Multilevel relations among plankton stitched together with an eco-evolutionary needle

Van M Savage

doi:10.1016/j.cels.2024.04.007

Multilevel relations among plankton stitched together with an eco-evolutionary needle

Cell Syst. 2024 May 15;15(5):409-410. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2024.04.007.

Author

Van M Savage¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Computational Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 38754364
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2024.04.007

Abstract

Power-law relationships between population abundances, energy use, and other factors are often referred to as macroecological scaling. A recent study convincingly shows that these relationships emerge from individual physiology but only after the population distribution is shaped by trophic interactions that are subject to both ecological and evolutionary pressures.

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution*
Ecosystem
Plankton* / physiology