Metabolic theories in ecology
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 ...
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 ...
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 - PubMed
The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) and the earlier theory of Dynamic Energy Budgets (DEB) are both founded on simple mechanistic descriptions of how ...
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 ...
The metabolic theory of ecology: prospects and challenges for plant ...
The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) as applied to the plant sciences aims to provide a general synthesis for the structure and functioning ...
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 ...
The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) has emphasized the potential for metabolism to serve as a unified theory of ecology.
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 ...
Marine zooplankton and the Metabolic Theory of Ecology
The objective of this paper is to draw attention to the applicability and limits of the MTE as a predictive tool, especially for complex, second-order ...
1 Theory in Ecology | Primer of Ecology using R - GitHub Pages
The metabolic theory of ecology (James H. Brown et al. 2004) is a well-supported body of knowledge about the underlying mechanisms, and the resulting profound ...
Testing the metabolic theory of ecology - Peter Sheridan Dodds
Abstract. The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) predicts the effects of body size and temperature on metabolism through considerations of vascular ...
Metabolic Scaling Theory - Ecology - Oxford Bibliographies
The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE), which is also known as metabolic scaling theory (MST), is a collection of interrelated theories and ...
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 ...
Two main metabolic theories that have been applied in ecology are Kooijman's Dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory and the West, Brown, and Enquist (WBE) theory of ...
Metabolic theory and taxonomic identity predict nutrient recycling in ...
We apply a unique dataset of organisms from a diverse marine community to test the applicability of two theories, metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) and ...
Metabolic theories in ecology | Request PDF - ResearchGate
According to the Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE), the maintenance rate of an organism is proportional to its body mass (van der Meer, 2006) .