The role of interaction structure in eco-evolutionary dynamics (EcoEvoInteract)

从微生物到多细胞植物和动物的生物在多个尺度上广泛地相互作用，并相互影响彼此的生存、繁殖和表型表达。这些相互作用的模式，由空间、时间和行为模式的变化所塑造，产生的结构可以塑造个体的基因类型和表型、群体和种群水平的过程以及群落组成。一般生态进化动力学背后的基本概念是已知的。然而，我们缺乏对相互作用结构如何跨越空间、时间和生物组织水平相互影响的系统理解。我们的目标是填补文献中的这一空白，并为尺度间的行为和进化动力学生成一个理论框架，该框架服从于经验测试。为此，我们建议创建一个跨学科的科学网络(生态学、进化生物学、行为学、微生物学、遗传学和神经科学)，由拥有不同模式生物(脊椎动物、无脊椎动物和细菌)和生态社区专业知识的研究人员组成。我们的跨学科背景将使我们能够确定生物相互作用网络动力学及其生态进化影响的普遍原则。

Organisms from microbes to multicellular plants and animals interact extensively across multiple scales and influence each other's survival, reproduction, and phenotypic expression. The pattern of these interactions, shaped by variation in space, time, and behavioral repertoire, generates structure that can shape individual genotypes and phenotypes, group- and population-level processes, and community composition. The essential concepts underlying general eco-evolutionary dynamics are known. However, we lack a systematic understanding of how interaction structures influence each other across space, time, and levels of biological organization. Our goal is to fill this gap in the literature and generate a theoretical framework for inter-scale behavioral and evolutionary dynamics that is amenable to empirical testing. To do so, we propose to create an interdisciplinary scientific network (Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Behaviour, Microbiology, Genetics, and Neuroscience) of researchers with expertise across different model organisms (vertebrates, invertebrates, and bacteria) and ecological communities. Our interdisciplinary backgrounds will allow us to identify universal principles of organismal interaction network dynamics and their eco-evolutionary implications.