First meeting: 05-09.09.2022

PIs:
A. Bradley Duthie, Biological and Environmental Sciences - University of Stirling
Sébastien Lion, CEFE - CNRS - Montpellier, France

Abstract:
Modern coexistence theory provides a unifying framework in ecology for understanding how species interact and coexist. Nevertheless, predicting how species abundances change over time for communities of numerous co-evolving species remains largely intractable. Recent efforts to understand eco-evolutionary change in these communities has been highly successful through the synthesis of ecological and evolutionary models, but complete theoretical unification remains unachieved. This project will adopt a different approach. Rather than synthesising disparate models, it will build new theory from shared fundamental ecological and evolutionary principles. Deductive inference will then be used to derive fundamental unifying equations of eco-evolutionary dynamics. This project will thereby lead to new unifying equations and re-derive existing fundamental equations from first principles. It will seek general truths concerning how shared processes shape the evolution and coexistence of biodiverse communities, and attempt to bridge gaps that currently exist among parallel theoretical frameworks.

Participants:
A. Bradley Duthie – University of Stirling (Great-Britain); Sébastien Lion – CEFE CNRS Montpellier (France); Lynn Govaert – University of Zurich (Switzerland); Florence Débarre – CNRS (France); Victor Luque – UNED (Spain); Swati Patel – Tulane University (USA)

Meeting report

Second meeting: 15.-19.01.2024

In person participants:
Bradley Duthie – University of Stirling (Great-Britain); Sébastien Lion – CEFE CNRS Montpellier (France); Lynn Govaert – Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (Germany); Victor Luque – University of Valencia (Spain); Kelsey Lyberger - Stanford University (USA), Swati Patel – Oregon State University (USA)