete nutrients in a closed system and most likely in most of our oceans ecosystems.Sure.
A lot of limitation studies are also published, and they do not make assumptions based on ratios. They test it by adding N or P or both and see what happens to growth. In the same water, different organisms can have different limiting factors, and in some cases, something else such as iron is limiting.
You might send a pm to Thales here at REEF2REEF.
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