Unifying Current Theories of Ecology

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The proposed collaborative working group will bring together a body of researchersto integrate three areas of ecology that have advanced rapidly over the past decade:metabolic theory, neutral biodiversity theory, and spatial macroecology. The goal of thisworking group will be to delineate the separate and overlapping realms of each area and toassess the prospects of synthesizing them into a unified theory that integrates ecological andevolutionary patterns and processes at multiple scales and throughout the biologicalhierarchy. Such a unified theory of ecology would lay the foundation for understanding andpredicting the response of real-world systems to global change.