Hendry Lab: eco-evolutionary dynamics

 

Research:

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Photo: P. Bentzen

Darwin suggested that evolution proceeds very slowly, and this view was almost universally accepted until the later part of the 20th century. Over the past few decades, however, a dramatic shift has taken place toward the idea that ongoing evolution is occurring all around us; so-called “rapid” or “contemporary” evolution.

 

Now that contemporary evolution is widely accepted as a commonplace occurrence, a number of researchers have become interested in its consequences for ecological dynamics; i.e., changes in populations, communities, and ecosystems This is the rapidly developing field of “eco-evolutionary dynamics,” i.e., interactions between ecology and evolution on contemporary time scales. Most of our work to date has focused on one direction of causality in these dynamics – how ecological changes influence evolutionary dynamics (eco-to-evo). More recently, we have started to explore the reciprocal arrow of causality: how evolutionary changes influence ecological dynamics (evo-to-eco). We conduct work on both arrows of causality in multiple natural systems, most frequently in lake versus stream stickleback, high-predation versus low-predation guppies, and Darwin’s finches.

 

People:

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PI: Andrew HendryCV(PDF)

Lab managers/technicians: Caroline LeBlond, Camille MacNaughton

Postdocs: Renaud Kaeuffer

PhD: Amy Schwartz, Erika Crispo, Luis De León Xavier Thibert-Plante, Cristian Correa, Ben Haller

MSc: Maryse Boisjoly, Lari DeLaire, Kiyoko Gotanda

Undergrads: Matthieu Amalric

Lab alumni

Publications:

1. Papers: My Favorites or All or By students and postdocs

2. Books and special issues

 

 

 

RSTB_364_15231 Eco-evolutionary dynamics (Pelletier, Garant & Hendry)

 

 Evolutionary perspectives on salmonid conservation and management (Hendry & Waples)

fecover Evolution on ecological time scales (Hendry, Carroll & Reznick)

 

books[1] Evolution Illuminated: salmon and their relatives (Hendry & Stearns)

 

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Microevolution: rate, pattern, process (Hendry & Kinnison

Wildlife pictures:

Galapagos, Trinidad, Panama, Alaska, BC, New Zealand, Quebec, Chile

Empirical systems:

Click on the following images for links to research on some of our main empirical systems.

Salmon site

Stickleback site

 

 

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Guppy site

Darwin’s finch site

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Graduate students in the lab also work on lemon sharks (Joey DiBattista), Chilean fishes (Cristian Correa), and theory (Xavier Thibert-Plante).

"Long before having arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to the reader. Some of them are so grave that to this day I can never reflect on them without being staggered; but, to the best of my judgment, the greater number are only apparent, and those that are real are not, I think, fatal...." (Darwin 1859)

“Fishes precious(Gollum)

Contact info:

Andrew Hendry

Redpath Museum & Dept. of Biology

McGill University

859 Sherbrooke St. W.

Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2K6  Canada

Office: 514-398-4086 ext. 00880

Lab: 514-398-4086 ext. 00714

FAX: 514-398-3185

andrew.hendry@mcgill.ca  Last updated – September 2009.