Species adaptation to environmental change: the need to integrate genetic diversity into monitoring, spatial planning, and restoration.
Session 25
Introduction to the session
The biodiversity crisis has fundamental consequences for our soceity, affecting species survival, and ecosystem services, eg, pollination of crops in agricultural landscapes, production of fish in coastal regions, and carbon sequestration of forests. While conservation efforts have historically focused on species richness and short term effects, recent advances underscore the critical role of evolutionary processes in shaping biodiversity resilience and function. In agricultural systems, rapid evolutionary changes, such as, the evolution of pesticide resistance, are well-documented. In marine systems, rapid adaptation to environmental changes are documented in mollusc and fish species. These evolutionary dimensions remain largely overlooked in both conservation.
Introduction to the session
The biodiversity crisis has fundamental consequences for our soceity, affecting species survival, and ecosystem services, eg, pollination of crops in agricultural landscapes, production of fish in coastal regions, and carbon sequestration of forests. While conservation efforts have historically focused on species richness and short term effects, recent advances underscore the critical role of evolutionary processes in shaping biodiversity resilience and function. In agricultural systems, rapid evolutionary changes, such as, the evolution of pesticide resistance, are well-documented. In marine systems, rapid adaptation to environmental changes are documented in mollusc and fish species. These evolutionary dimensions remain largely overlooked in both conservation.
This session bridges mechanisms of species evolvability and the intricate interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes, highlighting tools that can be used to assess the evolutionary potential of populations. We aim to bring management and science closer together by ways of presentations from various systems, and panel debate involving stakeholders.
Session programme
15:30: Monitoring genetic diversity over contemporary time with new DNA- and proxy-based indicators
Linda Laikre, Department of Zoology, Stockholm University
15:40: Landscape driven isolation and inbreeding in specialist grassland butterflies
Zachary J. Nolen, Lund University
Isolde van Riemsdijk, Lund University; Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
Patrycja Jamelska, Lund University
Ana Sofía Torres Lar, Lund University; University of Bremen
Maj Rundlöf, Lund University
Niklas Wahlberg, Lund University
Anna Runemark, Lund University
15:50: Evolutionary plant–pollinator responses to anthropogenic land-use change: impacts on ecosystem services
Mikael Pontarp, Lund University
A Runemark, Lund University
Magne Friberg, Lund University
Øyestein H. Opedal, Lund University
Anna Persson, Lund University
Lanhui Wang, Lund University
Henrik Smith, Lund University
16:00: Short leg-stretcher
16:10: Drifting Furcellaria lumbricalis is genetically distinct compared to attached conspecifics – implications for seagrass conservation
Johan Severinson, Department of Marine Science, University of Gothenburg; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre
Marlene Jahnke, Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Strömstad; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre
Per Moksnes, Department of Marine Science, University of Gothenburg
16:20: The genomics behind rapid adaptation to low salinity in Pacific oysters along an invasion front
Alexandra Kinnby
Chloé Robert
Jonathan N Havenhand
Göran Broström
Luc Bussière
Pierre De Wit
16:30: PlantEra, adaptations to the past investigated in the present
S. Francois du Toit, Lund University
Anna M. Jensen, Linnaeus University, Växjö
Vivi Vajda, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm
Allan G. Rasmusson , Lund University
16:40: Panel discussion with all presenters
Conveners: Kerstin Johannesson and Henrik Smith
Further information about the session
Keywords: Genetic biodiversity, Evolutionary processes, Ecosystem function, Aquatic, Terrestrial
Language: English
Time and venue: 15:30-17:00, Wallenbergsalen
Organisers:
- Linda Laikre, Stockholm University
- Kerstin Johannesson, University of Gothenburg
- Pierre De Wit, University of Gothenburg
- Mikael Pontarp Lund University
- Henrik Smith, Lund University
Strategy for transformative change in focus for the session
IPBES highlights 5 complementary key strategies for transformative change: From conserving vital places to shifting values. Together these create pathways to just and sustainable futures. Learn more: IPBES Transformative Change Assessment: Chapter 5. Realizing a sustainable world for nature and people: transformative strategies, actions and roles for all
As indicated in the illustration below, session 25 focuses mainly on the strategies
2: Drive systemic change in the sectors most responsible for nature’s decline
5: Shift views and values to recognize human-nature interconnectedness
