Journal
AMERICAN NATURALIST
Volume 174, Issue 5, Pages 595-612Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/605982
Keywords
biogeography; evolution; geographic range; macroecology; patterns; physiology
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- Marine Institute University of Plymouth
- Company of Biologists
- Society for Experimental Biology, Royal Entomological Society
- British Ecological Society
- Fisheries Society of the British Isles
- Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award
- National Research Foundation
- Research Council, United Kingdom
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education [N304 3902 33]
- Ramon y Cajal
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- National Science Foundation [ESS 0533920]
- NERC [bas0100025] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [bas0100025] Funding Source: researchfish
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Widespread recognition of the importance of biological studies at large spatial and temporal scales, particularly in the face of many of the most pressing issues facing humanity, has fueled the argument that there is a need to reinvigorate such studies in physiological ecology through the establishment of a macrophysiology. Following a period when the fields of ecology and physiological ecology had been regarded as largely synonymous, studies of this kind were relatively commonplace in the first half of the twentieth century. However, such large-scale work subsequently became rather scarce as physiological studies concentrated on the biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying the capacities and tolerances of species. In some sense, macrophysiology is thus an attempt at a conceptual reunification. In this article, we provide a conceptual framework for the continued development of macrophysiology. We subdivide this framework into three major components: the establishment of macrophysiological patterns, determining the form of those patterns (the very general ways in which they are shaped), and understanding the mechanisms that give rise to them. We suggest ways in which each of these components could be developed usefully.
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