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energy equivalence — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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energy equivalence

Scope: community ecology

Papers: 2 | Mentions: 2

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 51 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on energy equivalence with 51 nodes and 152 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Ipomopsis aggregata, Lepidoptera, Erigeron.

Definition

Idea that all species utilize equal shares of the total available energy, implying individuals in more abundant species have lower metabolic rates than less abundant species

Publications (2)

Integrating macroecological metrics and community taxonomic structure

2015Ecology Letters

Testing the predictions of the Maximum Information Entropy Theory for abundance and energy distributions on the Gothic earthflow

Related Concepts (8)

Maximum Information Entropy theory

theory2 shared papers

species evenness

metric2 shared papers

average species energy distribution

measurement2 shared papers

community disturbance

process1 shared paper

forest succession

process1 shared paper

metabolic rate

measurement1 shared paper

species-area relationship

theory1 shared paper

taxonomic tree structure

framework1 shared paper

Frequently Associated Species

Ipomopsis aggregata

Polemoniaceae1 paper

Festuca thurberi

Erigeron speciosus

Asteraceae1 paper

Achillea millefolium

Asteraceae1 paper

Lathyrus lanszwertii

Fabaceae1 paper

Vicia americana

Fabaceae1 paper

Mertensia oblongifolia

Boraginaceae1 paper

Castilleja linariifolia

Orobanchaceae1 paper

Artemisia tridentata

Asteraceae1 paper

Taraxacum officinale

Asteraceae1 paper