Metabolic Ecology
Metabolic ecology is a field of ecology aiming to understand constraints on metabolic organization as important for understanding almost all life processes.
Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach - Wiley Online Library
Metabolic Ecology Most of ecology is about metabolism, the ways that organisms use energy and materials. The energy requirements of ...
Metabolic theory of ecology - Wikipedia
It posits that the metabolic rate of organisms is the fundamental biological rate that governs most observed patterns in ecology.
TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY - ESA Journals
The theory offers a predictive framework for assessing and responding to human-induced changes in the abundance, distribution, and diversity of ...
Ecological theory that is grounded in metabolic currencies and constraints offers the potential to link ecological outcomes to biophysical processes across ...
biology to link the biology of individual organisms to the ecology of populations, communities, and ecosystems. Metabolic rate, the rate at which organisms take ...
Metabolic theory predicts whole-ecosystem properties - PNAS
The theory synthesizes top-down, ecosystem-level and bottom-up, organism-level approaches to ecological energetics and material cycles. The theory predicts a ...
Metabolic theories in ecology - ScienceDirect.com
Recently, Brown et al. [1] proposed a Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE), the core of which is a mechanistic description of how the metabolic rate of individual ...
TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY
biology to link the biology of individual organisms to the ecology of populations, communities, and ecosystems. Metabolic rate, the rate at which organisms take ...
Dr. James H. Brown -- "Toward a Metabolic Theory of Ecology"
James H. Brown Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico talks about "Ecology studies interactions between organisms and ...
Toward a Metabolic Theory of Ecology - Santa Fe Institute
Metabolic theory predicts how metabolic rate, by setting the rates of resource uptake from the environment and resource allocation to survival, growth, and ...
Metabolic Ecology Field Project
The research will be directed to the human-water system and the influences of climate change on this system. Our major aim is to investigate the ecological ...
Metabolic Ecology: Linking Individuals to Ecosystems - JSTOR
damental attributes of biological networks. This work paved the way to the Metabolic Theory of Ecology. (MTE) outlined by Brown et al. (2004). We think that.
Metabolic theories in ecology - Cell Press
Abstract. The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) and the earlier theory of Dynamic Energy Budgets (DEB) are both founded on simple mechanistic descriptions of ...
The Metabolic Theory of Ecology as a Mechanistic Approach
This is a mechanistic approach to ecology involving decomposability into parts that structure the different levels of ecological organization.
Section 3 :: The metabolic theory of ecology - Yeakel Group
The entire metabolic process as shown above captures the energetic expenditure of what it takes to 'run' an organism's physiological processes.
(PDF) Metabolic ecology - ResearchGate
A research network characterized by major clusters focused on MTE, foraging theory, bioenergetics, trophic status, and generalized patterns and predictions.
The metabolic theory of ecology and the cost of parasitism - PMC
Warming temperatures accelerate metabolic rates by increasing the kinetic energy of biochemical systems. Despite the bewildering complexity of ...
12 The Metabolic Theory of Ecology - Oxford Academic
Data for field metabolic rate in vertebrates typically exhibit b ~ 0.8, which matches the WBE prediction. Addition of a simple Boltzmann factor to capture the ...
Metabolic rate (article) | Ecology - Khan Academy
Metabolic rate refers to how quickly fuels (such as sugars) are broken down to keep the organism's cells running.