Plant energetics and population density

摘要: Enquist et al. reply — Energy equivalence, as originally defined1, was an empirical relationship observed in animals: species differing body mass, M, by many orders of magnitude tend to have almost equal rates energy use per unit area the population, because inverse allometric scaling between individual, or its metabolic rate, B, and maximal population density, Nmax. Because B ∝M3/4 Nmax∝M−3/4, is proportional BNmax∝M3/4M−3/4∝M.