Community Network Approach to Ecological Complexity – A Workshop to Identify the “Right” Questions

March 11-12, 2015 in Münster

Together with ETT-Fellow Michio Kondoh, the MGSE organized a workshop on ecological community, interspecific interactions and their dynamics-related consequences on March 11-12. The workshop comprised keynote lectures as well as discussion groups and brought together experts from the fields of evolution and interaction networks to share basic concepts and recent important developments to provide a more comprehensive understanding of community networks.

Public lectures:

Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Kavaliershäuschen (Schlossplatz 6, Seminar room on ground floor)

• 16.15: Louis-Félix Bersier (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
  “The exploration of food-web structure: from stochastic to statistical models“
• 17.15: Carlos Melian (Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland)
  “Eco-evolutionary spatial dynamics: Moving from dreams to models”

Thursday, 12 March 2015
Kavaliershäuschen (Schlossplatz 6, Seminar room on ground floor)

• 9.00: Elisa Thébault (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
  “The structure and stability of networks with mutualistic and antagonistic interactions”
• 10.30: Arndt Telschow (University of Münster, Germany)
  “Geographic variation and evolutionary stability of plant-pollinator networks”
• 11.00: Michio Kondoh (Ryukoku University, Kyōto, Japan; ETT-Fellow of the MGSE)
  “On what shapes the food-web structure: Adaptation- and population dynamics-oriented views“

Flyer for the workshop Program Poster

This Workshop was financially supported by