Objectives
- Patterns of intra-specific genetic diversity and of the synchrony of interspecific divergences across taxa will be studied to investigate the evolutionary effects of lake level changes on different time scales in taxa occurring in different habitats of two ancient lakes.
- Phylogenetic and paleo-climatic information will be combined to explore the effects of global climatic induced changes on the more general dynamics of diversification, loss of variation, adaptive radiations and speciation events.
- Computer simulations of sequence evolution will be generated in various ecological scenarios to investigate whether real sequence data of natural faunas can be used to evaluate and predict the impact of future climate change on these faunas.
- Simulation studies and relevant ecological models will be used to evaluate phylogenetic data as a tool to predict effects of global change in lacustrine faunas.
Last modified :
April
23,
2007
