Research | Brian A Lerch

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My research seeks to integrate perspectives from ecology, evolutionary biology, and animal behavior. Much of my work is geared toward understanding how these aspects of population biology relate to and feedback on one another. Most often, I develop theory using mathematical and/or simulation models, though I often supplement this approach with the analysis of long-term field data. Below, I highlight themes that repeatedly come up in my work. In 1965, G. Evelyn Hutchinson published his book, The Ecological Theater and the Evolutionary Play. In it, he makes the argument that ecology sets the stage (i.e., selective environment) in which evolution plays out. As time has gone on, it has become increasingly clear that this dependence is bidirectional: evolutionary dynamics can also feed back onto ecological processes (a feedback now referred to as eco-evolutionary dynamics). Much work considering this tight interplay between ecology and evolution has focused on traits with obvious

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Research | Brian A Lerch

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