Dear group, I have compiled some of the ideas that were given to me about my discussion panel. The response was much lower than I expected so if you have any ideas, feel free to share those as well. Thank you to all those that contributed.
1. Will most organisms be capable of adapting quickly enough to respond to climate change/sea level rise to be evolutionarily relevant? 2. What impact will Genetically Modified Organisms have on the ecology and evolution of the modified species and other species? 3. Do organisms progress/improve/advance through evolution? 4. Do ecological processes/interactions last long enough to have any meaningful impact on the evolutionary trajectory of a species? Please share your thoughts on these topics or suggest others. Cheers, Jason Strickland jason.strickl...@knights.ucf.edu From: jason.strickland Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:59 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Discussion Panel Topic Suggestions Dear group, I am currently working on forming a discussion panel that will include two ecologists and two evolutionary biologists to discuss topics that involve merging ecology and evolution. The discussion will be in front of 150-200 students ranging from undergraduates to post-docs (all in biology). The panel will happen on a Saturday morning so it needs to be an exciting discussion to hold the audience's interest and cause them to ask questions. I am looking for topics/questions that the two fields do not completely agree on. The goal is to have the panel disagree on topics to allow the students to learn and be entertained. If anyone can suggest topics or questions that ecologists and evolutionary biologists have different viewpoints on, they would be greatly appreciated. I have a few topics already, but wanted to ask a larger audience to suggest topics to determine if there are certain topics/questions that come up frequently. Feel free to email me directly (jason.strickl...@knights.ucf.edu<mailto:jason.strickl...@knights.ucf.edu>) or respond to this post with your suggestions. Thank you in advance for your help, Jason Strickland jason.strickl...@knights.ucf.edu<mailto:jason.strickl...@knights.ucf.edu>
