Department of General Ecology, Biological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia; These authors have contributed equally to this article.
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, 20 Castray Esplanade, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia; These authors have contributed equally to this article.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2019 Jan;34(1):2-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.10.007. Epub 2018 Nov 13.
Science is a search for patterns but there are few cross-habitat patterns in ecology. We propose key questions following the findings of consistent scaling of abundance versus body mass from bacteria to earthworms and whales, based on an almost forgotten study of soils and a well-known one from the open ocean.
科学是对模式的探索,但生态学中很少有跨栖息地模式。我们根据从细菌到蚯蚓和鲸鱼的生物量与体质量之间一致缩放的发现,提出了一些关键问题,这些发现基于一项几乎被遗忘的土壤研究和一项来自开阔海域的著名研究。