98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013)

IGN 8-10 - Closing summary and final empirical examples

Wednesday, August 7, 2013
101E, Minneapolis Convention Center
David Post, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ecology and evolution interact across many temporal and spatial scales. Here I raise the question of when and where do these eco-evolutionary interactions change our understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes and dynamics. I will summarize the previous presentations and use additional empirical examples to a) address the general relevance of eco-evolutionary interactions, b) explore how eco-evolutionary interactions propagate though the food web, and c) highlight the current limitations to studying eco-evolutionary interactions.