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, 2015 The rise of trait-based ecology has led to an increased focus on the distribution and dynamics of traits in communities. However, a general theory of trait-based ecology, that can apply across different scales (e.g., species that differ in size) and gradients (e.g., temperature), has yet to be formulated.
Enquist, Brian J. +7 more
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Bigger is faster in the adaptive immune response [PDF]
Scientific ReportsZoonotic pathogens represent a growing global risk, yet the speed of adaptive immune activation across mammalian species remains poorly understood. Despite orders-of-magnitude differences in size and metabolic rate, we show that the time to initiate ...
Jannatul Ferdous +3 more
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Contribution of genome scale metabolic modeling to niche theory [PDF]
Ecology Letters, 2021 Standard niche modeling is based on probabilistic inference from organismal occurrence data but does not benefit yet from genome-scale descriptions of these organisms. This study over-comes this shortcoming by proposing a new conceptual niche that encompasses the whole metabolic capabilities of an organism.
Régimbeau, Antoine +8 more
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Fishes, 2022 Metabolism is the fundamental process dictating material and energy fluxes through organisms. Several studies have suggested that resting metabolic scaling in various aquatic invertebrates is positively correlated with changes in body shape and the ...
Dong In Kim
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How Metabolic Rate Relates to Cell Size
Biology, 2022 Metabolic rate and its covariation with body mass vary substantially within and among species in little understood ways. Here, I critically review explanations (and supporting data) concerning how cell size and number and their establishment by cell ...
Douglas S. Glazier
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Data_Sheet_1_Cancer as a Model System for Testing Metabolic Scaling Theory.PDF [PDF]
, 2021 Biological allometries, such as the scaling of metabolism to mass, are hypothesized to result from natural selection to maximize how vascular networks fill space yet minimize internal transport distances and resistance to blood flow.
Alexander B. Brummer (11536978) +1 more
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Testing allometric scaling relationships in plant roots
Forest Ecosystems, 2020 Background Metabolic scaling theory predicts that plant productivity and biomass are both size-dependent. However, this theory has not yet been tested in plant roots.
Qiang Deng +4 more
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A New Model for Size-Dependent Tree Growth in Forests. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Tree growth, especially diameter growth of tree stems, is an important issue for understanding the productivity and dynamics of forest stands. Metabolic scaling theory predicted that the 2/3 power of stem diameter at a certain time is a linear function ...
Masae Iwamoto Ishihara +4 more
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Comparative metabolic ecology of tropical herbivorous echinoids on a coral reef. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The metabolic rate of consumers is a key driver of ecosystem dynamics. On coral reefs, herbivorous echinoids consume fleshy algae, facilitating the growth of reef-building calcified organisms; however, little is known about differences among species in ...
Levi S Lewis +2 more
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Metabolism drives distribution and abundance in extremophile fish. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Differences in population density between species of varying size are frequently attributed to metabolic rates which are assumed to scale with body size with a slope of 0.75.
Richard S A White +3 more
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