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The nature of "fitness" in ecology and evolution

Fitness and selection come in many different kinds: relative vs. absolute, group vs. individual, r vs. K, sexual vs. natural, hard vs. soft, density-dependent vs. density-independent, colonizing vs. tolerating vs. competitive, etc. Survival and reproduction, in whichever flavor, affect population dynamics in ecology just as much as they affect population genetics in evolution. This symposium encourages submissions that shed light on common modeling assumptions and/or propose new approaches.

Invited speakers

Laurent Lehmann: Does evolution lead to maximizing behavior?

Joanna Masel: Eco-evolutionary "fitness" in 3 dimensions: absolute growth, absolute efficiency, and relative competitiveness.

Organiser

Joanna Masel (U Arizona, USA).

Updated May 14, 2015, by Minus