研究领域

Ecology

I am a theoretical ecologist whose research interests lie at the interface of organismal physiology and community and ecosystem ecology. I have worked on mathematical models to describe a range of biological phenomena including broad-scale biodiversity gradients, rates of DNA evolution, and nutrient cycles in organisms and ecosystems. My current work is funded by the Australian Research Council. It entails developing and testing a new class of biodiversity models that relate contemporary biodiversity to speciation-extinction dynamics in the fossil record and ecologically induced changes in population abundance through time. This work aims to provide a better understanding of how environmental changes, including those induced by human activities, influence the numbers of species present in ecosystems.

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AP Allen, JF Gillooly, JH Brown (2005) Linking the global carbon cycle to individual metabolism. Functional Ecology 19: 202-213. AP Allen, JF Gillooly, VM Savage, JH Brown (2006) Kinetic effects of temperature on rates of genetic divergence and speciation. PNAS 103: 9130-9135. AP Allen, VM Savage (2007) Setting the absolute tempo of biodiversity dynamics. Ecology Letters 10: 637-646. AP Allen, WT Pockman, C Restrepo, BT Milne (2008) Allometry, growth and population regulation of the desert shrub Larrea tridentata. Functional Ecology 22: 197-204. AP Allen, JF Gillooly (2009) Towards an integration of ecological stoichiometry and the metabolic theory of ecology to better understand nutrient cycling. Ecology Letters 12: 369-384.