Ecology's Big, Hot Idea

Can the emerging field of metabolic ecology explain all life's patterns in one unifying theory, from the metabolic rate of a shark to why biodiversity peaks at the equator?

• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2004-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020440PMID 15597118PMCID 535575
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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