DOES METABOLIC THEORY APPLY TO COMMUNITY ECOLOGY? IT'S A MATTER OF SCALE

By David Tilman, J. HilleRisLambers, Stanley Harpole, R. Dybzinski, J. Fargione, C. Clark, Clarence Lehman. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Genetics

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In Ecology

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Citations in the corpus

• Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “CombiningMSTwith trait driver approaches allows TDT to work across scales and also addresses one of MST’s key criticisms: it does not incorporate ecological variation—such as trait variation— and cannot be applied to understanding the forces that shape the diversity and dynamics of local communities”
• Reconsidering the mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology (2007, background): “J.”
• Beyond the ‘3/4‐power law’: variation in the intra‐and interspecific scaling of metabolic rate in animals (2005, unknown): “Second, the effect of body size is less likely to predominate over the effects of other factors acting orthogonally along the overall regression line when small ranges of body size are considered (cf. Calder, 1987; Tilman et al., 2004).”
• Effects of size, competition and altitude on tree growth (2007, background): “A mixture of experimentation and modelling is required to make further progress (Tilman et al. 2004).”
• Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: the plant phenotype as an integrated network (2017, background): “Tilman et al. (2004) pointed out that as the range of body size decreases, the predictive power of the metabolic theory of ecology declines and other drivers become more important in explaining variation at smaller scales.”
• Allometric laws and prediction in estuarine and coastal ecology (2006, background): “…value of scaling exponents (Dodds 2001), concern over the uncertainty of the predictions, which may be masked by the multilogarithmic representation of the scaling relationships (Tilman et al. 2004), and an argument for phenomenological versus mechanistic conceptual roots (Cyr and Walker 2004).”