I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar: Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely. Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...

Quantifying a trait-mediated indirect effect of an environmental stressor on population dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.04.674171v1

Online now: The genomics of discrete polymorphisms maintained by disruptive selection

A new review paper is now online @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social "The genomics of discrete polymorphisms maintained by disruptive selection" doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales" Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...

Joe Wan will present the next PopBio seminar: "A unified theory of community structure" Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/ZG8ghPoz2oX4...

Save the dates! We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific. Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...

月刊誌『科学』2025年7月号 www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b101380... 【特集】競走と共存の生態学 どの生物も他の個体や多様な種との複雑な相互作用の中で生きている。だが，その中でどのように生物多様性が支えられているかについてはいまだ多くの謎が残されている。その解明を目指す研究を紹介する。 ［特集目次］ 群集生態学とは何だろうか……山道真人 多種共存と多様性崩壊のメカニズム──外来生物の競争が示す統一的原理……鶴井香織 ダーウィンの置き土産──多様な生物はいかにして共存しているのか？……舞木昭彦 草花と昆虫が織りなすネットワーク……篠原直登

Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar: "Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens" Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...

Join us online this Thursday 1pm AEST. Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present: "Artificial selection for collective composition" Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/53hkcdcKPGfa... NB. This seminar won't be recorded.

Experiments of a green alga, Closterium psl. complex, show that a single episode of sexual reproduction produces large variation in population growth rates under dual stressors, promoting evolutionary rescue: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @yawaguchi.bsky.social and @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social

A paper with Miguel Gómez-Llano and @adamsiepielski.bsky.social entitled "Sexual conflict in resident species can facilitate establishment of a maladapted invader" was published in Am. Nat. @asn-amnat.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1086/736568

We have a YouTube channel! You can see recordings of Akshit Goyal's talk from yesterday and Ryan Chisholm's talk from last month here: www.youtube.com/@PopBio-onth...

Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST. Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present: "Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach" Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/XzypgbUp53fW... NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!

Our new study is out! Just one episode of sexual reproduction in Closterium🌙 can create offspring with very different stress reactions compared to the parents. This might be because of massive copy number variations in their genomes, which produce a wide range of phenotypes.

Our first paper on algal experiments at NIG with @yawaguchi.bsky.social! We found that a single episode of sexual reproduction can produce large variation in population growth rates (and prevent extinction) under dual stressors @jevbio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... bsky.app/profile/bior...

We are happy to welcome Dr. Takahisa Ueno and Dr. Shohei Kawata as new postdocs of our group at NIG! sites.google.com/view/yamamic...

Interested in doing a postdoc at the National Institute of Genetics in Japan focusing on theoretical ecology and evolutionary biology? Consider applying for the NIG postdoc fellowship! www.nig.ac.jp/nig/career-d...

Join us for our first seminar on Friday: Ryan Chisholm will present: A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology Sign up here to receive the zoom link forms.gle/WSnJS3bNK1b4mxE59 For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.

Our paper is among the top 10 most-cited papers published by @populationecology.bsky.social in 2023! @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy doi.org/10.1002/1438... #TopCitedArticle

We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next few months! Starting with Ryan Chisholm in March and then @akshitg.bsky.social @hyejinpark.bsky.social @barnesecodiv.bsky.social. Fill in this google form to receive announcements forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL...

Excited to attend the ESJ (Ecological Society of Japan) meeting in Sapporo! Our lab has six presentations there: esj.ne.jp/meeting/abst... esj.ne.jp/meeting/abst... esj.ne.jp/meeting/abst... esj.ne.jp/meeting/abst... esj.ne.jp/meeting/abst... esj.ne.jp/meeting/abst...

We are excited to announce our new seminar series highlighting research on population biology and theoretical ecology from academics and post-grads based in the Asia-Pacific. We have a great line up of speakers for the next few months. Stay tuned for more info!

Very excited for this online seminar series I am organising with @ecologyisamess.bsky.social @darmitage.bsky.social @giuliaghedini.bsky.social @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social Lynette Loke, Andrew Letten And Po-Ju Ke. Follow to find out more!

Please repost! Want to learn and chat about plant-microbe interactions in beautiful Okinawa? Consider attending and contributing to our upcoming Phyllosphere meeting! Registration is now open, is cheap thanks to a weak yen, and FREE HOUSING is available! www.oist.jp/conference/p...

Join us for the second Evolutionary Rescue workshop at Max Planck Institute, Germany, from June 30 to July 3, 2024. Registration is open until March 15. More info: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/128/ #workshop

Started a Theoretical Ecology starter pack. For from complete. Respond if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/PwpvZLb

Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

A view of Mt. Fuji from the National Institute of Genetics, Mishima.

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