Biodiversity Seminar: Assessing eco-evolutionary dynamics to answer key questions in macroecology and biogeography

The question of the respective roles of ecological and evolutionary determinants of current biodiversity remains central and still lacks answers.
The difficulty lies in integrating the wide range of spatial and temporal scales at which these determinants operate, and in inferring the influence of processes from current observations of species assemblages and the limited fossil record.
In this presentation, I will introduce a new type of eco-evolutionary modelling, based on a coalescence approach, aimed at meeting this challenge.
We are developing modelling tools in the Python language, in the ecophylo library (https://pypi.org/project/ecophylo/), to enable us to evaluate and test different biogeographical and evolutionary scenarios. We will discuss the current state of research and possible research prospects in this field.

François Munoz works at Université Grenoble Alpes. His research concerns Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolutionary Biology. It mainly investigates the mechanisms underlying population and community dynamics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Theoretical and methodological approaches are developed and applied to study tropical and temperate ecosystems (tropical forests in India and New Caledonia, grasslands and weed communities in Europe, and high-elevation peatlands in Bolivia).

Our seminars are hybrid. Please send an email to events-biodiversity(at)wsl.ch if you would like to get access to the live stream.

The Biodiversity Seminar Series are organized by the WSL Biodiversity Center. Every two weeks, we aim to host a seminar speaker that presents research or outreach on topics relevant to the biodiversity community at WSL. The seminars are public and are usually broadcasted online.

To find out more about the WSL Biodiversity Center and a complete list of events, please visit our website. 

Please send an email to events-biodiversity(at)wsl.ch if you would like to be updated on the activities of the WSL Biodiversity Center.