School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia; Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, Fraser Avenue, West Perth 6005, Australia.
School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2014 May;29(5):280-90. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.003. Epub 2014 Apr 8.
The ecological processes that are crucial to an animal's growth, survival, and reproductive fitness have energetic costs. The imperative for an animal to meet these costs within the energetic constraints of the environment drives many aspects of animal ecology and evolution, yet has largely been overlooked in traditional ecological paradigms. The field of 'ecological energetics' is bringing comparative physiology out of the laboratory and, for the first time, is becoming broadly accessible to field ecologists addressing real-world questions at many spatial and temporal scales. In an era of unprecedented global environmental challenges, ecological energetics opens up the tantalising prospect of a more predictive, mechanistic understanding of the drivers of threatened species decline, delivering process-based modelling approaches to natural resource management.
对动物的生长、生存和繁殖适应性至关重要的生态过程是有能量成本的。动物必须在环境的能量限制内满足这些成本，这推动了动物生态学和进化的许多方面，但在传统的生态学范式中基本上被忽视了。“生态能量学”领域将比较生理学带出了实验室，并且首次广泛应用于解决许多时空尺度上实际问题的野外生态学家。在全球环境挑战前所未有的时代，生态能量学为我们提供了一个更有吸引力的前景，即更具预测性和机械性地理解受威胁物种减少的驱动因素，为自然资源管理提供基于过程的建模方法。
