[Taxacom] London - Systematics Association Lecture and AGM, 8th Dec

[James Cotton]

The Systematics Association
Annual General Meeting and President's lecture

Cichlid fish as a model for studying the microevolution to macroevolution continuum

Professor Ole Seehausen

University of Bern, Switzerland and
EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology

The Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Wednesday 8th December 2010, 6 pm (following AGM at 5pm)

The meeting is open to visitors. Wine will be served after the lecture
to members and guests. Please advertise this lecture as widely as you can.
The associations' AGM will be held before the lecture at 5pm.

Abstract: 
Cichlid fish in African Great lakes have made spectacular radiations into hundreds of endemic species in very short time. Because they not only speciated rapidly, but built complex ecological communities with incredible alpha diversity in short time too, cichlid fish are fantastic systems to study various questions regarding the continuum from microevolution to macroevolution and from population ecology to macroecology. I will give a few examples from our work, starting where we try to reveal mechanisms during initiation and completion of speciation, through work about species persistence and coexistence, and ending with attempts to explain macropatterns in the distribution of cichlid diversity.

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