How does spawning frequency scale with body size in marine fishes?
Published in Fish and Fisheries.
Does metabolic rate drive population size?
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.
Metabolism drives demography in an experimental field test
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Fishing better to fish more
We have benchmarks for how to manage fisheries sustainably but what if the assumptions that go into setting those benchmarks are wrong?
Reproductive hyperallometry and managing the world’s fisheries
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Mind the gap: a systematic map of light variation in algal aquaculture allows us to identify research gaps
PhD student Belinda Comerford, under the supervision of Nick Paul and Dustin Marshall, has explored existing studies on how variation in light affects algal growth, highlighting crucial gaps in our knowledge to date.
Effects of light variation in algal cultures: a systematic map of temporal scales
Published in the Journal of Applied Phycology.
Mother-offspring conflicts: temperature can change selection on offspring size
Using the model organism Bugula neritina, more than four years of study and the deployment of over 6000 individuals, Dustin Marshall has found that mothers in higher temperatures tend to favour smaller offspring, while mothers in cooler temperatures favour larger offspring.
Temperature-mediated variation in selection on offspring size: A multi-cohort field study
Published in Functional Ecology
Challenging the karyoplasmic ratio: bigger cells, smaller nuclei
New work by Martino Malerba and Dustin Marshall debunks the long-held belief that the karyoplasmic ratio — the proportion of nucleus size to cell size — is approximately constant.
