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.
Lukas Schuster, Craig White and Dustin Marshall investigate the relationships between metabolic rate and competitive interactions in the field.
Using different phytoplankton species, Giulia Ghedini and colleagues show that biodiversity initially boosts both energy and biomass production, but as biomass grows, energy production is limited by competition.
Published in Ecology and Evolution.
Louise Nørgaard and colleagues challenge the long-held assumption that there is a directly proportional relationship between wing length, body size and reproductive output in mosquitoes.
Published in Global Change Biology.
Published in Functional Ecology.
Published in Fish and Fisheries.
Lukas Schuster and Hayley Cameron, along with Craig White and Dustin Marshall, experimentally manipulate the metabolism of whole populations of a single organism to assess the relationship between metabolic rate, how much food an organism needs and how quickly it can convert food into growth.
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
We have benchmarks for how to manage fisheries sustainably but what if the assumptions that go into setting those benchmarks are wrong?
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Centre for Geometric Biology 