Scaling animal impacts on dispersal and structure through space and time.

Christopher Doughty , Jenna Keany, Tomos Prys-Jones, Andrew J Abraham, Camille Gaillard 

Scaling theory allows us to predict animal impacts on seed distribution, zoogeochemistry, pathogen movement, and vegetation structure over space and time. Here we have both reviewed this literature and suggested future directions to scale such work over space and time and apply it to such disparate fields as ecosystem ecology, paleontology and remote sensing.

This chapter is accepted in the forthcoming volume entitled “Scaling in Biology: A New Synthesis (In Press) SFI Press, Editors: Enquist, Kempes, O’Connor.”