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Department of Theoretical Ecology


  Jörgen Ripa Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Graduate students:
(none at the moment)

Former grad students:
Anna Gårdmark
Lena Månsson
Jacob Johansson
Jennie Nilsson
Ullrika Sahlin


 
  Research Projects

Main:

  • The Coupling Between Evolutionary and Population Dynamics
  • The Ecology of Evolving Communities
  • Analytical Population Dynamics
  • But also involved in:

  • Indirect Ecological and Evolutionary Effects of Population Harvesting
  • The Evolution of Diapause/Cryptobiosis
  • Adaptive Dispersal and Genetic Mechanisms
  •   Selected Publications

    Evolution

    Ripa, J., Storlind, L., Lundberg, P. and Brown. J. S. 2009. Niche coevolution in consumer–resource communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research 11(2): 305–323

    Ripa, J. 2009. When is sympatric speciation truly adaptive? An analysis of the joint evolution of resource utilization and assortative mating. Evolutionary Ecology 23(1): 31-52

    Bach, L., Ripa, J., Lundberg, P. 2007. On the evolution of conditional dispersal under environmental and demographic stochasticity. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9(4): 663-673

    Johansson, J. and Ripa, J. 2006. Will sympatric speciation fail due to stochastic competitive exclusion? The American Naturalist 168(5): 572-578 (pdf)

    Ivarsson, H., Ripa, J. & Lundberg, P. 2005. Evolution of multi-stage dormancy in temporally autocorrelated environments. Evolutionary Ecology Research 7: 1125-1137

    Population dynamics

    Abbott, K, Ripa, J., Ives, A. R. 2009. Environmental variation in ecological communities and inferences from single-species data. Ecology 90(5): 1268-1278

    Ripa, J. & Ranta, E. 2007. Biological filtering of correlated environments: towards a generalised Moran theorem. Oikos 116(5): 783-792

    Ripa, J. & Ives, A. R. 2003. Food web dynamics in correlated and autocorrelated environments. Theoretical Population Biology 64: 369-384

    Ripa, J. & Lundberg, P. 2000. The route to extinction in variable environments. Oikos 90(1): 89-96

    Ripa, J. 2000. Analysing the Moran effect and dispersal: their significance and interaction in synchronous population dynamics. Oikos 89: 175-187

    Ripa, J. & Heino, M. 1999. Linear analysis solves two puzzles in population dynamics: the route to extinction and extinction in coloured environments. Ecology Letters 2: 219-222

    Ripa, J. & Lundberg, P. 1996. Noise colour and the risk of population extinctions. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B 263: 1751-1753

    Full list of publications (and CV)

      Teaching

    Head teacher of:

  • Theoretical Ecology (BIOR30)
  • Statistics for Biologists (postgraduate course)
  • Evolutionary Processes (postgraduate course)

    Other courses (recent):

  • Modelling of Biological Systems (BIOS02)
  • Biologiska system (TEK292)
  • Conservation Biology (BIOR37)
  • Ecology - Advanced course (BIOR13)
  • Biology, Introductory Course (TEK 290)

  • Address: Theoretical Ecology, Ecology Building,  223 62 Lund , Sweden
    Phone: +46 (0)46 2223770, Fax: +46 (0)46 2224716
    Publisher: Jörgen Ripa
    E-mail: jorgen.ripa@teorekol.lu.se