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> it is the individual animal that is the fundamental unit.

Not. This is a very common mistake among people that does not understand ecology.



You can call me a heretic for questioning His Majesty The Ecologist, but the emperor wears no clothes and percentage of aggregate biomass is the most meaningless metric I've ever heard to study mammals.


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