Metabolic Ecology (eBook, ePUB)

A Scaling Approach
Redaktion: Sibly, Richard M.; Kodric-Brown, Astrid; Brown, James H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Metabolic Ecology 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. Therefore, 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 undergraduates 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. This is an authoritative treatment that will inspire future generations to study metabolic ecology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119968511
• Artikelnr.: 41355688

Autorenporträt

ABOUT THE EDITORS Richard M. Sibly is Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading where he teaches Behavioural Ecology and Population Biology. He researches metabolic ecology questions with members of Jim Brown's Lab at the University of New Mexico and also works to promote the use of Agent Based Models (ABMs) more widely in ecology. http: //www.reading.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/about/staff/r-m-sibly.aspx James H. Brown is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He led the development of the Metabolic Theory of Ecology on which this book is largely based. He has a long history of research in biogeography and macroecology, taking a large-scale statistical approach to questions about abundance, distribution, and diversity. http: //biology.unm.edu/jhbrown/index.shtml Astrid Kodric-Brown is Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Her research interests include the behavioral ecology of freshwater fishes, especially the evolution of mate recognition systems and their role in speciation in pupfishes (Cyprinodon); the allometry of sexually-selected traits; and community structure and conservation of desert fishes. http: //biology.unm.edu/biology/kodric

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
vii Preface
xiv Introduction: Metabolism as the basis for a theoretical unification of ecology
1 JAMES H. BROWN
RICHARD M. SIBLY
AND ASTRID KODRIC-BROWN PART I FOUNDATIONS
7 1 Methodological tools
9 ETHAN P. WHITE
XIAO XIAO
NICK J. B. ISAAC
AND RICHARD M. SIBLY 2 The metabolic theory of ecology and its central equation
21 JAMES H. BROWN AND RICHARD M. SIBLY 3 Stoichiometry
34 MICHAEL KASPARI 4 Modeling metazoan growth and ontogeny
48 ANDREW J. KERKHOFF 5 Life history
57 RICHARD M. SIBLY 6 Behavior
67 APRIL HAYWARD
JAMES F. GILLOOLY
AND ASTRID KODRIC-BROWN 7 Population and community ecology
77 NICK J.B. ISAAC
CHRIS CARBONE
AND BRIAN MCGILL 8 Predator-prey relations and food webs
86 OWEN L. PETCHEY AND JENNIFER A. DUNNE 9 Ecosystems
99 KRISTINA J. ANDERSON-TEIXEIRA AND PETER M. VITOUSEK 10 Rates of metabolism and evolution
112 JOHN L. GITTLEMAN AND PATRICK R. STEPHENS 11 Biodiversity and its energetic and thermal controls
120 DAVID STORCH PART II SELECTED ORGANISMS AND TOPICS
133 12 Microorganisms
135 JORDAN G. OKIE 13 Phytoplankton
154 ELENA LITCHMAN 14 Land plants: new theoretical directions and empirical prospects
164 BRIAN J. ENQUIST AND LISA PATRICK BENTLEY 15 Marine invertebrates
188 MARY I. O'CONNOR AND JOHN F. BRUNO 16 Insect metabolic rates
198 JAMES S. WATERS AND JON F. HARRISON 17 Terrestrial vertebrates
212 WILLIAM KARASOV 18 Seabirds and marine mammals
225 DANIEL P. COSTA AND SCOTT A. SHAFFER 19 Parasites
234 RYAN F. HECHINGER
KEVIN D. LAFFERTY
AND ARMAND M. KURIS 20 Human ecology
248 MARCUS J. HAMILTON
OSKAR BURGER
AND ROBERT S. WALKER PART III PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
259 21 Marine ecology and fisheries
261 SIMON JENNINGS
KEN H. ANDERSEN
AND JULIA L. BLANCHARD 22 Conservation biology
271 ALISON G. BOYER AND WALTER JETZ 23 Climate change
280 KRISTINA J. ANDERSON-TEIXEIRA
FELISA A. SMITH
AND S. K. MORGAN ERNEST 24 Beyond biology
293 MELANIE E. MOSES AND STEPHANIE FORREST 25 Synthesis and prospect
302 JAMES H. BROWN
RICHARD M. SIBLY
AND ASTRID KODRIC-BROWN Glossary
306 References
309 Index
361 COMPANION WEBSITE This book is accompanied by a companion website: www.wiley.com/go/sibly/metabolicecology With figures and tables from the book for downloading
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