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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Perna, A | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Adrian, R | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Cermeño, P | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Gaedke, U | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Huete-Ortega, M | - |
| dc.contributor.author | White, EP | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Yvon-Durocher, G | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-26T18:49:20Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-26T18:49:20Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-01-16 | - |
| dc.identifier | ORCiD: Daniel M. Perkins https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0866-4816 | - |
| dc.identifier | ORCiD: Pedro Cermeño https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3902-3475 | - |
| dc.identifier | ORCiD: Gabriel Yvon-Durocher https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1749-3417 | - |
| dc.identifier | 255 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Perkins, D.M. et al. (2019) 'Energetic equivalence underpins the size structure of tree and phytoplankton communities', Nature Communications, 10 (1), 255, pp. 1 - 8. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-08039-3. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/30580 | - |
| dc.description | Data availability: The summary data used to generate Table 1 and Fig. 2 are available in Supplementary Data 1. The analysis R code, as well as a subset of the analyzed data, is archived in a Figshare public repository (https://figshare.com/s/013fba909417e89fe7e1). The data included in the deposit are specifically intended for the replication of the analysis procedure. Researchers interested in using the data for purposes other than replicating our analyses are advised to obtain the raw data from the original sources cited here, as other useful information from the original data might not be included. A reporting summary for this article is available as a Supplementary Information file. | en_US |
| dc.description | Supplementary information is available online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08039-3#Sec11 . | - |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This article was made possible by support from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through the Tansley Working Group ‘PerPoce Planet Earth, Planet Ocean’ G.Y-D was supported by an European Reasearch Council starting grant (ERC StG 677278 TEMPDEP). We thank the numerous people, organizations, and funding bodies who contributed to the collection of data. R.P. Harris provided the AMT and English Channel data. AMT data collection was supported by the UK Natural Environmental Research Council through the Atlantic Meridional Transect consortium (NER/O/S/2001/00680). Data from the Ría de A Coruña and the Atlantic Ocean stations from the TRYNITROP project were obtained thanks to the funding provided by Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) through the grants CTM2004-05174-C02 and CTM2008-03699, as well as the by the Instituto Español de Oceanografía through their program RADIALES. Data collection from the Ría de Vigo was supported by projects UE MAST-CT90-0017 and DYBAGA MAR99-1039-C02-01 awarded to F.G. Figueiras. The Müggelsee data are part of the Long-Term Research program of the IGB. R.A. acknowledges support via the the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB) through its synthesis center, CESAB (http://www.cesab.org/), and the John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis (https://powellcenter.usgs.gov/). Nathan G. Swenson provided data for wood density in Luquillo forest plot. The Serimbu (provided by T. Kohyama), Lahei (provided by T.B. Nishimura), and Shirakami (provided by T. Nakashizuka) datasets were obtained from the PlotNet Forest Database. The ACA Amazon (provided by N. Pitman) and DeWalt Bolivia (provided by S. DeWalt) datasets were obtained from SALVIAS. The BCI forest dynamics research project was made possible by National Science Foundation grants to Stephen P.Hubbell: DEB-0640386, DEB-0425651, DEB-0346488, DEB-0129874, DEB-00753102, DEB-9909347, DEB-9615226, DEB-9615226, DEB-9405933, DEB-9221033, DEB-9100058, DEB-8906869, DEB-8605042, DEB-8206992, DEB-7922197, support from the Center for Tropical Forest Science, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Small World Institute Fund, and numerous private individuals, and through the hard work of over 100 people from ten countries over the past two decades. The UCSC Forest Ecology Research Plot was made possible by National Science Foundation grants to Gregory S. Gilbert (DEB-0515520 and DEB-084259), by the Pepper-Giberson Chair Fund, the University of California, and the hard work of dozens of UCSC students. These two projects are part the Center for Tropical Forest Science, a global network of large-scale demographic tree plots. The Luquillo Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Program was supported by grants BSR-8811902, DEB 9411973, DEB 0080538, DEB 0218039, DEB 0620910 and DEB 0963447 from NSF to the Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, University of Puerto Rico, and to the International Institute of Tropical Forestry USDA Forest Service, as part of the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program. The U.S. Forest Service (Dept. of Agriculture) and the University of Puerto Rico gave additional support. E.P. White acknowledges support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Data-Driven Discovery Initiative through Grant GBMF4563 and by the National Science Foundation through grant 0953694. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 1 - 8 | - |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic | - |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | - |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | - |
| dc.subject | ecology | en_US |
| dc.subject | macroecology | en_US |
| dc.title | Energetic equivalence underpins the size structure of tree and phytoplankton communities | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08039-3 | - |
| dc.relation.isPartOf | Nature Communications | - |
| pubs.issue | 1 | - |
| pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
| pubs.volume | 10 | - |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2041-1723 | - |
| dc.rights.license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en | - |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-12-07 | - |
| dc.rights.holder | The Author(s) | - |
| Appears in Collections: | Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers | |
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