Abstract

Brown et al. (2004) propose that first principles of chemistry, physics, and biology can be used to link the function of individual organisms to ecological processes. By arguing that metabolic rate controls ecological processes at all levels of organization, from the individual to the biosphere, they propose that a metabolic theory of ecology can be a powerful unifying principle. Because the scope of their vision is so broad, and because the models on which these ideas are based

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