Natural selection is the main mechanism to explain the diversity of living organisms. However, natural selection is limited in absence of environmental variation. Yet, our knowledge on how evolution works under different environmental circumstances is extremely limited in wild populations, because most of our understanding of how natural selection operates has been focused in studies based on single years and populations. In this talk, I will show how different sources of environmental...

Descargar 05_03_2015 Jesús Martínez Padilla, Temporal and geographical patterns of natural and sexual selection in wild birds (287,7MB)

Genetically-based variation in the functional traits of keystone species can influence the composition of the community within which those species are embedded. Similarly, local adaptation to biotic and abiotic environmental variation can drive population-level variation in such traits. We test the hypothesis that local adaptation of a keystone plant can lead to variation among populations in the community of associated arthropods. Studying a strong environmental cline along the California...

Descargar 12_02_2015 Kailen Mooney, Causes and community-level consequences for clinal adaptation in a foundational plant species (182,1MB)

"An integrative approach to phylogeograhy: investigating the evolutionary history of two co-distributed amphibians at different geographic and temporal scales”

Descargar 15_01_2015 Íñigo Martinez, An integrative approach to phylogeograhy, investigating the evolutionary history of two co-distributed amphibians at different geographic and temporal scales (276,9MB)