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.
Emily Richardson and supervisors Dustin Marshall and Craig White test Earl Werner’s theory that switching phases maximises growth rate, resulting in greater fitness for species with complex development.
Researchers from the Centre of Geometric Biology leverage Richard Lenski’s 34-year, 60,000-generation Escherichia coli evolution experiment to examine intraspecific metabolic scaling and correlations with demographic parameters.
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
Published in Functional Ecology.
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.
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