OpinionAdv Plants Agric Res 2016, 4(1): 00122 to economy [2][3]. Research paradigm of metabolic ecology needs improvement through multidisciplinary interaction, especially in plant ecology and agricultural science, which provide the platform for the relevant theoretical and practical development (Figure 1). On the spatial dimension, it would be a valuable attempt to clarify the relations between the community co-evolution and the plant diversity pattern formation in the framework of the spatial game theory and flow network analysis, which have the same basic principals in the models of metabolic ecology [3][4][5]. Metabolic ecology theories, revealed the biological phenomena and the laws based on biological fractal structure and fluid mechanics [6]. While the terrestrial ecosystem landscape also own the fractal structure like mountainous and basin areas, where have been of common recognition and quantitative measurement [7][8] (Figure 2).A combination of metabolic ecology and macroscopic approaches like applying remote sensing technique and landscape ecology will bring more enhancements in the large-scale investigation of the vegetation observation and analysis [9][10]. For the temporal dimension, there were many of investigations on the fractal structure of periodic fluctuation phenomena such as biological rhythm of the plants and the animal-plant interactions, such as the topics about climate change, migration of birds, hibernation and vertical migration of mammals based on the forage theories [11][12][13], are closely related to substance metabolism and energy flows of the elements in ecosystems, however, that so far very limited work of systematic generalization, or quantitative research from the perspective of metabolic ecology has been carried out.
OpinionThe metabolic ecology and allometric theory become flourishing and widely developed in the field of ecology and theoretical physics by recent decades [1-2]. The quantifiable laws from metabolic ecology, which are based on statistical regression out of observational facts and derived through basic physics, were considered as a major breakthrough of the contemporary theoretical ecology. Metabolic ecology with its self-consistency in theory and broad application perspective in practice has been though highly in the science community [2]. Following the fundamental theory of metabolic ecology having been established, the relevant studies constantly continued, involving many branches of biology, ecology, and even expanding