Eco-evolutionary dynamics in complex systems

行动中的进化最近被认为是许多生态相互作用的重要参与者。现在人们充分认识到，进化变化可以影响几代内物种之间的相互作用，而生态相互作用反过来可能影响进化的结果。然而，这些所谓的生态进化动力学的概念还没有完全融入我们目前的思想，例如我们如何管理种群和试图维持物种多样性。大多数生态进化动力学的工作都集中在简单的消费者资源相互作用上，忽略了自然界中更复杂的相互作用。该项目将使用快速生长的水生生物，允许以下进化变化和生态动力学研究在几个更高的复杂性水平（食物网复杂性，空间复杂性）的生态进化动力学。此外，该项目将利用生态基因组学将生态和进化变化与分子水平（转录组和基因组）联系起来。综合结果将有助于我们更好地了解负责人口和遗传和生物多样性的长期稳定的基本动态。

Evolution in action has recently been recognized as an important player for many ecological interactions. It is now well recognized that evolutionary change can affect the interaction between species within in a few generations and that ecological interaction may influence the outcome of evolution in return. However, the concept of these so-called eco-evolutionary dynamics has not been fully integrated into our current thinking on how we for instance manage populations and try to sustain species diversity. Most work on eco-evolutionary dynamics focuses on simple consumerresource interactions, ignoring the more complex interactions that are found in nature. This project will use fast growing, aquatic organisms that allow following evolutionary change and ecological dynamics to study the eco-evolutionary dynamics at several levels of higher complexity (food web complexity, spatial complexity). Furthermore, the project will use eco-genomics to link ecological and evolutionary change to the molecular level (transcriptome and genome). The combined results will help to improve our understanding of basic dynamics responsible for long-term stability of populations and genetic and biodiversity.