Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology.

By Ethan P. White, S. K. Morgan Ernest, A. Kerkhoff, Brian J. Enquist. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective (2010, background): “…being larger, or the environment or resources being more finely sub-divided, for smaller species (Hutchinson & MacArthur, 1959; May, 1978; Shorrocks et al., 1991); and (iv) patterns of dispersal (Chown, 1997; Etienne & Olff, 2004) (for further, more general discussion, see E.P. White et al., 2007).”
The Limitations of Hierarchical Organization* (2012, background): “…with competitors (MacArthur 1968) and toward the idea that global abundance (abundance of a species across its entire range), shaped by processes such as the evolution of specialists versus generalists, is a crucial determiner (Gaston and Blackburn 2000; Gregory 2000; White et al. 2007).”
Increasing importance of small phytoplankton in a warmer ocean (2010, background): “As for the opposite relationship between picophytoplankton biomass and temperature, this could be partly explained by the TSR–ISD relationship having a greater role than the energetic equivalence constraint.”
Warming alters the size spectrum and shifts the distribution of biomass in freshwater ecosystems (2011, background): “The relationship between abundance and organism size is potentially a very powerful descriptor of how energy and nutrients are partitioned within the biomass of an ecosystem (White et al., 2007).”
Causes of mortality in North American populations of large and medium‐sized mammals (2011, background): “Theory also predicts that disease should be more important in smaller species, because disease prevalence is positively related to population density (Morand & Poulin, 1998), which in turn is negatively correlated with body mass (Damuth, 2007; White et al., 2007).”
Surfing the Biomass Size Spectrum: Some Remarks on History, Theory, and Application (2016, methodology): “75 (White et al. 2007).”
Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients (2011, methodology): “To model M we consider that tree community size distributions have been hypothesized to be described by power functions (Enquist & Niklas, 2001; White et al., 2007, 2008; Stegen & White, 2008; Enquist et al., 2009; West et al., 2009), such that the individual size distribution can be approximately…”
Conformation to Bergmann's Rule in White-tailed Deer can be Explained by Food Availability (2009, background): “STEVE WOLVERTON1 Department of Geography & Institute of Applied Sciences, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #305279,”
Soil acidity, ecological stoichiometry and allometric scaling in grassland food webs (2009, background): “Mass–abundance relationships reveal how the size structure of a community food web interacts with its trophic structure and biomass distribution (White et al., 2007).”
Global drivers of population density in terrestrial vertebrates (2018, background): “Some studies supported a nonlinear relationship with body mass, with density reaching its maximum at intermediate masses and then decreasing asymptotically (Lawton, 1990; Silva & Downing, 1995; White et al., 2007).”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “…that allow coarse but statistically powerful descriptions of community patterns (Brose et al., 2006; Cohen et al., 2003; Hendriks and Mulder, 2008, 2012; Hudson et al., 2013; Jonsson et al., 2005; Mulder et al., 2005a; Reuman et al., 2009; White et al., 2007; Woodward et al., 2005).”
Testing and recommending methods for fitting size spectra to data (2017, background): “Despite the widespread use of the size spectrum, its success as a general tool in marine and terrestrial ecology has been hampered by confusion surrounding its definition (White et al. 2007) and by methodological inconsistencies in how it is fitted to data (Vidondo et al. 1997).”