Metabolism controls the pace of life, driving major ecological patterns. We propose that the scaling of metabolism with temperature influences neutral processes of community assembly by controlling population dynamics independently of species identities. This perspective provides new insights into the prevalence of niche and neutral processes through universal energetic constraints.

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随机社区集会的新陈代谢视角

代谢控制着生活节奏，带动了主要的生态格局。我们提出代谢随温度的缩放通过独立于物种身份控制种群动态来影响社区装配的中性过程。通过普遍的能量约束，这种观点为利基和中性过程的流行提供了新的见解。