The first GCEE workshop on Networks in Ecology and Evolution

The first GCEE workshop on Resilience and Recovery of Biological Networks to Environmental Fluctuations was held from 14 - 16 July 2014

The first GCEE workshop on Networks in Ecology and Evolution at Silwood Park was held  from 14 – 16 July 2014. It was attended by 20 participants from multiple institutions. Aided by an exceptionally kind British summer and a rapidly evolvable lunch menu, the three-day workshop turned out to be a fun and creative time for everybody. It was also mutually agreed upon that the next meeting will be held in about a year’s time (July 2015). The workshop (somewhat self-) organized into the following themes/groups, each aiming for either a paper or a grant proposal:

Networks & Biomonitoring data (Clare Gray, Phillip Staniczenko, Guy Woodward, Michael Schaub, Athen Ma, Sam Johnson, Eoin O’Gorman)

Scaling up perturbations in ecological networks (Eoin O’Gorman, Sam Johnson, Clare Gray, Guy Woodward, Athen Ma, Samraat Pawar, and Xueke Lu)

Flow robustness of ecological networks (Michael Schaub, Sam Johnson, Athen Ma, Samraat Pawar)

Making the most of species interaction data: a multilayer network approach to aggregating ecological networks (James H. Jones, Mikko Kivelä, Mason Porter and Phillip Staniczenko)

Rewiring networks (Chris Penfold, Tom Bell, Tim Barraclough and Oliver Windram)

Evolution in networks (Timothy Barraclough, Samraat Pawar, Jason Tylianakis, Tom Bell, Jason Hodgson)

Each group will meet as and when necessary in the period between this workshop and the next, facilitated by GCEE. Fun times ahead!