השוואת שיטות

	מודל הצטברות ביולוגית	תאוריית המטבוליזם האקולוגית
תחום	אקולוגיה	אקולוגיה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2006	2004
הוגה השיטה	Frank Gobas	James Brown
סוג	pollutant accumulation dynamics	metabolic scaling theory
מקור מכונן	Arnot, J. A., & Gobas, F. A. (2006). A review of bioaccumulation factor (BAF) and bioconcentration factor (BCF) assessments for organic chemicals in aquatic organisms. Environmental Reviews, 14(4), 257-297.	Brown, J. H., Gillooly, J. F., Allen, A. P., Savage, V. M., & West, G. B. (2004). Toward a metabolic basis of ecology. Ecology, 85(7), 1771-1789.
כינויים	accumulation model, toxicokinetics, persistent organic pollutants, POPs	MTE, metabolic scaling, temperature-size rule, energy allocation
קשורות	4	4
תקציר	Bioaccumulation models predict how chemical contaminants accumulate in organisms from environmental exposure (water, food, sediment). Developed by Gobas and colleagues (2006), these models quantify the kinetics of chemical uptake, metabolism, and clearance. Bioaccumulation factors (BAF) and bioconcentration factors (BCF) measure the ratio of chemical concentration in organisms to concentration in the environment. Understanding bioaccumulation is critical for assessing ecological risk from persistent organic pollutants (POPs), heavy metals, and other contaminants.	The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE), developed by Brown and colleagues (2004), provides a unifying framework linking individual metabolic rate to ecological patterns across levels of organization (organisms, populations, ecosystems). MTE predicts how metabolic rate scales with body size (allometry) and temperature, and uses these scaling relationships to explain patterns in life history, population growth, community structure, and ecosystem dynamics. The theory is grounded in physics: metabolic rate is constrained by supply of resources (energy and nutrients) and demand determined by biochemical kinetics.