Hendry Lab: eco-evolutionary dynamics

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Darwin suggested that evolution was very slow, and this view prevailed until very recently. Now, however, we recognize that ecological changes are causing evolution all around us all the time. Following this change in perception, researchers have become interested in the consequences of contemporary evolution for ecological dynamics; i.e., changes in populations, communities, and ecosystems. Eco-evolutionary dynamics broadly considers ongoing interactions between ecology and evolution. Most work in our lab has thus far 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:

PI: Andrew Hendry – CV(PDF) Lab manager: Caroline LeBlond Postdocs: Luis de León, Renaud Kaeuffer, Gregor Rolshausen PhD: Cristian Correa, Kiyoko Gotanda, Ben Haller, Victor Frankel MSc: Shahin Muttalib, Krista Oke Lab alumni

Publications:

1. Papers: Selected or All or By students and postdocs

2. Books and special issues

Eco-evolutionary dynamics. 2009. (Pelletier, Garant & Hendry)

Evolutionary perspectives on salmonid conservation and management. 2008. (Hendry & Waples)

Evolution on ecological time scales. 2007. (Hendry, Carroll & Reznick)

Evolution Illuminated: salmon and their relatives. 2004. (Hendry & Stearns)

Microevolution: rate, pattern, process. 2001. (Hendry & Kinnison

Wildlife pictures:

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

Our main empirical systems:

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

Salmon	Stickleback
Guppies	Darwin’s finches
Lemon sharks	Theory and modeling

"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 – November 2011 .