Jennie Nilsson M.Sc.

Graduate Student Supervisor: Jörgen Ripa Co-supervisor: Per Lundberg

Research Interest

I am interested in evolution of ecological communities in spatial systems. This includes speciation (especially parapatric spectiation), adaptations and dispersal between habitats. To investigate this I am using adaptive dynamics as a theoretical tool. Some questions I find particularly intriguing are:

How will evolution affect the biodiversity of a system?

How will migration between evolving communities affect the process of evolution?

How are communities assembled in space and time?

How will the presence of predators affect the evolution of prey in a heterogeneous environment?

Conferences

Oikos Symposium, Kalmar, Sweden, 2006 (talk)

Biology of Extinction, Okazaki, Japan, 2006 (poster)

Speciation Symposium, Lund, Sweden, 2006

ESEB XI, Uppsala, Sweden, 2007 (poster)

Oikos Symposium, Lund, Sweden, 2008

I have been involved in lectures, exercises and seminars in courses in ecology (BIOC02 and BIOR13), conservation biology (BIOR37) and terrestrial ecology (TEK010).

Address: Theoretical Ecology, Ecology Building,  223 62 Lund , Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)46 2223769, Fax: +46 (0)46 2224716
Publishers: Jörgen Ripa & Fredrik Haas
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