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- Title
METABOLIC RATE OPENS A GRAND VISTA ON ECOLOGY.
- Authors
Cottingham, Kathryn L.; Zens, M. Scot
- Abstract
In this article, authors open a new vista on ecology by nominating metabolic rate as the essential integrator of organismal biology, providing a bold new synthesis of the effects of mass and temperature on metabolic rate, and proposing a number of hypotheses about the influences of mass and temperature on aggregate ecological phenomena ranging from whole organisms to community structure to ecosystem processes. Although it is difficult to measure field metabolic rates, much evidence suggests that basal metabolic rate is governed by resource uptake, chemical transformation, and the distribution of transformed resources throughout the body. The article extends the metabolic theory to population, community, and ecosystem metrics.
- Subjects
ECOLOGY; METABOLISM; BIOTIC communities; ENVIRONMENTAL sciences; LIFE sciences; BIODIVERSITY
- Publication
Ecology, 2004, Vol 85, Issue 7, p1805
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/03-0688