| Biology
599 - Scaling in Biology |
Course materials: syllabus scaling data Texts: Schmidt-Nielsen, K. (1984) Scaling:
Why is animal size so important? Cambridge
University Press. 241 pp.
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| Date |
Discussion
Leader |
Topic |
Readings |
| April 6 |
Deb |
Organization, topics |
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| April 13 |
Deb |
Mathematics and statistics of scaling | Schmidt-Nielsen Ch. 1-3 |
| April 20 |
Deb |
Body size, metabolism, and the universal scaling laws | Schmidt-Nielsen, Ch 6-7 White, C.R. & R.S. Seymour. 2005. Allometric scaling of mammalian metabolism. J. Exp. Biol. 208:1611-1619. JEB website West, G.B. & J.H. Brown. 2004. Life’s universal scaling laws. Physics Today 57:36-42. Darveau, C.-A., R.K. Suarez, R.D. Andrews, & P.W. Hochachka. 2002. Allometric cascade as a unifying principle of body mass effects on metabolism. Nature 417: 166-170. |
| April 27 |
Deb |
Biomechanics |
Schmidt-Nielsen, Ch. 5 Biewener, A.A. (2005) Biomechanical consequences of scaling. J. Exp. Biol. 208: 1665-1676. JEB website Niklas, K.J. and H.-C. Spatz. 2004. Growth and hydraulic (not mechanical) constraints govern the scaling of tree height and mass. PNAS. 101: 15661-15663. Denny, M.W. 1999. Are there mechanical limits to size in wave-swept organisms? J. Exp. Biol. 202: 3463-3467. |
| May 4 |
Avram |
Reproduction |
Calder book, Ch. 9 pp. 245-251. Brown, G.P. and R. Shine. 2007. Rain, prey, and predators: climatically driven shifts in forg abundance modify reporductive allometry in snakes. Oecologia. 154: 361-368. Kratochvil, L. and L. Kubicka. 2007. Why reduce clutch size to one or two eggs? Reproductive allometries reveal different evolutionary causes of invariant clutch size in lizards. Functional Ecology. 21: 171-177. |
| May 11 |
Ginny |
Otto, S.B., B.C. Rall and U.
Brose. 2007. Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability.
Nature 450: 1226-1230. Blanchard, J.L., S. Jennings, R. Law, M.D. Castle, P. McCloghrie, M.-J. Rochet and E. Benoit. 2009. How does abundance scale with body size in coupled size-structured food webs? J. Anim. Ecol. 78: 270-280. Woodward, G., B. Ebenman, M. Emmerson, J.M. Montoya, J.M. Olesen, A. Valido, and P.H. Warren. 2006. Body size in ecological networks. TREE 20: 402-409. |
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| May18 |
Deb |
Scaling assignment - morphological
and metabolic scaling of the limpet Acmea mitra. |
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| TBA |
Holiday |
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| June 1 |
Kelley |
Koehl, M.A.R. 2001. Transitions
in function at low Reynolds number: hair-bearing appendages. Math. Meth.
Appl. Sci. 24: 1523-1532. Kingsolver, J.G. and M.A.R. Koehl. 1985. Aerodynamics, thermoregulation, and the evolution of insect wings: differential scaling and evolutionary change. Evolution 39: 488-504. Glasheen, J.W. and T.A. McMahon. 1996. Size-dependence of water-running ability in basilisk lizards (Basilicus basilicus). J. Exp. Biol. 199: 2611-2618. |
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