How much energy an organism consumes can be used to make inferences across scales and could be a valuable tool to predict energy fluxes of populations and communities. While scaling patterns can be seen across species and systems, the mechanisms that drive variation in metabolic scaling and influence functioning at larger scales remain unclear. I will present work that explores how competition alters the metabolism of individual organisms, and how these effects change as species coevolve. I will then discuss how competition modifies energy fluxes at larger scales and the implications for predicting community functioning.

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How does competition alter metabolism and what are the consequences for community functioning?

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