Coomes David A
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, UK, CB3 2EA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2006 Nov;21(11):593-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2006.09.002. Epub 2006 Sep 20.
The West, Brown and Enquist (WBE) theory has attracted great interest because it makes general predictions about scaling of ecological processes with body size. Recent research by Muller-Landau and co-workers challenges the generality of this theory by showing that demographic processes in natural forests do not scale in the way that the theory predicts. For WBE theory to be relevant to plant community dynamics, more complex models are required to deal with the influences of competition for light, nutrient supply and disturbance experienced by such communities.
韦斯特、布朗和恩奎斯特（WBE）理论引起了极大关注，因为它对生态过程随体型大小的缩放做出了一般性预测。穆勒 - 兰道及其同事最近的研究对该理论的普遍性提出了挑战，他们指出天然森林中的种群动态并未按照该理论预测的方式进行缩放。要使WBE理论与植物群落动态相关，就需要更复杂的模型来处理此类群落中光照竞争、养分供应和干扰的影响。
