| Biology
599 - Scaling in Biology |
Course materials: syllabus 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
7 |
Deb |
Organization, topics |
|
| April
14 |
Deb |
Mathematics and statistics of scaling | Schmidt-Nielsen Ch. 1-3 |
| TBA |
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
28 |
Sasha
& Sarah |
Home range/foraging
range |
Swihart et al. 1988. Relating
body size to the rate of home range use in mammals. Ecology. 69:
393-399. Greenleaf et al. 2007. Bee foraging ranges and their relationship to body size. Oecologia. 153: 589-596. Mace & Harvey. 1983. Energetic contraints on home range size. Am. Nat. 121: 120-132. |
| May
5 |
Mike
& Lauren |
Wave force |
Denny, M. W. 1988. Biology
and the Mechanics of the Wave-Swept Environment. Ch. 17. Princeton
University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. Denny, M.W. 1985. Wave forces on intertidal organisms: A case study. Limnol. Oceanogr. 30: 1171-1187. Wolcott and Gaylord. 2002. Flow-induced energetic bounds to growth in an intertidal sea anemone. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 245: 101-109. |
| May
12 |
Carmen
& Deb |
Model organisms |
Tang and Mayershon. 2005.
Accuracy of allometrically predicted pharmacokinetic parameters in
humans: role of species selection. Drug. Metab. Disp. 33: 1288-1293. Bachmann et al. 1996. Scaling basic toxicokinetic parameters from rat to man. Environ. Health Perspec. 104: 400-407. Lawton. Size matters. Oikos |
| May19 |
Austen
& Samantha |
Symbiosis |
Floeter et al. 2007. The
macroecology of marine cleaning mutualisms. J. Anim. Ecol. Raven 2004. Symbiosis, size, and celerity. Symbiosis. Chapter |
| TBA |
Rachel
& Sean |
Locomotion |
Schmidt-Nielsen Ch. 14 & 15 Marden. 1994. From damselflies to pterosaurs: how burst and sustainable flight performance scale with size. Am. J. Physiol. pdf Hedenstrom. 2003. Scaling migration speed in animals that run, swim and fly. J. Zool., Lond. pdf |
| June
2 |
All |
Ontogenetic change |
Koehl chapter pdf Siebel et al pdf |