"Multilevel Modeling of Eco-evolutionary Dynamics"Cooney, DanielIn a range of natural systems, ecological and evolutionary forces can act simultaneously across multiple levels of organization. These forces may act in tension or in synergy and are e.g. relevant in host-pathogen systems, evolution of communities or in the establishment of multicellular life and other major evolutionary transitions. In this session, we aim to highlight research focused on describing multilevel ecological and evolutionary dynamics, with an emphasis on the diversity of biological questions and unifying mathematical frameworks that can be used to describe population dynamics featuring hierarchical structure. A particular emphasis will be placed on the formulation of individual-based stochastic models for describing the rules of interaction between individuals and for competition between groups of individuals, as well as describing the derivation and analysis of differential equations models that describe cross-scale eco-evolutionary dynamics in the limit of large population size. |
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