期刊
AMERICAN NATURALIST
卷 170, 期 3, 页码 479-484出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/519858
关键词
population density; diet; allometry; energy equivalence rule
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [NER/J/S/2000/00968, CEH010021] Funding Source: researchfish
The negative scaling of plant and animal abundance with body mass is one of the most fundamental relationships in ecology. However, theoretical approaches to explain this phenomenon make the unrealistic assumption that species share a homogeneous resource. Here we present a simple model linking mass and metabolism with density that includes the effects of consumer size on resource characteristics ( particle size, density, and distribution). We predict patterns consistent with the energy equivalence rule (EER) under some scenarios. However, deviations from EER occur as a result of variation in resource distribution and productivity (e.g., due to the clumping of prey or variation in food particle size selection). We also predict that abundance scaling exponents change with the dimensionality of the foraging habitat. Our model predictions explain several inconsistencies in the observed scaling of vertebrate abundance among ecological and taxonomic groups and provide a broad framework for understanding variation in abundance.
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