- Series
- Mathematical Biology Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 168
- Speaker
- Michael Cortez – School of Biology, Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Leonid Bunimovich
Interactions between trophic levels are influenced not only by
species abundances, but also by the behavioral, life history, morphological
traits of the interacting species as well. Adaptive changes in these traits
can be heritable or plastic in nature and both yield phenotypic change that
occurs as fast as changes in population abundances. I present how fast-slow
systems theory can be used to understand the effects rapid adaptation has on
community dynamics in predator-prey systems. This analysis emphasizes that
heritable and plastic traits have different effects on community dynamics.