Metabolic ecology: a scaling approach

Most of ecology is about metabolism: the ways that organisms use energy and materials. The energy requirements of individuals - their metabolic rates - vary predictably with their body size and temperature. Ecological interactions are exchanges of energy and materials between organisms and their environments. So metabolic rate affects ecological processes at all levels: individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. Each chapter focuses on a different process, level of organization, or kind of organism. It lays a conceptual foundation and presents empirical examples. Together, the chapters provide an integrated framework that holds the promise for a unified theory of ecology.The book is intended to be accessible to upper-level undergraduate, and graduate students, but also of interest to senior scientists. Its easy-to-read chapters and clear illustrations can be used in lecture and seminar courses. Together they make for an authoritative treatment that will inspire future generations to study metabolic ecology. INDICE: Notes on contributors, viiPreface, xivIntroduction: Metabolism as the basis for a theoretical unification of ecology, 1JAMES H. BROWN, RICHARD M. SIBLY, AND ASTRID KODRIC-BROWNPART I FOUNDATIONS, 71 Methodological tools, 9ETHAN P. WHITE, XIAO XIAO, NICK J. B. ISAAC, AND RICHARD M. SIBLY2 The metabolic theory of ecology and its central equation, 21JAMES H. BROWN AND RICHARD M.SIBLY3 Stoichiometry, 34MICHAEL KASPARI4 Modeling metazoan growth and ontogeny, 48ANDREW J. KERKHOFF5 Life history, 57RICHARD M. SIBLY6 Behavior, 67APRIL HAYWARD, JAMES F. GILLOOLY, AND ASTRID KODRIC-BROWN7 Population and community ecology, 77NICK J.B. ISAAC, CHRIS CARBONE, AND BRIAN MCGILL8 Predator-prey relations and food webs, 86OWEN L. PETCHEY AND JENNIFER A. DUNNE9 Ecosystems, 99KRISTINA J. ANDERSON-TEIXEIRA AND PETER M. VITOUSEK10 Rates of metabolism and evolution, 112JOHN L. GITTLEMAN AND PATRICK R. STEPHENS11 Biodiversity and its energetic and thermal controls, 120DAVID STORCHPART II SELECTED ORGANISMS AND TOPICS, 13312 Microorganisms, 135JORDAN G. OKIE13 Phytoplankton, 154ELENA LITCHMAN14 Land plants: new theoretical directions and empirical prospects, 164BRIAN J. ENQUIST AND LISA PATRICK BENTLEY15 Marine invertebrates, 188MARY I. O’CONNOR AND JOHN F. BRUNO16 Insect metabolic rates, 198JAMES S. WATERS AND JON F. HARRISON17 Terrestrial vertebrates, 212WILLIAM KARASOV18 Seabirds and marine mammals, 225DANIEL P. COSTA AND SCOTT A. SHAFFER19 Parasites, 234RYAN F. HECHINGER, KEVIN D. LAFFERTY, AND ARMAND M. KURIS20 Human ecology, 248MARCUS J. HAMILTON, OSKAR BURGER, AND ROBERT S. WALKERPART III PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS, 25921Marine ecology and fisheries, 261SIMON JENNINGS, KEN H. ANDERSEN, AND JULIA L. BLANCHARD22 Conservation biology, 271ALISON G. BOYER AND WALTER JETZ23 Climate change, 280KRISTINA J. ANDERSON-TEIXEIRA, FELISA A. SMITH, AND S. K. MORGANERNEST24 Beyond biology, 293MELANIE E. MOSES AND STEPHANIE FORREST25 Synthesis and prospect, 302JAMES H. BROWN, RICHARD M. SIBLY, AND ASTRID KODRIC-BROWNGlossary, 306References, 309Index, 361COMPANION WEBSITEThis book is accompanied by a companion website: www.wiley.com/go/sibly/metabolicecologyWith figures and tables from the book for downloading, together with updates and additional resources

• ISBN: 978-0-470-67153-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
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• Fecha Publicación: 10/04/2012
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