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- Title
Ecology's Big, Hot Idea.
- Authors
Whitfield, John
- Abstract
The article reports that a team of ecologists and physicists have come up with a theory which believe that energy use, in the metabolic rate, can be understood from the first principle of physics, and that metabolic rate can explain growth, development, population dynamics, molecular evolution, the flux of chemicals through the environment. Whether metabolic rate really vanes with the three-quarter power of body mass is still debated-some researchers still favor two-thirds, others think that no one exponent fits all the data-but a majority of biologists favor three- quarters. All the business of life needs energy.
- Subjects
BIOTRANSFORMATION (Metabolism); MOLECULAR biology; SCIENCE; ORIGIN of life; ECOLOGY; FORCE &; energy
- Publication
PLoS Biology, 2004, Vol 2, Issue 12, p2023
- ISSN
1544-9173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pbio.0020440