UC Davis

CPB STUDENT WORKSHOP: METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY

UC DAVIS CAMPUS

MAY 27 - MAY 29

sponsored by the

Center for Population Biology

 

CPB Workshop Schedule

Jim Brown and his colleagues have developed a research program that uses the unifying factor of metabolic rate, as affected by body size and temperature, to inform topics as varied as species diversity gradients, population dynamics, life history evolution, and control of ecosystem processes. We are pleased to have Jim at Davis for a series of lectures over the course of three days during which he will introduce MTE and present some of his latest work. We will field requests to meet with Jim at a later date

Tuesday, May 27
10:00 AM 1022 LSA Jim Brown "Introduction to a metabolic theory of ecology"

Wednesday, May 28

The workshop will focus on gradients of species diversity; Jim will present his latest work on this topic, and Susan Harrison has graciously agreed to present some of her work on this topic as well. These lectures will be followed in the afternoon by a roundtable discussion with Jim and Susan on hypotheses for species diversity gradients.

10:00 AM 1022 LSA Jim Brown "Metabolism and species diversity: roles of productivity and kinetics"
10:45 AM 1022 LSA Susan Harrison "Niche conservatism, an alternative explanation for productivity-diversity
relationships?"
5:00 PM 2342 Storer Panmixer

Thursday, May 29
10:00 AM 1022 LSA Jim Brown "Where next with metabolic theory?"
12:00 PM Grad student lunch

Hope to see you there,

Kyle, Amber, Jason, Jonah, and Jon
CPB MTE workshop committee

Upated: Monday, May 19, 2008