DYAD : Adaptive dynamics and coevolution (Master EBE)

• Programme (schedule of lectures)
• room 502, 46 rue d’Ulm (ENS biology dept)
• The DYAD page on the website of the Master Ecology-Biodiversity-Evolution (EBE)
• 3 credits (ECTS)

Teaching material (lectures)

• Lectures David Claessen
  
  • Introduction adaptive dynamics
  • Adaptive dynamics II
  • Odo Diekmann’s Beginner’s Guide to Adaptive Dynamics. Banach Center Publications n. 63, 47-86, Banach Intl. Mathematical Cntr., Warsaw, Poland.
  • Dieckmann U, Doebeli M On the origin of species by sympatric speciation Nature 400 (6742) : 354-357 JUL 22 1999
• Lecture Nicolas Loeuille
  
  • Evolution of body size : food web topology, species density, energy flows
• Lecture Hans Metz (version 2009)
  
  • Slides, The geometry of meso-evolution
  • Chapter, Thoughts on the geometry of meso-evolution : collecting mathematical elements for a post- modern synthesis
  • Chapter, When do optimisation arguments make evolutionary sense ?

Software

During this course, we use the software ZEN to simulate adaptive dynamics. ZEN is written by Stephane Legendre of the Ecology & Evolution lab, UMR 7625.

See the ZEN web page