Drew Allen
Department of Biological Sciences
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University
Research Interest
I am a theoretical ecologist whose research interests lie at the interface of organismal physiology and community and ecosystem ecology. I have worked on mathematical models to describe a range of biological phenomena including broad-scale biodiversity gradients, rates of DNA evolution, and nutrient cycles in organisms and ecosystems. My current work is funded by the Australian Research Council. It entails developing and testing a new class of biodiversity models that relate contemporary biodiversity to speciation-extinction dynamics in the fossil record and ecologically induced changes in population abundance through time. This work aims to provide a better understanding of how environmental changes, including those induced by human activities, influence the numbers of species present in ecosystems.
Publications
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Navarrete L, Dou J, Allen DM, Schad R, Padmini P, Kale P, Pandey RK. Magnetization and Curie temperature of ilmenite–hematite ceramics. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 2006 May 1;89(5):1601-4.
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Krasuski RA, Hart SA, Allen D, Qureshi A, Pettersson G, Houghtaling PL, Batizy LH, Blackstone E. Prevalence and repair of intraoperatively diagnosed patent foramen ovale and association with perioperative outcomes and long-term survival. Jama. 2009 Jul 15;302(3):290-7.
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Allen D, Dadgar M. Does dual enrollment increase students’ success in college? Evidence from a quasiâ€experimental analysis of dual enrollment in New York City. New Directions for Higher Education. 2012 Jun 1;2012(158):11-9.
