Allometric laws and prediction in estuarine and coastal ecology
By L. Harris, Carlos M. Duarte, S. Nixon. 2006
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A theoretical and quantitative framework of first principles would benefit estuarine and coastal ecologists in search of predictions to enhance our understanding and management of marine resources. The Metabolic Theory of Ecology describes a possible unifying theory for ecology, including mechanistically derived equations that predict scaling exponents observed in empirical, allometric relationships from individuals to ecosystems. The controversy surrounding this theory should stimulate our exploration of its potential use in the coastal realm, where questions specific to an applied science may suggest new refinements and derivations, contributing to the overall progress of ecology.
Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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Citations in the corpus
- Temperature dependence of planktonic metabolism in the ocean (2012, methodology): “communities with increasing temperature, also in agreement with predictions from metabolic theory [Harris et al., 2006; López-Urrutia et al., 2006].”
- The biological pump in a high CO 2 world (2012, background): “The relative effect of temperature increase on microbial respiration compared to that of phytoplankton production may have a larger impact on export production (Harris et al. 2006, López-Urrutia et al. 2006, Sarmento et al. 2010) compared to absolute changes in primary production.”