Kennedy Building, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park Campus), Imperial College London, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berks SL5 7PY, UK • +44 (0)2075942213 • s.pawar@imperial.ac.uk
We study whether and how metabolic constraints on individual organisms scale up to complex ecological systems
We use a combination of mathematical and computational modeling
with analyses of massive ecological datasets
( some call it
ecoinformatics,
we consider it a much-needed extension of bioinformatics )
Our overarching goal is to contribute to a general theoretical framework
for the origin and maintenance of functionally robust population
interaction networks in communities
We work across organisms and
ecosystems, and are particularly interested in the structural and
functional differences and similarities between terrestrial and aquatic
communities
