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A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals

scientific article

A general model for effects of temperature on ectotherm ontogenetic growth and development.

scientific article

A general model for the structure and allometry of plant vascular systems

scientific article published in Nature

A general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics

scientific article published on 10 April 2009

A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria

scientific article

Abundance and distribution of desert annuals: are spatial and temporal patterns related?

scientific article published in 2000

Allometric scaling of metabolic rate from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals

scientific article

Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants

scientific article published in Nature

An Essay on Some Topics Concerning Invasive Species

article

Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

scientific article

Assembly Rules: Desert Rodent Communities Are Structured at Scales from Local to Continental

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Assembly rules and competition in desert rodents

scientific article

Avian Community Dynamics Are Discordant in Space and Time

article

Avian Community Dynamics Are Discordant in Space and Time

BERGMANN'S RULE AND CLIMATIC ADAPTATION IN WOODRATS (NEOTOMA).

scientific article

BODY MASS OF LATE QUATERNARY MAMMALS

article

Bergmann's Rule and Climatic Adaptation in Woodrats (Neotoma)

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2018

Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America.

scientific article

Biological scaling: does the exception prove the rule?

scientific article published in February 2007

Biology of the Heteromyidae ⬇️

[Provo, Utah]: American Society of Mammalogists, 1993.

Body size, ecological dominance and Cope's rule

scientific article published in Nature

CHARACTER CONVERGENCE IN MEXICAN FINCHES.

scientific article published in June 1970

CONSTRAINTS OF SEED SIZE ON PLANT DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE

article

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Changes in a tropical forest support metabolic zero-sum dynamics

scientific article

Chihuahuan Desert kangaroo rats: nonlinear effects of population dynamics, competition, and rainfall

scientific article

Climate change and the integrity of science

scientific article

Community organization in hummingbirds: relationships between morphology and ecology

scientific article published in 1985

Competition between Hummingbirds and Insects for the Nectar of Two Species of Shrubs

Competition theory and the structure of ecological communities

article

Concluding remarks: historical perspective and the future of island biogeography theory

scholarly article by James H. Brown & Mark V. Lomolino published January 2000 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Connections between ecology, biogeography, and paleobiology: Relationship between local abundance and geographic distribution in fossil and recent molluscs

scholarly article by Brian J. Enquist et al published November 1995 in Evolutionary Ecology

Constraints on Negative Relationships

Constraints on dispersal and the evolution of the avifauna of the Northern Hemisphere

Convergence, Competition, and Mimicry in a Temperate Community of Hummingbird-Pollinated Flowers

article

Correction: Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants

scientific article published in Nature

Correspondence: Reply to 'Analytical flaws in a continental-scale forest soil microbial diversity study'

scientific article

Darwinian Fitness and Reproductive Power: Reply to Kozlowski

scientific article published in 1996

Drivers and hotspots of extinction risk in marine mammals

scientific article

ECT: balancing risks and benefits

scientific article published in May 1980

EVOLUTION IN CONSTANT AND FLUCTUATING ENVIRONMENTS: THERMAL TOLERANCES OF DESERT PUPFISH (CYPRINODON).

scientific article published in June 1971

Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions

scientific article

Ecological food webs: high-quality data facilitate theoretical unification

scientific article

Ecological roles and conservation challenges of social, burrowing, herbivorous mammals in the world's grasslands

scientific article published in 2012

Ecology: oceans under the macroscope

scientific article published in September 2002

Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2013)

Effects of body size and lifestyle on evolution of mammal life histories

scientific article (publication date: 6 November 2007)

Effects of body size and temperature on population growth

scientific article

Effects of kangaroo rat exclusion on vegetation structure and plant species diversity in the Chihuahuan Desert

scientific article published on October 1993

Effects of size and temperature on developmental time

scientific article published in May 2002

Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds

scientific article

Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny

scientific article

Equal fitness paradigm explained by a trade-off between generation time and energy production rate

scientific article published on 08 January 2018

Extensions and evaluations of a general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics

scientific article (publication date: 28 April 2009)

Fundamental insights into ontogenetic growth from theory and fish

scientific article

Geographical ecology of South American desert small mammals: consequences of observations at local and regional scales

scientific article published in 2000

Global Patterns of Mammalian Diversity, Endemism, and Endangerment

Global biodiversity, biochemical kinetics, and the energetic-equivalence rule

scientific article

Global sustainability versus the Malthusian–Darwinian dynamic: a reply to Rull ⬇️

scientific article published on June 18, 2013

H. Ronald Pulliam, President,1991-1992 ⬇️

biographical journal article announcing president of the Ecological Society of America

Homeostasis and Compensation: The Role of Species and Resources in Ecosystem Stability

article

How body mass and lifestyle affect juvenile biomass production in placental mammals

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 2014)

How reliable is the biological time clock?

scientific article published in Nature

Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind

scientific article

Human macroecology: linking pattern and process in big-picture human ecology.

scientific article

INTRA-GUILD COMPENSATION REGULATES SPECIES RICHNESS IN DESERT RODENTS

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INTRA-GUILD COMPENSATION REGULATES SPECIES RICHNESS IN DESERT RODENTS: REPLY

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Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly

scientific article (publication date: 4 March 2008)

Incomplete Data Sets in Community Ecology and Biogeography: A Cautionary Tale

scientific article

Individualistic responses of bird species to environmental change.

