sEnigmas

Seeing the forest instead of the trees: identifying the common mechanisms behind enigmas of biodiversity

First meeting: 22.-25.11.2021

PIs:
Isaac Overcast
Ana C. Afonso Silva

iDiv member:
Renske Onstein

Project summary:
Understanding how ecological and evolutionary processes interact across timescales is critical for understanding how biodiversity is generated and maintained. However, after decades of research several enigmatic or paradoxical patterns remain to be explained, which may be more fruitfully investigated by integrating theory across subfields (e.g. Lewontin’s paradox). Our group, composed of modellers and empiricists specialized in community ecology, population genetics, and macroevolution, will develop a theoretical framework to synthesize processes across scales to generate a unified understanding of these cross-scale enigmatic patterns.

In person participants:
Ana Afonso Silva (CNRS – Université de Lille); Adriana Alzate Vallejo (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig); Leandro Aristide (Institute of Evolutionary Biology – UPF-CSIC); Chris Barratt (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig); Lynn Govaert (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries); Oskar Hagen (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig); Thomas Lamy (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)); Ariadna Morales (LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics); Renske Onstein(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig); Isaac Overcast (Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure)

Remote participants:
Jonathan Rolland (CNRS – University of Toulouse)

Meeting Report (PDF)
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sEnigmas working group meeting November, 2021

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sEnigmas working group meeting July, 2022

Second meeting: 19.-22.07.2022

Participants:
Ana Afonso Silva (EEP, UMR 8198, CNRS et Université de Lille); Adriana Alzate (iDiv); Leandro Aristide (Institut de Biología Evolutiva – UPF); Chris Barratt (iDiv); Renske Onstein (iDiv); Isaac Overcast (University of Maine); Jonathan Rolland (CNRS – University Toulouse III)

Meeting Report (PDF)

Writing retreat in Leiden: 06. – 10.11.2023

Participants:
Ana Afonso Silva; Chris Barratt (iDiv); Renske Onstein (Naturalis / iDiv); Isaac Overcast (University of Maine)