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Metabolic ecology and habitat stability explain the disproportionately high species richness in standing waters

2025-10-24

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The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) conceptualizes that temperature is the primary driver of species richness, a pattern well supported in terrestrial taxa but less certain for freshwater organisms. Limited global-scale evidence and frequent violations of MTE’s assumptions, particularly the stationarity of body size and abundance, further obscure its applicability. In freshwater systems, body size and abundance...

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Literature Corpus work: de433671-292d-5f0c-8247-067e2ef400b5
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.23.683910

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