Metabolic Ecology

A Scaling Approach
2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-470-67152-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 845 g

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.

The book is intended to be accessible to upper-level undergraduate, 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. Together they make for an authoritative treatment that will inspire future generations to study metabolic ecology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sibly, Richard M

Brown, James H

Kodric-Brown, Astrid

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction: Metabolism as the basis for a theoretical unification of ecology

James H. Brown, Richard M. Sibly, and Astrid Kodric-Brown

Part I: Foundations

1. Methodological tools

Ethan P. White, Xiao Xiao, Nick J. B. Isaac, and Richard M. Sibly

2. The metabolic theory of ecology and its central equation

James H. Brown and Richard M. Sibly

3. Stoichiometry

Michael Kaspari

4. Modeling metazoan growth and ontogeny

Andrew J. Kerkhoff

5. Life history

Richard M. Sibly

6. Behavior

April Hayward, James F. Gillooly, and Astrid Kodric-Brown

7. Population and community ecology

Nick J.B. Isaac, Chris Carbone, and Brian McGill

8. Predator-prey relations and food webs

Owen L. Petchey and Jennifer A. Dunne

9. Ecosystems

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira and Peter M. Vitousek

10. Rates of metabolism and evolution

John L. Gittleman and Patrick R. Stephens

11. Biodiversity and its energetic and thermal

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David Storch

Part II: Selected Organisms and Topics

12. Microorganisms

Jordan G. Okie

13. Phytoplankton

Elena Litchman

14. Land plants: new theoretical directions and empirical prospects

Brian J. Enquist and Lisa Patrick Bentley

15. Marine invertebrates

Mary I. O'Connor and John F. Bruno

16. Insect metabolic rates

James S. Waters and Jon F. Harrison

17. Terrestrial vertebrates

William Karasov

18. Seabirds and marine mammals

Daniel P. Costa and Scott A. Shaffer

19. Parasites

Ryan F. Hechinger, Kevin D. Lafferty, and Armand M. Kuris

20. Human ecology

Marcus J. Hamilton, Oskar Burger, and Robert S. Walker

Part III: Practical Applications

21. Marine ecology and fisheries

Simon Jennings, Ken H. Andersen, and Julia L. Blanchard

22. Conservation biology

Alison G. Boyer and Walter Jetz

23. Climate change

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Felisa A. Smith, and S. K. Morgan Ernest

24. Beyond biology

Melanie E. Moses and Stephanie Forrest

25. Synthesis and prospect

James H. Brown, Richard M. Sibly, and Astrid Kodric-Brown

Glossary

References

Index

Updates and additional resources for this book are available from:

http://www.wiley.com/go/sibly/metabolicecology

Über Autor(innen)

Kodric-Brown, Astrid
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.

Brown, James H
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.

Sibly, Richard M
Richard 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.

Richard 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.

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.

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.