Scaling
Summing up the ecological and evolutionary processes that act locally on individuals to understand regional and global patterns
GCEE research expertise crosses three key scales:
- Evolutionary scales from the rapid coevolution of microbes in weeks through the development of species traits over centuries and organismal structures over geological time frames
- Ecological scales from the genetics and behaviour of individual organisms through collective dynamics of populations, communities and the emergent properties of entire ecosystems and biomes
- Spatial scales from microcosms of one cubic centimetre and mesocosms of one cubic metre through to experiments covering thousands of hectares and observations that cross biomes and continents
PREDICTS | PREDICTS will use a range of meta-analytical methods to quantify species- and community-level responses to a range of human pressures including agriculture, hunting, deforestation, introduction of invasive species and human population expansion. |