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David Atkinson

Professor of Integrative Ecology

Evolution, Ecology & Behaviour

Orcid identifier0000-0002-9956-2454
  • Professor of Integrative Ecology
    Evolution, Ecology & Behaviour

ABOUT

Personal Statement
My passion is to understand and predict adaptive responses of organisms, and impacts on ecosystems, arising from widespread environmental change (e.g. climate, eutrophication).

Our investigations focus particularly on adaptation to temperature, and the fundamental impacts of body size, temperature, and resource flux on rates of biological processes at levels of organization ranging from individuals to ecosystems.

These biological processes include resource uptake, growth, development, population growth, ecosystem respiration and photosynthesis.

Working at the interface of ecology, evolution and physiology, we advance new theory, including novel metabolic scaling theory; perform experiments on whole ecosystems and populations; and carry out biological and ecological syntheses (meta-analyses) to quantify global trends.

UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL ORGANISATIONAL UNITS MEMBERSHIP

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 13 Climate Action
  • 14 Life Below Water
  • 15 Life on Land
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

RESEARCH AREAS