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Life-history evolution under a production constraintJames H Brown
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:17595-9. 2006..These principles can be generalized to better understand the intimate relationship between the genetic currency of evolution and the metabolic currency of ecology...- The macroecology of sustainabilityJoseph R Burger
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
PLoS Biol 10:e1001345. 2012.... - A general model for effects of temperature on ectotherm ontogenetic growth and developmentWenyun Zuo
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:1840-6. 2012..It has important implications for effects of climate change on ectothermic animals... 
The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammalsFelisa A Smith
Department of Biology, MSC03 2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Science 330:1216-9. 2010..Our analysis suggests that although the primary driver for the evolution of giant mammals was diversification to fill ecological niches, environmental temperature and land area may have ultimately constrained the maximum size achieved...- Population stability, cooperation, and the invasibility of the human speciesMarcus J Hamilton
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12255-60. 2009..Our model also provides insight into the interplay of structural complexity and stability in social species... - Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of lifeJohn P DeLong
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:12941-5. 2010..Major changes in metabolic processes during the early evolution of life overcame existing constraints, exploited new opportunities, and imposed new constraints... - Human macroecology: linking pattern and process in big-picture human ecologyWilliam R Burnside
Department of Biology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 0001, USA
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 87:194-208. 2012..Examples on human foraging ecology, life history, space use, population structure, disease ecology, cultural and linguistic diversity patterns, and industrial and urban systems showcase the power and promise of this approach... - Universal scaling of production rates across mammalian lineagesMarcus J Hamilton
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Biol Sci 278:560-6. 2011..Apparently all mammals are subject to the same fundamental metabolic constraints on productivity, because they share similar body designs, vascular systems and costs of producing new tissue... - Amplified temperature dependence in ecosystems developing on the lava flows of Mauna Loa, Hawai'iKristina J Anderson-Teixeira
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:228-33. 2008..This mechanistic theory should contribute to understanding the complex effects of temperature on the structure and dynamics of ecological systems in a world where regional and global temperatures are changing rapidly... - The role of phylogeny in desert rodent community assemblyJames H Brown
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
J Anim Ecol 81:307-9. 2012.... - The complex structure of hunter-gatherer social networksMarcus J Hamilton
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Biol Sci 274:2195-202. 2007..Our results offer insight into the energetics of human sociality and suggest that human social networks self-organize in response to similar optimization principles found behind the formation of many complex systems in nature... - Niches, body sizes, and the disassembly of mammal communities on the Sunda Shelf islandsJordan G Okie
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:19679-84. 2009..These patterns reveal the role of body size and other niche characteristics, such as habitat requirements and trophic status, in the differential susceptibility of taxa to extinction... - Nonlinear scaling of space use in human hunter-gatherersMarcus J Hamilton
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:4765-9. 2007..The scaling exponent is less than one, so the area required by an average individual decreases with increasing population size, because social networks of material and information exchange introduce an economy of scale... - Scaling theory for information networksMelanie E Moses
Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
J R Soc Interface 5:1469-80. 2008..g. in logic networks). More generally, we hypothesize a set of constraints between the size, power and performance of networked information systems including transistors on chips, hosts on the Internet and neurons in the brain... 
Scaling relations for a functionally two-dimensional plant: Chamaesyce setiloba (Euphorbiaceae)Terri L Koontz
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 USA
Am J Bot 96:877-84. 2009..Unlike plants with typical three-dimensional architectures, C. setiloba has distinctive scaling relations associated with its particular prostrate herbaceous growth form...- The allometry of ornaments and weaponsAstrid Kodric-Brown
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:8733-8. 2006..The model also shows how selection for ornaments influences body size at first reproduction and explains why interspecific allometries have consistently lower exponents than intraspecific ones... - Revisiting a model of ontogenetic growth: estimating model parameters from theory and dataMelanie E Moses
Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
Am Nat 171:632-45. 2008..In providing a simple, quantitative description of how energy is allocated to growth, the OGM calls attention to unexplained variation, unanswered questions, and opportunities for future research... - Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assemblyKatherine M Thibault
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:3410-5. 2008..Captured by chance through long-term monitoring, the impacts of such large, infrequent events provide unique insights into the processes that structure ecological communities... - The wealth of species: ecological communities, complex systems and the legacy of Frank PrestonJeffrey C Nekola
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Ecol Lett 10:188-96. 2007..Because these appear to be general statistical patterns characteristic of many complex dynamical systems they are likely not generated by uniquely ecological mechanistic processes... - The rate of DNA evolution: effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clockJames F Gillooly
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:140-5. 2005..This model therefore links energy flux and genetic change. More generally, the model suggests that body size and temperature combine to control the overall rate of evolution through their effects on metabolism... - Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and timeFelisa A Smith
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Working Group on Body Size in Ecology and Paleoecology, Santa Barbara, California 93101 5504, USA
Am Nat 163:672-91. 2004..Lineages have diversified in size to exploit environmental opportunities but only within limits set by allometric, ecological, and evolutionary constraints... - The scaling of animal space useWalter Jetz
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 1003, USA
Science 306:266-8. 2004..In large mammals, over 90% of available resources may be lost to neighbors. Our model offers a general framework to understand animal space use and sociality... - The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organizationGeoffrey B West
The Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
J Exp Biol 208:1575-92. 2005..Temperature considerations, dimensionality and the role of invariants are discussed. Criticisms and controversies associated with this approach are also addressed... - Scaling of number, size, and metabolic rate of cells with body size in mammalsVan M Savage
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:4718-23. 2007..Our results and conceptual framework emphasize fundamental constraints that link the structure and function of cells to that of whole organisms... - Kinetic effects of temperature on rates of genetic divergence and speciationAndrew P Allen
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:9130-5. 2006.... - Effects of body size and lifestyle on evolution of mammal life historiesRichard M Sibly
School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AS, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:17707-12. 2007..These results shed light on the evolution of the fast-slow life-history continuum, suggesting that variation occurs along two axes corresponding to body size and lifestyle... - Effects of body size and temperature on population growthVan M Savage
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA
Am Nat 163:429-41. 2004..This theory links the rates of metabolism and resource use of individuals to life-history attributes and population dynamics for a broad assortment of organisms, from unicellular organisms to mammals...