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ENERGY PARTITIONING BETWEEN DIFFERENT‐SIZED ORGANISMS AND ECOSYSTEM STABILITY
Author(s) -
Li Bai-Lian,
Gorshkov Victor G.,
Makarieva Anastassia M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.1890/03-0693
Subject(s) - st petersburg , library science , citation , physics , geography , computer science , archaeology , metropolitan area
The metabolic approach to ecology presented by Brown et al. (2004) stems from the seminal work of West et al. (1997). They hypothesized that material transport within living beings is organized such as to minimize the scaling of total hydrodynamic resistance through vascular networks. Based on this assumption, the organismal metabolic power P was theoretically predicted to scale with body mass M as P } M 3/4. By additionally assuming that organismal metabolic processes accelerate with temperature in the same manner as individual biochemical reactions, a temperature correction factor was added to this scaling: