The metabolic theory of ecology and the cost of parasitism.

Autor: Mary I O'Connor, Joanna R Bernhardt
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: PLoS Biology, Vol 16, Iss 4, p e2005628 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1544-9173
1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005628
Popis: With over 1 million species on earth, each biologically unique, do we have any hope of understanding whether species will persist in a warming world? We might, because it turns out that there is surprising regularity in how warming accelerates the major metabolic processes that power life. A persistent challenge has been to understand ecological effects of temperature in the context of species interactions, especially when individuals not only experience temperature but also mortality due to parasitism or predation. Kirk et al. have shown how the effects of parasites vary with warming in a manner entirely consistent with general temperature dependence of host and parasite metabolism.
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