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- Title
METABOLIC ECOLOGY: LINKING INDIVIDUALS TO ECOSYSTEMS.
- Authors
Marquet, Pablo A.; Labra, Fabio A.; Maurer, Brian A.
- Abstract
Metabolism sustains life and controls the growth, reproduction and longevity of living entities. The ultimate success of the emerging metabolic theory of ecology, depends to a large extent on whether it is truly a mechanistic theory based on first principles or whether, like so many other theories in ecology, it is fundamentally phenomenological. Of the various predictions, perhaps the most surprising to community ecologists may be that within a trophic level, species of vastly different body sizes should get equal shares of their limiting resources. Species selected for fast population growth rates would necessarily have higher metabolism, smaller body size, and higher temperature.
- Subjects
ECOLOGY; METABOLISM; BODY size; DEMOGRAPHY; NATURALISTS; BIOTIC communities
- Publication
Ecology, 2004, Vol 85, Issue 7, p1794
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/03-0694