Hendry Lab: eco-evolutionary
dynamics
Research:
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.
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People:
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PI: Andrew Hendry – CV(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 |
Publications:
1. Papers: My Favorites or All or By students and postdocs
2. Books and
special issues
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Microevolution: rate, pattern, process (Hendry & Kinnison |
![books[1]](index_files/image011.jpg)
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.
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Salmon site |
Stickleback site |
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Guppy
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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
Office: 514-398-4086 ext. 00880
Lab: 514-398-4086 ext. 00714
FAX: 514-398-3185
andrew.hendry@mcgill.ca Last
updated – September 2009.