We operate an international seminar series on Theoretical Ecology via Zoom since September, 2020. With some exceptions, the hour-long events are held on every other Tuesday at 9 a.m. Pacific Time, which corresponds to 5 p.m. in London and 6 p.m. in Paris most of the time. Our invited lecturer speaks for cc. 20-30 minutes. The rest of the hour is for questions and discussions, which are often lively. The seminars are recorded and posted on our YouTube channel. We send out notifications before each lecture via email and Twitter. The webinar is organised by György Barabás (dysordys@gmail.com), Géza Meszéna (meszena.geza@ttk.elte.hu) and Chris Terry (christopher.terry@biology.ox.ac.uk). Any comment, or suggestion are welcome.
Zoom link (unless stated otherwise): https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287
YouTube channel with the lecture videos and teaching material, etc.
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Scheduled lectures
Theo L. Gibbs (Princeton): Do higher-order interactions promote coexistence in diverse ecological communities?
3 March, 2026
From the human microbiome to the Amazon rainforest, diverse ecological communities are widespread in nature. In the traditional approach to understanding species coexistence, ecologists assume that the interactions in a community operate only between pairs of species. However, interactions among three or more species, called higher-order interactions, may also contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity. In this talk, I will discuss some theoretical expectations for how these interactions shape community structure. Then, I will present experimental evidence that higher-order interactions structure the dynamics of annual plant communities.
Jonathan M. Levine (Santa Barbara)
17 March, 2026
Check your Time Zone! The lecure start at 9 a.m. Pacific Time, as always. Because of the asynchrony of transition to Summer Time, this lecure will be an hour earlier, than usual for Europeans: 4 p.m. in London and 5 p.m. in Paris.
Purushottam Dixit (Yale)
31 March, 2026
Andrea Tabi (ICM-CSIC)
14 April, 2026
Lisa Buche (ETH)
28 April, 2026