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. 2021 Apr;36(4):280-283.
doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.01.003. Epub 2021 Feb 1.

A Metabolic Perspective of Stochastic Community Assembly

Victor S Saito  1 , Daniel M Perkins  2 , Pavel Kratina  3
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A Metabolic Perspective of Stochastic Community Assembly

Victor S Saito et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2021 Apr.

Abstract

Metabolism controls the pace of life, driving major ecological patterns. We propose that the scaling of metabolism with temperature influences neutral processes of community assembly by controlling population dynamics independently of species identities. This perspective provides new insights into the prevalence of niche and neutral processes through universal energetic constraints.

Keywords: food webs; macroecology; metabolic scaling; neutral processes; niche processes.

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