scientific article

Influence of Economics, Interspecific Competition, and Sexual Dimorphism on Territoriality of Migrant Rufous Hummingbirds

article

Insights into plant size-density relationships from models and agricultural crops ⬇️

scientific article published on May 14, 2012

Interactions between winter and summer annuals in the Chihuahuan Desert

scientific article published on June 1997

Interspecific pairwise relationships among body size, clutch size and latitude: deconstructing a macroecological triangle in birds

Introducing the Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity’s Life Support Systems in the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers

Invasion of North American drainages by alien fish species

article

Kinetic effects of temperature on rates of genetic divergence and speciation

scientific article

Large-scale patterns of tree species richness and the metabolic theory of ecology

scientific article published in 2011

Life-history evolution under a production constraint

scientific article (publication date: 21 November 2006)

Life’s Universal Scaling Laws

scientific article published in September 2004

Long-term insights into the influence of precipitation on community dynamics in desert rodents

article

Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA

scientific article published in 2009

Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona (1977-2013).

scientific article published on April 2016

Macroecology Meets Macroeconomics: Resource Scarcity and Global Sustainability

scientific article

Macroecology: more than the division of food and space among species on continents

article

Mammal reproductive strategies driven by offspring mortality-size relationships

scientific article

Mechanisms of Competitive Exclusion Between Two Species of Chipmunks

scholarly article

Metabolic asymmetry and the global diversity of marine predators

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Metabolic heat production and thermal conductance are mass-independent adaptations to thermal environment in birds and mammals

scientific article

Metabolic theory predicts whole-ecosystem properties

scientific article

Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map

scientific article (publication date: February 2006)

Modelling universality and scaling

scientific article published in Nature

Models and tests of optimal density and maximal yield for crop plants ⬇️

scientific article published on August 13, 2012

Multiple ecological pathways to extinction in mammals

scientific article

Native fishes, exotic mammals, and the conservation of desert springs

scientific article

Niches, body sizes, and the disassembly of mammal communities on the Sunda Shelf islands

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2009)

Nonlinear scaling of space use in human hunter-gatherers

scholarly article

On Theory in Ecology

article

On the Importance of First Principles in Ecological Theory Development

article

Path Analysis: A Critical Evaluation Using Long-Term Experimental Data

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Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2014)

Philosophy of medicine

Physiology: Why does metabolic rate scale with body size?

scientific article published in February 2003

Plant energetics and population density

Population stability, cooperation, and the invasibility of the human species

scientific article (publication date: 28 July 2009)

RAPID RESPONSE OF A GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEM TO AN EXPERIMENTAL MANIPULATION OF A KEYSTONE RODENT AND DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK

scientific article published in 2010

RESPONSE TO FORUM COMMENTARY ON “TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY”

article

Rapid response of a grassland ecosystem to an experimental manipulation of a keystone rodent and domestic livestock

scientific article published in November 2010

Redundant or complementary? Impact of a colonizing species on community structure and function

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Regionally Nested Patterns of Species Composition in Granivorous Rodent Assemblages

Regulation of diversity: maintenance of species richness in changing environments

scientific article

Rensch's rule in large herbivorous mammals derived from metabolic scaling

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Revisiting a model of ontogenetic growth: estimating model parameters from theory and data

scientific article

Rodents, plants, and precipitation: spatial and temporal dynamics of consumers and resources

article

Scaling of number, size, and metabolic rate of cells with body size in mammals

scientific article

Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life

scientific article

Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time

scientific article published on 19 April 2004

Spatial Scaling of Species Composition: Body Masses of North American Land Mammals

article

THE MICRO AND MACRO IN BODY SIZE EVOLUTION.

scientific article published in August 1992

Temperature dependence, spatial scale, and tree species diversity in eastern Asia and North America

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils.

scientific article

Temperature-dependence of biomass accumulation rates during secondary succession

scientific article

Temporal fluctuations and experimental effects in desert plant communities

scientific article

The Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic and the trajectory of civilization

scientific article published on 2 January 2013

The Portal Project: a long-term study of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem

The Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Management

article

The Scaling of Animal Space Use

scientific article

The allometry of ornaments and weapons

scientific article

The complex structure of hunter-gatherer social networks

scientific article published in September 2007

The ecology of lizard reproductive output

scientific article published in 2011

The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals

scientific article

The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective

scientific article published on 07 September 2010

The fractal nature of nature: power laws, ecological complexity and biodiversity

scientific article

The island rule and a research agenda for studying ecogeographical patterns

The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts

scientific article

The macroecology of sustainability

scientific article

The maximum rate of mammal evolution

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2012)

The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content

scientific article

The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization

scientific article

The paradox of invasion

article by Dov F. Sax & James H. Brown published September 2000 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

The rate of DNA evolution: effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock

scientific article

The shark-tuna dichotomy: why tuna lay tiny eggs but sharks produce large offspring

scientific article published on 15 August 2018

The wealth of species: ecological communities, complex systems and the legacy of Frank Preston

scientific article

Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use

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Timescale of Perennial Grass Recovery in Desertified Arid Grasslands Following Livestock Removal

Toward a metabolic theory of ecology

scientific article published in 2004

Toward a metabolic theory of life history

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Treatment of premenstrual syndrome

Truth in Advertising: The Kinds of Traits Favored by Sexual Selection

article

Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

scientific article (publication date: 6 January 2009)

Universal scaling of production rates across mammalian lineages

scientific article published on 26 August 2010

Was a ‘hyperdisease’ responsible for the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction?

scientific article published in 2004

Zero sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly.

scientific article published on December 2008

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