working group ecological-evolutionary synthesis

Working group on ecological-evolutionary synthesis
(Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, 8th-12th of June 2020)

ORGANISERS

Isaac Overcast

Hélène Morlon

Among the main objectives of iBioGen is the methodological unification and theoretical synthesis of ecological and evolutionary processes using data generated by novel DNA-based surveys of island biodiversity (e.g. metabarcoding). This working group will bring together expertise that spans disciplines, spatial and temporal scales, and methodological approaches in order to develop a more holistic modeling and inference procedure. The focus of the working group will therefore be the creation of a software package comprising a tool (or suite of closely related tools) for next-generation biodiversity data analysis which can account for community-scale data including abundances, intra-specific genetic diversities, trait data, and/or phylogenies. To meet this goal, the structure of the working group will be divided between discussion, brainstorming, and work sessions, with the intention of producing prototype code by the end of the week for further development, refinement, and packaging by the iBioGen theory/modelling team.