Temporal patterns of energy equivalence in temperate soil invertebrates.

ABSTRACT: The question whether total population energy use is invariant to species body size (the energy equivalence hypothesis) is central to metabolic ecology and continues to be controversial. While recent comparative field work and meta-analyses pointed to systematic deviations of the underlying allometric scaling laws from predictions of metabolic theory none of these studies included the variability of metabolic scaling in ecological time. Here we used extensive data on the invertebrate soil fauna of Kampinos National Park (Poland) obtained from six consecutive quantitative sampling seasons to show that phylogenetically corrected species density-body weight and population energy use-body weight relationships across all soil fauna species and within trophic groups and body weight classes were h

SUBMITTER: Ulrich W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4553154 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature