Toward a metabolic theory of ecology

By James H. Brown, James F. Gillooly, A. P. Allen, Van M. Savage, Geoffrey B. West. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Genetics

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Seeing Double:: Size-Based and Taxonomic Views of Food Web Structure (2011, background): “Given that the size of an organism is correlated with many of its fundamental ecological properties (Brown et al., 2004; Peters, 1983), it should come as no surprise that an individual’s size affects the type of prey it can consumeandwhatpredatorswill attack it.”
Measures and Approaches in Trait-Based Phytoplankton Community Ecology – From Freshwater to Marine Ecosystems (2019, background): “Also feedbacks with the environment are related to body size, as evident in the metabolic theory of ecology (e.g., Brown et al., 2004), which demonstrates the theoretical link between body size and ecosystem processes.”
Predicting impacts of climate change on biodiversity: a role for semi‐mechanistic community‐level modelling (2011, background): “…mechanistic approaches include metacommunity theory (Mouquet et al., 2006), food web theory (Cohen et al., 2003), neutral theory (Hubbell, 2001), metabolic theory of ecology (Brown et al., 2004) and trait-based community assembly theory (Keddy, 1992; see Appendix S1 in the Supporting Information).”
Optimal foraging constrains macroecological patterns: body size and dietary niche breadth in lizards (2008, background): “Results We found a negative association between body size and dietary niche breadth in 159 lizard species sampled across most evolutionary lineages of squamate reptiles and across major continents and habitats.”
Systematic variation in the temperature dependence of physiological and ecological traits (2011, background): “(SI Appendix, Table S3), contradicting the common tacit assumption of their temperature invariance (2, 9, 30, 44).”
The theoretical foundations for size spectrum models of fish communities (2016, background): “mStandard “metabolic” assumption (Brown et al. 2004).”
Knowing when to draw the line: designing more informative ecological experiments (2005, background): “Many current ecological questions fall into this category, including investigations of the relationships between species richness and ecosystem functioning (eg Loreau et al. 2001) and between metabolic rate and population/community parameters (eg Brown et al. 2004).”
Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity (2016, background): “Among the most widely known are the scaling of metabolic rate (B) with body size [M; B = BoM 3/4 (13)] and the rate at which species richness (i.”
The microbial aspect of climate change (2016, background): “Microbial abundance is inversely related to abundance temperature in aquatic ecosystems (Brown et al. 2004).”
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of stream sediments with comparison to terrestrial soils (2011, background): “The kinetics and elemental composition of cellular components that mediate production and respiration are the basis for the metabolic and stoichiometric theories of ecological organization (Sterner and Elser 2002; Brown et al. 2004; Gillooly et al. 2005).”
Temperature and the metabolic theory of ecology (2006, background): “As Brown et al. (2004a,b) and Gillooly et al. (2006) acknowledge, the complex links between temperature and whole-organism metabolic rate are one of the areas of physiology where further detail is needed.”
Length–mass allometry in snakes (2013, background): “Body size is strongly related to the organism’s physiology, energy requirements, ecology and life history (Calder, 1984; Shine, 1994a; Brown et al., 2004).”
Phytoplankton in a changing world: cell size and elemental stoichiometry (2010, background): “…phytoplankton size is an easily determined and promising trait for predicting physiological responses to environmental change that can be used to scale-up to ecological and biogeochemical processes; often referred to as the metabolic theory of ecology (Brown et al., 2004; López-Urrutia, 2008).”
Behavior and nutritional condition buffer a large‐bodied endotherm against direct and indirect effects of climate (2014, background): “Key words: biophysical model; Blue Mountains, northeastern Oregon, USA; Cervus elaphus; climate change; elk; nutritional condition; resource selection function; Snake River Plain, southeastern Idaho, USA; thermal environment; thermoregulation.”