Mechanisms over means: eco-evolutionary dynamics across scales

This session examines how genetic change shapes ecological dynamics and how ecology feeds back on evolution. The focus is on studies that demonstrate mechanism and causality: manipulative experiments, controlled perturbations, lineage tracking, and time series that quantify selection and map genotype to phenotype to function. Work may use laboratory, field, or mesocosm systems, and theory is in scope when it makes predictions tested against data. Topics include spatial structure, species and phage–host interactions, resource use and cross-feeding, and mobile genetic elements.

Convenors
Ellen Decaestecker, KU Leuven, Belgium
Paul Rainey, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany

Invited Speakers
Ellen Decaestecker, KU Leuven, Belgium
Paul Rainey, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
Tiffany Taylor, University of Bath, United Kingdom
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