Jamie Gillooly

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1999

Contact Information

Office: 409 Carr Hall
Phone: (352) 392-2743
Email: gillooly”at”ufl”dot”edu

Mailing address:
Jamie Gillooly
Department of Biology
P.O. Box 118525
Gainesville, FL 32611-8525

Research Interests

I have very broad research interests that span the subdisciplines of physiological ecology, community ecology, and macroecology and evolution. In general, I am interested in how physical constraints on the survival, growth and reproduction of individuals influence the ecology and evolution of communities and ecosystems. Most recently, I have been working to develop what my collaborators and I refer to as the metabolic theory of ecology. This theory deals explicitly with the effects of body size, temperature and stoichiometry on ecological and evolutionary rate processes. In the coming years, I hope to further develop these ideas using a combination of theoretical, experimental and field approaches.

Representative Publications

• Anderson, D M. and JF Gillooly. 2021. Evaluating the tradeoff between offspring number and survivorship across fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. Oikos, 130(5), 798-807.
• Anderson, DM and JF Gillooly. 2020. Predicting egg size across temperatures in marine teleost fishes. Fish and Fisheries, 21(5), 1027-1033.
• Gillooly, JF, Gomez, JP, and EV Mavrodiev. 2017. A broad-scale comparison of aerobic activity levels in vertebrates: endotherms versus ectotherms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1849), 20162328.
• Anderson, DM, and JF Gillooly. 2017. Physiological constraints on long-term population cycles: a broad-scale view. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 18(6), 693-707
• Hein, AM, Hou C, and JF Gillooly. 2012. Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance. Ecology Letters 15:104-110.
• Hou, C, Kaspari M, Vander Zanden HB, and JF Gillooly. 2010. Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects. PNAS 107(8):3634-8.
• Gillooly, JF and AG Ophir. 2010. The energetic basis of acoustic communication. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277:1325-1331
• Brown, JH, Gillooly, JF, Allen, AP, Savage, VM, and GB West. 2004. Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology 85:1771-1789.
• Gillooly, JF, Charnov, EL, West, GB, Savage, VM and JH Brown. 2002. Effects of size and temperature on developmental time. Nature 417:70-73.
• Gillooly, JF, Brown, JH, West, GB, Savage, VM, and EL Charnov. 2001. Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate. Science 293:2248-2251

Current Graduate Students