Organizers: Didier Aurelle, Bruno Fady

Through the direct and indirect effects of human activities, global change is a major threat for biodiversity and for the associated ecosystem services. This is also an important evolutionary challenge for many species with several potential responses: acclimation, genetic adaptation, range shift, local or global extinction. Adequate management of biodiversity should take into account the main evolutionary factors acting on these responses such as connectivity, drift, local selection. The study of these processes is now strengthened by the integration of analytical and genomic approaches (e.g. for biodiversity surveys or for adaptation studies). This symposium will discuss why and how evolution can and should be integrated into management and conservation practice. It will be opened to different species and ecosystems (both terrestrial and marine), with a focus on wild populations, exploited or not. The interaction with socio-economic processes will also be discussed, with the goal or making common and idiosyncratic patterns emerge across biomes. Empirical and theoretical communications are welcome.

Invited speaker: Sean Hoban “Why and how to use computational simulations for evolutionary based management”