Metabolic ecology : a scaling approach /

• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sibly, R. M., Brown, James H., 1942 September 25-, Kodric-Brown, Astrid
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Subjects: Metabolism.; Ecology.; Biotic communities.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biochemistry.; Electronic books.

"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 the...