Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use

By S. K. Morgan Ernest, Brian J. Enquist, James H. Brown, E. Charnov, James F. Gillooly, Van M. Savage, Ethan P. White, F. Smith, Elizabeth A. Hadly, J. Haskell and 4 more. 2003

243 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Genetics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0092a86f34676a8cdbc91ff529d27010475ca4b5

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In Ecology

1. James H. Brown
2. A. P. Allen
3. James F. Gillooly
4. Geoffrey B. West
5. Van M. Savage
6. Brian J. Enquist
7. Douglas S. Glazier
8. James J. Elser

In Environmental Engineering

1. James H. Brown
2. A. P. Allen
3. James F. Gillooly
4. Jaap van der Meer
5. Walter Jetz
6. Bingzhang Chen
7. G. Woodward
8. Carlos M. Duarte

In Genetics

1. James H. Brown
2. James F. Gillooly
3. A. P. Allen
4. Van M. Savage
5. Geoffrey B. West
6. James J. Elser
7. Brian J. Enquist
8. William F. Fagan

Citations in the corpus

• The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology (2004, background): “A summary of regression statistics from Ernest et al. (2003) for annual biomass production across multiple plant and animal taxa are listed in Table 1.”
• Food‐web connectance and predator interference dampen the paradox of enrichment (2008, unknown): “resource species in dependence on their abundance converts a type II functional response of a simple one consumer-one resource system into a type III functional response (Murdoch 1969, Real 1977, Elliott 2004 ).”
• The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization (2005, background): “To sustain a given metabolic rate in an organism of fixed mass with a given volume of blood, Vb, the cardiac output must be minimized subject to a space-filling geometry.”
• Plant allometry, stoichiometry and the temperature-dependence of primary productivity (2005, background): “Recently, it has been shown that such a temperature response, with an average activation energy of ∼0.6 eV, may be common to many, if not all, organisms (Gillooly et al., 2001, 2002; Enquist et al., 2003; Ernest et al., 2003b; Brown et al., 2004).”
• Bacterial traits, organism mass, and numerical abundance in the detrital soil food web of Dutch agricultural grasslands (2004, unknown): “The scaling of metabolic rate as the three-fourth power of body size is very widespread (Gillooly et al. 2001; Ernest et al. 2003).”