My research interests are wide, but many of them centre around sensory interactions between species. Watson, dan neely, international society of arboriculture, illinois arborist association. Get a printable copy pdf file of the complete article 304k, or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Within this common framework, evolutionary biologists principally describe the historical lineagedependent processes, while ecologist focus on the contemporary pr ocesses. Functions are the result of one or more ecological and evolutionary processes, including predation, gene flow,natural disturbances and mycorrhizal associations as well as abiotic processes such as soil development and hydrological cycles. My goal is to highlight important issues in the evolution of species ranges and to point out how current thinking echoes the synthesis provided in geographical ecology. Indeed, an organism can be thought of as a collection of adaptations, together with the en gineering byproducts of adaptations, and evolutionary noise. Theory of population genetics and evolutionary ecology.
Ecology is the study of the interactions between an organism and its environment. Circular statistics is the appropriate approach to calculate phenological parameters, identify phylogenetic signal and assess drivers, allowing accurate cross. Fascinating study of diversity in the life histories of birds. The major is affiliated with the institute of integrative biology, which hosts world leading research groups in ecology, evolution, and infectious disease. The department of ecology and evolutionary biology appreciates the financial support of the following individuals and special funds. Evolution is traditionally a science of museum specimens, dealing with how lineages of organisms arise, change and eventually go extinct. An evolutionary ecology of individual differences dall. The ecology of epidemiology the resistance of organisms to pesticides and antiinfective agents. Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of. Life history covers three main classes of traits in organisms. Ecology and evolution department of environmental systems. A functional evolutionary approach trees and building sites proceedings of an international workshop on trees and buildings, gary w.
Ecology is traditionally a science of the great outdoors, dealing with the interactions between organisms and their environment. Evolutionary ecology, systematics, speciation, and. Mccracken is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the university of tennessee. Studies in evolution consider the processes by which modern organisms have developed from ancestral ones. A biogeographical history and timeline for the evolution of australian snapping turtles elseya. The modern evolutionary marine biota radiated after the end permian. Articles are rather technical but provide a good insight into contemporary evolutionary research. Nevertheless, an evolutionary ecology of individual differences will ultimately have to involve detailing the mechanisms underpinning the individual behavioural specialisations at its heart to fully understand their evolutionary and ecological consequences, in part because the heritability of trait variance can influence how that variance.
The evolutionary ecology of variation lab has two new members. The ecology and evolution major is a good choice for students. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers the evolutionary histories of species and the interactions between them. Coupled with this, there has been an increasing interdigitation of paleontology with molecular systematics because of the development of techniques to analyze ancient dna and because of the use of sophisticated methods to utilize molecules to. The focus of the book is on current concepts in evolutionary ecology, and the empirical study of these concepts. His research focuses mostly on behavioral ecology, population genetics, and conservation biology of bats, and he has conducted research in north america, ecuador, and the west indies. Old ideas percolate into ecology a novel model derived from percolation theory suggests that phase polyphenism may have initially evolved in locusts as a behavioural strategy to reduce the connectivity between patches of vulnerable prey, so reducing predation risk. On evolutionary ecology, selectionist archaeology, and behavioral archaeology article pdf available in american antiquity 641 january 1999 with 256 reads how we measure reads.
Conversely, it can be seen as an approach to the study of evolution that incorporates an understanding of the. Evolutionary ecology studies changes in species based on their ecological environment. View evolutionary ecology research papers on academia. Who should major in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Evolutionary ecology explicitly links ecological and lifehistory thinking. The months cover image shows a painted stork mycteria leucocephala which is a large, colourful wading bird found across the wetlands and heronries of the indian subcon nent. We found it easier to group the papers by the topic they addressed than by the methods used or. The study of how ecological factors cause changes in an organism throughout its history is evolutionary ecology. The evolutionary dynamics of species ranges involves the coevolutionary interplay of selection on dispersal on the one hand, and adaptation to habitats on the other. Evolutionary biology and ecology share the goals of describing varia tion in natural systems and understanding its functional basis. Pdf on evolutionary ecology, selectionist archaeology, and. Evolutionary ecology simultaneously unifies conceptual and empirical advances in evolutionary ecology and provides a volume that can be used as either a primary textbook or a supplemental reading in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course.
Evolutionary ecology research a scientific journal. Ecological concepts, principles and applications to. So im interested, for example, in how predators look for their prey and how they prey might make this more difficult for predators. Wise faculty of life sciences, tel aviv university, tel aviv 69978 israel. During your major you will be exposed to cutting edge research and you will have the opportunity to integrate into the interdisciplinary environment of this institute and affiliated partners. Articles from ecology and evolution are provided here courtesy of wileyblackwell.
The ecology and evolutionary biology eeb major provides a comprehensive foundation in the biological sciences, places an emphasis on undergraduate research experience, and provides an integrated perspective on the origins and complex interactions of the earths biodiversity and ecosystems. A third, more general future challenge for lca phylogeography will be integrating insights into organismal evolutionary history with theory and methods from other disciplines including ecology. Paleobiogeography has advanced as a discipline owing to the increasing utilization of a phylogenetic approach to the study of biogeographic patterns. Sexbiased mortality of marine threespine stickleback gasterosteus aculeatus l. Nevertheless, the ecological and evolutionary significance of such variation is attracting widespread interest, which. We are interested in developing mathematical models for addressing a wide range of problems in evolutionary ecology including the evolution of parental care, longevity and cooperation. Organisms must make tradeoffs among these traits that typically cause them to come to evolutionary equilibrium at intermediate values. Finally, the modern evolutionary biota emerged in the wake of the endpermian mass extinction, and is still rapidly diversifying. If you are a bes member click here for instructions on how to access all bes journal content. Evolutionary perspectives on disease evolutionary perspectives encompass two dimensions. Ecology and evolutionary biology major requirements. Ecological factors affecting evolution include living, or biotic, and nonliving, or abiotic factors. Helen and david alexander rosetta arrigo g80 martha j.
Identifies and tests crucial questions in evolutionary ecology. The functional subcomponents of the ear, hand, intestines, uterus, or circulatory system are ex amples. Ecology and evolutionary biology department, yale university, 165 prospect street, new haven, connecticut 06511 usa. The focus of the book is on current concepts in evolutionary ecology, and the empirical study of. Although our lab addresses broad questions at the nexus of these fields, all of our research focuses on plants and plantanimal interactions. Marc johnsons evoeco lab bridges the diverse questions and techniques from community ecology, genetics, chemistry and evolution. Evolutionary ecology of birds life histories, mating systems, and extinction peter m.