Toward a Metabolic Theory of Ecology.

Brown, J. H., Gillooly, J. F., Allen, A. P., Savage, V. M., & West, G. B. (2004). Toward a Metabolic Theory of Ecology. Ecology, 85(7), 1771-1789.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2004

Volume

85

Issue

7

Pages

1771-1789

DOI

10.1890/03-9000

DOI registrant

Wiley

Link

https://doi.org/10.1890/03-9000

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biology_ecology

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Primes

• Allometry and Scaling Law
  • Brown, Gillooly, Allen, Savage, and West (2004) make this transfer programmatic in their metabolic theory of ecology.

    This sourceEstablishes the metabolic theory of ecology as a programmatic framework linking individual-organism metabolism to population, community, and ecosystem processes, transferring allometric reasoning across levels.

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