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Yiping Luo
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Summary
Education:
Ph.D. Hydrobiology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
M.Sc. Hydrobiology, Southwest Normal University, Chongqing, China
B.Sc. Biology, Southwest Normal University, Chongqing, China
Academic:
Professor (2014-present) School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Associate Professor (2007-2014) School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Research Assistant (2002-2007) School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Post-Doctoral Fellow (2010-2011) Department of Biology, Queens’ University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Work details
Professor
Southwest University
June 2002
School of Life Sciences
I work in the area of Eco-Physiology of fishes. My research interests are the influence of environmental changes on the metabolic response of fishes. Our undergoing works are on the mechanisms of allometrical scaling of metabolic processes in Cyprinids fish species. Metabolic allometrical scaling is an important theoretic question in eco-physiological area. However, the mechanism of metabolic scaling remains unclear by now. Our new ideas focus to explain the metabolic scaling mechanism by uniting both exchange surface area and metabolic demand. We propose a new hypothesis: Both the exchange constraints of the ratio of surface area to volume, along with the demand constraints of metabolic level, contribute to metabolic scaling and their relative importance determines the value of metabolic scaling exponent; Metabolic allometrical scaling may also be interfered by the intra-specific variation in the ratio of metabolic energy to growth energy for statistical problems.