ArticleNature communications2019
Energetic equivalence underpins the size structure of tree and phytoplankton communities.
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- Invasive Fishes Interact With Temperature to Reshape Community Size Structure Across Climatic Zones.Global change biology · 2026Article
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- Biodiversity modulates the cross-community scaling relationship in changing environments.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Environmental stresses on diatom and dinoflagellate morphology and community structure in the western Pacific Ocean.iScience · 2025Article
- The impact of land use change on mycorrhizal fungi and their associations with rodents: insights from a temperate forest in Mexico.Mycorrhiza · 2025Article
- Long-term experimental evolution decouples size and production costs inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Metabolism drives demography in an experimental field test.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- How to estimate community energy flux? A comparison of approaches reveals that size-abundance trade-offs alter the scaling of community energy flux.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
The size structure of autotroph communities - the relative abundance of small vs. large individuals - shapes the functioning of ecosystems. Whether common mechanisms underpin the size structure of unicellular and multicellular autotrophs is, however, unknown. Using a global data compilation, we show that individual body masses in tree and phytoplankton communities follow power-law distributions and that the average exponents of these individual size distributions (ISD) differ. Phytoplankton communities are characterized by an average ISD exponent consistent with three-quarter-power scaling of metabolism with body mass and equivalence in energy use among mass classes. Tree communities deviate from this pattern in a manner consistent with equivalence in energy use among diameter size classes. Our findings suggest that whilst universal metabolic constraints ultimately underlie the emergent size structure of autotroph communities, divergent aspects of body size (volumetric vs. linear dimensions) shape the ecological outcome of metabolic scaling in forest vs. pelagic ecosystems.
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