Call for contributed talks and abstracts for symposium on "Evolution in
small populations" (Symposium S16) at ESEB 2025.

The ESEB 2025 Congress will be held at the International Convention
Centre of Barcelona (CCIB) in Barcelona, Spain, from August 17 to 22,2025.

Within this congress, Maëva Gabrielli (CRBE, Toulouse), Bárbara Freitas
(MNCN, Madrid) and José Cerca (CEES, Oslo) are happy to announce this
exciting symposium on evolution in small populations and invite you to
contribute with talks and posters.

Abstract: As human activities increasingly impact our planet, natural
habitats are being reduced, leading to the decline in the population
sizes of numerous species. Understanding the evolutionary dynamics in
small populations, such as those in insular, fragmented, or isolated
environments (e.g. sky-islands and lake populations), is therefore
critical, not only for conservation biology but also for advancing
fundamental evolutionary theory.

Currently, a synthesis integrating both genomic and phenotypic data in
small populations is lacking. To fill this gap, we propose a symposium
that focuses on the evolutionary processes in small populations from
an integrative point of view. It will cover key areas of molecular
evolution, evolutionary and population genomics, including genetic load
and demographic history, as well as micro- and macro-evolution studies
and evolutionary ecology with an emphasis on understanding how phenotypes
and behaviours are modified in small populations' traits.

To enrich discussions and develop a cohesive understanding of the
evolution in small populations, we will welcome contributions from diverse
study systems, as well as multidisciplinary approaches including various
sources of data (genetics, morphology, ecology, physiology). Together
with the symposium participants, we will collaborate to develop and submit
a manuscript on this topic to the Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB).

We have two exciting invited speakers, Eva Ringler (University of Bern)
"Who let the frogs out? Insights from an experimental island population"
and Hernán Morales (University of Copenhagen) "Genomic erosion in small
populations: evolutionary dynamics and conservation implications".

Deadline for abstract submission: 25 April 2025.

For more information and to submit your abstract, please visit:
https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

We are looking forward to seeing you in Barcelona in August 2025 and
hope that you will consider our symposium for sharing your research on
evolution in small populations.

Best regards,

Dr. Maëva Gabrielli, Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et
l'Environnement (CRBE)

Bárbara Freitas, Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et
l'Environnement (CRBE), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Dr José Cerca, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES),
Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo

Maëva Gabrielli <maeva.gab@hotmail.fr>

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