Detection of energetic equivalence depends on food web architecture and estimators of energy use - Nature Communications The universality of the energetic equivalence rule has long been debated. Here, the authors show that across 183 soil invertebrate food webs, size–density and energy use varied with trophic level, ene...

Detection of energetic equivalence depends on food web architecture & estimators of energy use ... the "need to integrate food web energetics & trophic structure to better understand body size structure of ecosystems" #allometry #metabolicscalingtheory www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌐

The conceptual framework of testing ecological theories and explaining the predictive errors for the warming responses of plant biomass.

Junjiong Shao et al. rigorously investigated how this #Allometry can predict the biomass responses to #GlobalWarming.

#FunctionalEquilibriumTheory | #LeafArea | #MetabolicScalingTheory | #PlantBiomass

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Integrating #MetabolicScalingTheory into species distribution models...MetaRange.jl: A Dynamic and Metabolic Species Range Model for Plant Species onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Conserved scaling among crop & wild species (such as the ~ 3/4 optimal scaling of growth & metabolism, predicted by #MetabolicScalingTheory ) indicate that trait–size relationships represent an optimum in the fitness landscape, constraining evolution of phenotypes along the allometric function