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Community genomics
Ecological communities are assemblages of interacting species. Their properties are determined by the number of species and the strength and characteristics of intra- and interspecific interactions. While there has been impressive progress in understanding the central processes of community structure and function, little is known about the way in which intraspecific genetic variation is implicated in the processes of species coexistence and community dynamics.
We will exploit genomic techniques to understand how the genetic composition of individual species affects community assembly and the mechanisms of coexistence. This will help us to understand the processes of succession and community development on the genetic composition of individual species, and to understand how individual genotypes (incl. fitness-related traits) are selected during different stages of population growth and in different competitive environments.
An important theoretical underpinning of all these studies is the adaptive dynamics framework. This enables us to model trait evolution and population and community dynamics under density- and frequency-dependent selection and to make prediction how environmental changes translate into trait distributions and population dynamics.
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Last modified 29 Sep 2009
Marine bakterioplankton communities
Per Lundberg, Jörgen Ripa (Theoretical Ecology)
Anders Tunlid (Microbial Ecology)
Åke Hagström (Marine Microbiology, Kalmar University)
Species-rich grasslands
Honor Prentice (Plant Ecology and Systematics)
Per Lundberg (Theoretical Ecology)