期刊
ECOSPHERE
卷 3, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1890/ES11-00249.1
关键词
body size; Holling's functional response; individual-based resource perception; Kleiber's law; metabolictheory; resource availability
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资金
- PRIN grant
- WISER grant [WISER (Water bodies in Europe: Integrative 530 Systems to assess Ecological status and Recovery)
- European Union [226273]
Individual resource ingestion rates depend on both individual body size and resource supply. A component of the latter, namely resource availability, is also body-size dependent. This raises the question of the adequacy of simple scaling laws to describe the body-size dependency of resource ingestion. Here we propose a model which integrates resource ingestion drivers by merging a scaling law for feeding metabolism and Holling's functional responses into a single mathematical framework. At any fixed level of resource supply, the model predicts a log-log concave-down relationship between resource ingestion rates and body size, rather than a simple scaling law. Deviations from the latter are accounted for by the body size dependency of resource limitations. Experimental and literature data describing patterns of perceived resource availability and individual intake rates under limiting conditions with increasing individual body size are used to validate the model's assumptions and predictions. The model incorporates and extends well-established theoretical approaches and is intended as a step towards the integration of metabolic theory with behavioral ecology and population dynamics.
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