Faculty by Research Areas
Dr. James F. Gillooly
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Fax: (352) 392-3704
Research Interests
I have very broad research interests that span the subdisciplines of physiological ecology, community ecology, and macroecology and evolution. In general, I am interested in how physical constraints on the survival, growth and reproduction of individuals influence the ecology and evolution of communities and ecosystems. Most recently, I have been working to develop what my collaborators and I refer to as the metabolic theory of ecology. This theory deals explicitly with the effects of body size, temperature and stoichiometry on ecological and evolutionary rate processes. In the coming years, I hope to further develop these ideas using a combination of theoretical, experimental and field approaches.
If you are an interested potential graduate student or post-doc, please contact me via e-mail.
Recent Publications
Gillooly, JF; Allen, AP (2007) Linking global patterns
in biodiveristy to evolutionary dynamics using metabolic theory.
Ecology, In press.
Gillooly, J. F., Allen, A. P., Brown, J. H., and G. B. West. (2005) The
Rate of DNA evolution: Effects of Body Size and Temperature on the
Molecular Clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
102:140-145.
Brown, JH; Gillooly, JF; Allen, AP; Savage, VM; West, GB (2004) Toward
a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology 85: 1771-1789.
Allen, AP; Brown, JH; Gillooly, JF (2002) Global biodiversity,
biochemical kinetics, and the energetic-equivalence rule. Science 297:
1545-1548
Gillooly, JF; Charnov, EL; West, GB; Savage, VM; Brown, JH (2002)
Effects of size and temperature on developmental time. Nature 417:
70-73.
Gillooly, JF; Brown, JH; West, GB; Savage, VM; Charnov, EL (2001).
Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate. Science 293:
2248-2251