The mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology
The mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology
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DOI：
10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.16079.x
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发表时间：
2007-06-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Gillooly, James F.
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作者：
Allen, Andrew P.;Gillooly, James F.
我们欢迎有机会对奥康纳等人的报告作出回应。（2007年）。我们希望这次交流将有助于澄清生态代谢理论（MTE）的一些优点和缺点，并为未来的研究指出富有成效的领域。MTE是基于生态群落的结构和动态与个体新陈代谢密不可分的前提制定的。个体代谢率是生物体从环境中获取能量和物质资源，将其转化为可用形式，并将其分配给生存，生长和繁殖的健身过程的速率。因此，生物体与其环境（包括其他生物体）之间的相互作用受到代谢率的限制。生理学家早就知道，有三个主要因素控制代谢率：身体大小，体温和资源可用性。MTE通过提供一个定量框架来更好地理解这三个变量如何结合联合收割机来影响代谢率，以及代谢率如何反过来影响种群、群落和生态系统的生态学和进化，从而建立在这一早期工作的基础上（Brown et al. 2004）。（2001）开发了一种结合体型和温度影响的代谢率缩放模型（West等人，1997; Gillooly等人，2002; Charnov和Gillooly 2003; Brown等人，2004）。该模型导致一个单一的方程，
We welcome the opportunity to respond to O'Connor et al.(2007). We hope that this exchange will help to clarify some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Metabolic theory of ecology (MTE), and will point towards fruitful areas for future research. The MTE has been formulated based on the premise that the structure and dynamics of ecological communities are inextricably linked to individual metabolism. The individual metabolic rate is the rate at which an organism takes up energetic and material resources from the environment, transforms them into useable forms, and allocates them to the fitness-enhancing processes of survival, growth, and reproduction. Interactions between organisms and their environment (including other organisms) are therefore constrained by metabolic rate. Physiologists have long known that there are three primary factors that control metabolic rate: body size, body temperature, and resource availability. MTE builds on this earlier work by providing a quantitative framework to better understand how these three variables combine to affect metabolic rate, and how metabolic rate, in turn, influences the ecology and evolution of populations, communities, and ecosystems (Brown et al. 2004).Gillooly et al.(2001) developed a model for the scaling of metabolic rate that combines the effects of body size and temperature (West et al. 1997, Gillooly et al. 2002, Charnov and Gillooly 2003, Brown et al. 2004). The model leads to a single equation for