Body Size and Energy Use in Termites (Isoptera): The Responses of Soil Feeders and Wood Feeders Differ in a Tropical Forest Assemblage

Oikos ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Eggleton ◽  
Richard G. Davies ◽  
David E. Bignell
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Energy Use

scholarly journals Selective logging reduces body size in omnivorous and frugivorous tropical forest birds

2021 ◽  
Vol 256 ◽  
pp. 109036
Author(s):  
Simone Messina ◽  
David Costantini ◽  
Suzanne Tomassi ◽  
Cindy C.P. Cosset ◽  
Suzan Benedick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Selective Logging ◽  
Forest Birds

Body size, energy use and ecological dominance

Nature ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 328 (6126) ◽  
pp. 117-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID GRIFFITHS
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Ecological Dominance

scholarly journals Metabolic dominance of bivalves predates brachiopod diversity decline by more than 150 million years

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1783) ◽  
pp. 20133122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Payne ◽  
Noel A. Heim ◽  
Matthew L. Knope ◽  
Craig R. McClain
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Metabolic Activity ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Taxonomic Diversity ◽  
Metabolic Rates ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
Numerical Abundance ◽  
Ecological Importance ◽  
Ecological Dominance ◽  
Size Data

Brachiopods and bivalves feed in similar ways and have occupied the same environments through geological time, but brachiopods were far more diverse and abundant in the Palaeozoic whereas bivalves dominate the post-Palaeozoic, suggesting a transition in ecological dominance 250 Ma. However, diversity and abundance data alone may not adequately describe key changes in ecosystem function, such as metabolic activity. Here, we use newly compiled body size data for 6066 genera of bivalves and brachiopods to calculate metabolic rates and revisit this question from the perspective of energy use, finding that bivalves already accounted for a larger share of metabolic activity in Palaeozoic oceans. We also find that the metabolic activity of bivalves has increased by more than two orders of magnitude over this interval, whereas brachiopod metabolic activity has declined by more than 50%. Consequently, the increase in bivalve energy metabolism must have occurred via the acquisition of new food resources rather than through the displacement of brachiopods. The canonical view of a mid-Phanerozoic transition from brachiopod to bivalve dominance results from a focus on taxonomic diversity and numerical abundance as measures of ecological importance. From a metabolic perspective, the oceans have always belonged to the clams.

COUPLING ENERGY USE, BODY SIZE, AND DIVERSITY DURING THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTION EVENT

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Felipe Opazo ◽  
◽  
Michal Kowalewski ◽  
Roger W. Portell ◽  
Jennifer L. Sliko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Coupling Energy ◽  
Extinction Event

scholarly journals Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Zinger ◽  
Pierre Taberlet ◽  
Heidy Schimann ◽  
Aurélie Bonin ◽  
Frédéric Boyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Community Assembly ◽  
Soil Community

Body Size and Density: The Limits to Biomass and Energy Use

Oikos ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim M. Blackburn ◽  
Kevin J. Gaston
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Energy Use

scholarly journals BODY SIZE, ENERGY USE, AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF SMALL MAMMALS

Ecology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 1407-1413 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Morgan Ernest
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Small Mammals ◽  
Energy Use

Body size, energy use and ecological dominance

Nature ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 328 (6126) ◽  
pp. 118-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES H. BROWN ◽  
BRIAN A. MAURER
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Ecological Dominance

Population energy use scales positively with body size in natural aquatic microcosms

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 553-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Hayward ◽  
Maaheen Khalid ◽  
Jurek Kolasa
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Aquatic Microcosms

scholarly journals Soil community assembly varies across body sizes in a tropical forest

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Zinger ◽  
Pierre Taberlet ◽  
Heidy Schimann ◽  
Aurélie Bonin ◽  
Frédéric Boyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Community Assembly ◽  
Biotic Interactions ◽  
Trophic Levels ◽  
Forest Plot ◽  
Species Identity ◽  
Soil Mesofauna ◽  
Soil Community ◽  
Body Sizes

ABSTRACTThe relative influence of deterministic niche-based (i.e. abiotic conditions, biotic interactions) and stochastic-distance dependent neutral processes (i.e. demography, dispersal) in shaping communities has been extensively studied for various organisms, but is far less explored jointly across the tree of life, in particular in soil environments. Here, using a thorough DNA-based census of the whole soil biota in a large tropical forest plot, we show that soil aluminium, topography, and plant species identity are all important drivers of soil richness and community composition. Body size emerges as an important feature of the comparative ecology of the different taxa at the studied spatial scale, with microorganisms being more importantly controlled by environmental factors, while soil mesofauna rather display random spatial distribution. We infer that niche-based processes contribute differently to community assembly across trophic levels due to spatial scaling. Body size could hence help better quantifying important properties of multitrophic assemblages.

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