Tom; could you clarify? I would argue that communities evolve. Read anything from the Cottonwood Ecology group out of Northern Arizona University and Tom Whitam.
Best-Eric Eric North All Things Wild Consulting P.O. Box 254 Cable, WI 54821 928.607.3098 > Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:45:23 +0000 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Discussion Panel Topic Suggestions > To: [email protected] > > You might want to rephrase your question #3, for it's not organisms that > evolve, but populations. > > Tom Culliney > > USDA-APHIS, PPQ > Center for Plant Health Science and Technology > Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory > 1730 Varsity Drive, Suite 300 > Raleigh, NC 27606 U.S.A. > (919) 855-7506 > (919) 855-7595 (Fax) > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jason.strickland > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Discussion Panel Topic Suggestions > > Dear group, > > I have compiled some of the ideas that were given to me about my discussion > panel. The response was much lower than I expected so if you have any ideas, > feel free to share those as well. Thank you to all those that contributed. > > > 1. Will most organisms be capable of adapting quickly enough to respond > to climate change/sea level rise to be evolutionarily relevant? > > 2. What impact will Genetically Modified Organisms have on the ecology > and evolution of the modified species and other species? > > 3. Do organisms progress/improve/advance through evolution? > > 4. Do ecological processes/interactions last long enough to have any > meaningful impact on the evolutionary trajectory of a species? > > Please share your thoughts on these topics or suggest others. > > Cheers, > Jason Strickland > [email protected] > > From: jason.strickland > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Discussion Panel Topic Suggestions > > Dear group, > > I am currently working on forming a discussion panel that will include two > ecologists and two evolutionary biologists to discuss topics that involve > merging ecology and evolution. The discussion will be in front of 150-200 > students ranging from undergraduates to post-docs (all in biology). The panel > will happen on a Saturday morning so it needs to be an exciting discussion to > hold the audience's interest and cause them to ask questions. > > I am looking for topics/questions that the two fields do not completely agree > on. The goal is to have the panel disagree on topics to allow the students to > learn and be entertained. If anyone can suggest topics or questions that > ecologists and evolutionary biologists have different viewpoints on, they > would be greatly appreciated. I have a few topics already, but wanted to ask > a larger audience to suggest topics to determine if there are certain > topics/questions that come up frequently. Feel free to email me directly > ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) > or respond to this post with your suggestions. > > Thank you in advance for your help, > > Jason Strickland > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > > This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for > the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the > use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and > subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email > immediately.
