Manipulative tests of metabolic theory

该项目旨在采取一种新的跨学科方法来理解能量如何通过个人，人口，社区和生态系统流动。该项目预计将开发一个新的框架来理解生物系统的功能，汇集生理学，生态学和进化生物学领域，生成研究出版物，并培养学生进行跨学科研究。预计拟议的研究将提供一种手段，了解管理干预措施如何改变生物系统中的能量流动，为气候变化适应，保护科学，农业和水产养殖以及渔业管理等领域带来好处。

This project aims to take a new interdisciplinary approach to understanding how energy flows through individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems. The project expects to develop a new framework for understanding the function of biological systems, bringing together the fields of physiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology, generating research publications, and training students in interdisciplinary research. The proposed research is anticipated to provide a means for understanding how management interventions can alter energy flows in biological systems, bringing benefits across the areas of climate change adaptation, conservation science, agriculture and aquaculture, and fisheries management.