Andrew P. Allen

TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY

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,...

Global Biodiversity, Biochemical Kinetics, and the Energetic-Equivalence Rule

The latitudinal gradient of increasing biodiversity from poles to equator is one of the most prominent but least understood features of life on Earth. Here we show that species ...

Scaling metabolism from organisms to ecosystems

Allometric scaling of maximum population density: a common rule for marine phytoplankton and terrestrial plants

A primary goal of macroecology is to identify principles that apply across varied ecosystems and taxonomic groups. Here we show that the allometric relationship observed between...