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SUMMARY:Experiments with protist microcosms: biological dispersal and scal
 ing in ecosystems
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DESCRIPTION:Andrea Giometto\, ECO Dept.\, EAWAG and ECHO\, EPFL\nProtists 
 are eukaryotic microorganisms\, mostly unicellular\,which belong to severa
 l and often distantly related phyla. Protist microcosms are an excellent m
 odel system to study fundamental processes of population and community dyn
 amics. We show how microcosm experiments can be performed to test theoreti
 cal predictions on the topic of biological dispersal\, namely the speed an
 d existence of a wavefront of colonization in reaction-diffusion processes
 . Additionally\, we show how intra-species distributions of body size acro
 ss a wide range of physical and biological diversity show both characteris
 tic and universal features\, with implications on popular allometric laws(
 e.g.\, Kleiber's law) and scaling in ecosystems.
LOCATION:GR A3 32 http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GR%20A3%2032
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