Presented at RIMS Workshop (Invited)

I gave a talk at RIMS Workshop - Toward an integration of fluids, ecology, and evolution. (July 6, 2021)

I was honoured to be invited to the workshop. This workshop had a variety of speakers from biofluid mechanics, ecology, and evolution. It was very interesting to hear similar topics in different fields. For example, common interesting topics were such as biological movements and spatial scale.

I hope I was able to explain a bit about spatial ecology, why it's interesting and what are challenging, as well as my work!

Also I chaired a session first time. I was quite nervous about it, but did it!!

Title: How ocean currents affect biodiversity patterns (and evolutionary process)

Abstract: Understanding the processes regulating biodiversity patterns is central to ecology, conservation, and evolution. Ecological processes can occur at a large spatial scale, such as a continent and an ocean. Studying a large spatial scale is a challenge because it requires incorporating complex natural landscapes, including diverse environments and movements of organisms associated to the landscape.

To investigate how complex landscape structure regulates ecological processes and biodiversity patterns, I use theoretical and empirical networks representing dispersal trajectories (connectivity) of marine organisms. Our results suggest that (1) the spatial topology of connectivity affects biodiversity patterns and that (2) spatial distribution of dispersal determines the balance between different processes. I also show that advances in the estimation of ocean currents and dispersal connectivity promote studies in spatial ecology. This talk highlights that developing theories combined with data is critical to disentangle the complex nature of ecology and evolution.