TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY
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Brown, James H.; Gillooly, James F.; Allen, Andrew P.; Savage, Van M.; West, Geo
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Article
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2004
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Ecological Society of America
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English
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Metabolism provides a basis for using first principles of physics, chemistry, and biology to link the biology of individual organisms to the ecology of populations, communities, and ecosystems. Metabolic rate, the rate at which organisms take up, transform, and expend energy and materials, is the mo