Summary: Ecology, 88(8), 2007, pp. 1890­1894
Ó 2007 by the Ecological Society of America
LINKING GLOBAL PATTERNS IN BIODIVERSITY TO EVOLUTIONARY
DYNAMICS USING METABOLIC THEORY
JAMES F. GILLOOLY
1,3
AND ANDREW P. ALLEN
2
1
Department of Zoology, 223 Bartram Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA
2
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State St., Santa Barbara, California 93101 USA
INTRODUCTION
Starting in 2002, with a paper entitled ``Global
biodiversity, biochemical kinetics and the energetic-
equivalence rule,'' we have been developing a theoretical
framework to understand the mechanisms underlying
broadscale biodiversity gradients, particularly the latitu-
dinal gradient. This work is part of a broader Metabolic
Theory of Ecology (MTE) being developed to predict

Source: Allen, Andrew P. - National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California at Santa Barbara
Gillooly, Jamie - Department of Biology, University of Florida

Collections: Biology and Medicine; Environmental Sciences and Ecology