https://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/tag/metabolic-theory-of-ecology/metabolic theory of ecologyWowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-us© 2023 Matt WilkinsMon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/media/icon_hua110898778fe76518384be246087e556_35446_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_2.pnghttps://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/tag/metabolic-theory-of-ecology/https://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/publication/research/francis_wilkins-2021/Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/publication/research/francis_wilkins-2021/<p>This paper was a side project Clint and I hatched at a conference back in 2012 while I was a grad student and he was a postdoc at the now defunct National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (<a href="https://nescent.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NESCent</a>) at Duke. I got a semester graduate fellowship to work on this at NESCent in the spring of 2013, during which time Clint got a position as <a href="https://bio.calpoly.edu/content/clinton-francis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor at San Luis Obispo</a>. This project has dogged us for the interceding 8 years, and the manuscript has adapted through a challenging process of rejection and revision at several different journals. We are very excited to finally see it published <em>open access</em> and hope it will stimulate some interesting work exploring the variation around metabolic scaling relationships of behavioral traits in an evolutionary context.</p>