Search for dissertations about: "eco-evolutionary"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word eco-evolutionary.
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1. Eco-evolutionary processes and community patterns--- novel avenues for studying biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales
Abstract : Understanding biodiversity patterns poses a persistent challenge due to the complex interconnections of ecological and evolutionary processes. The particular difficulty comes from the various processes influencing biodiversity patterns across different spatial scales. READ MORE
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2. Ecological and evolutionary assembly processes and metacommunity structure
Abstract : This thesis aims to elucidate the link between abiotic and biotic effects and biogeographical contingencies, eco-evolutionary assembly processes, and community structure in a spatially explicit metacommunity framework. To this end, we used structure analysis of naturally sampled and experimentally manipulated marine bacterial communities and mathematical eco-evolutionary modeling and simulations of metacommunity assembly. READ MORE
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3. Evolutionary consequences of ecological interactions
Abstract : Eco-evolutionary dynamics integrates the reciprocal interactions betweenecology and evolution. These two branches of biology traditionally assumethe other as static for simplicity. However, increasing evidence shows thatthis simplification may not always hold because ecology and evolution canoperate in similar timescales. READ MORE
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4. Evolution of Ecological Communities in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments
Abstract : Evolutionarily stable communities are the endpoints of evolution, and ecological communities whose traits are under selection will eventually settle into them. Hence, the properties of such communities are of particular interest, as they can persist over long evolutionary time scales. READ MORE
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5. Ecology and evolution of genetic and phenotypic variation in fritillary butterflies
Abstract : Understanding how eco-evolutionary processes and environmental variation shape different dimensions of biodiversity is a major goal in evolutionary biology and ecology, and essential for the successful protection of biological variation. In this thesis, I used fritillary butterflies as model organisms to explore and further understand the origin and dynamics of genetic and phenotypic variation at different hierarchical levels of organisation and across different spatial scales. READ MORE