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Testing the metabolic theory of ecology

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Price, Charles A., Weitz, Joshua S., Savage, Van M., Stegen, James, Clarke, Andrew, Coomes, David A., Dodds, Peter S., Etienne, Rampal S., Kerkhoff, Andrew J., McCulloh, Katherine, Niklas, Karl J., Olff, Han, and Swenson, Nathan G.

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The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) predicts the effects of body size and temperature on metabolism through considerations of vascular distribution networks and biochemical kinetics. MTE has also been extended to characterise processes from cellular to global levels. MTE has generated both enthusiasm and controversy across a broad range of...

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1984; Schmidt-Nielsen 1984). Work on the relationship between size, metabolism and a suite of