Relationships between body size and abundance （身体尺寸和数量之间的关系）.pdfVIP

Review TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution Vol.22 No.6 Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology 1,2 1 3 2 Ethan P. White , S.K. Morgan Ernest , Andrew J. Kerkhoff and Brian J. Enquist 1 Department of Biology and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA 3 Department of Biology and Department of Mathematics, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022, USA Body size is perhaps the most fundamental property of possible linkages between them, and propose novel direc- an organism and is related to many biological traits, tions for future size–abundance research. including abundance. The relationship between abun- dance and body size has been extensively studied in an The four size–abundance patterns attempt to quantify the form of the relationship and to Global size–density relationships understand the processes that generate it. However, The global size–density relationship (GSDR) is one of the progress has been impeded by the underappreciated most studied of the size–abundance relationships, but is fact that there are four distinct, but interrelated, relation- ships between size and abundance that are often con- Glossary fused in the literature. Here, we review and distinguish * Cross-community scaling re