Global Biodiversity, Biochemical Kinetics, and the Energetic-Equivalence Rule

By A. P. Allen, James H. Brown, James F. Gillooly. Science, 2002

839 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ea165ab512a60435557a8fcefa8a5dbce53285b4

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Genetics

Citations in the corpus

Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use (2003, background): “Production and population energy use were corrected for differences in operating temperatures among the groups (Gillooly et al. 2001; Allen et al. 2002 ).”
Plant species invasions along the latitudinal gradient in the United States (2006, background): “…may explain species richness patterns at landscape scales (Stohlgren et al. 1997, 2002, Chong et al. 2001), continental and regional scales (Stohlgren et al. 2005a), and global scales (Currie 1991, Huston 1994, Rosenzweig 1995, Kleidon and Mooney 2000, Allen et al. 2002, Hawkins et al. 2003).”
Geographical gradients in seed mass in relation to climate (2004, background): “Many life-history and ecological attributes vary predictably along latitudinal gradients (Ricklefs & Schluter, 1993; Brown, 1995; Rosenzweig, 1995; Allen et al., 2002).”
Global analysis of bird elevational diversity (2009, background): “Speciation rates, extinction rates, clade age and phylogenetic niche conservatism are theoretically linked and, in some cases, empirically linked to diversity (e.g. Rohde, 1992; Allen et al. , 2002; Stephens & Wiens, 2003; Wiens et al., 2006; Mittelbach et al. , 2007).”
The influence of climate on the spatial patterning of Neotropical plant families (2007, result): “This gives some support to the predictions of the energetics theory (Allen et al., 2002), which predicts that temperature should affect evolutionary rates, although a direct causal link to diversity is still wanting.”
Ecology Drives the Worldwide Distribution of Human Diseases (2004, background): “This pattern, known as the latitudinal species diversity gradient, has been documented for many contemporary taxonomic groups (see Brown 1995; Rosenzweig 1995; Gaston and Blackburn 2000; Allen et al. 2002; Stevens et al. 2003).”
Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge (2015, positive): “Furthermore, the metabolic theory of ecology (Allen et al., 2002) is a potentially important concept for dead-wood ecology and considers the effects of climate that have been shown to interact with dead-wood amount (Müller et al., 2014).”
Recasting the species–energy hypothesis: the different roles of kinetic and potential energy in regulating biodiversity (2007, background): “Effects of mean annual temperature, expressed as 1/kT, on the natural logarithm of regional species richness for (A) amphibians and (B) trees of North America (Allen et al., 2002).”