The Centre for Geometric Biology: a new, interdisciplinary research team changing the way we study, understand and manage natural systems.
Monash University, Melbourne,
Joined January 2012
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Copepods cultured in high-food environments differed in life-history traits from those cultured in low-food environments. Alex Blake and Tim Coulson found these discrepancies didn’t translate to differences at the population level. @GeometricBiol cgb.org.au/2023/08/17/from-l… @Oikos
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How has live birth evolved when there are thermal mismatches between mothers and their offspring?
Our new paper @EvolLetters explores the role of behavioural plasticity in facilitating shifts in reproductive mode 🐍🦎
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Does variation in nest temperature have long-term effects on the phenotypes of ectotherms? Madeleine de Jong and colleagues found, yes it does, using a model lizard species, the delicate skink, Lampropholis delicata. royalsocietypublishing.org/d… @Craig_R_White @BBM_Wong @lesley_alton
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Our new paper testing potential mechanisms of local adaptation to cool climates in the excellent wall lizard study system!
A great collaborative effort of field sampling in Italy, metabolism measures in Sweden, and yolk hormone analysis in Finland 🦎 1/5
Now out in @AnimalEcology led by @amandakpet: #lizard embryos from high altitude develop faster without increasing metabolic rate, and they allocate more #energy towards growing tissue, compared to low-altitude embryos. Powered by our friends @SableSys
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Fish live faster in the tropics and slower in the poles because of mortality risks cgb.org.au/2023/05/26/fish-l…
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@jackTOrford et al found exposure to environmentally realistic concentrations of the agricultural pollutant 17β-trenbolone altered morphology and behaviour in southern brown tree frog tadpoles. @BBM_Wong @lesley_alton @HungTan_ @r_tingley @MArtin_J_M_34 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Are you a whole organism biologist with a masters or honours degree? We need help undertaking data mining activities using standard systematic literature review protocols, data extraction and compilation of databases. This is a 3-month casual contract careers.pageuppeople.com/513…
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Does the colour polymorphisms of the delicate skink have an adaptive relationship with lizard body temperature? @Genevieve_DM @chapple_lab @Craig_R_White @FarquharJules suggest, however, that behaviour is actually the key
to mediating thermoregulation. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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What happens if you manipulate the major nutritional determinant of lifespan (sterols) independently of the major nutritional determinant of egg production? @BrookeZanco et al found mothers live longer and lay more eggs on high sterol diets. reader.elsevier.com/reader/s… @mattpiperlab
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Can removing an essential amino acid from the diet protect flies against future toxin stress? @TahliaFulton @ChristenMirth and @mattpiperlab found short-term exposure to individual amino acid dropout diets could protect flies against exposure to nicotine royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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How does biodiversity affect the relationship between energy and biomass production over time? @giulia_ghedini @djm_MEEG and Michel Loreau use phytoplankton to tackle this question. Read a lay summary here cgb.org.au/2021/12/21/biodiv…
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Challenging assumptions: how well do we understand how climate change will affect vector-borne diseases? cgb.org.au/2021/11/11/challe… via @wordpressdotcom
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A new @MonashUni led international study has found that models of disease vectors, such as mosquitoes, are likely to overestimate the effects of future climate.
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Job alert. Please RT. Really excited to announce that @MonashBiol is advertising two continuing teaching and research academic positions (Level B/C), one in plant sciences and the other in organismal biology of animals:
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🌊How do mothers compete with offspring in a marine invertebrate? and how does #climatechange affect this relationship?
@djm_MEEG of @GeometricBiol unravels this question using a long-term field experiment
Read the story behind the paper here:
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Here's our new paper on the implications for fisheries of a nonlinear relationship between mass and egg production
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New research led by scientists from @MonashUni's @GeometricBiol challenges our understanding of how metabolic rate affects population dynamics.
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In our new paper in PNAS (Post Nature and Science) we show that assuming egg numbers scale in proportion to body mass (isometry) may lead to systematic overfishing because in reality hyperallometry in fecundity is common. @LeibnizIGB @HumboldtUni @djm_MEEG @MarcMangel1 @PNASNews
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Confessions of a nerd. Wanted to have a least 1 paper with all personal heros, like @FreshwaterSteve, @hilbornr, Simon Levin or Carl Walters. With today's PNAS paper co-authored with @MarcMangel1 I can now retire. Big thanks for being our role models! pnas.org/content/118/34/e210…
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Larger cells have relatively smaller nuclei across the Tree of Life evolutionletters.wordpress.c… via @wordpressdotcom