WELCOME TO THE 1st PER BRINK SYMPOSIUM
Submitted by editor on 13 October 2015.WELCOME TO THE 1st PER BRINK SYMPOSIUM
On Feb 1st, Oikos, together with Nordic Society Oikos and Wiley arrange the Per Brink symposium:
(Re)appreciating the role of life history in Eco-evolutionary dynamics?
Any environmental change shifts an individual’s optimal life history strategy, i.e. its strategy to optimize survival and reproduction in face of the ecological changes imposed by the environment. The theory of life history evolution is well established since the seminal work of Stearns and Roff. Life histories are a central to understand individual variation in vital traits among and within populations, and dispersal should be considered as an important axis within life histories. The link from ecology to evolution is well-rooted in the current field of eco-evolutionary dynamics which appreciated that ecological and evolutionary dynamics are highly intertwined at contemporary time-scales. While life histories are central to an individual-based ecology, we lack a clear perspective on how life history evolution is integrated into the eco-evolutionary loops at multiple organizational scales, from individuals to communities.
The Per Brink symposium:
- will seek to bring students and established senior researchers together, to stimulate fruitful discussion and generally to create an open-minded, scientifically critical spirit to advance ecology. For this years meeting, seven speakers have been invited.
- aims to bring together specialists from different fields to provide a though-provoking and clear perspective on the current underappreciated role of life histories in ecology and evolution. The symposium will be organized every two years with a different ecological focus. The symposium will be an opportunity for editors and students to meet. Depending on the structure of the symposium, a joint forum paper, or a thematic issue with individual contributions will be published in Oikos.
- welcomes both PhD-students, postdocs and senior researchers to participate in the symposium and closing workshop. Students are encouraged to present posters and talks in the subsequent days on the Oikos meeting. All speakers will be involved in advising students, providing feedback.
This first symposium will be convened by Oikos’ Editor-in-Chief Dries Bonte and Deputy Editor-in-Chief Dustin Marshall.
Organisation
The meeting is organized as a pre-meeting to the biannual Nordic Oikos conference, held by the Nordic society Oikos in Turku, Finland, February 1st-5th 2016 and will be closed by a workshop to synthesize the insights of the day. The PB symposium is organized the first day as a special thematic symposium with a line-up of invited speakers. The meeting will be live-streamed or presentations will be made available on our website. Students can present posters and talks in the subsequent days.
Registration: http://www.utu.fi/en/sites/oikos2016/registration/Pages/home.aspx
Tentative program:
Individual variation and eco-evolutionary dynamics
From individuals to populations
Life histories and community dynamics
Scaling-up to ecosystems
Talks will be 35’+10’ questions/discussions
Abstract of the talks will be announced soon.
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