Geometric biology allows us to understand the dynamics of how living things convert energy flows into mass, at all scales of biological organisation.
The size and shape (together, the ‘geometry’) of organisms ultimately determine these flows.
The Geometric Theory of Biology allows us to predict how things function, grow, and change; be they tumours, schools of fish, or whole forests.
Published in Functional Ecology.
Published in: The ISME (International Society for Microbial Ecology) Journal
Published in Physiology.
As this year’s winner of the Mike Cullen Research Fellow Award, Lesley Alton was awarded $5000 in research funds for her publication with Vanessa Kellerman that appeared in Nature Climate Change.
A recent study by George Jarvis and Dustin Marshall has found that external fertilisers were 11 times larger than internal fertilisers in annelids, 5 times larger in echinoderms and 4.5 times in molluscs.
Published in The American Naturalist.
Alex Blake and supervisor Professor Tim Coulson wanted to know how food supply would affect population measures such as population growth rates, population size, age structure and size structure within populations.
Giulia Ghedini and Dustin Marshall investigated how competition affects metabolic rates, size and growth for a single-celled alga.
PhD student, Alex Blake, and supervisor Dustin Marshall compared the evolution of copepods under high and low food regimes. They were interested in life history traits – characteristics that describe the way an organism uses resources to increase the chance of successful reproduction.
Published in Oikos.
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