WEES Seminar & Workshop – Jane Reid
Venues: room C4014 (workshop) & room C3020 (seminar)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jane Reid, University of Aberdeen, UK
Understanding evolutionary dynamics and associated population dynamic responses to environmental change, requires knowledge of the forms and magnitudes of genetic and environmental variation in fitness and associated selection on key life-history traits. It also requires understanding how genetic variation can arise and be maintained or eroded through combinations of drift, selection and gene flow resulting from dispersal. Yet, such effects have rarely been jointly quantified, or related to spatio-temporal population dynamics, in wild populations experiencing natural genetic and environmental variation. I will present recent analyses of multi-year data from free-living populations of song sparrows and European shags that start to integrate effects of movements, in the form of dispersal and reversible seasonal migration, into empirical understanding of joint ecological and evolutionary dynamics.
Seminar (Orion C3020), with afterwards free drinks with the speaker in The Spot
Integrating movements into evolutionary ecology: Fitness, dispersal and seasonal timing
Workshop (Orion C4014)
Emerging opportunities and challenges from long-term field studies
For the workshop registration is required (space limited to 15), email Melanie Lindner. The workshop gives attendees the possibility to meet the speaker of the seminar and have a discussion based on recent publications. The workshops are a good possibility to get acquainted with hot topics in science and to learn how to discuss these topics with leading scientists in the field. Furthermore, BSc and MSc students can get 1 ECTS for attending 2 workshops.
WEES is an initiative of PhD students and postdocs at Wageningen University to organize a continuing series of stimulating seminars on contemporary topics in evolution and ecology. WEES is funded by graduate schools PE&RC, WIMEK, EPS, VLAG, and WIAS.
Thursday, February 28, 2019 through March 1
Workshop 13:30-15:00 Seminar 16:00
WUR – Orion
Bronland 1, Wageningen