Contribution to Book
Seabirds and Marine Mammals
Metabolic Ecology: A scaling approach
(2012)
Abstract
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.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2012
Editor
Richard M. Sibly, James H. Brown, and Astrid Kodric-Brown
Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Series
233
ISBN
978-0-470-67153-5
Citation Information
Daniel P. Costa and Scott A Shaffer. "Seabirds and Marine Mammals" West Sussex, UK.Metabolic Ecology: A scaling approach Vol. 225 (2012) p. 225 - 233 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/scott_shaffer/3/