BECC Grand Seminar: Evolutionary perspectives on conservation of populations and their functions in agro-ecosystems

Evolutionary responses to agricultural practices affect the insect community and pollination services which insects can provide, challenging scientists that investigate the effects of changes in agriculture practice or the effectivity of conservation measures in the past and the future. Very often, the understanding of ecosystems is either focused on the ecology or on the evolution of populations. By combining these viewpoints, you may find contradicting results - for example what is thought of as a separate population in an ecological context, can turn out to be a single population. As the ability of a population to adapt on a local scale is dependent on over how large distances and different environments the population can exchange genes, the way we study these populations highly influences the conclusions regarding conservation efforts.

We attempt to approach knowledge gaps from different angles to raise awareness of the importance of including an evolutionary perspective in ecological studies – evolutionary modelling, species observations, and from a species community perspective.

Please register before Feb 10th. in the following link.

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Program

10.00 Welcome and introduction - Dr. Mikael Pontarp, BECC & Department of Biology, Lund University

10.05 Eco-evolutionary networks - Prof. Nicolas Loeuille, Sorbonne University, France

10.35 Coffee break

10.50 Intraspecific variation of community dynamics - Dr. Frank Pennekamp, University of Zurich, Switzerland

11.20 Local adaptation and ecological speciation in an Amazonian palm - Dr. Christine Bacon, BECC & University of Gothenburg

11.50 Short talks - Dr. Anna Runemark, Dr. Isolde van Riemsdijk, Zach Nolen, BECC & Lund University

12.30 Joint lunch with discussions

13.30 Models of ecology and evolution of communities - Prof. Åke Brännström, Umeå University, Sweden

14.00 Perspective of a field ecologist on scale and time of interactions - Dr. Georg Andersson, BECC & Lund University

14.30 Open discussion and conclusions with coffee

Please register before Feb 10th. in the following link.

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